Like O.J. Simpson?

A few examples. McCain wasn’t much of a boxer at the Academy, so he pretended his head was a brick wall. He wasn’t much for academics, so he pretended the highest commands of a complex military could be achieved by aggression — and the right parents and friends — rather than a firm grasp on strategy and tactics and military arts, failures obvious in his flying record. McCain doesn’t win when he thinks or matches wits, so he doesn’t.

McCain wasn’t much of a combat pilot compared to others similarly selected and trained. He lost five planes, his fifth on one of his few combat missions over North Vietnam. Like everyone else tortured long enough, he broke. His dad, then commanding the Pacific Fleet, heard his son’s taped “confession” along with thousands of others. Unable to admit human frailty or limitation — the substance of politics — John Boy is still trying to live it down.

McCain cares a lot about many things, his wives, his children, former POW’s among them. What’s important about his make-up isn’t that he doesn’t care deeply about these things, it’s how readily he gives them up when ambition comes calling.

Like the rest of us faced with our own ugly past, John makes up excuses and lies. His lies have to be bigger than his mistakes to cover them. John’s lies are big, frequent, pervasive. It’s what he is, like Bush on testosterone, with no clutch or brake and a sense of self-preservation that puts everyone and everything else at risk. Electing him as president would be making a Stephen King novel come alive. Not what we need, now or ever, thanks very much.

and does anybody else make this connection ???

Spare us the lecture = GET OFF MY LAWN

This really, really needs to get into the wider conversation.
And whoa… does this ever expose the dangers of the vapid ‘celebrity and personality based’ type of campaign that the Rovians can run with their eyes closed.

http://www.salon.com/env/featu…..newsletter

I’ve been watchin mcsame talk about Obama’s “Years” in washington, and how out of touch Obama has become in ALL THOSE YEARS

and I been watchin mcsame tell us how Obama is responsible for the economic crash

and I can’t hel[p but see that mcsame ain’t talkin about Obama

mcsame is talkin about mcsame

when that little nugget hits the mainstream, say hello to the 67 Democratic Senators …

excellently said.
as always.
thanks.

PS, At this stage of things it doesn’t matter whether the cause of things is ptsd, adhd, or brain lesions, the important thing is the nature of the man seeking to run the government, and whether he/she is up to the job.