Far Worse Than A Cranky, Grumpy Old Man-- On John

-by Mags

I can do anything better than you can!

John McCain has a problem. Most people think it is because he is a cranky old man, but that is not the case. His behavior is now and always has been that of an adolescent male stuck in his teens, a time when young men decide in order to be men, they must claim they can do anything at anytime anywhere and do it better than you. John McCain is stuck in a developmental stage which is the one our sons go through where they know more than us. My sons went through that. I remember when every conversation with Dad became a debate instead of a conversation. There was no warning them. There was no cautioning them about important things such as vehicle maintenance, work ethic, and any number of issues. They knew best. How dare we question them? It was annoying at the least to hear the young men crow knowing they didn’t know squat and they had no perspective.

John McCain has a past much the same as George Bush. He was a careless partying flyboy. He was the son of an Admiral and was given special treatment. But, he was a POW you say? We will get to that. Let us just think for a few minutes about McCain and his MO throughout his life discounting the years he was a prisoner of war.

In his youth John was a handsome young man who dated models and beauties. He had a girl girls in every port it seems. When John came back from the war, he found out his model wife had been in an accident and was no longer the beauty he deserved to be associated with, no she was just a regular gal now sacrificing for the good of her prisoner husband by not wanting to burden him with her serious injuries. It gets worse. He then takes up with other women. No, Cindy was the not the first and only indiscretion of John during this time. He felt entitled, evidently, by his past habits of privilege? We don’t know for sure, but his upbringing in a family of power and privilege seems to be a determining factor in his attitude, not his stint as a POW. John was able to leave wife and family high and dry and, of course, his explanation now is that stint as a POW. He was entitled to be wild and free for a bit. No responsibility. He was owed!

Cindy McCain was no regular gal either. She herself was a beauty queen. See a pattern? There are speculations that John has not been faithful to Cindy McCain either. It is well known that John likes the pretty ones, the beauties. Consider Sarah Palin another beauty pageant reject. Yes, Sarah Palin is the side kick that a flyboy like John McCain loves to hang with. What kids doesn’t want to hang out with the cute girls.

That is personal, you say. That does not count. Ok. In McCain’s professional life as a “servant of the public” he has repeatedly lined his own pockets. The Keating Five scandal gives us insight into McCain’s standard operating procedure. John will do anything to make a buck and to acquire power. He is no stranger to strange bedfellows. He was not only involved the Keating Five scandal, but he has been linked to mafia figures in Arizona. McCain has not been forthright about his involvement in the hate group, the World Anti-Communist League that has been linked to death squads in Central America.

McCain feels no compunction to reveal his true self. He hides behind his “Maverick” (adolescent playboy, tough guy, immaturity?) image. His campaign has taken on a Pee Wee Herman air. “I know you are, but what am I?” It is painfully obvious that every accusation leveled by the McCain camp toward Obama is a fundamental truth about McCain himself. Cindy McCain says that Obama, “has run the dirtiest campaign in American history.” Really, Cindy? You mean all those talking heads have missed the point that Obama is being mean? The truth is that day after day they opine on how Obama needs to get tough, that he is too nice.

The McCain camp accuses Obama of being a terrorist or at least one who lacks judgment about his radical ties when it is McCain/Palin who have the radical ties. Not incidental ties, but purposeful ties and memberships in organizations full of hate and venom for this country and for it ideals. Sarah Palin’s husband belonged to the an Alaskan Secessionist group whose members claimed hatred for America. John McCain had a hand in the Iran Contra scandal which was clearly not legal or “American.” Yet, they accuse Barack Obama of terrorist friends.

Sarah and John have no problem bringing up the Reverend Jeremiah Wright while their connections with the clergy are every bit as dodgy if not more so. Consider Pastor Muthee who drove a woman from a village after accusing her of being a witch guilty of causing all kinds of evil that happened in the community. His special prayers, it is claimed by Sarah herself were in large part responsible for making her Governor of Alaska. Consider John’s connection with Pastor John Haggee, a religious right nutcase who engages in hate speech so regularly that if one were to document it all it would require the Library of Congress to hold it all. If Barack Obama is guilty by association, then McCain and Palin are doubly so for seeking out such associations. When they accuse Obama of being shadowy one must consider the despicable motivations of “end times” Christians embracing Israel while secretly hating Jews.

Now that there is an economic crisis, John McCain has abandoned his original critical error of claiming the GOP economy is fundamentally strong. He has adopted the more reasoned stance of Barack Obama, the one that embraces reality.

No, John McCain is not a cranky old man. No, he is not a serious man who has an issue with his temper. John McCain is a teenage son of privilege and entitlement in an old man’s body. And, not just any old man, an old man who has failed to reach his goals at the end of a long life he has squandered pandering to his own immature nature. John McCain has trouble understanding why we do not believe him when he claims “I know how to do it!” He cannot understand why we will not accept him as a reformed deregulator. He scowls. He throws his tantrum and will not look at his opponent. McCain is no Maverick. Mc Cain is an errant child who insists we give him adult status simply on the basis of his POW status, a status that did nothing to make him more considerate of others. No, if anything this experience seems to have frozen him forever in that stage of his development. Grow up, he did not. When he came home, he continued to think only of himself, not his family. When he “served” in the US Senate, he thought of lining his own pockets, not ours. No, John McCain has not changed, he is the same old spoiled brat who is now stomping his foot on the national stage insisting we honor his adolescent empty boastings.

No thanks, John. I would tell you what I told my sons struggling to reach adult credibility, that experience would be a great teacher, that they would have time to learn for real how to solve problems. I would tell you those things, but considering your age and your experience, I would say that ship has sailed. Sorry, John. I am going to vote for the adult, Barack Obama, who displaying much courage is running on real solutions and on real team work and real concern for Americans of all stripes.

In case you were wondering what mixed up, confused old McCain has on his mind all the time: