The Forlorn and Forsaken J. McCain

The McCain people are screaming with outrage and well-feigned hurt. After the NY Times published a B. Obama op-ed piece outlining his Iraq ideas, McCain and his helpers, taking everything that happens to be part of one big debate, whipped up a piece of their own in which they found fault with just about everything that Obama had said. But the Times sent their scribble back, saying it needed a serious rewrite, especially in respect to this victory of which McCain is so fond of speaking but can't convincingly say how it might look. because in truth it's just not there. When you launch a totally unprovoked attack followed by a long and unappreciated occupation, where is the victory?

Aware that the Iraq issue is one of their numerous rotten spots that their boy Bush is leaving behind for them and that they just can't erase, the Republicans have been trying to turn it back on B. Obama every weak way that they can. Trying to build on his highly dubious achievement in having visited Iraq eight times, while Obama hadn't been there for two years, McCain offered to go there with him, so that he could show him around. But that merely showed McCain's true arrogant and highly patronizing colors.

Then the right wing mouthpiece, Fox News, attacked Obama for allegedly stating his Iraq policy before he had even been to the place. But he had been there two years ago, which is pretty recent for a mess that's been going on for over five years now, and the information on Iraq is so abundant and easily obtained by all but the willfully ignorant, that you really don't need to be there to say something reasonable about that situation, such as that going into it with guns barking when no Iraqi had so much as peed on a McDonald's in Wichita was a horrible idea from the start.

Now, with Obama sailing around overseas and getting all the attention, McCain has been bleating, "Wait a minute! Don't forget me!"

When actually that is one of the very best remedies for many of the ills that afflict the U.S. and the world nowadays. Forgetting J. McCain.

Remember, for instance, how catastrophic it was for an unusual number of planes that the U.S. Navy unwisely allowed him to pilot, when he was much younger and therefore presumably that much sharper than he is now. Yet there are some people who would like nothing better than to see him piloting the whole United States -- a guy almost as old as I am but even shakier because I wasn't in any plane mishaps or prison cells with unAmerican food to poison my brain cells.