Mickey Walker

McCain’s “Missing Strawberries” Logic (But He Ain’t Lost All His [Steel] Marbles Yet)

by Mickey Walker - November 9, 2008

McCain and Palin must be desperate.  Here, just 3 days before the General Election I got a letter from none other than John McCain.  “Dear Friend,” he opens, “Republicans like you must help us defeat the Democrats in the RNC Victory 2008 campaign.”  Me, a Republican?  Perhaps on a cold day in hell when George W. Bush stops telling lies.  But, hey, the campaign is over, haven’t you heard, John?  You lost.  I saw him sputtering today on TV about “fighting, fighting, fighting, my friends, for victory, for America’s sake.”  I only wish that he had been fighting, fighting, fighting to impeach George W. Bush for the last 8 years.  Or even Cheney would have been good.  Maybe McCain would have deserved some votes for really cleaning up the corruption in Washington instead of just talking the talk.  Almost frothing at the mouth, he reminded me of Captain Queeg just after running over his own tow line and blaming all the wrongs of the USS Caine on his officers and crew.  The dude is a nutcase, and his sidekick, Sarah Palin, is a holy-roller fruitcake who would love nothing more than to get her finger on the red button so that “God’s work in Iraq could be done.”  Like, totally, like, finished.  Like bye, bye, world.  See for yourselfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9H-btXPfhGs

In his letter to me soliciting money, McCain says, “Let me be perfectly clear about what is at stake for our nation if we fail to elect conservative Republican leadership in Washington, D.C.”  As if 8 years of the worst presidency and most corrupt Congress in the history of our nation is not enough.  A Bush clone like McCain would be our death knell.  “If liberals like Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi control the White House, Congress and state houses across this country….they will raise your taxes.”  Say what?  What brass!  Thanks to McCain for voting for Bush’s mad dog preemptive war policies, we went from a 7 Trillion dollar national debt to $10 Trillion!  Isn’t that the worst kind of tax we, the people, could ever experience?  Could that borrowing and spending for wars that help nobody be the cause of our devalued dollar, the mortgage meltdown, the bank failures, and the government coming to the rescue with fiat dollars?  Like, who are the real crooks, here?  And I got news for those Neocon nits:  liberals are better any day than crooks like Bush, Cheney, and the Neocon congressmen who swore to defend and protect the Constitution.

McCain talks about how if the Obama Democrats have their way “government spending will skyrocket as they implement government run health care and resurrect their failed welfare programs of the 60s and 70s.”  Gee, it seems by now that Bush has paid Blackwater over 2 Billion dollars for government mercenary troops to protect high-ranking soldiers and civilian big shots in Iraq. Iraq wants Blackwater out of their country for the indiscriminate shooting of Iraqi citizens.  But Bush keeps on paying the Blackwater Good Ole Boys big bucks to take target practice at Iraq civilians.  Why?  I smell a rat.  Sounds like a good old boy connection to me, dudes.  And McCain marches in lockstep with Bush on the Iraq War, including the lucrative crony no-bid contracts that keep the War going and the deep pockets filled with off-budget tax dollars.  Speaking of skyrocketing spending, what about all the no-bid contracts for Halliburton, and hey, what about the missing 12 Billion dollars cash we took over to Iraq for walk-around change? http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/feb/08/usa.iraq1 

Funny, but neither Bush nor McCain ever mentioned that little Neocon diversion from fiduciary responsibility and public trust.  Why not?  Bush is in charge, right?  And McCain supported him 90% of the time, right?  Yet the Billions disappeared and nobody accounts for it, and McCain did not care to conduct a Senate investigation.  Some Maverick.  McCain dares to call Obama a Redistributionist-In-Chief.  Thought he and Palin really cared about fighting government corruption and naming names when it comes to Good Old Boys who steal from the government and abuse the public trust.  McCain and Palin beat their jaws real good about the Good Old Boys who steal from the taxpayers, but when it comes to their own crony Good Old Boys you never hear them cry corruption.  Where were they when Halliburton charged us 40 million dollars for meals to troops they never served?  They are all talk.  Like Bush, they are all Hat and no Cattle.

When the camera zooms in on McCain these last days before the Election, I swear, he looks just like the salivating image of Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg of the “Cain Mutiny” when he was looking for the missing strawberries stolen from the Wardroom Mess.  He postulated that somebody had a secret key to the officer’s mess.  But the key never existed.  Neither does McCain’s logic when he tries to pin a big-spending image on Democrats.  McCain knows full well that Bush’s borrow-and-spend policies have overshadowed anything the Democrats have spent in the history of America. 

“Our free market solutions and conservative principles are better for America-and that has proven true time and again.”  McCain tells us with a toothy Bogart grin.  So does McCain really think the GOP-driven deregulation of the US securities industry since the days of Ronald Reagan, really helped America?  Is he mad?  Or could it be that, like Bush, he doesn’t read the newspapers?  Is McCain, snug in his 13 bedroom, 14 bathroom Arizona house to even be aware of the mortgage meltdown?  Are the crooked lenders who duped not only homeowners into losing their homes, but investors and pension-plan managers into losing their shirts as Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae went down the toilet, ummmm, are they McCain’s friends, too?  Isn’t it a bit ironic that McCain is one of the Keating Five?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAzDEbVFcg8  Have the countless failed financial giants, burned up in endless bankruptcies failed to stir McCain when he speaks so cavalierly about the GOP “free market?”  He should have maybe let sleeping dogs lie, you think?  Does he not know that Merrill Lynch went down the tubes?  And what about Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Wachovia, AIG, Countrywide Mortgage, IndyMac Bank, AMBAC, MBIA, Washington Mutual, and numerous other institutions that have failed to the tune of Trillions of dollars of lost capital?  Is it possible that McCain is oblivious to the financial wreck his Tweedledee clone Bush has wreaked upon Americans and our financial futures?  Could McCain be living in another world where you own 10 houses and other Americans have to walk away from their one former home because of the subprime mortgage fraud brought to us by the Neocons and their idea of the “Free Market System?”  Straight out, these are the dudes who benefitted from deregulation brought to us by Reagan, perfected by Bush, and extolled by McCain.  If you guessed the CEOs and higher ups who are now privy to the Trillions in government bailout dollars to pay their big bonuses, you guessed right.  Does McCain call this the free market system?  If so, he needs help.  If he knows who the real Good Old Boys are and is lying to the American people about naming names, he needs to first begin with naming his biggest campaign contributors.  Bet that 4 out of 5 headed top corporations that went bust as they bailed out with record bonuses and golden parachutes. 

America needs to help McCain and Palin out the door in a couple of days by voting these pseudo- Maverick fruitcakes out of office forever.  We cannot afford to endure another term of blatant disregard for the people, our dollar, our troops, and the loss of our very goodness as a nation.  They went too far this time, and they know it.  But then let’s face it.  All the crooked Neocons expect to exit after the biggest plundering of a nation in the history of the world.  And they are laughing all the way to the bank (but it’s in Switzerland, dude, get it?).  And McCain, like Captain Queeg of the USS Caine is just plain nuts.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9KlQPX1qiE&NR=1

Note:  By the time of this writing, the election will be over.  I hope we as a nation did get out and vote the bastard Neocons out of office, forever.  And that includes all the notable Republicans like Lindsay Graham, John Cornyn, and Newt Gingrich who fawned over Sarah Palin as though she had brains and ability.  With stuffed pockets, what a disgusting sight they make as they exit with America’s future, hog-tied, gagged, and slung over their shoulder in a gunny sack.   TPJmagazine

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