One could hope that once, IF, he gets selected for president (or installed by the Supremes) that he pulls the primo 'Manchurian Candidate' and flips back to sanity.

We could all hope that this is an act by a man that knows what it will take to get the oval office. But he's playing his crusty old fart role too well. I hope that he doesn't actually believe that crap about infinitesimal power and no limits on any whim. This isn't a dictatorship, or at least wasn't supposed to be...

John McCain has apparently walked down that crazy trail to the abyss of bizarre that my wife's grandmother walked down over a decade ago. Gone was sane conversation. The Russians were controlling the weather. The CIA was listening in to her phone and what she listened to on the radio. 'They' watched her every move. Ideals that she held high when she was younger were gone in the fog of paranoia and old age. The stories were like none that could be written by the best writer of fiction. But I digress...

McCain proves with his every utterance that he stands for nothing unless it will help him draw a few votes. He panders to all of the underbelly of the GOP/RNC/ditto head/Fox News knuckle draggers. His job is to make it seem 'close' in November. Close enough for the RNC election team to go into action and propel him to the chair behind the desk so that he can continue the craziness that is the Bush administration.

Rest assured that the corporate masses yearning to be freed from cumbersome regulations and taxes have spent a lot of time and energy to get America where it is right now. They will find a way to make sure that the gifts of the Bush years continue.

My only hope is that John McCain, when he is installed as president, becomes the gift that doesn't stop giving to the federal prosecutors and grand juries that will eviscerate the Bush legacy. Surely a sane man with enough sense to dress himself in the morning (and marry into money) would have enough sense to realize what has happened to the country that he served time in a foreign jail for and take actions to right the wrongs.

Either that or John McCain, the sufferer of PTSD from his war days, will go off into paranoia-land and actually start World War III. The war that will end all wars... If putting a cocaine addicted frat boy in office wasn't bad enough, we don't need a Dr Strangelove or a General Ripper or General Turgidson in the office of the president. We don't need a PTSD addicted hot head. Hasn't there been enough damage done.

The only good thing (besides killing the republican party) that Bush did (oh, and proving that ex-drug addicts and DUI drivers don't make good leaders) is that he helped pass the law that made the credit card industry block out the same areas of your credit card number on receipts.

Yes, until then, some machines would block out the first 4, some the last 4, some none of it at all. Bush helped make it so that the last 4 are the only ones shown.

That has to account for something. Well, at least a mumbled 'thanks'...

Now for the rest...

Let's just say that it will take a long time for the amnesia effect to make people think that he wasn't such a bad president. How long did it take for Reagan? Well, double it for a start... Maybe triple it?

you have been to therapists and noticed something on their faces that indicated they didn't know what to do.

Uh, sounds like she enjoys, at some level, having this problem. Enjoys the looks of 'I don't know' that she gets.

Perhaps those are looks of 'stop acting' or 'stop wasting my time' or 'finally when I though I'd seen it all, comes this'.

It sounds like either a power thing or a control thing and either way, she needs to get over herself before she can get it on with others. Not everyone is a sick pediatrician but you can always control most people with a wierd ploy.

I'd also be on the lookout for this 'problem' to materialize in other ways even after she stops being such a huge control freak. It will come up over and over again. Why? Because it works.