The more I look at the two campaigns the more I realise the importance of courage required to lead. It has become obvious to me that John McCain does not have the courage to lead. He deflects the role of leadership to others while he parades as the figure head. This is ridiculous.

He has not taken the leadership role of his party even though he has been appointed as leader. Several people now seem to farm out that role every day and this is seen by the various surrogates who are in the media. Each one with a different point of view on the same subject.

He failed to take control of his campaign and hence he has been relegated to expounding positions on issues that are not his. He is given a script and he reads whatever is written on it even if he thinks it is nonsense. Look at the Wright, Ayers and the other negative issues, it is easy to see that John McCain is uncomfortable with this approach to campaigning but because he has no real leadership role in the campaign he has to go along with these talking points and lines of attack.

McCain does not have the courage to stay on message. In any elections, there will always be a core group of people who will oppose whatever message is brought to the table. McCain cowers and changes his message when his base attacks him. He does not have the courage to sell and market what he believes.

John McCain is afraid to be a leader and he is afraid to make the type of decisions that leaders make. If he cannot convince his party and his inner core of campaigners to follow his lead, how can he convince the American people? How can he convince the middle east? How will he be able to convince Russia and Europe? Seems impossible to me.

Contrast John McCain's courage with Obama's. Obama has stayed on message from inception to this very moment. Did he get tons of challenges from his supporters? One just has to read the blogs during the primaries to see the lashes which Obama took for his message. All of his opponents stuck it to him but Obama had the courage to stay on message and sell it to the world at large... not just the American people. It is becoming more and more obvious everyday that the people have bought Obama's message. 

Obama took control of his party long before the primaries were over. As a matter of fact several people within the party wondered what was his rush. He was always in control of his campaign and its talking points are his talking points. His media voices all have the look and feel of Obama. They sound like him. He has complete control of his campaign. He has the courage so to do. 

Without vision, the people perish. John McCain does not have the courage to lead... not his campaign, not his party, not his country and certainly not the world.

A look at the two campaigns reveal a very interesting nugget.

Barack Obama remade the Democratic Party in his image and likeness. He leads, dictates and directs the core values and points of his campaign. The talking points on the campaign sound like him, look like him and seem to be him. His surrogates mostly sing his tunes right down to the sour notes. This is his campaign and party. In like manner, he has developed a core theme for his campaign from day 1 and has never left it. He is still hanging onto this change mantra

In contrast John McCain has not taken control of his party. He never got around to remaking it in his likeness and image. More over, he is not even controlled by his party but is led by a select group of people in some remote corner of his party.

His talking points never seem to be his because they run at variance to the things he supported in the past. So often the things he says are in direct contrast to what his surrogates say.

McCain seems to be someone who is sent to deliver a message. He is never comforatable with his talking points and this makes him seem grouchy and old.

There is no one on earth at this moment who say difinitvely what McCain's campaign theme, slogan or mantra really are, fearful that it will change the next day. YES, his entire campaign flutters around like shot bird and has no stability.

There is no eveidence of McCain's leadership in his campaign and this is why he will lose this election.

I am sure that his supporters are not keen on having him as president, they just do not want a democrat in the house. More particulary a democrat of Obama's pedigree.

John McCain is not ready to lead this country. He will not be president.