Has he ever worn an onion on his belt?

Leave Grandpa Simpson out of this......Remember he predicted that Homer would get the Spider Pig and dump the Pigshit into Lake Sprinfield thereby creating the situation that had Springfield quarantined by a fictional President Arnold......He is not to be taken lightly!

Course real credit goes to Marge for listening to the old geezer in the first place......Okley dokley?

Top notch post. Love the "Pop-Truth" concept.

I know we're talking about a general portrait/caricature of McCain so maybe and this is probably over-analytical, but the one minor quibble I have is that Grampa Simpson, though quick to addle brained anger in frustration, is not generally thought of as dangerous. (Asleep at the wheel, maybe, but that's more Reagan than McCain.)

McCain is quick to anger and more than willing to act on that anger-- especially when acting against establishment/CW. This well established-- yet unacknowledged-- fact of his personality is the single biggest reason John McCain should never be elected President.

Here's a great post from Kos featuring a letter from a fellow Navy POW on McCain:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/30/15213/4901/936/487234

I am younger than John McCain. He would be in charge of the Nuclear Football.

My family feels that I am too old to be allowed to control the TV Remote.

Think about it.

Hillary has a huge Onion in her pantsuit.

I remember Ronald Reagan drawing a complete blank during one of his re-election debates with Walter Mondale. Much of the world saw it. Few in America understood it. After an excruciating interlude of silence, someone mangaged to jump-start the geezer-Gipper and return him to earth from wherever else he had wandered. Four years of Alzheimer's in the White House ensued.

So, as much as I think the "senior moment" thing has salience when it comes to debunking the dingbat John McBomb candidacy, Americans have proven themselves perfectly content with both stupidity and/or incurable memory-loss in their Presidents -- especially the Republican ones. No one seriously expects anything but Borrow-and-Squander larceny from the discredited Brand-"R". The Republican thieves make no apology for their wanton "crime in the suites" theft, and the Democrats agonize endlessly that the Republicans will call them mean-and-nasty names should any working-class person complain about getting robbed. So one should never expect too much rationality during an American presidential election.

As a Vietnam Veteran myself, I have no illusions about Great-grandpa McBomb's life-long desire to get back to personally blitzing third-world countries that never attacked America. He never felt bad about committing war crimes forty-years ago in Southeast Asia and he certainly feels no compunction about committing even more of them now. Great-grandpa McBomb did feel bad about getting caught and punished by those Vietnamese he had abused, of course, but not about what he had done to them.

In spite of past public subservience to "senior experience" in "American government," I don't think "old" will find many buyers in this year's general election. The young, vigorous, and cogent Barack Obama has the most popular appeal across generations and will win because of his party's Brand-"D"-for-change and his own many genuine qualities. The Republicans had a really bad, if not bizarre, rat-pack to pick from this year. The least dysfunctional of the reactionary rodents won the rat race through underfunded attrition among the "candidates" and sheer indifference among the voters. Despite what the press will try to make of the "contest," a Black Stallion Democrat should have no trouble in a "horse race" against an angry, aged war-agitator (not even born in America) fronting for that over-the-hill disco band: the Geriatric Old Poops.

DOH!

Whatever Karma McCain has earned as a POW has surely been spent by his overseeing and promoting this disastrous war.

4000 dead and 60000 injured > 5 years POW