My friends...

These last couple of days, all the talk is about how John McCain is a switcher. And unfortunately I don't mean of computer platforms. I of course refer about all this chatter regarding his flippity-floppity talk about his hippity-hoppity walk from the deregulatory side of fence, to the regulatory greener grass. Among that talk, the democratic talking heads somewhere in their speeches always manage to fumbleout of some coat pocket John McCain's own words about his not understanding the economy...

...but I think he's taking all of us for a ride...

...and of course by ride, I mean he's flying around the world and meeting shady rich people on big private yachts in the European Riviera...

...but of course, he does that because the American worker has been betrayed. C'mon! Meanwhile, if Obama goes home to Hawaii, he gets dumped on by his own party, and the media tells the US he should instead be in Myrtle Beach because Honolulu is too exotic.

But as this whole crisis of deregulation gone wrong happens, I do not in anyway think that McCain is ignorant of the economy. It's just SO much easier not to get into it, and to say that less regulation is better.

And why do I think that it's nearly impossible that the current Republican presidential nominee knows nothing about the economy? 

Because approximately 20 years ago, a young senator from Arizona was embroiled in Senate ethics investigation into the then Savings & Loans scandal, as a member of the Keating 5. This scandal was the big-time - there was presidential appointees, Wall Street corruption, and heated exchanges. And this fresh-faced Arizona senator was right in the center of it. In the end, although he would be cleared of any ethics charges, the Republican senator from Arizona, John Sydney McCain, would be one of only two of the Keating 5 who would return to the Senate after the scandal. (Oh, and the other senator who went back had been in Space, which is even cooler than being a Navy Pilot-turned-POW)...

...And I fail to believe that any educated person, especially one educated at our fine Naval Academy, wouldn't at least learn a thing or two when implicated in a major national scandal, let alone when partaking in it. Not to mention the fact that he sat on the US Senate Commerce Committee for all those years. You're telling me he didn't pick a thing or two along the way while sitting up there in those fancy chairs? Or was he two busy thinking about how to sell his POW story? C'mon!

So I reiterate. John Sydney McCain is not ignorant of the economy. John McCain understands how things work, or at least the basics. Heck, you have to know how things work, if you want to rig them for your team, right? So instead of focusing on why he's flipping his story now, why not ask the him in front of entire nation how he can spend his life, neck-deep in economic scandals, and front to the "fundamentals" of this economy, that he's so stupid about how that thing works.

Tell me that. Meanwhile, I'll go get Teen Edition of Trivial Pursuit ready.