John McCain, Mr. "Straight Talk" can’t seem to get his stories so straight recently regarding whether or not he is an extension of the Bush administration. He is also having a tough time distancing himself from the lobbyists that he so frequently rails against, but who play such a prominent role in his campaign, as evidenced by an exchange yesterday between John Kerry and Lindsay Graham on This Week.

Since clinching the Republican presidential nomination, John McCain has sought to hide the forest of his neoconservative alignment with George W. Bush amid the trees of details, such as stressing differences over military tactics used in Iraq.

But the larger reality should be clear: McCain is a hard-line neoconservative who buys into Bush’s “preemptive war” theories abroad and his concept of an all-powerful “unitary executive” at home.

How he dumped his sick wife (and mother of his kids) for a rich bimbo.

OK, America, it's time to put up or shut up! After a couple of generations have reached maturity since the civil rights marches and all the hoopla that was brought about by the women's rights movement, we have it made on the basis of equal rights for all, right? We have banished chauvinism, both sexual and racial, and we are now the model for a modern democratic republic and an example to the rest of the world of a society that should be emulated? We shall see!