Obama or McCain

It is obvious to anyone who has seen more than 3 presidential elections in action that Obama is a better peacetime president like President Kennedy and President Clinton both were. However, if there is to be war then likely McCain would be a better president. However, in past elections the voters tend to vote in non-veterans as President. The reason for this is simple. People who have been to war tend to have to a greater or lesser degree a slight problem with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For example, McCain has two things in this direction against him. The irritability that comes from the aging process and having been tortured as a Navy Pilot in North Viet Nam. These two factors tend to make him unsuitable for being president. I think if either age or the torture were not a factor he would make a good President. However, both are not a good idea in a President.

Next we have Obama, who is inspiring but inexperienced in world affairs. I think McCain without his age or his torture would make the better statesman and President on the world stage. However, Obama might do better inpiring the whole world if it was more peaceful. However, if Russia is going to start another Cold War as it appears they are while China wages a de facto economic War on the world while the middle east and other oil nations wage an oil based economic war on the world it is anybody's guess who actually would make the better president in the present world climate.