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The 2008 presidential election will be a choice between presumption and preparation.

John Sidney McCain, Arizona's senior United States Senator, is a veteran of more than a score of years in the United States Senate and a quarter of a century in the United States Congress.

Perhaps even more importantly, McCain spent more than twenty years in the United States Navy as a war hero, naval aviator, prisoner-of-war, commanding officer of a training squadron and Navy liaison to the United States Senate before retiring as a captain.

Whether or not one agrees with McCain on various issues, it is obvious that he is very well prepared to be President.

Moreover, McCain did not even run for any elective office until he was about Obama's current age. (McCain successfully ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1982.)

The presumptuous presidential candidate obviously is the junior United States Senator from Illinois, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.

Presumptuousness: overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy.

Example: Obama saying that he does not look like "other presidents" on the one- and five-dollar bills.

Presupposition: supposition beforehand.

Example: Obama acting as though he is a President of the United States, complete with the infamous Obama Seal.

Preposterousness: contrary to nature, reason or common sense.

Example: Obama being elected President of the United States based on "the audacity of hope" and "the fierce urgency of now" and without any military or Peace Corps experience, or executive experience, or major legislative accomplishment in either the Illinois state senate (where he served two terms) and the United States Senate (where he is a rookie United States Senator who started running for President soon after being sworn in).

In the fairy tale, a child who obviously did not suffer from political correctness pointedly commented that the Emperor actually was not wearing any clothes.

Perhaps someone will point out at the start of the upcoming Democrat National Convention that while Obama meets the constitutional qualifications for President, he lacks the record of service and accomplishment that any Democrat or Republican presidential candidate should have and the Democrats will come to their senses and nominate another.

As Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton acidly asserted, she and McCain have substantial records and Obama gave a speech a few years ago.

Yes, Obama IS a great tele-prompter reader.

Obama's delivery of the keynote address at the 2004 Democrat National Convention (thanks to the United States Senators from Massachusetts, John Kennedy and John Kerry) was impressive.

Almost as impressive as Paris Hilton's video response to the McCain television commercial on celebrity that enlightened many voters.

Obama is the best three-point shooter.

Paris looks best in a bathing suit, has a better energy plan than Obama and probably is a better bowler.

But, of the three, McCain is the only one who is presidential material.

Paris, McCain earned those wrinkles and that white hair, serving his country in combat and afterward, so that Obama could become a lawyer and a community organizer without having to perform any national service and you could work on your tan.

Michael J. Gaynor

Biography - Michael J. Gaynor

Michael J. Gaynor has been practicing law in New York since 1973. A former partner at Fulton, Duncombe & Rowe and Gaynor & Bass, he is a solo practitioner admitted to practice in New York state and federal courts and an Association of the Bar of the City of New York member.

Gaynor graduated magna cum laude, with Honors in Social Science, from Hofstra University's New College, and received his J.D. degree from St. John's Law School, where he won the American Jurisprudence Award in Evidence and served as an editor of the Law Review and the St. Thomas More Institute for Legal Research. He wrote on the Pentagon Papers case for the Review and obscenity law for The Catholic Lawyer and edited the Law Review's commentary on significant developments in New York law.

The day after graduating, Gaynor joined the Fulton firm, where he focused on litigation and corporate law. In 1997 Gaynor and Emily Bass formed Gaynor & Bass and then conducted a general legal practice, emphasizing litigation, and represented corporations, individuals and a New York City labor union. Notably, Gaynor & Bass prevailed in the Second Circuit in a seminal copyright infringement case, Tasini v. New York Times, against newspaper and magazine publishers and Lexis-Nexis. The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed, 7 to 2, holding that the copyrights of freelance writers had been infringed when their work was put online without permission or compensation.

Gaynor currently contributes regularly to www.MichNews.com, www.RenewAmerica.com, www.WebCommentary.com, www.PostChronicle.com and www.therealitycheck.org and has contributed to many other websites. He has written extensively on political and religious issues, notably the Terry Schiavo case, the Duke "no rape" case, ACORN and canon law, and appeared as a guest on television and radio. He was acknowledged in Until Proven Innocent, by Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, and Culture of Corruption, by Michelle Malkin. He appeared on "Your World With Cavuto" to promote an eBay boycott that he initiated and "The World Over With Raymond Arroyo" (EWTN) to discuss the legal implications of the Schiavo case. On October 22, 2008, Gaynor was the first to report that The New York Times had killed an Obama/ACORN expose on which a Times reporter had been working with ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief.

Gaynor's email address is gaynormike@aol.com.