Campaign Nausea

I'm watching John McCain and I'm trying to keep my salami sandwich in my stomach. Let's begin, because I don't want to regret staying out of it.

I wonder how many black faces they'll find in the audience?

The green screen? Really? Again? Because it worked so well the night Obama won when McCain spoke to a small crowd straining to applaud.

Damn, Momma Mac stood up. So did Palin's family. And everyone else when they were mentioned. I seem to remember not many Dems doing that.

Mac tells Obama that he'll attack the shit out of him in the next two months, but for now, just know that I love you, man.

Protesters! Protesters! And Mac seems to be laughing at those who just engaged in their Democratic right of free speech.

He found just the right partner to shake up D.C., he says, and he just happened to have met her. She's from the great state of Alaska, he says, seemingly unaware that she wanted to secede from the Union. Yes, that's the party of Lincoln.

He's proud he introduced Palin to the country. He can't wait to intro her to Washington. How about, "I can't wait to meet her myself?"

Change is coming. Really. He mocked Obama and his change. How come the repugs keep using the word then?

To the Latina daughter, he says. We're all god's children and we're all Americans. Except, of course, for the Latinos who want to move to the States to improve their lives and make some money but who are systematically rounded up like animals in order to be herded back across the border.

Mac can't talk to a crowd without looking like he's going to fall over. I feel that the telemprompter uses italics or something like [put emphasis on the following line], and he fails every time.

He'll help people find jobs that won't go away, until he gives the tax credits to companies who send jobs overseas.

Shake up failed schools? How about paying teachers the money they deserve. And how about instead of increasing competition, improve the schools that already exist? Why is this so difficult? Why is he threatening teachers? Improve the schools that already exist, you idiot. Respect the teachers.

And he can't read a telemprompter!

This "drill, baby, drill" line is astounding. Anyone paying attention to the people who know stuff, knows that drilling won't do shit in the shortterm and by the time the longterm comes around, won't yield much.

Another black person in the audience.

And about that background. It started as green and now it's blue. I thought they were going to go through all the primary colors, but it's stuck on blue. Like, technicolor blue.

Can I just say that I hate the pronunciation of Vietnam with a short "a"? Just saying.

This is painful. He turns from one teleprompter to another just like his wife did. Just like they're mannequins in the display windows of middle America JC Penneys.

Again and again he's worked with members of both parties. He will reach out to anyone who will get this country moving again. He did reach out to anyone. Palin. Didn't even know her. And again and again he will flip and flop this way and that as long as enough people put him through in November. Say anything. Do anything.

In the next two months, Barack, it'll be tough, Mac says. But I respect you. Well, the next two months just started.

He liked to pick fights. He'll admit it. Hey, here comes the POW stuff he doesn't want to talk about. He talks openly about it. Talks of two Americans who helped him. And I remembered an article I came across in Military.com by Phillip Butler entitled: "Why I Will Not Vote For John McCain."

(I just got a little distracted because I couldn't get to the article at first but I found a way.)

Okay, it's all over. And they're all just "Raising McCain." Another country song. Jesus. If the media say this was a good speech, I am going to chew my lips off.