McCain, Jesus, KaChing

It's hard to believe that McCain, who has already milked his POW days as much as possible in asserting that the Hanoi Hilton qualifies him to be president while pussies like Obama should go back to smoking weed and being born too late to serve in Vietnam, would stoop to creating some tear-jerking Christ-y bullshit story to sway the very group of people the "Straight Talk Express" has always claimed to keep at arm's length. So now he’s taken the one thing he did have going for him, the most sacred, honorable and undeniably heroic part of his entire character and spray-painted "JESUS WAS HERE" all over it? Really? If McCain thinks his years as a POW are worthy of such respect and should command our attention to the point of putting him in the White House, why would he feel the need to add to it? What's next, he's gonna claim that while in his cell he invented women's beach volleyball? TecmoBowl?

I dunno, it’s hard for me to believe that he’d really sign off on this. Seems too much, chancing the trashing of his one legacy this late in life. I dunno. Closest analogy would be OJ, but thats not right either. But I get laffs whenever I namecheck OJ, so there ya go.


Though I will say the sand part of the whole thing is brilliant - how is it even possible that we've gone this long without being inundated with the connections between this episode of McCain and that poem about Jesus carrying a dude through the desert sand? Genius. "The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carried you....since I bombed the fuck outta everybody else. Let's Arby's-cize!!!"

Of course, this story also reminds the voting hawks out there how willing McCain is to go to war anywhere, anytime – remember when Bush and Cheney looked into each other’s eyes re: going to war and then drew a picture in the sand of their own?