Mad Man McCain

While looking at Politico.com I came across an article about John McCain and how he has become quite the critic after his recent loss to Barack Obama in the 2008 election. In this article cleverly titled McCain, critic in chief, The first thing I thought was interesting about the article was the first paragraph where the author is defending Obama for lending an open hand to John McCain after beating him in the the presidenct, and even after this good willed gesture John McCain is a leading critic of the new President. I mean come on, first of all Obama or not we all know that anyone who has just run for major public office is going to mention his competition and praise them for the work they did, after they win. I do not think this is a reason to feel bad for Obama that McCain is being mean to him now. Obama's speech writers knew exactly wha they were doing when they wrote about McCain and I am not taking away from the fact that Obama mentioned McCain as doing an amazing job during the campaign but, honestly we all know he did not do it just because he is such a great guy, anyone would have done that. Secondly McCain has always been a critic of Obama and for obvious reasons. A. Obama was his competition during the presidential campaign, they were both fighting for the same job, of course they are going to be critics of eachother. B. Obama is a democrat and McCain is a republican, they are both opposing forces, they are always critics of each other, the parties stand for completely different issues, i mean of course McCain is going to criticize Obama's decisions. I think it is outrageous that this author would even use this argument in a comic book let alone the opening paragraphs of a political news article.