Posted by
Enderdog on Friday, October 10, 2008 2:41:53 PM
...If I were John McCain.
(I wrote this response this morning, to Hugh Hewitt's column about there only being three weeks left and whether or not that's enough time for McCain/Palin to recover their momentum. I don't often write on my blog. I actually only started it because something I had to say, was too long for a reply to a Thomas Sowell column. But, I think this reply is worth repeating, so here it is.)
My friends, (I know...but he always says that!) I want to bring up a painful lesson I learned some 20 years ago. I had what I thought was a friend, in a man who turned out to be a criminal. A very smart one, but a criminal nevertheless. I was taken in by Charles Keating, as were some others. And while it was quickly determined by Democratic investigators, that I was innocent of any wrong-doing, just the fact that I had been taken in like that, was disturbing to me, and very sobering.
I resolved never to let myself be put into such a situation ever again. And it took me years of self-examination and pain to extract all the lessons of my experience.
Senator Obama has my sympathy. My pain is nothing compared to his. I only had to go through it one time, and believe me, that was enough. I never want to face such a thing ever again. Yet, he has had to go through it what? Six or seven times now? It seems that just about everyone he has ever befriended, or worked with, has turned out to be a criminal or demagogue.
Its bad enough to find out you were fooled by one bad egg. To find out that almost everyone you've ever surrounded yourself with, has been taking advantage of your naivete' must be devastating. And yet, I'm sure that as with me, the passage of time, and these hard lessons, will make him a better man twenty years from now.