With two oil barons running the White House, staffed by Republican neo cons, they have the audacity to blame someone else? Give me a break, please! The only solution they can come up with now is more drilling for the oil industry. I just hope we Americans are not blind this time around!

This ad—yet again—betrays and confirms the Republican Party’s assumption that We The People are simple-minded, in need of being spoken to as children.  I’m hoping that come November at least a barely large enough majority of us aren’t as dim (given the past two presidential “elections”, I’m wary of any grand assumptions) as this ad and the McCain campaign machine think us to be.

Well, I couldn’t help it. I had to laugh OUT LOUD, because that’s how insane it all is. Matter of fact, it’s SO insane, that I almost didn’t even link-up to the piece to read it. (I mean, I honestly DO try to moderate my exposure to this stuff, the same way that I would moderate any other excesses that could have long term negative effects on my physical or mental health). I guess it goes without saying that’s been very difficult to manage these past several years.

Still, humor is good, and we should indulge in it whenever possible. This is hilarious, but still included a reminder that reality must prevail. As Chris put it here:

“..It has to be factual. It has to be logical.” (speaking of campaign ads).

That should apply to all public discourse in reference to the goals of the common good. Just let it be factual, and let it be logical, and that is such a great start back to sanity.

Leaving aside the presidential campaign’s gaffes,  exaggerated rhetoric and flip flaps, which all candidates are likely to fall into, let’s consider some of the most serious and substantial issues that should be used to evaluate McCain. Here are some that I gathered from my latest readings on the McCain’s lives:

1. In his first year at the Naval Academy, as a young cadet, McCain spent his time womanizing, and was failing to the point that he was slated for being kicked out from the Academy. I am sure he only got a second chance because of his father and grandfather’s connections as Admirals.

2. Then he was sent as a pilot in an evil imperialist war to kill and destroy and was shot down; more likely for his poor performance or by a lucky chance, and not as heroism as he’s been selling himself.

2. In his early years as a Senator, he was involved in a big money scandal, later to be known as the “Lincoln Saving Scandal.” He was investigated by a group of his peers in Congress, who naturally went soft on him, and their verdict was that “McCain exhibited poor judgment” in this matter.

3. It’s known now that his current wife Cindy established a charitable organization, I am sure for the purpose of tax-deduction. Then later when she became drug addicted, she stole money from that very same charity to support her habit, before she was forced to declare her addiction and starting receiving treatment.

In light of these three known facts now about the McCain’s: “Failure of duty,“womanizing,” “participation in an evil war,” “poor judgment,” and “theft,” I am wondering if there is anyone, beyond partisan politics, who really wants this couple as the Commander-in-Chief and the First Lady!

Keep talking Mac you are doing a great job of making people start thinking again.
Let’s review the last 30 yrs…Oil shortage, Hostage Crisis,Iran Contra, S&L;Scandals, blocking fuel efficiency and alternative fuels, deregulation of Banking and investment banking,Union busting, Corp Bailouts, foreclosures, unemployment, reduction in health benefits and medicare/medicaid, shrinking middle class, Capitol gains loop holes, tax cuts for the wealthy, Torture, spying, indefinite imprisonment, Overseas black prisons,abuse of Power, Treason,War crimes, Crimes against Humanity…heckova Job johnny boy!
With experience like that no wonder Our country is beginning to look more like Saddams Iraq!

that McSame pledged, another lying Repugnlican.

And if there were no democrats, who would the republicans have to shove all the blame of their failed follies onto? Certainly not the big oil corps and friends of the shrub making obscene record profits since he stole the presidency. Can’t bite the hands that feed you, so to say.

The party of Lincoln, a Grand Old Party, yet the current members of the GOP, are the worst of the offenders, attack ads are now the modus operandi of politics.
Should the McCain campaign change its positions and have a change of heart about attack ads on a person with integrity and honesty, then there might be a snowball’s chance in hell that he would be elected president of the USA.
All this against a backdrop of McCain’s involvement in the Keating Five scandal in Arizona while Sen. McCain was Rep. McCain. Does anyone doubt that Sen. McCain, was and is a person who is an opportunist with delusions of grandeur?  Being a war hero and prisoner of war, does not a president make, Sen. McCain, does not fit the bill of someone who can lead a country, any country out of the economic and foreign policy disasters of the shrub’s administrations.  Along with these difficulties, we now have the people of Iraq and Afghanistan, clamoring for the armed forces of the USA to leave their countries in a timely and controlled manner. Yet, Sen. McCain’s campaign cannot focus on the issues, it can only attack Sen. Barack Obama, on the so-called gas price issue. Which even President shrub has said would not be affected by drilling in the US for at least another 10 years.
In America, we do not have the plants to keep up with the demand for fossil fuel, gasoline, and in many areas of the nation, we would not allow them, because of the environmental impact of the plants operations.
Sen. McCain, is now grasping at straws, he cannot devise a comprehensive strategy for the election, and worse, his advisers are mostly if not all, tied to the same lobbyists that are currently working the shrub’s administration. The “straight truth” express has been derailed and left standing on the side of the road without so much as a chance of regaining the lead.