It seems that every public conversation about John McCain must, by necessity, begin with the "universally held belief" that he is superior on the topics of national securtiy and defense. McCain, himself,  constantly touts himself as THE MAN in these areas. But thanks to his "Romney-Timetable Lie" he has now lost the right to make that claim.

I have the transcript of Romney's original statement and his language is clear and concise. He was
obviously talking about the need for our government to share with the Iraqi government benchmarks and time goals that would express American expectations of the Iraqi military and civilian government. Romney was equally clear about the importance of such discussions  being  maintained in strict privacy. 

If I can so easilly see Romney's actual words, surely John McCain can, too. I must assume, then, that he disagrees with Romney on his entire statement. Further, in the vehemence of his condemnation of Romney's words, he tells us much about how he would behave as Commander and Chief . Apparently,  he'd enter into a situation such as we have in Iraq and NOT share benchmarks or time goals with them. I guess he'd say,  "The evil Mitt Romney said the President should privately tell you what we expect you to do and WHEN we expect it done. Well, I'm John McCain, the good. There will be no timelines, even private ones. You folks have your military take over your own security and get your government together whenever you feel like it." 

The protection of America's interests would demand these sorts of "timelines". Add McCain's failure to realize this to his "Close-Gitmo-No-Water- Boarding-We-MUST-be-loved-by-the-UN-and-the-World" attitude and what we have is a candidate who is actually weak on national security.

I hope Americans will begin to reject the media's consistent assertion that McCain is superior to others on defense and national security. They serve it up to us as if it were dogma, a statement as commonly accepted as "the sky is blue". Well, I've got a news flash for all the pundits and reporters out there. The sky isn't really blue. It only looks that way to the scientifically uninformed.