FIRST OF ALL my apologies for being AWOL these last two weeks. My home computer had more viruses than the U.S. economy and I sent it out to be deloused. So I was offline for a fortnight or so. Not that there's been anything happening in the world worth commenting upon.
Unless the collapse of the capitalist system as we know it is worth comment. Or if watching the black hole of greed that is devouring Wall Street before our very eyes is a suitable topic. Or if a major party nominee "suspending" his campaign in order to avoid debating the other major party nominee is stuff of interest to you, my loyal readers and fellow Americans.
What the hell is going on in this country? Are we out of our freakin' minds? The toxic Superfund wasteland that is our economic system is morphing into a bizarre mutant form of socialism under a Republican president and the man who would be the next Republican president in an election five weeks from now is saying this is not the time to talk politics face-to-face with his Democratic rival for the highest office in the land.
That makes sense. In a demented Bush-warped nation that lost its center of balance when it invaded Iraq based on a lie that even the president admits, why shouldn't his Republican successor play the race card. "Race" as in run as fast as you can in the other direction. John McCain, who is running for president, now wants to be a senator in Washington. He's needed there to straighten out this mess in a Capitol building where he hasn't cast a vote since April.
Talk about a "bridge to nowhere." How can McCain pull off this bluff? Already it looks like he's got to back down from his "just say no to debates during a national crisis" position because it is patently stupid for a man running for president to act like he's too preoccupied with legislative matters to show up at a gun fight. "Instead Sen. Obama and I are going to sing Kumbaya in the nation's capital."
Puh-LEESE! You'll notice that it's been Obama who has been coming off as "presidential" in this barnyard chickens-coming-home-to-roost debacle on Wall Street that may make the Treasury Secretary of the United States the most powerful trillionaire in the world. And McCain decides he's too busy to talk face-to-face with his opponant in front of the American people about how the hell we got into this mess and how we're gonna get out of it.
When McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate, my wife (Sara without the "H"), and I agreed, "It looks like he's throwing the election." Little did we imagine that this dopiest of choices would be embraced and heralded by a suddenly energized conservative electorate that apparently doesn't know Shiite from Shineola. When women in Alaska announced a "Palin doen't speak for us" rally (photo above) , a right wing radio talk show host announced the rally organizers' phone numbers on the air and urged listeners to express their feelings to women, and fellow Alaskans, he called "socialist baby-killing maggots."
And then he said it again, just to make sure you heard him say socialist baby-killing maggots.
The best theory I've heard about why McCain cried "no mas" to his title shot debate with Obama is because he's buying time for his running mate's debate with Joe Biden, a man who speaks his mind despite the shoe in his mouth. A Palin-Biden Debate may become the next hot DVD titled America's Funniest Vice Presidential Nominee Blooper Reels..
It would all be so funny if it weren't so very, very sad.
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