The N&O talked to some campaign supporters for a story in Sunday’s paper. I found this one totally laughable:
[Christine DiPietro, the 21-year-old head of the N.C. State student group Students for McCain,] said that after sitting in class next to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan wars, she considered which candidate would make the best commander in chief.
“I feel John McCain is the best man for that job,” she said.
Amazing. Sitting next to actual veterans has given DiPietro special insight into the mind of veterans. It must work like osmosis or something. Hey, I sat next to a brain surgeon on a plane once. Now I can perform brain surgery!
Maybe DiPietro should venture outside of class every once in a while. Then maybe she’d find out that our troops support Obama over McCain by a six-to-one margin in donations. And if that’s not enough insight into the military life for her, maybe DiPietro could take a four-year hiatus from class and sign up herself. No osmosis needed!
She can support McCain all she wants but she should find a reason other than that’s what she thinks veterans want.
Maybe she has stock in a commercial bank. It is much easier to say you are doing for the vets than it is to say that you’ve looked at all of the evidence and have decided to do what daddy would do.
I can’t stand people like that … when I get in an argument with any McCain supporter I always ask what branch of the military they served in … the majority did not serve … then I ask them why they don’t love their country enough to defend it.