Oh really. You mean the one where rich people got huge tax breaks so they could invest in sub-prime mortgages in order for little bread crumbs to trickle down for American Oliver Twist types? Yeah that one, the one that allowed itself to run wild in a big circle jerk fuck fest that gobbled up everything in its path and left only blood stained remnants on the desert streets of Iraq.

This is the same economy that you want more of, more tax breaks for the ultra wealthy and less regulations on flesh eating succubus corporations. Even former FED chair Alan Greenspan has called McCain’s tax plan irresponsible. Also noting that the growing disparity in American wealth is not sustainable. And that guy is republican and knows just a thing or two about the economy.

So do you really want to have a commission investigate this John McCain? I really hope you have some of your guys look into this and weeks later they come back and simply present to you this picture, no words, just this.

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The republican platform for change said it all in who their keynote speaker was. Rudy ‘9/11′ Giuliani. A man who has profited off that horrific day with book sales and based his entire presidential bid on scaring Americans into voting for him.

Fortunately Giuliani’s scare tactics didn’t work for his own political gain, even with republicans. It seemed the more people saw of Giuliani the more they disliked him. That’s why he retreated to my old home state of Florida, camped out and ran outrageous fear mongering ads. Then managed to finish 3rd in that state, dropping out with a grand total of 0 delegates.

This tired old message by republicans didn’t work in 2006 and it didn’t work for Giuliani. And it shouldn’t work for the McCain/Palin ticket in the general election. It is not un-patriotic to not always stand on your governments side, quite the contrary. “Country First” means that you put your homeland, common sense and principles before your government.

The Nazi party rallied Germans around extreme nationalism, and they made them scared of the growing power of Jews in their communities. It was for these reasons that they were able to unite the majority of their people into unjustified wars and to commit horrific atrocities against humanity.

The neo-conservatives used these same tactics to take us into Iraq and they will do the same to take us into Iran. McCain used to be a “maverick” but he is clearly no maverick these days. If elected, he will continue the backward policies of Bush/Cheney that have led the USA into economic disaster and international embarrassment. So congratulations John McCain, tonight is your night to take the helm of the new American Nazi party.

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For days the media has been all over the fact that separatist Gov. Sarah Palin’s 17 year old daughter Bristol is pregnant. Obama and his campaign have told everyone to lay off candidates children, something I agree with. But what is America to make of all this and who has the answers?

Luckily, respected American psychologist “Dr. Phil” decided to share his 2 cents on the Palin baby with Matt Lauer. Thank goodness for the wonderful insight from this TV personality who received his doctorate from the prestigious North Texas University.

Perhaps Dr. Phil can have a private consultation with Bristol. Of course, he then must share any new revelations with all of America.

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Admittedly, McCain generally displays the deft political footwork of a crash test dummy. But the choice of Palin is so idiotic that there must be more to it than just poor judgment.

So if McCain consciously chose to put Alaska baked trailer trash on his ticket, why did he do it? (Don’t miss amusing photos at Perez Hilton.)

The only truly plausible theory is that he’s going after the stupid vote. With a dash of hypocrisy thrown in.

As governor of Alaska, P-Douche slashed funding for programs to help pregnant teens.

Most hilariously, McCain’s flacks are already trying to roll out the old Republican strategy of putting themselves outside the sphere of their own self-righteous moral pontification.

As reported by the Chicago Tribune: “It’s a private family matter. Life happens in families,” Steve Schmidt, McCain’s top strategist, told reporters. “If people try to politicize this, the American people will be appalled by it.”

Maybe McCain has actually found the holy grail of American Republican electioneering: an appeal exactly suited for rigid moral dictators who want to talk about having less government intervention while shrewishly legislating tons of it–laws against abortion and sex education, same-sex marriage–for everyone except themselves.

Expect McCain’s new book to show up in Borders by the end of the week: The Joy of Hypocrisy, Or How I Got Fifty Million More People to Vote in 2008.

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Here’s an interesting little video highlighting McCain’s wandering eyes while Sarah Palin was introducing herself to America. Nice touch with the fiddling of the wedding ring Johnie! Oh well, this isn’t the first time John McCain has used a former beauty queen to elevate himself to higher power.

McCain met his current wife Cindy at a cocktail party while married to his other former beauty queen (but then crippled) ex-wife Carol McCain. It only took one meeting with Cindy to realize that she was the gal of his dreams, one that could help make him a senator of Arizona. And it only took one meeting with Alaskan hockey mom Sarah Palin to realize that she could make him president.

It’s too bad they didn’t converse a little more though, perhaps McSame would have realized that the abstinence education supporting Palin has a pregnant 17 year old daughter. Luckily the kids are planning to get married, whether they like it or not.

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The John Edwards affair: Didn’t surprise me at all. How can you trust a guy who says fighting poverty has become his life’s mission and then goes out and gets a $400 haircut, then runs an ad that poor people helped fund to discuss “how pretty” he is. Thank goodness Edwards didn’t win the democratic nomination. Then again, it would have made for a hell of an interesting convention! Much more interesting than the little dog and pony show we witnessed.

Olympic Games in China: Good stuff. Every oppressive regime should get to hold an Olympics, cause why not? And the Chinese proved that putting on the greatest opening ceremonies ever requires personal sacrifice, mainly gross human rights violations that included performers having to train in diapers. You gots to love the 21st century Olympic spirit!

Obama’s pick of Joe Biden. Solid pick but boring. Barack Obama is a very smart man with excellent judgement and I knew he’d make a good VP choice. In short, an old white guy.

The DNC Convention: Jesus Christ what was that? Nancy Pelosi looked like she was presenting at the Oscars or something. And the role call? What a cute touch with Hillary ending it and passing the Clintonian torch to Barack Obama.

Obama’s democratic acceptance speech: Great speech! But how the hell does he realistically plan to cut taxes and pay for all that, while the United States has been placed in a 9 trillion dollar deficit. He perhaps should have went with listen, things are pretty fucked up, I’ll work over the next 4-8 years to get the ship turned around, then the next guy can stear us back on course.

McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin: LOL! I have to say, I was really hoping for Mitt Romney because I find his bullshit demeanor hysterical- though I knew it would not happen after the democrats made an issue of all the McCain houses. Damnit, you guys jumped the gun! But John McBush checking out Palin’s ass just after she was introduced as his VP choice was classic stuff. So John McInsane. Apparently McCain thinks that some Americans are stupid enough to believe that Sarah Palin is an acceptable replacement for Hillary Clinton because hey, she’s a woman too. Good call on the part of McCain’s aides, too many Americans are just that stupid.

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