McCain should have pressed harder

To the editor:

I would like to congratulate John McCain and his advisers for getting Barack Obama elected. He had ample fuel to defuse Obama's main theme, the "I will" on taxes and programs, which the president does not have the constitutional power to do. He can veto, sign or do nothing only after Congress passes such. The key word is missing: try. "I will" is absolute, not conditional.

Congress is another point. McCain should have pressed hard for Obama to tell the public which of these he had presented to the Senate in the last two years, since the Democrats held the majority. He didn't try.

Obama's answers would show the public that these things came to be only in his campaign to become president. They were not a long-sought desire.

McCain's staff leaks on Sarah Palin show, by their undermining activity, they were not committed to the party or McCain. Who knows what undermining influence they fed to McCain's campaign. It worked.

As for Palin, I think she was more qualified than any of them. She had both Republicans and Democratic crooked politicians put in jail. We need a lot of that in Washington, D.C. That would solve our country's biggest problem.

BUDDY PARRISH, Cape Girardeau