Real Leadership

What is leadership? Is it running head first into a situation not fully know the scoop of the problem. I do not think so. Is it saying Country first then doing the exact opposite, I do not think so.

Is it calling for bipartisanship then in the next breath going on act? I do not think so. As I sit here writing this I'm watching John McCain in Independence Missouri, and it has never been clearer that this is a man who doesn't have a clue about what's going on.

If he showed true leadership, he wouldn't have to go on the attack. In my view, John McCain has a few basic problems that I just do not think he'll be able to over come.

The first in my opinion is he started out saying how he want to have a high minded debut of the issue to give the American people a clear choice between Obama and himself.

He instantly took the fight into the gutter wiping away his happy warrior reputation. Now he just seems like a pissed off old man who doesn't think the other guy has the right to be standing on the same stage with him.

Secondly, he admitted that he didn't know much about the economy and in the first few days of the crisis, he went out of his way to show us just how clueless he really is. He lurched from one position to the next; he looked like a fish out of water.

Is this what McCain leadership looks like? No plans just tactics, I have never seen a candidate so blatantly put his campaign before the country as John McCain did.

He likes to talk about patriotism and honor, but really, if it were all about honor and love of country would he really continue to insult the intelligence of the American people.

Not only does the pick of Sarah Palin show the rashness of McCain's decision-making. With each passing day, it is becoming alarming clear that not only is she not fit to be vice President but certainly not President, and with her pick, I wonder if McCain is fit to be President.

Like my dad would always tell me, "Just because you say it doesn't make it so." My point, John McCain likes to say Country First, but his actions say something very different.

In times crisis leaders don't point the finger, they don't seek glory, they lead, they don't swoop in to try and claim credit.