This Whole Saving the Country Thing Sure Makes Me Hungry

It looks like the Original Maverick's attempt at media glorification, as he swooped in to save the country from financial collapse, may have proven it to be what actually was and who he actually is: a blatant media ploy, and a man with the worst campaign manager in the world.

So we got through the weekend of Maverick's campaign suspension, which included all sorts of news about the bail-out bill, the late-night meeting, the line item arguments, etc., and then came yesterday, when two-thirds of Republicans in the House voted against the bill, thus killing it and sending the economy into a landslide.

As of today, the finger pointing and juxtaposing continues on the Hill and in the news. Those issues are for another post. This one is for McCain, who has prostituted this issue in a far worse fashion than the way Bush prostituted the lives of the people who died on 911, and with results that are blowing up in his hands.

You see, for the past day and a half, McCain has gone into rallies, skewering Barack Obama for phoning it in and blaming him for the financial catastrophe. As it turns out, McCain, although in Washington, spent most of his time on his office phone, lobbying his party to pass the bill. ON THE PHONE. Check.

And when the congressmen and women worked through the night to revise the bill into something passable, where was McCain? Was he in the room, Maverick that he is, taking on those big guys and forging through the bill? Nope. He was on a double-date at CityZen, one of the most expensive restaurants in D.C.

He's right. He is a Maverick. While most Americans would have expected a man who caused such a ballyhoo about this economic crater issue to be in D.C. working these congressmen and women over until the bill was passed, he threw us a curve ball and decided to chat it up with Lieberman over Sweet Butter Poached Maine Lobster with Braised Swiss Chard and Toigo Farms Yellow Corn Chowder and Pineapple Sorbet With Rum Gelee and Coconut Broth.

Mmm. Delicious. That's no foil-wrapped Ho-Ho, but it's definitely something.

How very Maverick of you, McCain. To be so self-indulged that you think people won't read into this bullshit. This is a time of great economic turmoil, where millions of Americans stand to lose their jobs, retirement savings and homes, and you use this to ballyhoo yourself in the media? To gain a few more points in the economic polls? For shame, man.

For the record, I used to like McCain. I thought he wussed in the 2000 primaries during the Rove-spewed whisper campaigns against him, but that at the time showed me a man of above-the-fray character. What happened? When did you become such a dick?

To our seven readers and those two people who hate these blog postings, can you really tell me this is the leadership you want for the next four years? I don't know about you, but I am tired of my and my child's futures being gambled away by presidential administrations bent on their own personal agendas. And his runner-up? C'mon. She has gone from charm school to really needing to have gone to school. It's entirely frightening to me that nearly half (and dropping) of this country would still put this situation in our White House.

You'll get nothing and like it!

Judge Elihu Smails