The Dusty Dog

Obama Hope

As I bask in the sunshine that is streaming down upon us by the Obama win, I read with curiosity today's article in the NYTimes, The Return of John McCain, But Which One?. I really don't understand why people think there are two McCains. As far as I'm concerned, there's only one, and has only ever been only one. He's the same pandering, sleazy excuse for a human being who somehow convinced people that there is some kind of noble side to him. In my opinion, he has no noble side.

This is the same McCain who graduated fifth from the bottom - 894th out of a class of 899 at Annapolis. Being a lazy, drunken sot must have had something to do with it.

This is the same McCain who got as far as he did, even while crashing three (or was it four?) fighter jets (before the one that ended him up as a POW), because daddy was a admiral who could pull strings.

This is the same McCain who only entered politics because he couldn't get four stars like his daddy.

This is the same McCain who was complicit in the Keating 5 scandal.

This is the same McCain who unapologetically continues to support the boondoggle called the Iraq invasion.

This is the same McCain who celebrated his birthday with cake on an airstrip with dubya while New Orleans drowned.

And, this is the same McCain who thinks that Obama pals around with terrorists, is unAmerican, is a socialist, and stupidly fell for the Joe the Plumber scam. Geez.......

This is the same McCain that Rolling Stone calls the Make-Believe Maverick for all of the things I listed above, and then some. Per that article, "The myth of John McCain hinges on two transformations — from pampered flyboy to selfless patriot, and from Keating crony to incorruptible reformer — that simply never happened. But there is one serious conversion that has taken root in McCain: his transformation from a cautious realist on foreign policy into a reckless cheerleader of neoconservatism."

There's only one John McCain, and he's a pandering, rightwing hack who continues to support deregulation while the banks and Wall Street laugh all the way the the US Mint. John McCain is a war hawk who is still submerged in the hate of the Vietnam era and the excesses of his unregulated buddies.

But, back to the NYTimes article..... "Some of the hatchets are quickly being buried. Senator Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat and Senate majority leader, spoke by telephone with Mr. McCain on Friday; according to an aide, they agreed to put the attacks of the last few months behind them. Mr. Reid, who for months during the campaign had carried with him a set of negative quotes about Mr. McCain from fellow Republicans to have ready for recitation, plans on ripping up the quotes, said his spokesman, Jim Manley."

I don't know how people just "bury the hatchet" and pretend that John McCain is something that he's not. But unfortunately, Congress is made up of so many other John McCains that if they don't look the other way so as not to see McCain's very ugly personality, they'd essentially be condemning themselves.

The challenge for Obama, among all the mess that the dubya regime will leave him, will be to figure out how to work with all the Congressional dirtbags. Was he, after all, one of them? I don't think so. Thank the goddess for the new Democratic majority! I am still being showered with Obama Hope.

posted by Dusty Dog at 11/08/2008