Kennedy said 'ask what you can do for your country', The Boy Prince told us to go shopping.
Chris Bodenner at Sullivan's site:
"Ironically, MCain's personal narrative could be timely, with all the trauma at hand and all the challenges we face. But beyond sloganeering, what "service to country" is he calling for? If McCain was true to his well-crafted narrative, he would ask Americans to sacrifice for the greater good in a variety of ways. Like, say, returning to the upper-class rates in place before we were engaged in three simultaneous wars. Or perhaps push a bold-but-reasonable plan for national service? (Ya know, something like Obama's.) Okay, start small: How about asking Americans not to pump so much gasoline? A tax holiday for what?
What is McCain asking us to sacrifice? A man who gave 6 excruciating years to his country can't ask Americans to forgo 6% of their annual income? Does he want all of us to act like the materialistic, self-absorbed hippies he left for Hanoi?
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