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That One?

The Republicans running for high office can only give the American people ... ummm ... gobbledygook. They are contaminating American society with it.

But I have to say that the McCain/Palin camp has not yet floated a story about a Black, out-of-wedlock baby -- oh, yeah, it's been used already, against McCain in 2000, and by the same people running McCain's campaign now. And besides, there's already an out-of-wedlock preggers girl really out there on the campaign trail with her mother!

That rumor, however, will surface because McCain/Palin continues to make up ... ummm ... gobbledygook; McCain and Palin have nothing substantive to offer the American people except a promise (wink, wink ... again, wink) that it'll be all better, really it will (wink, wink), once they get elected -- can't say how right now, of course, because that stuff is ... well, top secret, just like the troop escalation that McCain supported in Iraq was kept top secret until several weeks before it was implemented -- you know, the surge. It would be very, very stupid if someone disclosed the war strategy before it happens -- that's what McCain says. Naive. Doesn't have the experience. Doesn't know what he's talking about. But if you go back, there was discussion of the escalation of the war in Iraq, "the surge," for weeks before it happened, with McCain out supporting Bush, as he has for the past 8 years.

Gobbledygook -- the word was made up, interestingly enough, by Fontaine Maury Maverick. Maverick.

So, we are left with McCain/Palin using Jeffersonian tactics -- well, Jefferson did have Black, out-of-wedlock children, but that's another story -- Jefferson's handlers called John Adams a "hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." McCain and Palin are making all sorts of outrageous claims about Barack Obama and Joe Biden that have nothing to do with character and ability to lead the nation.

We really haven't had any explanation about Sarah Palin, the maverick Governor, who was, along with her husband, a card-carrying member of the Alaska Independence Party (Oh, she wasn't? Why did Lynette Clark, head honcho of that group, say she was?), the goal of which has been to secede from the lower 48 and Hawai'i. She spoke at the group's annual convention in 2008, telling them to "Keep up the good work," using none of the phony down-home, folksy manner she uses now. Alaska Country First. Yeah, right.

And we have Senator McCain, who has been advised by close friend and former U.S. Senator, Phil Gramm, who was the architect of the bank de-regulation schemes, the result of which we are witnessing with the demise of greedy money lenders and speculators, but, more importantly, the decimation of the middle class. (By the way, the Palins have a net worth well in excess of $1 million; so, her characterization of herself as one of the "Joe Six-Pack" crowd is a bunch of hooey. And she billed Alaskan taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business, getting over $16,000 tax-free. We should all be so lucky.)

And McCain has no real plan -- oh, yeah, he wants the Treasury to buy mortgages at face value from the money lenders and the speculators (many of whom are "banks" in Europe and other parts of the world, which has contributed to the world financial crisis). Many of these speculators bought the mortgages in bundles at discount; so, McCain is all in favor of allowing the speculators to make a killing, huge profits, at the expense of the American taxpayer. And how does that help the homeowner, yeah, that one, the one really getting folded, spindled, and mutilated in this crisis.

Say it ain't so, John.

Senator McCain, I really cannot believe that honest, hard-working people actually plan to vote for you.

And remember when John McCain said that talking with enemies is stupid -- well, McCain's hero, General Petraeus, General Petraeus, General Petraeus (Are you sick of hearing his name yet?) says , "I do think you have to talk to enemies."

What?

And let's talk health care, Senator McCain. You said, just before the financial mess your man, Phil Gramm, started with de-regulation, which you supported: "Opening up the health insurance market to more vigorous nationwide competition, as we have done over the last decade in banking, would provide more choices of innovative products less burdened by the worst excesses of state-based regulation."

Now, what? Got any more bright ideas.

And get a haircut. You give "bald" a very bad name.

Posted by Bill at October 9, 2008 05:42 PM