McCain is not fit to be president.

I also appreciate my opponents kind remarks. My opponent starts by resolving that McCain is unfit to be the President of the United States of America. Since she provided no definition of "fit" I will provide one for the voters. [Definitions] Fit - being physically and mentally able. Since "fit" can mean a wide variety of things and is a word that depends upon your requirements, I have used this definition to avoid a lengthy discussion (that can't take place due to the lack of rounds) of what "fit" actually is. Now onto the debate. My opponents main resolution that she is attempting to prove is that John McCain is not "fit" to be the President of the United States of America. Notice, that nowhere in her resolution does she use the word "fit to be a >>>good<<< president, or fit to be an average president. Just fit to be president. I, as the Con, do not have to disprove this resolution. My opponent simply has to prove her resolution. Scrolling through her arguments. I notice that she has brought up this point: that in McCain's past he: "was a five-star binge drinker and carouser. Grandpa "smoked, swore, drank, and gambled at every opportunity he had. .. John spent his teens and 20s constantly flirting with disciplinary disaster by breaking every drinking and curfew rule on the books, concentrating more on Brazilian heiresses and Florida strippers than on his aviating skills. " However I would like to remind the voters of this debate that McCain's past does not qualify him as being unfit for president. If this would be the case, then many presidents who the US considers great, would be judged unfit for an office they excelled in. Example: Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States. "he engaged in brawls, and in a duel, killed a man who cast an unjustified slur on his wife Rachel" However he founded the modern democratic party Clay and Webster, who had acted as attorneys for the Bank, led the fight for its recharter in Congress. "The bank," Jackson told Martin Van Buren, "is trying to kill me, but I will kill it! " Jackson, in vetoing the recharter bill, charged the Bank with undue economic privilege. His views won approval from the American electorate; in 1832 he polled more than 56 percent of the popular vote and almost five times as many electoral votes as Clay. Additionally he did not have a college education. . http://www.whitehouse.gov... Therefore, a president's past conduct does not render that president unfit for presidency. (On an unrelated side note I suggest you do some research on McCain's contender's own history) My opponents first argument has no bearing on whether John McCain is fit to be president. Had my opponent indicated that she meant fit to be defined as "doing an excellent job" then I would debate this point. However fit has never been defined to be as such. Additionally, my opponent, in this debate is attempting to compare McCain to the current president. She has simply shown McCain's views on the current War in Iraq. She has not shown how his other views are similar to Bush's nor has he shown how Bush has been an unfit president and thus in association with Bush, how McCain is also a unfit president. Nor has she shown how being a proponent of the war in Iraq makes a president unfit. There has been no factual evidence backing this claim.