Out of Touch

This sign hangs in a McCain office in Pompano Beach, FL.



Yes. That's Senator Obama atop a stack of other notable faces, including Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini. People who flat out murdered their political opponents.

As if that isn't bad enough, the inscription at the top right reads:

How did all these men do it? Each and every one called upon youth movements!

This is why McCain will lose. He and his followers will spout platitudes about how great young people are, but in their conference rooms, they are cursing them for actually finding a voice for the first time in a generation.

Plus, if they hate communism and socialism so much, I would like to see every one of the people who work in this McCain office to do two things: First, go home and throw away everything they own that was manufactured in China or Vietnam. I bet that would leave some very empty homes. Second, call up Steve "Rove's Stool" Schmidt and Rick "Freddie's Tool" Davis and tell them how adamantly opposed they all are and were to the socialist nationalization of the financial system by our Republican government. Go ahead, do it! Tell "The Maverick" and his people that The Maverick was wrong to have voted the same way as Senator Obama on the financial rescue plan. Tell him that he was wrong to vote with President Bush. Tell him that after Obama wins, you're all moving to a country with no communist or socialist elements in its government. My guess is that we'll be seeing a lot of Philip Nolans on Nov. 5.

To those readers who are voting McCain (or already voted that way), remember afterward that you have a country, a country that will go on striving to be the best she can be, with or without your help. If Obama wins, you can either complain and spread vicious slander (you know who I'm talking to), or you can stop, listen, and try to understand. On 9/12/2001, we were all in such a place, even after a hotly-contested and dubiously-concluded election in November 2000. We all wanted to work together to protect and defend our country and our Constitution. Instead, we were either complicit in the run-up to an immoral and unnecessary war (along with the stripping away of Constitutionally-mandated freedoms and the brutal torture of military detainees), or we were too apathetic about these threats to our National Security to do anything meaningful (guilty here). Thank God we now have a chance to change direction, however slight it might be. At last we have an intellectually curious, honest, honorable, unflappable, and emotionally steady man who will very likely be our 44th president. Our eight-year nightmare will end, and we will spend some portion of the next several years cleaning up the mess that we all created or enabled.

And the out-of-touch, mean, arrogant Senator from Arizona will take his tongue-jutting, erratic old self back to the Senate until he quietly retires. And the painfully-unqualified, integrity-deficient, spiritually-delusional Governor of Alaska will take her winking parody of herself back to Juneau to finish her first and only term before she retires to watch Russia from her front porch.