Bracing For The (Bomb Bomb) Worst

I am starting to wearily contemplate just what it might mean for this country if we are indeed forced to endure at least four years of a Senator John ‘Bomb Bomb’ McCain presidency, which regrettably seems more and more likely by the day. The first and most consoling matter would be that Democrats in November will likely make considerable gains in both the House and Senate, thus at least somewhat putting a check on his otherwise terrifying power potential (imagine ‘Bomb Bomb’ with a GOP majority in both houses like his predecessor!). McCain finally changed his tune yesterday (Brooklyn will do that to a person) by attempting to seem more empathic regarding the housing crisis this country faces. Nevertheless, he is of course more steadfast than ever when it comes to occupying Iraq essentially for however long it takes. It saddens me a great deal that this borderline lunatic has such a golden opportunity to become the next president and particularly that the ‘Democrat’ party is successfully managing to snatch defeat from the hands of victory. Bill Clinton’s caveat that it is far better to be strong and wrong than weak and right is once again playing itself out, just like it did four and eight years ago. McCain may be a jingo psychopath, but at least he stays firm on his positions, whereas Hillary Clinton and Obama seem to have a different answer for when to leave Iraq every single time they are asked.

The same way it is perceived, contrary to any substantive facts, that Obama is a Muslim and Hillary is a pinko-commie liberal, John McCain is falsely perceived to be a moderate, maverick, straight-shooting sonuva gun. Just like George W. once said, you gotta keep repeating yourself to let the propaganda sink in. McCain doesn’t even need to do this because the press corps already does it for him! There is the question: if Obama finally pulls out the nomination (whenever that might be), which media darling will prevail? I fear McCain and his generally disagreeable disposition is more in tune with the way a majority of Americans feel and that Obama will indeed be painted successfully as a phony harbinger of some unrealistic 21st century utopia. Simply put, I do not have a great deal of faith in the people this country is constituted of. Everybody and their typical white mother is so sure that the electorate will not make the same ‘sit down and have a beer with the president’ mistake three elections in a row – but I am not nearly as certain. When one takes into consideration that the average education level of Americans is currently something like 7th or 8th grade, I do not hold out a great deal of hope. Bush may have allowed September 11th to occur, but outside the affected areas most Americans did not feel the full impact of the events. I suspect however that when Senator McCain does indeed choose to bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran (or Syria, or North Korea for that matter), a military draft will most certainly be enacted and people across the country will finally feel a more direct effect of the disastrous neoconservative policies. I pray to the Beach Boys I am wrong.