Who's the dumbest?

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I have been trying to decide which one is the dumbest, Bush or McCain. Then I came to my senses and realized that no one could be dumber than Bush. But Calamity John is certainly trying. I don’t like the sort of sadistic streak I find in myself, but I am actually enjoying McCain accelerating down the road to self-destruction. Not only did he receive a brutal comment from Paris Hilton’s mother, he now has to put up with an ad from Paris herself, quite a good ad, actually. He must have been paying attention to someone because his latest ad is not a negative attack on Obama, but, rather, an ad trying to remind everyone how much of a “maverick” he is. Pretty hard to pretend to be a maverick when you have voted with Bush something like 95% of the time, which Obama was quick to point out. Poor John, everything he attempts turns out to be a disaster. He continues to come across as your grandfather trying to be “hip,” or “cool,” but just embarrassing himself and you. His latest shameless pandering took place at a Harley-Davidson event in the Dakotas, where he announced that he would rather have 50,000 bikers than 200,000 Berliners. Fair enough, perhaps, but then he suggested that his wife should enter the Miss Buffalo Chip contest. This is a topless and virtually naked contest where the contestants parade around virtually nude in front of all the bikers. Some of his defenders say he didn’t know what was involved, others say it was just the Air Force Pilot in him coming out. In either case it was pretty stupid.

McCain, having come around on a possible 16 month withdrawal from Iraq, and having come around on sending more troops to Afghanistan, both of which are Obama’s positions, is now also saying we have to develop other forms of energy as well as drilling for more oil offshore, another Obama position. However, there is a real difference in that for Obama drilling offshore is only one part of a much larger energy plan involving solar, wind, tides, and etc., whereas for McCain the major strategy is just drilling, drilling, and more drilling, while paying lip service to other forms of energy development. The oil companies are saturating him with donations to promote more drilling. I guess the nuclear energy nuts are doing the same as McCain is big on Nuclear energy, the absolutely worse thing we could possibly have. If you are opposed to life on earth in any form, nuclear is the way to go. And Calamity John, running true to form, toured one of the nuclear plants that has already experienced repeated problems, to tout this dangerous business.

I am having trouble even believing that these Brafia people are being serious about things. Here we are, with the largest national debt in history, a recession, inflation, hard times all around us, two ongoing “wars,” and they keep insisting they will not ever raise taxes. I assume they plan on continuing the Bush/Cheney economic practice of borrow and waste, that they somehow think is going to win out over their false characterization of Democrats as “tax and spend” liberals. Given their completely irresponsible fiscal practices of the past eight years, turning a huge surplus into the largest national debt ever, how do they even have the chutzpa to criticize anyone’s economic policies? If their war crimes are not enough to condemn them forever, their destruction of the U.S. economy ought to do so by itself. The fact that the U.S. Congress aided and abetted them in their massive scams does not fill one with confidence looking ahead. When that nice Chinese family comes to move into what used to be your happy home, write a letter to the editor.

LKBIQ:
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
David Friedman.