There was another "Shock and Awe" attack in Iraq this week. But this
time it was not the military might of the United States raining down
upon the Iraqis but rather it was the political might of the Iraqis
raining down upon Bush & Co. and, by extension, John McCain. And it
was the flexing of this new-found power that helped Barack Obama win
his own battle with Senator McCain.

Obama's own version of
"shock and awe" succeeded in knocking the McCain campaign back on its
heels. Not unlike Saddam Hussein's fatal error in bluffing the world
with non-existent weapons of mass destruction, McCain's campaign made
what seems to be their fatal error in challenging Obama to prove he
could be a world leader and a commander-in-chief. And now in the midst
of a political meltdown equivalent in magnitude to the nuclear meltdown
at Chernobyl, the McCain campaign has become a cornered wounded animal.
And there is nothing more dangerous.

Just like that frightened
animal, they have begun to strike out blindly at their attackers. How
else can one explain the vicious lies and slanders being flung about
both by McCain himself and by his surrogates. How else to explain a
United States senator, a candidate for the highest office in the land,
brazenly and blatantly accuse a fellow United States senator of being
"willing to lose a war rather than lose a campaign"? In essence, he
accused his opponent of treason. You and I both know that McCain
doesn't believe that. But how can a man who has heralded himself as a
straight-talker and an honest man sink to such depths of ignominy? This
statement alone, above and beyond any other thing that McCain has said
or done during the course of his campaign, disqualifies him to be
president of the United States.

And as if that were not bad
enough, after Senator Obama's visit to the Holocaust Museum at Yad
Vashem, where he uttered the words which signify, not only the Jewish
people's, but the world's resolve against mass extermination, "Never
again", the McCain campaign had the audacity to challenge Obama's
sincerity. Shocking.

And just like the nuclear disaster at
Chernobyl, the McCain meltdown will result in the Republican party
becoming a vast wasteland for decades to come.