previous issue July 25

McCain Melts Down Ronald McDonald Rejects VP Offer by David Michael Green McCain looks as pathetic as he truly is beating this dead horse relentlessly. But now it's gone farther than that even. This week McCain described Obama - who, by the way, never fails to honor and admire McCain before disagreeing with him on policy questions - as someone who "would rather lose a war in order to win a political campaign". That sort of sleazy personal attack is way beyond the pale, especially when describing one of the few brave souls in American politics who opposed the war from the very beginning, back when doing so was a serious political liability, especially for anyone ever contemplating running for president. I felt bad for McCain when the Rove pigs savaged him in 2000. But now he has become them, and I am reminded of other pigs, those being observed at the end of Orwell's Animal Farm: "The creatures outside looked from Rove to McCain, and from McCain to Rove, and from Rove to McCain again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." Regressivism is a sickness, and it has infected John McCain, who now appears to be capable of saying or doing most anything to gain the presidency. Fortunately, however, there's just enough health left in the American body politic that the metastisizing cancer of the last thirty years is likely to be ingloriously expelled this November. And John McCain, its latest avatar, with it - just another political hack seeking personal affirmation through presidential ambition. Indeed, one so seized with the need to be president that he no longer recognizes the irony that he has become the personal embodiment of precisely the opposite of his self-description - a man who puts country ahead of self.

Today's Quote:

"A President is impeachable if he attempts to subvert the Constitution."

- President James Madison

Editor's Notes & Rants:

Scapegoat Bush. As I write this, impeachment hearings are ongoing in the House. I have the sinking feeling that this could backfire on the Democrats, not because it will fail, but because it could pass. Remember, Cheney isn't being impeached, and would become president if it succeeds. True, Cheney has been the one actually in control for the last eight years, so little would change, but what if he wants his own Presidential Library? He could signal to GOP incumbents that they have the opportunity to separate themselves from the disasterous "Bush" Administration's reputation in November by dumping Bush, possibly leaving the GOP in control of Congress after the next election. It would also open up the surprise possibility of Cheney taking the GOP nomination in August, instead of McCain, who's a loser in most Republican minds. Just a thought, a sick disturbing thought to ponder.

Americans, too dumb to vote? Think about the last two elections before you answer that.

Banana Republicans. Bush bans State Dept. officials from attending Obama rally. And don't even think about voting for him November!

Reward offered for the arrest of Secretary of State/War Criminal Condi Rice.

What politics has devolved into. The lesser of two Devils?

Ouch. Hillary campaign manager McAuliffe endorses VA Gov. Tim Kaine — not Hillary — for VP slot.

Obama visits Berlin, speaks to crowd of hundreds of thousands; McCain visits German restaurant in Ohio, orders early bird special. You just couldn't make this shit up!

McCain makes another major gaffe, calling Iraq the first major miliary conflict after 9/11, and once again CBS edits it out to cover up for him. Why don't they want America to know that he's incompetent to order pizza, much less be President and Commander in Chief?