John McCain

Yesterday I referred to Mr. McCain as the Crypt Keeper. I owe him an apology. I had no right to insult the Crypt Keeper like that. The Crypt Keeper has more personality in its eye socket than McCain has in his entire body. That weird and uncomfortable laugh, stiff back and neck, those little arms, and that comb over (well, sorry Mr. Crypt Keeper, you all have that in common) just scream some dirty old out of touch man. I should have called him Uncle Fester or Herman Munster or some diminutive mutation of the two. He really looks like he has been resuscitated before each speech via a defibrillator. His awkwardness reminds me of Robert Deniro in Awakenings. Essentially I am saying that he epitomizes the creepy uncle who seems otherwise comatose except for those occasional outbursts of excitement.

Well, I really tried to watch him tonight and just couldn't do it. He bored me to tears. His speech must have been written by a third grader. It was full of awkward pauses and even more uncomfortable smiles and the characteristic stiffness. Was there no chiropractor available or doctor with a cortisone injection? Dude is just too old to eat solid food much less run a country. Seriously though, this isn't just about his age. This is about his nearsightedness and lack of a social conscience. He called "education the new civil right's movement", yet, he follows this remark with more rhetoric and allusions to vouchers and school choice. What about fixing the fundamental problems of the schools and raising standards. His "solution" would only worsen the current problems and widen the gap between the haves and the have nots.

This is the dilemma I always encounter--all of these extremes. I am certainly not liberal. They believe in too much leniency, too many excuses, no accountability. Too many religious whack jobs cling to the conservative base and have perverted it into their judgmental caravan, but at least they stand for somethings usually unequivocally.

Either way, politicians by and large are egotistical power hungry narcissists. I'm still looking for Citizen Change.