Suppose you come home and find a strange man rifling through your bedroom drawers looking for the family jewels. When you apprehend this man and call the police, he tells you that he had been held and tortured as a prisoner of war for five years. Would you still call the police?

Most of us would. Maybe the judge should show some leniency in sentencing, but even former POWs don't have license to steal the family jewels. This is the story of the McCain candidacy.

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I have been seeing John McCain ads that say things like "economy in shambles," "soaring food and energy prices," and "you are worse off than you were four years ago." I haven't been able to understand these statements because the person currently in charge is George W. Bush who is pursuing the same economic policies that Senator McCain has endorsed in his campaign.

It doesn't make any sense to tell people how bad things are if you intend to pursue the same policies that brought on the disaster. I mean Ronald Reagan was able to effectively use the line, "are you better off now than you were four years ago?" precisely because he was running against the person who was in the White House. It wouldn't have made any sense for Jimmy Carter to ask "are you better off now than you were four years ago?"

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