John, Keep Up.

Yesterday McCain tried to explain to Barack that there is Al Qaida in Iraq. Thanks to he, Bush, and Cheney there sure is. While that was a preview of a campaign to come, I’m thinking that there will be more McCain getting confused than anything else.

I really liked this article that recounts a kid’s question to McCain about his saying that we could stay in Iraq for 100 years. A young man pointed out an analogy to John today that we’re crashing on someone’s couch after our house burned down, and that we might want to set a date so that they know we won’t be freeloading forever (I won’t even get into the fact that they’re leaving out the fact that we weren’t invited in crash there…and lied about why we decided to start freeloading; “free” just a figure of speech, mind you).

So, John’s explanation is that we also have a right to protect our house from burning down. WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT JOHN?!! In your analogy you’re talking about the Bush administration ignoring everyone’s evidence that Al Quaida was about to strike and that we should have protected the twin towers.

What John fails to realize is that we’re asleep on the couch while everyone in this neighborhood (Middle East) is pissed off and thinking about going to our hometown (the rest of the world) to burn our families’ houses down too. Unfortunately, we’re too busy paying $12 billion in monthly rent to the homeowner to spend any money on a neighborhood watch (border, homeland security, Afghanistan)….let alone spend money on schools or road repair (uh…schools and road repair probably weren’t metaphors). Not to mention, we’re going month to month, but aren’t looking for a new home, although America with a summer home in Afghanistan seems logical.

For someone who acts like he’s so keen on foreign issues, John McCain is actually very detached from reality. He thinks that since we have a base in Okinawa or Germany, that it will be the same in Iraq…just fine. Yes John, I’m sure all of the Middle East will be happy that we’re putting up a base right in the middle of their Holy Land. It’s not like they were upset when we did the same in Saudi Arabia. Oh wait, that is why they blew up a Navy ship, a military building, and both World Trade centers. Never mind.

Time to start working on understanding the world instead of explaining it, John.

Just as Hillary’s Hypocrisy Dies Down, McCain and GOP Happy to Step In.

Hillary Clinton has tried for one year to slow down the Barack Obama movement. Early in the Campaign she went with the aura of inevitability. As the campaign went on, she made the decision to go with the ace in the hole she’s been planning on using since she ran for the senate: I’ve got the experience. Since Hillary has been in the Senate, she’d been padding her resume with foreign relation committees to fight off all the argument she knew/thought she’d have to face as a woman and a democrat. When a vote came up to give G.W. Bush the authority to go to war with a country to take Iraq’s oil contracts away from Russia and China and hand them to Exxon and Haliburton, Hillary had no choice…she had to say yes or she couldn’t be President because she thought everyone would see her as weak.  In actuality, they just see her as part of the problem. 

As time went on and the U.S. military was unable to solve 1,000 year old disputes between different Islamic religious sects, it became apparent that the new politician Barack Obama started to get the upper hand due to his grasp of the issues, message of hope, and most importantly…foresight to point out what so many other non-politicians could see was obvious: invading a Islamic country that DIDN’T have terrorists probably wasn’t the best idea in a war against terrorism.

As Barack started to get the upper hand, the hypocrisy began; whether it was the tough Hillary shedding tears in New Hampshire, or Bill Clinton (the country’s “first black president”) inferring that Barack just won South Carolina because he was black.  The hypocrisy continued into Hillary trying to hit Obama for not being prepared for the big decisions that lie ahead when she was obviously making decisions to go to war for personal gain. She has claimed to be against the special interests and corporations despite taking more money from lobbyists than any other candidate while Barack hasn’t taken a dime from Lobbyists or political action committees.

Result: Loss after loss.

Insert John McCain. What can they do to attack this new style politician who has few weaknesses? Well, the first thing you have to do is poll your republican base to determine how racist you can be without them jumping ship. Done.

Second, do what Hillary did in sending something to try and scare the electorate into thinking that Barack is Muslim. That’s exactly what McCain’s campaign did in sending out a crazy Rush Limbaugh style talk show host to rile up the crowd and try to scare them because his middle name sounds like the bad guy in Iraq. Then act like you didn’t know anything about it and apologize. Seems like a perfect recipe to scare off any Independent votes John is hoping to get.

In the meantime, let the fear mongering begin.