Hello, Sailor!

I’ll be honest with you, I don’t know why millions of Americans want to see John McCain, a member of the Keating Five who cheated on his first wife, Carol Shepp McCain, and divorced her to marry the girl he was fooling around with, Cindy Hensley, become our next President when his past errors in judgement would disqualify him from becoming a church elder. If it’s not because he’s a decent guy, it must be because he’s right on the issues. Right?

Well, let’s just look at his position on Bush’s tax-breaks for the wealthiest of the wealthy. McCain was against it before he was for it. As a republican, giving a handout to the needy is anathema. Welfare is of the devil – unless it’s welfare for the richest people in the nation. Our economy is sinking faster than a submarine with a screen-door hatch. You’d think a navy man would realize that Bush’s tax-break is like a hole in the bottom of a boat; but instead of plugging the hole, McCain wants to make the hole permanent.

Well, what about his position on Bush’s call for more offshore drilling? McCain was against that before he was for it also. The free market is our most sacred trust – unless we’re talking about the oil companies. We invaded Iraq so Exxon and friends could get their hands on Saddam’s reserves. We force consumers to purchase SUV’s that get fifteen miles a gallon when we have the ability – right now – to make electric cars that can go three hundred miles on a single charge. Big Oil is not America’s friend, it’s our enemy. McCain either doesn’t see that, or isn’t willing to fight them.

So, if he’s personally unfit for the job and he’s wrong on the issues, why do so many folks like John McCain? Maybe it’s because he wears that cool Navy hat!

Going Full-Retard

I wouldn’t have even bothered with this subject had my jaw not dropped two feet as I heard a guest on FOX NEWS grunting about the families of the mentally disabled being upset over the movie Tropic Thunder. The R word is used 17 times in the flick, while the N word is spoken only once. What made me stop in my tracks was that the speaker (sorry, I was flipping channels and didn’t catch who it was) brought up General Wesley Clark. Remember, a few weeks ago the General said that just being shot down doesn’t automatically qualify a person to be Commander-in-Chief.

Where was the outrage? Well, my guess is that these folks had better things to do than worry about what one politician said about another. My guess is that these two situations don’t really have a hell of a lot in common in the first place. My guess is that the only people who were outraged were McCain supporters who had to realise that General Clark was right.

Take the Russian invasion of Georgia, McCain’s perfect “three o’clock phone-call” moment. John McCain is going off half-cocked in full sabre-rattle mode, even though we don’t have troops to send over there thanks to the Surge, even though we need Russia’s help to cope with Iran’s nuclear program, and even though we have no moral authority since we invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq five years ago, with John McCain’s blessing.

I think what the guy on FOX NEWS was trying to get at was that we have free speech, and if you don’t want to see a movie where the mentally-challenged, or to be more exact, the actors who play the mentally-challenged, are satirized pretty harshly, don’t see it. Bringing Wesley Clark’s comments might not have been the smartest thing to do. Then again, Robert Downey Jr. in black-face was probably not a great idea either…

John McCain to the Rescue

While the Obama network, MSNBC, is busy covering the Olympics, John McCain has been getting a free ride by CNN and FOX NEWS on the war issue. Not the war in Iraq. Not even the war in Afghanistan. I’m talking about the war in Georgia. Vladimir Putin has broken nearly as many rules as George W. Bush did when he invaded the sovereign nation of Iraq.

CNN and FOX NEWS have been practically giddy in their coverage of McCain, the Commander-in-Chief America needs when the phone rings at three o’clock in the morning, and his calls for Putin to “play fair”… No one seems to see the irony of a republican candidate for the presidency waving the U.N. flag? McCain was in lock-step with Bush in the lead-up to the Iraqi invasion. When Bush thumbed his nose at the Security Council and blustered, “You’re either with us or against us.” McCain was most definitely with Bush. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

When Barack Obama spoke in front of two hundred thousand cheering Europeans in Berlin, he showed what the future could be like with an American President that was held in high regard. McCain turned that moment into a joke because he really doesn’t understand how important international relations are. But he does know how to win wars. We know this, because he repeatedly tells us so.

And if you tell people something long enough, they’ll believe it; just ask the majority of Americans that now believe John McCain, of all people, is the guy they want in charge if a crisis hits.

Who Murdered Bruce Ivins?

Hundreds of soldiers, scientists and family members showed up Wednesday to attend a memorial service for Bruce Ivins held at Fort Detrick about the same time Authorities were holding a press conference to lay the blame for the 2001 anthrax attacks on Ivins, and close the case.

Authorities said Ivins, a 62-year-old Army biodefense researcher at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, committed suicide last week as they were preparing to charge him with carrying out the anthrax attacks. After nearly seven years, they still had no hard evidence and not much of a motive.

If you’ll remember, in December of 2001, Senator John McCain said we had actionable intelligence that Saddam Hussein was behind the anthrax attacks.

We’ll never learn who masterminded the anthrax attacks. It wasn’t Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, the first innocent victim in the FBI investigation/cover-up; and no reasonably intelligent person could accept that Dr. Ivins is guilty either. No problem, the Bush Administration can relax now that the case is closed and the truth will never see the light of day.