The American Nightmare

Hey Ryan,

McCain's camp says that they're going to focus on "aggressive" campaigning for the last thirty days of this election. They say they're going to concentrate on Obama's "honesty, judgement and personal associations".

In this article from the Washington Post, they even freely admit that they need to change the subject from the economy and McCain's "war hero" biography because those just aren't working. Classy.

So much for John McCain's call for a "respectful campaign".

I would say it's a shame that John McCain has come to this, but I believe this is who he has been all along: a desperate, lying man who feels entitled to the highest office in the land. And the worst part of his tactics (they're not coherent enough to constitute a strategy) is that they're all cheap. They're all tossed off as though everything beyond November 4th doesn't matter...that winning the election is the prize...not governing responsibly, not listening to the people who hired him.

If you or I conducted ourselves in a job interview the way John McCain or Sarah Palin have behaved thus far in this campaign, none of us would be employed. Imagine going into a prospective employer's office and answering questions with this attitude:



Or, what if you went in for an interview and answered a question with this kind of coherence?



You'd be laughed out of the building. Either of us who answered a direct, focused question in such a scattered and obviously stupid manner would immediately be automatically eliminated from consideration for the job we were seeking.

And yet, people give this woman a pass. We have to listen to her dimwitted supporters glow about her debate "performance" as though she were a Chow who gets credit for shitting somewhere near the newspaper. Hey, she completed some of her sentences and winked at the camera, so she won the debate, right?

And, speaking of winking, since when did we let candidates who don't respect the process run for office? Why do we have to put up with this vacuous rookie mugging for the camera, sending shout-outs to third graders who probably know more about foreign policy than she does, and winking at the camera like she's trying to tease a vote out of the pageant judges? Since when did democratic process become a lottery for the savagely stupid?

How did we come to this? How is it that after eight years of George W. Bucklehead and The White Menace, we still have allowed the Repubs to even run a campaign at all? Forget the fact that you couldn't trust McCain to so much as sack your groceries without denting cans in a PTSD fit or Palin to ring up them up without shorting you on change because of her Cro-Magnon intellect. But these two aren't going to be fired for incompetence at your friendly neighborhood WalMart. They are trying to become the Number 1 and Number 2 of the free world! And that is the ultimate insult.

Watching these two run for office is like watching a Captain Caveman/Dolly Parton ticket. McCain runs around, blurting out random shit and breaking things, while Palin flirts with all the neo-con bedwetter basement dwellers out there saying, "Y'all come!" And people are buying it to the point that they will go on national television and tell anyone who shoves a microphone in their faces!

Why? Because they don't understand that just because someone pretends to be like them, it doesn't mean that that person will actually represent them.

The true American Nightmare will be if this morally and intellectually bankrupt woman is given the keys to the VP's residence, because that means that we will have elected, as our Commander-in-Chief, a man whose politics will, most likely, mirror his governing style--transparently cynical and whorish.

Charles