I'm sorry. You're too poor.

If you're reading this, there's an excellent chance that you're not rich--at least not rich enough to benefit from John McCain's possible election. You need to be in the richest 1% income bracket to really get the full bang for your buck when you help John BUY the Presidency. Because when you have that kind of money--like Don Diamond, an AZ developer--you get to use your donations to McCain as a guarantee that John will get you sweetheart deals.

Like buying closed Army bases for $250K and selling it two yars later for $20 MILLION.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/22/us/politics/22diamond.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

So stop reading this and get that second job to pay for that exploding mortgage. McCain won't give a crap about you until you're rich. His government isn't for losers like you.

So much for McCain's learning from his dealings with Keating. This guy is a whore with a temper. Sure, he may like the lobbyists and developers he personally helps out, but being a Senator isn't supposed to be about helping your buddies and screwing the average guy.

I wonder if his second wife--the beer distributorship heiress--ever worries about her marriage. McCain started chasing her while still married to the unsuspecting first wife. Was John chasing her or her money? What if a younger, richer donor came along: would Cindy get kicked to the curb as well?

This story makes it clear that McCain will loot this country for his super-rich friends, just like Bush did, if he gets elected. He can get as angry as he wants, but the truth is out: McCain is for sale and he listens to the highest bidder.

There's an old joke that USMC doesn't stand for US Marine Corps but actually "U Suckers Missed Christmas." Bush and McCain are just extending that concept to a new level: when you sign up for military service, you sign up for life.

That's right! You're a patriot! You've taken up the noble profession of defending America and this country is now at permanent war with terrorists. So you'll have a long, full career with no time for silliness like education, other careers, marriage and kids or any other outside obligations.

George Bush told American soldiers in Afghanistan that he, well, envied</> them and their "romantic" lives of imminent violence and death, separation from family, hardship, crappy pay and indefinitely extendible tours of duty. If only he could join them, he mused. Dubya and his pet goat McCain are cutting out the distractions for these wonderful soldiers so the GOP can warap the US flag around itself and keep these wars (er, profit centers) going for Halliburton, Blackwater, etc. It's a win-win-win situation all around.

And Americans are so much safer!

John McCain might be charming and funny, but he's getting old and is stuck in the past. I'm not surprised that he got confused over the complexities of sectarian conflict in the Middle East, but he should have known Petraeus's responsibilities. My guess is that all the campaigning is taking a toll on him.

What's worse is that McCain has tied himself to the policies of the Bush administration. He's practically licking the boots of the religious right and he sounds more and more like an old version of Dubya on matters like Iraq, the mortgage crisis, torture, health care, etc.

Remember back on 9/11/01, when Bush was in the elementary school classroom reading "My Pet Goat"? John McCain has become Bush's pet goat--hell, he even looks the part.

We're not going to move into the future and solve our immense national problems by staying in the past or looking backwards. The '08 campaign is likely going to be John McCain's Farewell Tour. John will give us some great one-liners like Johnny Carson, but don't expect much from him. He's worn out.

@DQuintanaNY: My bad. Thanks for pointing that out--didn't get any sleep last night.

@khia213: it would be a smart idea to hat least have catastrophic health insurance before calling a black man "boy." My dad used to wonder aloud why the "n" word was acceptably used by blacks when talking to each other but was an outrage when used by a white person towards a black one. One good explanation I had for him was something I heard on Tavis Smiley: blacks use that word to take the sting out of it, to appropriate it as part of their own culture and not an insult. When a white person uses that word or "boy" towards a black person, it's not a sign of joshing or teasing friendliness. It's a form of denigration.