The Young Turks

You know I've thought about this quite a bit.  I know everyone is desperate to hear someone tell the precise truth, yet I don't know that Americans are going to want to actually hear it.  It would be risky as hell.  The truth would go something like this:

We are so badly in debt that the government is going to probably have to cut expenditures deeply and raise taxes at the same time for years.  We have entered an age where oil production can only keep up with demand, and will slowly lose ground.  We don't have the technology to derive more than about 5% of our energy from alternative sources.  We do not have anywhere close to enough oil resources remaining in the U.S. to supply our current demand so independence is a distant dream.  We will have to make dramatic sweeping changes in our lifestyle to get through it.  It will mean sacrifices similar to or perhaps greater than those experienced in World War II.  These will happen voluntarily or chaotically, but they will happen. 

We don't have the resources to enter another ground war.  We don't have the money and we don't currently have the trained forces.  It would certainly require a draft.  Attacking Iran at this point would constitute a risk to the stability of our country.  We could simply launch air strikes, but they may retaliate by taking measures to restrict middle east oil production.  If they are successful it's possible we would not survive economically because we are already teetering on the brink of financial collapse.

  There is also an excellent chance that Russia and/or China would intervene.  Regardless of all the talk about blinking or not blinking, a ground war with either of these countries is unthinkable.  The world would spend the last few years of available oil wasting it in a huge bloody fight instead of looking for energy solutions.  It would be a worldwide catastrophe from which no one would ever fully recover.  In the end it would boil down to a nuclear exchange because Russia is the number one producer of petroleum in the world and it is not possible to wage a world war like we did in the 20th century, we consume far, far more oil than we did back then.  There are no longer enough resources to fuel that kind of madness.

Our other problems will probably end up driving the global warming problem into the background until the laws of physics forces its way back into our conciousness with a vengeance.  I haven't even touched on the other resource shortages that seem to be looming in the future, water, fisheries, food crops.

Now how can you possibly admit even half of that and still get elected? 

And he couldn't even shake his hand after the debate. How awkward!!

I think this more damning than the "that one" reference.

Seems to me that to be able to engage in (a potentially "bloody") battle there has to be a certain amount of depersonalization of the opponent/enemy. This is one of the scary things about McCain and it speaks to his deeper character: that self-righteousness, single-headedness and ability to just see his opponent/opposing views as wrong and discountable. Hhhmmm, sounds like.... Bush!!!

Does anyone NOT think McCain is a racist?

One or two of these incidents I could overlook, but when it happens over and over and over and you remember this is a guy who fought like hell against MLK Day, c'mon!

I have always said Bush was NOT a racists, he's a classist, but not a racist.  I call 'em like I see 'em. 

McCain is a racist.  And not just to the "gooks" he never gets tired of slandering.  He considers black people inferior.

Close the book, get a glass of cold water.

They need a fact checker to call out lies as soon as they happen.

Most people are not like you or I, who check up after the debates.

Many people don't bother to follow up and take the debates as they are. 

Comic books? When McCain was a kid they didn't have no comic books.  Drawing hadn't even been invented yet.

Shiiiiiiiiiit. When McCain was a kid they didn't have mythology!

In all seriousness, my high school son picked up on this right away.  The second mention of his hero and he says "I thought he just said Reagan was his hero?"

And in case anyone is making a list, don't leave out Eisenhower, who he called his hero right before making up a bullshit story about Ike.

It wasn't just that Obama gave the roundhouse kick with Bomb, Bomb Iran Chuck Norris style.

It was McCain leaning into, hell he ran into, the punch.

Obama begins by praising McCain's long years experience.  McCain, unable to control himself, gets the world's biggest shit-eating grin and actually begins to bounce up and down like a retard.  Evidently he was a pretty big believer in the idea that Obama praising or agreeing with him helped McCain so he got really excited, like twba watching a Palin rally excited.

I was cooking dinner and said, before Obama could continue, to my wife and son, "How stupid is this guy, doesn't he know what's about to happen?"

Then, boom goes the dynamite.  Obama goes Bomb, Bomb on his ass and McCain goes from shit-eating grin to a man who looks like he has been cleaning toilets with his tongue.

So for me the best moment of the night wasn't McCain getting put in his place, it was when McCain got so happy, happier than I have ever seen him, while he was getting his ass teed up.  He had to be the only person in America not to realize what was coming.  The guy is a joke.