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.