In the ad that Erich mentions, McCain tries to blame Obama for high gasoline prices, saying Obama’s opposition to opening more off-shore land for drilling will lead to higher prices. McCain’s claim rests on several invalid assumptions, the most glaring of which is the fact that land access is not the bottleneck in off-shore drilling: the bottleneck is a shortage of drilling platforms. Off-shore drilling platforms take years to build, install and make operational, and every one that currently exists is already in use; thus, making more off-shore land available will do absolutely nothing to increase production, at least not for several years. Another fact is that America’s off-shore supplies, even if running at maximum output, would make a relatively insignificant increase in total global output; thus, the impact on global prices would also be insigificant.

These are just some of the more glaring defects in McCain’s ads, any one of which should make the guy unqualified to sit in the Oval Office. McCain might be a hero from a war against communism that was fought *four decades* ago, but he’s just too ignorant, and too stupid, to handle the problems facing our world today.