Barack Obama is traveling the world spreading hope, yes, hope, that maybe it just might be a little bit possible that America isn't full-on batshit crazy anymore.
Not to be outdone, John Sidney McCain III has bought an ad intended to remind everyone that unlike Obama, Sidney the III is a proud and patriotic American who possesses the foreign policy experience and qualifications this nation is going to need if it wants to indiscriminately start other disastrous wars with Muslims.
Sid's new ad is a nice follow-up to his last one in which he appealed to America's desperate longing for change and competent, engaged leadership by jumping up and down and yelling "Come on! I was a prisoner of war! I should get to be president a little."
What? That's not what he said? Well that's the way it's described in the Gleaner's latest Citylife column.
Somewhere in the files is a story about McCain discussing Kerry in '04 and how he thought it was a bad move on Kerry's part to emphasize his Vietnam service because that's not an issue to people and if you have been heroic, you shouldn't be talking about it. But, when you are the biggest whore in American politics, you adapt, I guess.
Posted by: Michael Green | 07/19/2008 at 01:45 PM