I don't understand these polls. What qualifies McCain at being better equiped to handle national security issues? Don't tell me it's because his plane got shot down 40 years ago and he was held captive for all that time. Or because he supported monkey-face Bush in his two simultaneous war adventures, one of which in a country that neither Bush nor McCain clearly understood beforehand. They didn't even know that there were three different sects of people in Iraq before the war.

Like Bush, McCain was confident and absolute that the war would be done and over with in a matter of weeks, not a generation or two or three. McCain just blindly went along, and then pushed back when he knew he wanted to run for President, and now is happy to take all the credit for the so-called "Surge", which was a policy that didn't actually add anymore additional troops to Iraq, but only returned troop levels back to where they had been a year or so before.

The success of the surge came when the Bush administration ran out of ideas and began paying off 100,000 militia and former Baathists to run the areas they've occupied instead of actually dealing some kind of reconciliation pact or engaging with them in any substantive way. When the money stops flowing and the people want to return to Iraq, all the problems will kickstart once more.

McCain is the dumbest of dumb warriors, involved in the never ending war in Iraq which has now become a huge nation-building project that directly counters true Republican principles.

The results of these polls are baffling and suggest that Americans are actually getting dumber and dumber in their knee-jerkness.

The only side that is truly capable in America of dealing with National Security issues is the side that recognizes that America's presence in the Middle East is the big problem and not the solution. McCain said last week, "it's not our presence in Iraq that matters....it's the troop deaths". That ought to disqualify him outright to be President since it shows a clear lack of understanding of foreign affairs in itself.