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People should use their brains. We are not electing "King Leonidas" to inspire us and lead us into battle we are electing a MANAGER of the most complex enterprise in the world. So things like who loves america more, who shares "small town values", somebody's personal heroism, who can you have a beer with and other crap people think about should be disposed of quickly.
First and foremost qualification (I am not talking about natural born 35+ year old US citizen) is brain power. The person up there has to be an educated and sophisticated, otherwise he(she?) will hurt him(her)self and others. Other things come second.
Let's go through qualifications of John McCain:
Despite having a father and grandfather that turned out to be Admirals (McCain's father got as high as command of Pacific Command during Vietnam I believe) John McCain graduated FIFTH FROM THE BOTTOM from U.S Naval Academy. He only achieved the rank of Captain (not even rear admiral!)
He was involved in several crashes of airplanes (whose fault it was nobody will ever know) After his much publicized captivity in Vietnam, he returned to USA, ditched his first wife that got disfigured in a car accident and married a richer younger one (that is some achievement marrying into money!) Her money and her family influence got him started in Arizona politics and the rest is history.
John McCain has a reputation for bad temper(comes in handy when dealing with nukes!), does not send e-mail (totally computer illiterate), does not understand economy as he should, and says things like Iraq/Pakistan border. Man is old as dirt.
The bimbo he got as his running mate graduated from the awesome University of Idaho with a BS in journalism, then managed a city of 6000 people (got it burdened with millions in debt obligations) then got to be the governor of a sparsely populated state. At least she is a hockey mom! And she would be one heartbeat from the presidency.
None of this should be construed as blind support for Obama. Obama is a pompous JFK wannabe but Harvard Law>Naval Academy fifth from the bottom any day. Regardless of his arrogance he was a constitutional law professor and that counts for a lot since we have an administration that believes in imperial presidency.
If you want a taste of the McCain presidency it is very simple: 700 billion Military budget (he could try to get it to 1 trillion), horrible economy and potential confrontation with Russia/China/Venezuela/Iran or anyone that looked at him funny.