McCaine
Why have I not been political? I've been asked. I am political. Or at least I'm cynical and that's nearly the same thing, but what happened to the politics? That's the question. Why am I not railing against Sarah Palin or John McCaine. Why am I not mentioning the Keating five or Carribou Barbies or the fact that the woman thinks of shooting wolves from a helicopter as a sport? Why?
Well, I'll tell you why? Any attention given these people is attention. Even uttering the name of Sarah Palin makes her a person that people think is worth talking about, and she's not. John McCaine? Same. After the damage done willingly and voluntarilly by the Republicans, they should suffer a kind of old testament curse that we never utter their names again. Let them become anonymous figures of disapointment. A sad chapter in our nation's history. Need I say anything more than that Condoleeza Rice knew about 9/11 before hand, did nothing about it, and was promoted. If they had done nothing else, that should have placed them on the path of the Federalists--never to be heard from again.
But lest my silence be read as a kind of assent I'd like to share something.
At every rally, McCaine relies on this major point that he had been in the military, that he had been shot down, that he had been a prisoner of war. Okay, first things first: as the son of an admiral, one can only read McCaine's career in the highly covetted position of pilot as nepitism. I mean, come on, his dad's the admiral, and he gets the best job in the outfit. Give me a f'ing break. Was it his skill that got him the job? No, it was his skill (read: lack of skill) that got him shot down. Yes, I've said it. McCAine getting shot down doesn't make him a good American, it just makes him a sub-standard flyboy...and all that time in the camp? Well, you know we trade for valuable prisoners, right? We trade some of theirs for some of ours. If McCaine were a valuable member of the war effort, with a father that was an admiral, shouldn't someone have traded McCaine for a Korean soldier. Talk about your abandonment issues: daddy didn't even try.
So, okay, what does this all add up to? Well, McCaine's father wasn't willing to make a trade for his son, that should tell you what love was like in that family. Can you imagine the scars? At the same time, think about the lesson that young John must have learned in this ordeal: never negotiate with terrorists, even at the price of your own children. Wait, wait...whoa...seriously. I'm expected to lose my children to the war on terror? Really? Can I get as Sarah Palin, "You betch-a!"
Now I know that there are those people out there that assume that my saying anything about McCaine is really mean, but let's face it. Had I been using republican tactics, I would have said that McCaine was making up the whole thing, or better yet, that he made a deal with the Koreans way back when and therefore has known affiliations with terrorists.
Well, I'll tell you why? Any attention given these people is attention. Even uttering the name of Sarah Palin makes her a person that people think is worth talking about, and she's not. John McCaine? Same. After the damage done willingly and voluntarilly by the Republicans, they should suffer a kind of old testament curse that we never utter their names again. Let them become anonymous figures of disapointment. A sad chapter in our nation's history. Need I say anything more than that Condoleeza Rice knew about 9/11 before hand, did nothing about it, and was promoted. If they had done nothing else, that should have placed them on the path of the Federalists--never to be heard from again.
But lest my silence be read as a kind of assent I'd like to share something.
At every rally, McCaine relies on this major point that he had been in the military, that he had been shot down, that he had been a prisoner of war. Okay, first things first: as the son of an admiral, one can only read McCaine's career in the highly covetted position of pilot as nepitism. I mean, come on, his dad's the admiral, and he gets the best job in the outfit. Give me a f'ing break. Was it his skill that got him the job? No, it was his skill (read: lack of skill) that got him shot down. Yes, I've said it. McCAine getting shot down doesn't make him a good American, it just makes him a sub-standard flyboy...and all that time in the camp? Well, you know we trade for valuable prisoners, right? We trade some of theirs for some of ours. If McCaine were a valuable member of the war effort, with a father that was an admiral, shouldn't someone have traded McCaine for a Korean soldier. Talk about your abandonment issues: daddy didn't even try.
So, okay, what does this all add up to? Well, McCaine's father wasn't willing to make a trade for his son, that should tell you what love was like in that family. Can you imagine the scars? At the same time, think about the lesson that young John must have learned in this ordeal: never negotiate with terrorists, even at the price of your own children. Wait, wait...whoa...seriously. I'm expected to lose my children to the war on terror? Really? Can I get as Sarah Palin, "You betch-a!"
Now I know that there are those people out there that assume that my saying anything about McCaine is really mean, but let's face it. Had I been using republican tactics, I would have said that McCaine was making up the whole thing, or better yet, that he made a deal with the Koreans way back when and therefore has known affiliations with terrorists.
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