I wonder if McCain will now be able to bring himself to look President-Elect Obama in the eye.

With McCain's ex-running mate running all over the place lapping up every last bit of media attention she can get, I find it odd that we have not heard word one, since election day, from the man who was supposedly at the top of the repub ticket. I would lover to hear, someday, what McCain really thought of Palin.

Based on President-elect Obama's known admiration for President Lincoln, do you suppose Obama is considering McCain for some post? Sec'y of Navy perhaps? Or, Sec'y or Homeland Security?

Bonus: By offering McCain a position in the White House, it would open up McCain's seat in Arizona. And, Arizona has a Democratic governor who could appoint a Democrat to the open Senate seat. (Remember the magic #60).

Just a thought....

"I would lover to hear, someday, what McCain really thought of Palin."

Me too, but he won't IMO -- because it so negatively reflect on himself.

...what presumably is supposed?

"I would lover to hear, someday, what McCain really thought of Palin."

Jay Leno asked McCain about her earlier this week. His reply? He segued the question into talking about what a great guy her husband is. You can read between the lines on that one.

But hey, McCain has no one to blame but himself. He took a gamble with an unqualified, improperly vetted candidate and he lost.

Okay, I'm liking the idea of SecNav McCain... just so long as we appoint someone like Bob Kerry, John Kerry, or Wes Clark to be Secretary of Defense (all good Democrats).

And yes, the added bonus of room to kick Lieberman to the curb just makes this so much more attractive.

It would be interesting to see Obama offer McCain a position. I wonder how the right would react? Is there any precedence for this?

With Hillary comes a whole traveling circus.

That might be a good place for McCain. It would give him a chance to contribute some genuine public service on an issue about which he seems to care deeply, and it would give him a chance to go into that good night in a dignified manner.

McCain's record with regard to the veterans is abysmal! He voted against taking care of them, against giving them raises, against giving them proper equipment. And he voted against the 21st Century GI Bill.

McCain is a disgrace. The fact that he wore a uniform doesn't make him pro vets. He got elite treatment because of his father and grandfather. He does NOT understand veterans who are being turned into the street with PTSD, and he does not understand their families, some of whom have lost everything for their service.

He was a spoiled officer who managed to get shot down, and has proven every day that he has been in the Senate that he doesn't believe our people in uniform are entitled to our help and support. He understands very well that he is entitled because of his POW status. But he declines to extend his entitlement to those who served.

While contractors were getting rich, our men and women were going without the basics. They were waiting months for medical treatment and being treated in mold and vermin infested hospitals, when they were treated at all.

Do some research. McCain is an abuser of veteran's sacrifices. He has helped George Bush make their friends rich through the war in Iraq on the backs of the ill-used and ill-served military.

There is a reason why military contributions to the campaign were 6-1 in favor of Obama. And why there were hordes of Veteran's organizations campaigning against McCain and the Republicans.

Fuck McCain. Obama doesn't need him. McCain is irrelevant.

Here's what I would encourage Obama to do in this meeting with McCain. I'd love to see Obama show McCain the Secret Service report that shows that death threats against Obama spiked up when the McCain rallies got so out of hand. The correlation is unmistakeable and undeniable.

I really wonder what McCain would say if he was confronted with the concrete results of his and Palin's fear-mongering by the very person whose life was threatened? Do you think he'd apologize? Or take any responsibility whatsoever? I'd cynically say "Naaah, never in a million years", but maybe, just maybe there would be some self-awareness and self-examination on McCain's part. Stranger things have happened!

For the absolutely despicable campaign he ran--or rather was forced to run. It was quite obvious during the course of it that he hated it and was disgusted with himself for having to stoop so low to have any chance at winning.

Obama, of course, will be gracious and magnanimous, because he doesn't hold grudges, he likes to bring people together, he knew the campaign rhetoric was all a game and he didn't take it personally, and he's filled with the spirit of Christian forgiveness far more than McCain or Palin or their rabid supporters could ever hope to be.

McCain both hates and admires Obama for his accomplishment, but the feelings of admiration will win out during the course of the meeting, as McCain realizes that he, being the mean, vindictive, temperamental one, is in the presence of an unquestionably better and greater man.

Once the groveling and the make-up session is over, they'll get down to serious business. Could that be a major appointment? Perhaps. McCain probably knows that his days in the Senate are numbered. He's old, he just lost big time on the national stage, he damaged his reputation by running an undignified campaign, and he'd have to run against a very popular governor for re-election in 2010. He also knows that the GOP position in the Senate, even absent the filibuster-proof majority among the Dems, is very weak. The polls show the country rallying around Obama and the idea of one-party rule by the Dems. He knows that and isn't stupid. He might want a major position in the administration as a swan song.

Then again, perhaps he'll stay in the Senate but revert to his moderate, maverick, compromiser image and be a bridge between the extremely powerful Dem majority and the GOP. He might even act as a key vote to gain cloture and give the Dems wins on some key legislation. Perhaps Obama knows that McCain can be useful and wants to keep him close and work with him, and maybe he's being generous and bipartisan and offering McCain the lead in the Senate on some major legislation, like immigration.

It will be interesting to see what comes of this. There's definitely something afoot.