Remember when they said it could not be done.
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We are Americans. We are argumentative, and we do not give up. Before we could win in Iraq, we had to beat the opposition within our own nation. To get anything done, we need tough, determined leaders.
Bob McDonnell recently provided the Richmond Times Dispatch a column. Bob McDonnell is the attorney general of Virginia and campaign co-chairman of McCain-Palin Virginia 2008. Here is how it starts.
A maxim by the Roman writer Publilius Syrus states, “Any one can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” Today, we live in a time of rough seas. Our news is filled with reports of rising foreclosure rates, corporate failures, stock-market worries, and international conflict. This is a time of great uncertainty and great risk. It is also a time when we know that we need a change in the way government works. A new path must be forged – not solely for the sake of change, but to lead us to a safer and more prosperous tomorrow.
This moment uniquely demands a proven leader who can secure the right change. We have the opportunity to elect a battle-tested leader in John McCain as the next president of the United States.
McCain’s biography is the stuff of movies. He has literally fought and bled for his nation. As a naval aviator on a bombing mission he was shot down over North Vietnam, captured, and placed in the Hanoi Hilton prison where he endured torture that would destroy an ordinary man. Due to his father’s leadership role in the military he was offered numerous opportunities to return home early. The North Vietnamese gladly would have let him return to freedom and comfort for the sake of a public-relations victory. But McCain said no. Tortured, tired, alone, and broken for nearly five and a half years, McCain chose country first. (Continued here.)
McCain was a POW for five and a half years. That is longer than Barack Obama has been in the U.S. Senate. Yet McCain came home, and he recovered. He rebuilt his life, and he continued to serve.
