Quote Originally Posted by tony
Lets define intelligence;

Intelligence: the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations : reason; also : the skilled use of reason

In that video McCain is in THEIR region, he has been briefed but he still does not understand the difference between the cultures. That knowledge is detrimental to any solutions being made in Iraq.

John McCain stated himself:



So if the man has limited knowledge of the culture in Iraq, and limited knowledge of Economics.. two very important issues in this country at the moment but I know I have heard Obama speak at lengths about both subjects, its quite easy to conclude that McCain is not on the same level as Obama as it pertains to things going on in this country today.

Furthermore, its no secret that if you typically put a 71 year old's mental stability vs someone in their mid 40's, the younger person has a greater mental capacity. There are exceptions but I seriously doubt McCain is one.
I still don't think that video shows McCain's "Intelligence". I see that video as the equivallent to a blooper on a tv show. He just messed up is all. I have a hard time beliveing that a guy that was in the military, that pushed for the surge, so on and so forth, would honestly not be able to tell you the difference. Hell I'll be honest I can only give you a very limited compare and contrast of the two. And yea ok Obama may have talked about both subjects at length but that doesn't mean that he can actually make the right call based on what he "knows" hell according to what he "knew" we were going to pull out of iraq within 16 months of taking office(something that everyone knows will never happen).

Obama has a lot of stuff in his ecconomic plan that he simply can not pay for(like universal health care) and to add to that he will be hitting hard the small business owners in this country. I'll give you an example.

One of the things on Obama's ecconomic plan is if a small company has over 19 employees and one of them decides to take leave (I forget what for) the employee gets paid meanwhile the employer is having to fill him employee temporarily. My dad has already said if he gets in and gets that through. He will do whatever it takes to get down to 19. And you would be crazy to think that other small business owners won't do the same thing.

To add to this last week a guy called him out on it durring one of his town hall meetings and Obama said "No I'm not oging to do that and I'm not going to raise your taxes either". This after the guy read it straight out of his ecconomic plan.

Yes a guy that is 40 can learn more than a a guy that is 70 I'll give you that but at the end of the day Obama is about the redistribution of wealth in America and I don't agree with that.