John McCain AWOL?

Has the big guy said "Today we're all Iranians" yet? Probably not, since it would conflict with the McCain Doctrine for the region, which was "Bomb, bomb Iran."

Ha ha. Speaking of Georgia and all of us being Georgians, what's happening in our adopted country over there? And why don't we hear much about it anymore? Shouldn't John McCain be leading the way on our continuing solidarity with the people and whoever that leader they had was?

In other Republican scandals, what's his name? -- Sen. John Ensign of Nevada admitted an extramarital affair. Something about blackmail. So it's good to get this out there early, especially with 2012 coming. Maybe he can squeeze in under the McCain Rule, which said an old affair was OK.

At least he didn't pull a John Edwards, wait till the campaign was over with to mention it.

McCain's Loss Such A Blessing

John McCain used to command some respect in a bipartisan sense. Then he decided to run a desperate campaign based on lies and the politics of personal destruction, and of course the respect dried up.

Yet, President Obama (then President-elect) reached out to him, and just like all through the campaign, was gracious to the point of being nauseatingly so, as far as I'm concerned. He called McCain in, let him sit in a nice chair, then said nice things about him. McCain sat there in a nice way. He's a lot like a delinquent child. As long as they sit quietly they seem pleasant, but it never lasts long.

Now, with the economy ("The fundamentals of our economy are strong") completely tanking -- and there's an obvious need for bold leadership, to get this stinking thing raised from the dead -- McCain is only there with carping, complaining, and the usual venom that comes from his mouth. At least in the campaign he was usually just the Old Man Shaking His Fist Against The Clouds. Now he's back hoping to sink the entire country.

What a blessing McCain lost. As he has shown since Jan. 20, he's not looking for something new, something that might help. He voted to continue the Bush economic agenda, even after eight years of proven failure! With all the disgusting things that happened under Bush's mismanagement, McCain says Let's have more of the same! This is what we could have had had McCain become president!

So thank God John McCain didn't win the presidency. No, really, thank God: "God, thank you that John McCain did not win the presidency. We are so much better off with Obama."

McCain Campaign Exploits Hoax Story For Political Gain

Disgusting but true. As the executive VP from Fox News, John Moody, said, now McCain's despicable campaign will forever be known for race-baiting.

“Senator McCain’s quest for the presidency is over, forever linked to race-baiting.”

Talking Points Memo has the details. The McCain campaign was out in front of the police on this story, supplying details of their own so that the story would be spun against Obama.

Oh, This Is Lovely

Link: "You know, I think you may have noticed that Senator Obama's supporters have been saying some pretty nasty things about Western Pennsylvania lately," McCain told the audience in the town of Moon Township. "And you know, I couldn't agree with them more."

McCain The "Peacenik"

McCain can flash the peace sign all he wants. I'm not forgetting he's one of this country's biggest warmongers. Who's he think he's fooling?

McCain: "To Russia, With Love"

John McCain solicited funds for his campaign from the Russians. True story.

Comrade McCain recently suggested, without proof, that perhaps some of Obama's support was coming from foreign countries. But now we see which side is really going global.

When McCain looks into Putin's eyes, what letters does he see now? Or are there just dollar signs?

Which Of These Men Looks Credible As President?

As far as I know this photo has not been altered by Photoshop. I saw McCain make this weird face and gesture just after the debate.

Is this a good presidential look?

Airheadless

One of the consequences of McCain's seeming inevitable defeat, which is of incalculable worth, is that we will be spared having an airhead as vice president, then potentially president.

Send her back to the tundra, and let her family get on with the rest of their lives.

Voting For McCain Is Wrong

And how does Sarah Palin expect her kids to tell the truth? What lesson are they getting? She's an enormous liar.

Channeling George Wallace

Since McCain has been channeling George Wallace lately, one way to show up Obama at the debate is to stand in the doorway so Obama can't get to the stage. But he'll have to be on his guard that Forrest Gump isn't there somewhere to mess things up.

The Last Debate

I read somewhere the last debate is a sit-down debate. This should be bad news for McCain, who said today he was going to "whip" Obama's "you-know-what." Of course physically it will be harder to get to his you-know-what if he's sitting on it.

But his bigger problem is the whole dynamic of sit-down debates. Going by debates past -- Lieberman/Cheney and Edwards/Cheney come to mind -- they tend to be gentlemanly affairs. If McCain tries to get too nasty it'll come across as nothing but nasty.

No One's Happy With McCain

NY Times:

Tommy Thompson, a Republican who is a former governor of Wisconsin, said it would be difficult for Mr. McCain to win in his state but not impossible, particularly if he campaigned in conservative Democratic parts of the state. Asked if he was happy with Mr. McCain’s campaign, Mr. Thompson replied, “No,” and he added, “I don’t know who is.”

"I don't know who is." Ha ha. Actually, now that I think of it I guess I'm fairly happy with McCain's campaign, as disgusting as it is. It's always best to see Republican ineptitude before they're elected!

McCain: The Incredible Shrinking Man

An endorsement for Barack Obama by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

In their editorial, the newspaper says Obama is the best candidate because he's presidential, intelligent, has good advisers, good temperament, and impressive equanimity under pressure.

John McCain, on the other hand:

Meanwhile, Mr. McCain, the senior senator from Arizona, became the incredible shrinking man. He shrank from his principled stands in favor of a humane immigration policy. He shrank from his universal condemnation of torture and his condemnation of the politics of smear.

No Props For McCain

McCain is running a despicable campaign, and he's a despicable candidate.

But we pulled into a rest stop yesterday, so McCain could tell the booing mob that Obama was "decent" and not someone for them to be "scared of" as president. But, you know how rest stops go, you're in, you're out. And now the Republicans are back at it.

I saw a few comments, at Daily Kos and other places, giving props to McCain for being a decent guy after all. I thought it was all quite a bit, enormously premature. And that turns out to be the case. Now we have John Lewis criticizing McCain. John Lewis! One of McCain's own three wisest people he knows! And what does McCain do -- repent in sackcloth and ashes? No! -- he comes out with how it saddens him that John Lewis had made "a character attack against Gov. Sarah Palin and me that is shocking and beyond the pale." Beyond the pale?

If McCain can't take the word of John Lewis -- one of the three wisest people he knows -- then what would it take to pierce through that dense, confused noggan of his? If you're inciting a mob toward violence, do you not realize you should stop it?

There was an amusing side to the whole thing, watching the little old clueless lady stumble over her words and finally blurt out that Obama was "an Arab." The amusing part was that momentary look of horror on McCain's face, as in "What hath I wrought?" "These are my supporters?" He tried to step them back a couple paces, but it's not enough. No props for McCain!

Two steps back, five steps forward. McCain is out and out despicable. May he lose. And may his campaign always be viewed as a disgrace.

Cindy

After McCain loses there will probably be no reason for Cindy to ever come out in public again, will there?

I really hate seeing her. She seems so empty, vacuous. But it's just a few weeks. McCain loses, then whatever reason Cindy would ever have for appearing goes away.

The best of both worlds.

How Do You Like That?

The people at McCain's rallies, what can you say about them? Somehow they are able to get out of their house, travel to where the rally is being held, go through the process of getting in, then further work through the process of getting a seat, then manage (who knows how?) to get in position to be chosen to ask a question, then they ask it, and it's like, "Duh. Me brain hurt."

Ha ha, how did these goofballs, dingbats, morons, and losers manage all that other stuff? Were they kidnapped off their couch and hauled there unaware? They probably do know how to sit on a couch somewhere, I don't know, it's feasible they do. They appear to be politically aware enough to know that there's an election coming up, and in general who the candidates are. The one lady thought Obama was an Arab, which would be kind of a long commute for him.

I saw a couple clips, Arab lady, and the guy whose wife is going to have a baby on April 2, and he's not sure he wants to bring a child into the world in a country that has Barack Obama as president. But he insisted he would allow the birth to take place, and that it would take place here in the United States regardless of his political qualms. McCain's got that look on his face that says, this question is going to be a bomb.

Is it that guy who thinks Obama is a terrorist or has terrorist associations? I don't know. I've seen a couple other videos, I guess, people in line. One of some really disgusting women, who take over the show, and the other of just quick clips of GOP losers calling Obama a terrorist. The thread that runs through the whole thing is, These people are flaky.

So McCain, who's shown himself on occasion to be a coward, managed to screw up his courage enough to assure the folks that Obama is actually another human being, that he's not an Arab, that he's not scary. So settle down and shut up.

Being the true believers in the GOP cause -- i.e., deadenders in the last throes -- they booed their nominee.

Obama's Not An Arab

Hmm, it turns out (hold on to your seat for this one) that Barack Obama ... is not an Arab. Let me repeat that, not an Arab. How do I know? John McCain says so, although we're still waiting for Mr. Obama's denial and whatever explanation he might want to make to let us know where we got that impression.

Here I was, believing that somehow the Constitution had been changed, allowing non-Americans to run for president. I guess I'm kind of dumb.

Tao Te Ching 68

I know it says in the Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell version) 68, "The best athlete wants his opponent at his best." And that's probably right. But I've loving it that the McCain campaign is basically in shambles.

Palin a lawbreaker, violating an ethics law, a violation of the public trust; McCain having to beg his hayseed, troglodyte audience not to kill Obama; McCain with a different cockeyed economic plan everyday; suspending his campaign apparently by the random advice of a Magic Eight Ball; the rabid conservatives basically hating him; the moderate conservatives basically hating him; the butt of incessant jokes. What's there not to like?

Plus, seriously, I hate nailbiters. Unless it's a football or basketball game where I don't really care who wins, which is practically every one. I don't like anything like 2000, certainly, or 2004, where it came down to one state, then a stolen election. Give me a good old fashioned blowout, take away the suspense, and I'm happy as a clam.

"I Approved This Message"

I don't think the tag line "I approved this message" is all that helpful. It's like we need more of an explanation of why, because with John McCain's heinous ads, I'm saying, "Really? Are you really that bad of a guy?"

Is there any slime that this snake won't slither in?

McCain "So Small"

Great comment:

"Every time Obama is on the same stage with McCain he looks a little more presidential, a little more prepared for the job," one Republican said. "McCain's attack strategy made him look so small at a time when the issues are so big."

By the time the election gets here we'll need an electron microscope just to watch McCain's concession speech.