No, I ‘m not dead yet, just crazy busy at work and helping the wife through nursing school.  But I saw this quote from McCain last year and had to post it.

“I have had a strong and a long relationship on national security, I’ve been involved in every national crisis that this nation has faced since Beirut, I understand the issues, I understand and appreciate the enormity of the challenge we face from radical Islamic extremism. I am prepared. I am prepared. I need no on-the-job training. I wasn’t a mayor for a short period of time. I wasn’t a governor for a short period of time,” – Senator John McCain, October, 2007.

From a Republican Fox News debate as recorded in the New York Times , via Andrew Sullivan