Actually, Rubma's comments are so careless with the facts that it is hard to know where to begin. Indeed, I'm not sure it's worth responding, since the wrongness of most of his scattershoot comments (note, for instance, that GWB was a Yale legacy, not a Harvard one) tends to mask the irrelevance of what perhaps may be his central point, some sort of comment on the competence of the two candidates. Let us consider the foreign policy role of the President, say, when Russia invades Georgia (and assuming that it isn't, as the most recent charade was, precipitated by McCain leading the President of Georgia on about the intentions of the United States). And what their recent behavior and debate performances tell us about them. What reaction would you prefer: 1. Obama telling Medvedev that he led a coalition of states that were gravely concerned with this action,and Russia needed to commit to pull its troops out? This, by the way, was the role that Sarkozy, the President of France, had to play because our own government was incapable of performing it. Or perhaps incompetent to perform it. 2. Or McCain, pulling a stunt like the ones he's been running lately -- remember, he's a gambling man -- and threatening to nuke Russia to the Stone Age? Remember, this is the guy who pretends he was a fighter pilot but also admits that he didn't make any effort to evade the missile that locked on to his -- what was it? fourth crashed plane? Which was apparently a small bomber. And one more point: would you really want Sarah Palin on that conversation, should McCain have severe health issues?