I've never seen anyone so fake. Watching Cindy McCain's speech at the Republican convention in Minnesota has left me sick and scared. Anyone who sees "Hockey-Mom" as a good qualification to help lead one of the greatest potential nations in the world (when referring to the Republican V.P. candidate, Sarah Palin. See nutty picture below)
Everything Mrs. McCain says suggests to me that she has a pull string lodged deep in her plastic spine. She talks about goodness/righteousness/justice/equality as some kind of simple universal properties that only certain people (White Conservative Republicans) are capable of possessing. I think it's a good thing to aspire to such grand ideals, Obama makes similar claims, but to see yourself (and your entire family line, when she celebrates four generations of McCains being involved in various wars and killing people) as being the embodiment of such perfection is an exercise in pure delusion as great a folly as the notion of colonial righteousness in manifest destiny.
She refers to John (McCain) as a leader of "great strength", because he spent six years in a Vietnamese prison camp. Does this constitute a war hero? What I am certain of is that at the grand old age of 72 McCain ain't quite what he used to be. Reagan was accussed of senility (McCain constantly nods towards him as a kind of great precedent to excuse his own old-age) particularly in his second term. If McCain serves two consecutive terms, without croaking and handing power over to "Hockey-Mom" incaranate, then he will be approximately 80 years old when he finishes his presidency, ready to be wheeled out at public ceremonies, or kept in a Futurama-jar, point being: He will be well past the best of his faculties, both physical and mental and that is dangerous for all concerned.
But what really gets me about the latest lying mouth of all time is her constant gesturing and posing. Like James Dean she pouts and preens after every second sentence, as if her pauses were so precious and inward reaching that we should all find the Great American Spirit within ourselves as we are fortunate enough to witness her own playacting in self-deception. Cindy McCain recieved so much more applause when she didn't say anything it compels me to wonder: If she were able to shut her damn mouth right up until the election period, then the Republicans will surely win the Presidential race. However, knowing how eager she is to spill vision over substance and logical rhetoric, to stand pretty and tall, much like a lamp shade by her ailing husband's side, she will probably speak again. And again. And again. There is hope for the Democrats yet.
There's so much White in the Stars and Stripes"-Manic Street Preachers
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