17 You shall not murder.

Yes, he murdered hundreds of innocent civilians during the Vietnam War, because many of his targets were schools, temples, hospitals, etc.  He will be willing to commit future murders by sending our troops off to fighting unnecessary wars.

18 Neither shall you commit adultery.
It is known that he screwed around on his first wife and married his rich young beer heiress mistress.  Also, rumored, but not proven, that he has screwed around on Cindy.

19 Neither shall you steal.

Currently he is trying to steal an election and Obama's campaign slogan, but that pales by the fact that he steals from the taxpayers on a regular basis to help his rich buddies.

20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbour.

"False witness" is just a fancy way of saying "LYING," which we all have watched in amazement as he and his cohorts are doing that on a daily basis, unashamedly and without remorse.

21 Neither shall you covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Fairly obvious that he covets Obama's ideas, covets power, covets importance and coveted Cindy's wealth enough to ditch the first wife to get his hands on it. 

So here's the Family Values Candidate.  I guess I don't understand morality as well as I thought I did.

17 You shall not murder.

Yes, he murdered hundreds of innocent civilians during the Vietnam War, because many of his targets were schools, temples, hospitals, etc.  He will be willing to commit future murders by sending our troops off to fighting unnecessary wars.

18 Neither shall you commit adultery.
It is known that he screwed around on his first wife and married his rich young beer heiress mistress.  Also, rumored, but not proven, that he has screwed around on Cindy.

19 Neither shall you steal.

Currently he is trying to steal an election and Obama's campaign slogan, but that pales by the fact that he steals from the taxpayers on a regular basis to help his rich buddies.

20 Neither shall you bear false witness against your neighbour.

"False witness" is just a fancy way of saying "LYING," which we all have watched in amazement as he and his cohorts are doing that on a daily basis, unashamedly and without remorse.

21 Neither shall you covet your neighbour’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbour’s house, or field, or male or female slave, or ox, or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbour.

Fairly obvious that he covets Obama's ideas, covets power, covets importance and coveted Cindy's wealth enough to ditch the first wife to get his hands on it. 

So here's the Family Values Candidate.  I guess I don't understand morality as well as I thought I did.

Charlie's trying to stick it to her, to a point, but she's a facile wordsmith, even though the words don't really mean anything.  I have to wonder how someone who doesn't have my twin biases of love for Obama and love for intelligence is feeling about her performance.

Jeez, just try to enjoy a little break time at your job.  I'm sitting in the break room and for a change it's deserted, everybody else has clocked back in.  Everybody seems quicker to get back to work ever since the economy started going south.  I guess nobody wants to be the one to get the pink slip.  Anyway, the new guy wanders in, gets a Coke and chips, sits down at the table next to me. 

I give him the head nod, you know, like I'm friendly but don't bother me because I only get a lousy 15-minute break and I don't want to waste it talking to some new guy who don't look like he was born here, anyway.  No such luck.  He's going to talk to me.  You know, hi, how are you baloney, which I give him back, because I'm not a bad guy, really.  I just want to sit here and think my thoughts, like whether I buy gas or beer and tacos on the way home.

So finally he asks the question he's been working up to, "What is election?"  Excuse me?  He repeats.  Wow, he must really be new, like to the country.  So I say, "It's voting, people get to decide who they want in charge." 

He's chews that over, then, "In charge of what?"  Jeez, what a maroon.  But, you know, what the hell, I'll be a good guy and tell him.  "In charge of the country, you know, the President.  Don't you have one where you come from?"  Shakes his head, looks a little sad.  I'm thinking what kind of hellhole does he come from?  He says he's from a little country and they have a bad leader, but they never get to do that vote thing.  Really?  What is that, like one of them dictators?  I thought that shit went out with black and white movies, but I'll bite. 
Anyway, he's back on his subject, "What is election?  Is important?"  I'm like, "Search me, pal.  I don't pay that much attention because I've never seen a dime's worth of difference between one guy and another, just seems like bullshit to me.  So he says, stubborn-like, "Must be important.  Ads all the time, people talk all the time, people get mad and yell about it.  Must mean something."  I just sigh, hoping he'll get how not interested I am in this crap. 

But he's not a quitter, I'll give him that, so he says, "Okay, I hear two names all the time, McCain and Obama.  Can you tell me what is difference?"  I think about that one.  I tell him McCain's the old white-haired dude who harps on and on about being a POW during Nam.  He's for wars and drilling for oil."  In fact, once I stop and think about it, trying to explain it, I can't think of anything else he is for, except maybe helping the rich bastards get more of the same, which ain't surprising considering the lifestyles of the rich and famous deal that he's got going on.  After thinking about what I said, guy says, "Why would POW make good president?  Is bad thing, yes?"  I have to chew on that for a second.  Finally, I just give a shrug and say, "You got me."  So he says, "You scared he's too old?  Maybe he's got problems from being POW?"  Well, hell's bells, you numbnuts, why would I give a damn about shit like that?  He says, "In my country, we think sometimes men get too old to think good.  You not worry about that?"  I give him the shrug again.  So he says, Tell me about other guy, that skinny one who talks so good."  I tell him, "Well, from what I can tell, he wants to change things, get people working again, help them get doctors and shit."  So he asks, "You think he's smart enough to do that?"  I think for a minute about what I've seen the guy talk about and then say, "He's smart and he's gone to college and learned a lot of stuff."  So he says, "Sounds like the one to vote for." 

I snort.  His eyes open wide.  He says, "What's wrong?  I say something wrong?  Why you not like smart young one?"  I chew on that one for a second.  "Okay, look, I got nothing against the guy, but there's no way he can win."  So this pain in my ass says, "Why not?"  So I let him have it, because I'm done with this civics lesson.  "Because he's black."  Guy looks shocked.  Yeah, I noticed he's a little darker than me, but not what you'd call a blackie.  Finally, he says, very quietly, "If he help you, why is that matter?"  And from then to now, I still don't know what to say.

Lucy is the Republicans, we are Charlie Brown and the electorate is the football.

For a graphic illustration of what I mean, check out this link:

http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/09/charlie-brown-and-lucy-and-football.html

http://www.eaglesnest-2.net/eagles/?q=node/8

How about this for a quick ad:

Animation of some world crisis in which urgent action needs to be taken involving interaction with, oh, I don't know, Putin, or that crazy looking guy from Korea.  Show a door to the Oval Office, knock on door, voice inside says, "Not right now, President McCain is napping."  cut to another door which says "Vice-President" on it.  Knock on door, voice from inside says, "Vice-President Palin won't speak with (insert name of crisis creator) until they promise to treat her with the deference she deserves."  End of ad.  Punchy, strong, makes fun of their assinine excuse for why they are sequestering the very unqualified Palin while they force-feed her facts like she was a goose about to deliver the debate equivalent of pate de fois gras.
Jeez, do I have to think of everything?

How about this for a quick ad:

Animation of some world crisis in which urgent action needs to be taken involving interaction with, oh, I don't know, Putin, or that crazy looking guy from Korea.  Show a door to the Oval Office, knock on door, voice inside says, "Not right now, President McCain is napping."  cut to another door which says "Vice-President" on it.  Knock on door, voice from inside says, "Vice-President Palin won't speak with (insert name of crisis creator) until they promise to treat her with the deference she deserves."  End of ad.  Punchy, strong, makes fun of their assinine excuse for why they are sequestering the very unqualified Palin while they force-feed her facts like she was a goose about to deliver the debate equivalent of pate de fois gras.
Jeez, do I have to think of everything?

What did you think was going to happen between the conventions and November 4th?  If you're like me, you were expecting a wave of filth and smears that would have been difficult to overcome, because they had to drive Obama's numbers down.  They probably still will do a lot of that sort of muck.  But with the introduction of Palin into the election, we now have the opportunity to tie a big old anchor to McCain's tail.  His lack of judgment and proper vetting of this woefully unqualified person has left him wide open to questions about HIS suitability to lead.  I think if she was everything she looked to be on the surface, then right now we would be doomed by the same old forces of evil and apathy that tend to throw Presidential elections every damn time.  But behind the gloss and spunk of Palin lies a sewer full of greed, lies and tyranny and, because she was sprung on all of us and because they're keeping her hidden (big red flag that they're afraid she's not ready for prime time), the responsible media, in particular, and the blogosphere is doing the job of vetting her that was ignored by the very unqualified John McCain.  I don't think it's a slam dunk.  I wish it were.  Sarah gave them an opportunity by shaking things up.  Points to them.  Now Sarah gives us an opportunity to raise questios about McCain's judgment and qualifications that would have been unthinkable two months ago... you know, like how he's too OLD for us to risk him being replaced by this shoddy bag of tricks from Alaska.  I'm just thinking that we're going to see some turnaround on this as quick as the noise dies down.  And if all else fails, I'm moving to Alaska.  Did you hear how much money you get per year there after you've been a resident for a year?  

But his representation of being a war hero is no more truthful than anything else that is coming out of both sides of his mouth.  Nobody is putting this out there, but I would recommend that you do two things, Google "Songbird McCain" and read some of that stuff and then go to this website:  http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/

Paints a far different picture of McCain than he wants the redneck vote to hear.  They tend to despise cowards and traitors.  He himself admitted in his bio and in his speech that they "worked him over pretty good" and he broke, and of course we're all wondering to ourselves if we would have broken, too, so we're too ashamed to question if any of that malarky is true.  There are many Vietnam veterans who believe he wasn't worked over and that he was a collaborator who gave up targeting information to secure medical care and special privileges. 

I will be attacked on this board by saying this and those who attack me will say that it can't be true because if it were, it would have come out by now.  Let me tell you the two reasons it hasn't.

1.  There was a pact amongst the POWs that whatever any of them did to survive that experience would never be talked about after they were released, because it would not be fair for anybody who had not lived through the experience to judge those who had.  Sort of the "band of brothers" version of "What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas."  So you won't hear POW vets talking against him, but you won't hear them supporting him, either.  Have you noticed that?
2.  One of McCain's "accomplishments" as a senator was the normalization of relations with Vietnam so that we could put that horrible war behind us.  But he's not really putting it behind us by reminding us of it constantly, so what was the real reason for his involvement?  One of the negotiating points was that all of the records would be permanently sealed.  This made a lot of the POW/MIA groups very angry because it ended their efforts to find out what had happened to their loved ones.  What was the benefit to McCain?  The sealing of those records meant that he would never again have to fear being confronted by what those records would reveal about what he said and did, so now he is free to campaign as a war hero without fear of real contradiction.

Finally, even if you reject all of the above, and you are free to, what is without contradiction is that the targeting positions that he revealed to his captors revealed this horrible truth:  That in all of our names his job was to fly over Vietnam and drop bombs on innocent civilians in hospitals, temples and schools.  Think about that.  Innocent civilians.  Yeah, it was his job and he was just following orders, but isn't that why we had those quaint little trials over in Germany after WWII, to send a signal to the world that following orders, when it's criminal to do so, is a punishable offense. 

And, lastly, and I think this goes to the psychological base of John McCain, have you ever wondered why, when it is almost political suicide to do so, he routinely fails to support veterans?  What dark secrets of his soul makes him do that when political wisdom would seem to be that it holds such dangers for him.  Is this part of his recklessness?  Is it just a revelation of his true self?  I think it may have to do with something I remember from an old Nick Nolte movie where he rages to explain tht the team isn't important to the management, that the team are just "equipment."  Well, if our soldiers are just equipment, we don't have to adequately support them or take care of them because they are replaceable, just like guns and tanks and bombs, and once their usefulness has ended by their death or disabling, they can be kicked to the curb and forgotten, just as McCain kicked his disfigured first wife and their family to the curb when he saw a chance to win the big prize of a filthy rich beer heiress 17 years his junior.  He's reaching for a really big prize now and he's using a coin to earn it that is both debased and counterfeit.