The McCain Blame Game

Dear editor:

Senator McCain, a true war hero who used to be a voice of reason in the Republican Party, has now taken to parroting the words of the president and his press secretary, Tony Snow, and is blaming former President Bill Clinton for the North Korean explosion of a nuclear device. He has referred to it as a “failure” of the previous administration, which most intelligent people recognize as ending six war-torn years ago. Mr. McCain is pulling a page out of Karl (Rasputin) Rove’s playbook and is trying to run against a past president who hasn’t run for anything in over ten years. Guess he doesn’t know that we can see a person looking backwards instead of forward. Thinking like that, the ancient blame game, doesn’t solve anything.

Is Mr. McCain next going to blame President Kennedy for our present problems with Cuba? Or how about President Truman for today’s Israeli/Palestinian problems? Funny, I’ve never heard of President Lincoln (a real Republican) blaming George Washington for the problem of slavery. But then again, those were honorable men who knew how to accept responsibility for their own actions.

It is time for Senator McCain to return to the persona that Americans came to respect in him when he took a stand against the wasteful (in human terms) Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice War in Iraq. Buying votes by trading in your ethics and honor is not how you get elected president, and it is time now for the gentleman from Arizona to realize that.