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McCain Is More Dangerous Than Bush by Bill Boyarsky The brief, bloody Georgia war provided another example of John McCain’s reckless views on foreign policy and what he’ll do if he becomes president. He’s Bush but worse. Forget the moderate image, promoted by an admiring media. Forget the so-called straight talk and independence. With the Russian-Georgian war winding down, McCain has firmly established himself as an old-fashioned Cold Warrior and a supporter of the huge oil companies that have a big stake in Georgia and the rest of the Caucasus. President Bush talks to the Russians. McCain seems to long for the Iron Curtain days of those long decades of conflict with plenty of brinkmanship, saber rattling and possibly a trip to the edge of war. Video: McCain Thinks He's Already President I’ve got as much authority as McCain in the Georgia situation by Jon Stewart Jon Stewart mocks President Bush’s lack of short-term memory about when it’s OK to invade other countries, as well as McCain’s presumptuousness for dispatching “Droopy-Dog and Howdy Doody” (Lieberman and Graham) to Georgia, despite his status as candidate for President. John McCain's Party of Hate by Brent Budowsky As Campaign 2008 unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the Republicans are a party with little left but hate, anger and the politics of slandering their opponent. John McCain has become a candidate reduced to doing a Karl Rove imitation as a sleazy, divisive campaigner, while making bellicose pronouncements about war reminiscent of the childish Confederates at the beginning of “Gone With the Wind,” drinking their brandy and smoking their cigars with fantasies about the glorious war that they hunger to fight. The Ed McMahon Example by Mary Pitt This morning, August 18th, the news was blaring from CNN and MSNBC: Donald Trump Bails Out Ed McMahon! The story that followed told us that poor 'ol Ed had fallen ill, was having a hard time financially and was in danger of losing his home. Now, I do not lack for sympathy for this poor man who had such an illustrious and munificent career and who can, even now, be seen on commercial television hawking insurance for oldsters so that they will not be devastated by one of the lingering illnesses that we oldster are prone to develop. However, can we broaden our view a bit to take in the larger scene? It is all well for a "somebody" to have a friend like Mr. Trump who is able and will ride to the rescue. But this country is full of "nobodies", (like yours truly), who suffer long illnesses in our old age, who are willing to work as much as prospective employers will allow, and whose homes and very lives depend on our fiscal savvy and our ability to scrimp to live within our limited income.

Today's Quote:

"Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!"

- George Carlin

Editor's Notes & Rants:

Bush brings back nuclear brinkmanship of the Cuban missile crisis. Bush announced that he will be putting missile shield in Poland, Russia responds with threat of nuclear anhilation if Poland allows it. Putin isn't stupid (like Bush is), he knows the US is bogged down in two senseless wars, and can't do a damned thing, and NATO will likely collapse rather than follow the idiot W into a nuclear war with Russia.

This is what McCain thinks of Social Security.

John McCain for alzheimer's patient.

McCain claims he created national "do not call" list, 2 years after it was actually announced by the FTC.

McCain campaign tool CNN suggests Obama is the Antichrist.