Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s address to the Disabled American Veterans Convention at Bally’s on Aug. 9 evidently was not very well-received.
I am a 30-year Navy vet who did not attend the function because I am fortunate not to have been disabled as were so many of my fellow vets. However, after hearing from some who did attend, it is clear that McCain did not win many converts to his cause. More than one friend said, in essence:
I didn’t go there to hear him complain about Barack Obama, I went there to find out what he could do for me. I was disappointed in what he promised; it doesn’t seem like he really knows what our concerns are.
Most said they thought McCain comes off as a grumpy, vindictive old man who is beginning to realize he is no longer the media darling he once was, and is lashing out at the person he perceives as his tormentor. His recent blitz of extremely negative TV ads against Obama and the Democrats as a whole seems to reinforce this impression.
McCain served his country under the most difficult circumstances imaginable, and deserves all of our respect for his service, but his more than two decades in Washington seem to have distanced him from the problems of the average veteran.
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