Some people might point out that he got a free college education courtesy of the US taxpayer (and because his father and grandfather were admirals) but that he blew his nose on the scholarship by drinking heavily, screwing around and graduating 894 out of 899.

Some people might point out that he was a mediocre pilot who crashed the first time he tried to land (#1 taxpayer's footing the bill), another time flew too low, hit power lines and crashed plane #2 (at taxpayer expense) and then joyrided a plane from Jacksonville to Philadelphia to go to the Army-Navy game and crashed that plane, too (#3 at taxpayer expense) before going to 'Nam and blowing up a plane on an aircraft carrier (#4) before being shot down (or maybe just crashing)over N. Vietnam (#5).

Some people might point out his flying buddies called him "ACE" not because he shot down 5 enemy planes, but because he crashed 5 of OUR planes.

Some people might point out that he has never had a paycheck from anyone other than Uncle Sam.

Some people might point out that he left his first wife after she was injured terribly in an auto accident.

Some people might point out that he is the senescent senior senator from Arizona.

Soem people might point out that he called his bleach-blonde drug-addict wife a trollop and a c***.

Some people might . . . not ME, of course, but some people might.

Barack Obama does have an affluent, educated, Ivy League sense of self-righteousness and entitlement that my Irish Catholic working-class side occasionally chafes at.

Obama, who of course grew up with a single Mom using foodstamps, IS working class who bettered himself because he was smart and applied him self and got scholarships to good schools.

McCain was a child of a child of privilege, got his education paid for by the taxpayer and blew his nose on them by screwing around, drinking and graduating 894 out of 899.

And Hillary was a freakin' Goldwater Girl from the upper middle class.

So, let's all punish Obama for telling the truth.

along with the Idiot.

Subpoena the shit-faced little ratfucker, put him under oath and let 'er rip.

Back in the old days, when John Sidney McCain was busy graduatin' 894th out of 899, all they had was the circle and the square to work with.

While the pollsters perceive the Obama/McCain race as being essentially even, unless they have properly weighted their sample . . . and I doubt they have . . . they will be unaware of the growing statistical advantage Democrats will have at the polls in November.

Personally, when it comes to an honors graduate of Harvard Law versus a Crazy Old Coot who graduated 894th out of 899 . . . I think Obama will wipe the floor with the crusty and useless John Sidney McCain III, a man who has never received a paycheck in his entire life from anyone other than Uncle Sam

. . . could comment on the rumors circulating that he was brainwashed and mentally reprogrammed while staying at the Hanoi Hilton and that he is in fact a Manchurian Candidate who will turn the country over to Godless Communists if elected?

Then perhaps Senator Obama can publicly denounce the rumors that McCain was brainwashed and mentally reprogrammed while staying at the Hanoi Hilton and that he is in fact a Manchurian Candidate who will turn the country over to Godless Communists if elected by saying:

The rumors surrounding Sen. McCain's Manchurian candidacy are unsubstantiated, and I publicly denounce the allegations pending further proof.

A steamy dimly lit scene of John Sidney McCain consumating his illicit affair with lobbyist Vicki Iseman on a California King Bed while Cindy Lou McCain sprawls next to the gyrating couple in a stolen narcotics induced semi-coma.

As Cindy Lou appears to regain consciousness during a particularly gymnastic (for a senescent senior senator, that is) segment of the tryst, McCain responds quickly by forcing a handful of purloined Vicodin down Cindy's gaping gullet.

Then Obama could come out the next day and denounce the ad, saying it was essentially unsubstantiated and out of bounds.

What next, a report on integration riots at Ole Miss??? Old newsfilm of lynchings and murders by the KKK??? That Birth of a Nation movie is REALLY SOMETHING!!

It sounds like it's the idea of America, its fundamental principles, that he's rejecting.

Well, Joan, if you mean he's rejecting the fundamental principle, expressed clearly in the US Constitution, that suffrage would be extended only to free white males over 21 who owned land . . .. Yes, he is.

Perhaps it was that clause that for purposes of determining representation in the House of Representatives, each slave would count as 3/5 of a person (altho the benefit in numbers of Congressmen, of course, would go to the white slave OWNER)?

Geeze, can we also throw in the genocide against the Native Americans, the stealing of Texas from Mexico because Mexico's constitution outlawed slavery, the slaughter of the bison to starve the plains Indians, the overthrow of lawfully elected governments in Iran or Venezuaela, and the ongoing illegal and criminal war in Iraq??

What turnip truck did you just roll off, lady??

Just so I gets this straight . . .. he's dating a married woman and he wants more commitment from her? Dude, I have a feeling her husband - and family if she has kids - probably would like more commitment, too.

If there is to be any commitment here . . . it should probably be involuntary commitment so the mental health pros could rework your wiring.

buy a dog.

Since when does a guy who is so retarded he graduates 894 out of 899 in his college class get to opine about matters as lofty as the mythical Unitary Executive.

Note to Grampa McCain: Don't you remember, John, Parliament settled the issue of The King Can Do No Wrong in 1649 when they chopped off Charles I's head.