I need some help here. I want to write a list of the successes of John McCain. I am thinking to myself that at this critical juncture in the campaign that McCain could easily abort the negative approach and sell himself as the American success story and win this elections by a landslide over that Obama fellow.

I was just about to grab pen and paper, write a really long list and then send it off to his campaign. I got stuck on the first line and quickly realised that I am not in a position to write on McCain's successes.

So tell me, was he successful at school and in the military? I keep hearing about poor grades and military planes falling from under him but I do not really know.

Would you say he has been successful on the marriage and fidelity front? I am not sure here either.

What about his bids for the presidency? I don't seem to think that he was successful here.

What about his handling of the recent economic crisis thing? Are you of the opinion that he got it right and now things are on the up and up economically?

Is Sarah Palin one  of his success stories? Do you think she is skyrocketing to the vice presidency and hence McCain's judgement is smack bang on target?

That Russia/Georgia conflict, I know he came out with a few talking points when that situation came to pass but I am not sure if that could be called a successful handling of that situation. What do you think?

As you can see, I know very little about John McCain and hence I am in no real position to write on the successes in his life so your help is required. In recent times however it seems that most of the things he's touched have been turning to ashes. Again it may seem that way to me because I really know nothing about the man so I am just making a bad judgement call. So help me out here.