I Hate What You Just Said

This is the perfect metaphor for what John McCain will have to do before Tuesday:

Barack Obama’s top marginal income-tax rate is 39.6 percent.

John McCain’s top marginal income-tax rate is 35 percent.

Who knew that only 4.6 percent separates capitalism from socialism?

Vote for John McCain or Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama, and Harry Reid will force you to watch their roiling, unholy and “dangerous” threesome.

The crowd actually erupts in cheers when McCain mocks nuclear safety. What is wrong with these people?

I’m sure many of those in the crowd could remember the partial meltdown of the nuclear plant at 3 Mile Island in the late 70s.

Or the devastating explosion of the Chernobyl reactor in the former Soviet Union in 1986.

Although McCain maintains that naval ships are safe, just last August the Navy was forced to admit that the USS Houston submarine had been leaking radioactive water for months before it was detected. In 2000, the Russians lost all hands on the nuclear sub Kursk. In fact, many nuclear-powered subs from both the Russian and US militaries lie on the bottom of the world’s oceans, posing an unknown threat to human and animal life.

And the comprehensive list of all military and civilian nuclear-related accidents is pretty damn sobering.

Or what about the threat of nuclear proliferation, or “dirty bombs,” or disposal for millions of years?

Blah, blah, blah.

Oily McWar, ever the master of all things relating to foreign affairs, enjoys listing the four five former Secretaries of State who support him (or at least the ones he can remember).

This really inspires confidence in the man, doesn’t it?

This is devastating:

No, seriously:

Al-Qaida supporters suggested in a Web site message this week they would welcome a pre-election terror attack on the U.S. as a way to usher in a McCain presidency.

The message, posted Monday on the password-protected al-Hesbah Web site, said if al-Qaida wants to exhaust the United States militarily and economically, “impetuous” Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain is the better choice because he is more likely to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“This requires presence of an impetuous American leader such as McCain, who pledged to continue the war till the last American soldier,” the message said. “Then, al-Qaida will have to support McCain in the coming elections so that he continues the failing march of his predecessor, Bush.”

Using the word “health” in a sentence can secure you a place in the pantheon of Rhetoric. And with this statement, Obama has raised himself to an ethereal region high above all the lesser gods of oratory.

In fact, right now they are putting the final touches on a marble statue of Obama pissing on Cicero:

Seriously, if you are a woman who doesn’t live inside a compound, how can you seriously consider voting for McCain?

The Anti-Campaign of John McCain just made another colossal blunder.

The person McCain has hired to direct his presidential transition team was once a lobbyist for Saddam Hussein:

William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.

The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.

What does it say about John McCain that he would fraternize with a man who was friends with an unrepentant dictator who gassed thousands of Kurdish men, women and children?

My friends, I don’t think that Timmons sees America as you and I see America.

Can you actually shame God into producing a miraculous victory for McCain? One Iowan minister tries at a McCain rally:

But Obama lived in the same city as a guy who was really bad 40 years ago. I guess it’s pretty much a wash.