McCain Should Invite Obama To Hike Across Grand Canyon
Instead of challenging Barack Obama to a series of joint Town Hall meetings, John McCain should have invited Obama to hike with him across the Grand Canyon.
This summer, he’s planning to hike the Grand Canyon with his two sons, Jack and Jimmy. In 2006, McCain hiked from the North Rim to the South Rim. “Thirty miles, two days in 115-degree heat … and carrying a backpack as well,” Jack McCain, a midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, recently said in a Web interview.
Barack Obama, 25 years younger than McCain, has repeatedly insisted he won’t make age an issue.
But, of course, Obama is and will. Not only would Obama wheezing along after McCain on the hike make the difference plain between a callow fellow’s appearance belied by his reality, it might even provide an opportunity for Obama to learn something about what it really means to be fit, including fit to be commander-in-chief and president.
To now, Obama’s campaign is more like the Billy Crystal line on Saturday Night Live, “better to look good than feel good.”