Charlie Black, Senator McSame's most senior advisor...

Senator McCain and his presidential campaign are publicly rejecting a statement by one of his top aides, Charles Black, that the presumptive Republican nominee would benefit politically if America is attacked by terrorists before the fall election. Mr. Black told Fortune Magazine that such an event "would be a big advantage" to Mr. McCain.

Over the last thirty years or so, the Repugnican party has appropriated or co-opted most of what we once thought of as "American" values. From the "sanctity" of marriage between a man and a woman, to the "right to bear arms", to sexual abstinence for the un-married, these titans of moral rectitude have lead the fight for America, the Christian nation. With a blazing cross held high, they have succeeded in turning the message of the Christ into a political manifesto.

Marx's definition of religion as the "opiate of the masses" no longer obtains. Religion now is the crack cocaine of the masses. No longer do the oligarchs and dictators use religion as a soporific to keep the masses in a perpetual state of malleability and acquiescence but rather it has become a powerful stimulant to urge the masses forward to do battles against the forces of evil that would destroy our Christian nation.

And just like crack cocaine, the Repugnicans brand of Christianity is just as highly addictive and self-destructive. And just like the pusher on the street touting the reasons why you just gotta try some because it'll make you feel real good, the Repugnican pushers use religion as something you gotta have to overcome your fear of those evil-doers.

So it's really just classic stimulus-response psychology. The more you take, the more you need. Until you can't imagine your life without it. The line that gets you coming back for more is: "See! The faith of our Christian nation has protected us since 9/11. Don't lose faith brothers and sisters for if you do we shall surely perish. And we must have strong Christian leaders to keep up the fight."

Political mumbo-jumbo has been seamlessly blended with biblical mumbo-jumbo. But you see, the just like the Wizard of Oz, you must never, never let them see the man behind the curtain pulling the strings and levers.

That's the reason Charlie Black will fall on his own sword in the next day or two. He gave the masses a peak behind the curtain.