My take on McCain and his inability to say it to Obama's face the "Ayer's thing" actually comes down to this when I had a conversation with a close business associate. Let me put some context into my conversation. Jim is currently a CEO/Entreprenuer and former HR senior VP of a former US Fortune 500 company where coming up the ranks as a engineer/manager with another former Fortune 500 firm. I had served him as an executive search headhunter in a number of business initiatives ranging in projects that entailed COO's to director level positions. With that in mind our conversation centered on the leadership personalities of McCain and Obama. Having been in personal presence of Obama I gave him my take, my up close personal assessment of the people and friends of his which were all complimentary---saying in short he is what you see. Extremely smart, pragmatic, genuinely empathetic to those of all social and work class around him---he can down shift in a moment and connect with anyone and yet stay tuned into the overall. He is a real leader of leaders. Which would be confirmed in that by all accounts he is a self-made person having earned every step of his ascension to this current status.

When we discussed McCain it was quite critical. Not that personality disorders have not ascended to top leadership roles especially in business where Jim and I have both worked for same persons with extreme character disorders and flawed judgments and in all cases those individuals have not fared well leading their organizations in extreme challenges. McCain by his pedigree is the son of a 4-star Admiral, who was the son of another 4-star Admiral. When he grew up he wanted for nothing. He was by birth entitled to go to Annapolis (or West Point of the AFA) by appointment. He was not the Eagle Scout kid in the CD who earned everything with effort and dedication and got the Congressman or Senator to sponsor him or her to that first appointment. Through life he has had entitlement after entitlement ascensions. It is as clear as any resume both of us have read. He was squadron leader---why? Name or record...I have talked to those who served with him, it was name only.

Upon returning from a hell hole....he remarried into a fortune. And then he got elected because he had a good story. He then got elected to Senator following a true leader Goldwater who questioned the choice, that is a tell.

Then in 2000 he ran against another entitled candidate, the son of a President and grandson of a true Nazi sympathizer who somehow became Senator. Bush too was entitled to Yale and Harvard by social order and did not earn it. But beat McCain because of politics scorched earth politics.

Now when he is at the true sunset of his life he is running for that believed entitled status in life---President. And yet he is losing and beginning to lose badly to a person who has earned his way all the way to this point. So now McCain is going to take him down on character issues.

Funny thing is that I have walked and lived amongst those entitled circles as Jim. He a self-made corporate jockey from previous simple means, me a middle class ethnic Catholic, we have seen how entitled class react to losing. This is exactly how they totally bespurge any semblance of an opponents character and even make it up---taking the loss personally.

Now finally cowardness. McCain is no different than any person I have heard has talked behind my back of smears and lies and then were polite in public. I have confronted those at times, they run and hide, only to try to get revenge later behind your back. Ultimately it is all about me (McCain). The final tell in this entitled family was Cindy McCain's big speech yesterday about how she wanted Obama to walk in her shoes as she took personally the funding for war and her son. She too took it personally....and was proud of it.

Hey Cindy, I 'll walk in your shoes for a day, just let me spend a few thousand to catch back up on the losses your Party allowed to happen to the financial markets, oh and that goes back to the business I lost when it actually began in '06 as the market has fallen in a steady slide since '07...