I decided that I would consider what McCain has to say about the future of the United States. Thus shortly after, I fired up the Apple and headed to McCain.com. Which was the wrong site. So then I Googled McCain, and conveniently clicked on John McCain’s Issues site.

In short, I agreed with some, perhaps little, and I disagreed with some, perhaps a lot. Of the areas I agreed were his short statements on education (insofar as it needs much help) and ethics reform. Of the areas I did not find so favorable, continue reading

“McCain on Health Care: John McCain is willing to address the fundamental problem: the rapidly rising cost of U.S. health care.”

McCain, however, is quite unwilling to address the other problem the impossibility of some to reach even a lower costing health care. Actually this problem is more fundamental because it, in fact, considers everyone who either has or does not have health care. For being an obvious minority considering states with universal health care, what is the stigma about giving everyone health care?

Perhaps the blurb should read: …is willing to address the secondary problem…but he is ignoring the primary one.

“McCain on National Security: The most sacred responsibility…”

I feel that little needs to be said about McCain and National Security mostly because either John Stewart or Stephen Colbert has said it already. Though, it is apt to note that as a “sacred responsibility”, national security is the thematic motif of McCain’s polit-rhetoric.

“McCain on Abortion: Constitutional balance would be restored by the reversal of Roe v. Wade, returning the abortion question to the individual states. The difficult issue of abortion should not be decided by judicial fiat.”

In other words, life is sacred, but we should “restore the constitutional balance” by reversing Roe v. Wade and then letting individual states decide on abortion. A friend of mine noted, that if this were the case the country would have hot-zones for abortion, where fixing a bad decision is a short car ride away. This hardly seems like an answer.

On the issue, however, New York Times contributor Waldo Fielding M.D. shares his feelings on Repairing the Damage, Before Roe in an attention-grabbing essay.

“McCain on Immigration: Recognize the importance of assimilation of our immigrant population, which includes learning English, American history and civics, and respecting the values of a democratic society…Recognize that America will always be that “shining city upon a hill,”…”

Reading McCain’s immigration statement, I cannot tell whether I accidentally clicked the National Security hyperlink, or perhaps, I an looking at a rather clever exegesis on the Pledge of Allegiance.

In conclusion, it will be some time before I personally endorse John McCain as my candidate for numerous reasons, but however the dissonant views of either candidate may be for a person, they should not be exempt from examining why it is dissonant or in what capacity their preferred views are not.