The Rain in Spain Makes John McCain Just Plain Insane

John McCain is not the voice for America, period. His choice of Sarah Palin, who excited, i.e., titillated the base of the Republican Party, mostly the male base, shows how his entire campaign, and indeed his entire political career, has been all about pandering to those who could help advance his own career. In plain-speak it’s called ASS-KISSING. He has exploited his military service more than anyone. It is shameful the way Senator John McCain has used his imprisonment in a North Vietnamese prison camp to try to bribe votes from voters. Where is his humility? Where is his sincerity? Where is his heroism and true sense of putting country first and making people feel like they matter? How can McCain be an effective president based on the vulgar campaign he has run? He sold his soul and sold out his principles to the Bush Administration which has oozed a sulfurous goo of oil that has bogged us down in pursuit of glory. There’s nothing inspiring about John McCain. Throughout his entire campaign he has engaged in shady race-baiting and gender manipulation.

How can we trust McCain when he has raced all over the map chasing after his lust for power? The trajectory of his philosophy has been as erratic as a North Korean missile headed for the democratic nation of Japan, an American ally, which has suffered the consequences of two atomic bomb blasts, courtesy of America, on its own sacred soil. McCain is 72 years old and has not shown the steadiness that one would expect from someone who is supposed to have wisdom earned through life experience. How can someone like McCain give a damn about the American middle class when he has spent his entire life, from the time he was born, looking down and commanding the middle class from his perch as a military prince, whose forefathers actually fought in the American Revolutionary War? As someone who has come from a military family of the officer class, McCain has grown up watching his father and grandfather order enlisted soldiers from one battle to the next. That’s his perspective on life. As far as he is concerned, it is his privilege and sense of entitlement to order the middle class around because the middle class and below are the ones who have made up the ranks of the United States Military. McCain has 11 houses. He sees the world from an entirely different perspective than most of us do or ever will be able to. He has shown no sense of patriarchy and fair play that one would expect from an American soldier. His maverick moniker that he so proudly flashes around like a shiny badge of authority shows the side of a maverick who does not listen to the opinions of others. He does what he wants and that is a trait that we cannot afford to have in the White House, the most powerful address in the entire world. A maverick as president and a maverick as vice president are a recipe for indecision and instability, exactly what McCain and Palin have shown throughout their bid for the presidency. McCain has been extremely unprincipled throughout his bid to become President of the United States. His idea for health care, employment, housing and financial security will be simply to enlist Americans in the military. His perspective has been begotten by the military-industrial complex that sees the world down the barrel of a gun and over a barrel of oil controlled by American corporations. While we may think that we are protecting American interests around the world, we are not protecting the interests of the American middle class at home.

To speak well is to speak from the heart. “The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain” is not how a real maverick is supposed to sound. John McCain, we have heard you speak and you do not speak from the heart. Your accent sounds too much like George W. Bush, and we know how pretentious and insincere that can be.