I DON’T LIKE JOHN McCAIN!

John McCain isn’t Ronald Reagan, which is the principal reason I don’t like the guy.

He also may be a tad too old to begin the job as POTUS. As with family, I feel free to mention that and not be accused of age-ism since he’s not much older than I am.

In addition, McCain had that “Keating Five” stink of twenty years ago in which he was a very minor player, along with four Democrats who played much larger roles in the Lincoln Savings and Loan mess which cost taxpayers $2,000,000,000. For a review of that scandal and McCain’s part, see http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter7.html.

I’m also not too crazy about McCain’s past social life. After his return from a 5 1/2 year incarceration and torture as a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, he was a changed man, for obvious reasons. He returned to discover that his wife, Carol, was crippled and disfigured. He caroused, met and fell in love with Cindy, and he and Carol divorced amicably some years later. But the fact that Carol McCain can still say, “He’s a good guy,… ‘We are still good friends. He is the best man for president” says not only a great deal about her but about her former husband and father of their three children.

For a one-sided account of that time in John McCain’s life, see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1024927/The-wife-John-McCain-callously-left-behind.html, a decidedly negative article in a decidedly liberal British newspaper. More relevant would be his recent expression of regret for that episode in his life.

All that said and before I’m lambasted for mentioning what Democrats will dredge up over the next two months anyway, despite his many flaws, Senator John S. McCain is one of us....

(For the rest of this article, please see http://genelalor.com/.)

OPRAH GETS THE LAST LAUGH AT HER AUDIENCE

America’s guru, Queen Oprah, who gained fame and fabulous wealth thanks largely to gullible, weepy white women, has refused admission to her studio and her stage to white woman and Republican VP nominee, Governor Sarah Palin. See http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/05/oprah-to-palin-i-can-pencil-you-in-later/ and http://drudgereport.com/flash3os.htm.

Why this is a surprise to anyone is the biggest surprise. Winfrey endorsed Barack Hussein Obama long before he even won the Democratic nomination for president and has barred black, and conservative, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from her royal presence.

In the TMZ article, she is quoted as saying, “At the beginning of this Presidential campaign when I decided that I was going to take my first public stance in support of a candidate, I made the decision not to use my show as a platform for any of the candidates. I agree that Sarah Palin would be a fantastic interview, and I would love to have her on after the campaign is over.”

Let me see if I have this straight. Winfrey endorses Obama for the presidency, interviews him twice on her show, but refuses to use her show “as a platform for any of the candidates?” I must be missing something here since that makes no sense to me or, we’re told, to half her staff.

She acknowledges that conservative Republican VP candidate Palin would make for a “fantastic interview” but will permit that fantastic interview only after the election? Apparently all candidates are created equal but some, like Obama, are more equal than others.

Something is very rotten in the state of Oprahland but that won’t discourage gullible, weepy white women from continuing to watch her, buy her books, and fill her coffers while she laughs at them when the show is over.

IT’S A GRAND OLD RAG TO DENVER DEMS

The Dem festivities were ended, the charade was done. The original lyrics from George M. Cohan’s “You’re a Grand Old Flag” referred to our flag as “a grand old rag,” using Civil War era slang, which Cohan changed following objections. Denver Democrats apparently preferred the original version.

The party was over and it was time to trash all those flags, said the plain old delegates, the super delegates, the superduper delegates. Now, what to do with the damned things?

It was bad enough that they had to wave them and pretend they cared about the flag but G-d damned America if they wanted to carry them through the streets of Denver or bring them home and display them!

With one call to an American Legion post they could have had them removed and disposed of properly according to the mandates of flag etiquette. But, why bother with all that folderol? They served their purpose of convincing the gullible TV audience that Dems gave a rat’s petuzzi for flag and country.

So they broke out the Gladd bags and stuffed them all in, all 12000 of them, and prepared to dispatch them to the dump with the rest of the refuse, with the banners and paper cups, with the remnants of hot dogs and burgers, with the spent fireworks, maybe with some used condoms scraped from the bowels of Invesco Field. What else could they do with them?

The good news is that the flags were rescued by an Invesco worker and will be recycled at a Republican rally for McCain/Palin in Colorado Springs where true Americans will wave them with honest pride: http://blogs.denverpost.com/opinion/2008/09/06/republican-recycling/.