By Bree Hocking
If there’s one thing we took away from the first presidential debate, it’s that John McCain wants you to know he’s old. How old you ask? So old that references to Alexander the Great and Eisenhower slide off his tongue like yesterday’s weather report.
McCain’s been there and done that. Check check.
Even his pen is old. He said so.
Henry Kissinger? A friend for 35 years.
Barack Obama just “doesn’t seem to understand” whatever it is you’re talking about. Whatever that is. Smirk, smirk. Cackle, cackle.
You see, Obama is “dangerous,” inexperienced, unable to tell the difference between “tactics and strategy.”
McCain, on the other hand, has a “long record” and a mind like steel trap. His foreign policy credentials are so sharp he forgot the name of the Pakistani president (Zardari, not Kardari) and claimed that Pakistan was a failed state when Musharraf came to power (not true, as Robert points out). Meanwhile, McCain’s economic thinking is a meandering hodge-podge of cogent incongruity. To wit:
“We can’t I think adjust spending around to take care of the very much needed programs, including taking care of our veterans but I also want to say again a healthy economy with low taxes would not raising anyone’s taxes is probably the best recipe for eventually having our economy recover.”
He’s absolutely right. A healthy economy with low taxes will definitely result in economic recovery…now if we just had a healthy economy with “strong” fundamentals.
Yes, John McCain is everyman’s cantankerous, no-nonsense grandfather. You won’t see him winning any “Miss Congeniality” contests, he said, twice. Presumably, he leaves such girlie stuff to his ”good maverick” partner Sarah Palin, a one-time runner up to Miss Alaska and everybody’s favorite swimsuit model-cum-moose hunter-cum-foreign policy expert. Yeehaw.
Now “let’s be clear and let’s have some straight talk,” my friends. John McCain knows “that the worst thing we could possibly do is to raise taxes on anybody.” The worst, I tell you. He’s betting that you ”might be interested in Senator Obama’s definition of ‘rich.’” It will certainly make you chuckle.
$250,000 a year? Mere pocket change to the roughly two percent of American households that make more, according to U.S. Census data. McCain cannot believe Obama’s naivety. McCain has eight houses and 13 cars (that he knows of).
So in conclusion, McCain hopes you understand that Obama lacks “the knowledge or experience and has made the wrong judgments in a number of areas, including his initial reaction to Russian invasion — aggression in Georgia, to his — you know, we’ve seen this stubbornness before in this administration to cling to a belief that somehow the surge has not succeeded and failing to acknowledge that he was wrong about the surge is — shows to me that we — that — that we need more flexibility in a president of the United States than that.”
And by the way, did McCain mention his time in Vietnam? He really hates to bring it up, but on an occasion such as this…
God bless America.
Good night and good luck.
