Scorecard so far. [If McCain would've won]

[Roswell-Perseis]

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1. McCain wouldn't have touched regulations to appeal to the Rebublican line. Thus, the next devastating Bubble would be right around the corner.

You have no evidence that Obama's reforms will stop the next bubble, or delay a bubble, or make the fallout less devastating- although I hope that somehow better regulation does lessen the impact of future bubble, and perhaps you as well, hope does not equal fact.

2. McCain wouldn't have given a speech to the Muslim World, so as a result, he wouldn't have caught the moderates attention for a different US approach to the issue. Thus, the protests in Iran might have been less dramatic concerning the opposition to Iran's leader from within - Netanjahu wouldn't have make a step towards a compromised solution.

I agree that it is doubtful McCain would have given such a speech, but do you have any support that the Iranian protestors were affected by Obama's speech? It may seem logical, but I doubt one speech, even a well recieved one, would make a difference to lay-persons far more concerned with their lives and freedoms than the politics of the US.

7. There wouldn't have been any efforts to find a different solution concerning the Gitmo-Issue - and McCain wouldn't have made a binding commitment to get out of Iraq.

Perhaps you are right about Gitmo, although McCain spoke out against torture and was a POW, and so may have made some inroads that he did not speak to during his campaign. Please note that while I am not a fan of McCain, and once again surmise the same is true of you, it is possible to acknowledge that McCain is far from the thoughtless cartoon that Bush II was, and may very well have backed off the most egregious of Bush II's civil rights violations.

Obama did not make any binding agreements, the Status of Forces Agreement was ratified by the Iraqi parliament on November 27, 2008, under Bush II.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/...es/iraq/status-of-forces-agreement/index.html

Obama had a 2010 deadline for Iraq, and I know McCain did not. Although I do not remember what his exact position was, even if his position was that he would not propose a troop withdrawal, that alone is not enough to support an argument that McCain would have ignored Iraqi sovereignty and kept combat troops in Iraq after being told to withdrawal them.

8. On the Afghanistan Issue, McCain probably would've supported more military intervention to Obama's approach.

Huh?

 

[Thunder]

...US Middle East policy would not be alienating the only true democracy in the region and its only true ally--Israel--while tacitly accepting brutal totalitarian regimes that espouse annihilation of Israel and genocide of Jews, all in the interest of appearing fair and balanced.

Lebanon is as much a democracy as Israel is. Though Lebanon doesn't have any laws that favor Muslim citizens over Christian ones. Turkey is also a full democracy.

 

[geni]

Yes, of course he would.

I have a sneaking suspicion that many on the left are just counting the days until he actually does pass away, so they can so "SEE, HE WOULDN'T HAVE MADE IT A FULL TERM!!!" and other such nastiness.

You credit the left with an unlikely attention span. McCain lost and 2010 senate run is some time away. People are for the most part not going to be thinking about him at all.