The United States since the end of the cold war has become downsized in importance by globalist reinvesting in Asia and elsewhere. Americans now are just 1 amidst 22 global workers instead of 1 amidst 2.9 workers in the first world, competition has increased and globalist takeover of the post cold war administrations in the federal government have not adjusted at all to defend democracy and national interests instead favoring globalists and the concentration of wealth in the non-working capitalist class.
John McCain is the last best hope to be a fair and balanced executor of federal policy that an intelligent congress provides by passing intelligent laws, and that latter issue is the problem. The U.S. Congress simply has been stupid since the end of the cold war and the people are paying the price with a continuing downward trend in real wages for most. A President cannot make laws but should simply execute them well. McCain as a Senator had zero earmark attachments last year while Obama and Clinton had dozens or hundreds. McCain is the zero-pork guy that globalists and the corrupt may fear.
John McCain embodies the American spirit. Captured by the North Vietnamese after being shot down on his 23rd bombing mission and badly injured he experienced torture during his years of captivity yet would not return to America as a show prisoner for the enemy. He did not leave until all Americans were released from captivity in 1973. John McCain in a real sense is America and the true faith of the founders who would pay any price, bear any burden of sacrifice in the service of his fellow Americans. Hillary and Barrack haven't any credibility on that point-untried, untested and undeserving as they are, and thus the nation seems to look to John McCain during this trying time of national poverty created by the Bush administration and prior Clinton administration that redistributed so much wealth to the rich. Presently more than 95% of the national financial wealth is controlled by less than 1% of the people.
Senator McCain could use a Ralph Nadir as Vice President to combat the invidious take over of the U.S. political system by global corporations. They and OPEC will bring the nation 150 or 200 dollar per barrel oil prices later this year very likely and yet the response of the Federal government to permanently launch the nation on to an independent alternative energy policy is perennial lacking as the toadies of political power seek to consume the crumbs of Communist Chinese manufacturing growth and Persian Gulf Arab oil riches. The nation is lacking common sense and Senator McCain is the sole Presidential candidate in 2008 with the potential to thrash the ignorant, corrupted congress into moving to national alternative energy independent support and home electrical power production. The Senator should he choose to accept the mission could bring the field of ecological economics to prominence in federal budget and resource planning (ref. Herman and Daily 'Ecological Economics-principals and applications') and create a 21st century rational nationalism example for the poor downtrodden nations of the world experiencing the corruption of democracy.
Like the struggles of Athenian democracy with the oligarchy (members of which eventually succeeded in bringing about the execution of the reformer known as Socrates)the United States' democracy is corrupted by an emergent global oligarchy that effectively resembles the communist party elite rulers of the former Soviet Union with a Trotskyite globalist agenda. The worse aspect of that form of corporatist globalism is that it is based on a neoclassical economics that hasn't any value for anything other than market goods-public goods such as forests, the atmosphere, the ocean and land are thought to be infinite and given no value. That blindness means that the injection of natural resources for free into the neoclassical economic stew pot that believes it has transcended the first and second laws of thermodynamics is delusional and set to bring the world's population closer toward mass ecological crisis on the road ahead.
The United States is so complacent regarding Presidential elections that second terms are almost automatic, and they want models to preen before the cameras in order to be fashionable. Senator McCain as a one-term President is enough to combat the tough macro-economic facts of life that challenge the U.S.A. Let's worry about 2012 in 2011 politically, and instead presently get a competent national political agenda for John McCain to ramrod through the congress that will add up to a healthy prosperous nation and national environment in just four years.