McCain the Change Candidate

Senator John McCain accepted the republican nomination for president last night in St. Paul. In a halting and confusing acceptance speech, McCain painted himself as the candidate for change.

Do I have this right; Senator John McCain is now the change candidate! McCain the 25-year Washington veteran now wants to bring change to Washington. McCain, a senior ranking member of the same Republican Party that has been in power for the last eight years, now wants us to believe that he was not part of the problem but he will be part of the solution.

Awash in cowboy hats and shirts made to look like the American flag or is it the American flag made to look like a shirt, Johnny Mc spoke about the bread and butter issues that keep our patriotic American’s fired up. He addressed taxes, war and government spending. The Mc man wants to make President Bush’s tax cuts permanent, because he believes that those self same tax cuts we have endured over the last eight-years have worked. Mc believes, the Bush’s tax cuts, have left a robust economy that continues to create new jobs.

On Iraq, McCain told the lobbyists that America is victorious in Iraq. He said, if the Iraq problem was left up to Obama, America would return home defeated. No, Johnny Mc, under Obama, America would not have been in the debacle in the first place.

John McCain was sympathetic with workers who lost their jobs in this economic environment. The man, who has to have “one of his people get back to us,” because he does not know how many houses he owns, said he would create jobs that will not go away. I assume these jobs will be in the oil industry and nuclear power industry, the industries that will save America from its energy crisis.

I to this day still do not have any idea what John McCain’s policies are on the economy, ending the war on Iraq and government spending. George Bush and Dick Cheney the pervious Republican Party leaders were distinctly absent in person and rhetoric. I wonder why?


On Wednesday night, Sarah Palin wowed the crowd with her vim, vigor and hypocrisy. This pit bull in lipstick, spoke about her executive experience as a small town mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. She described her job as “sort of like a community organizer except with responsibilities,” as she took a swipe at Obama’s public service. Dressed in gunmetal grey, Palin offered more oil drilling, victory in Iraq and the same family values she pursues in her own household.

Purporting the ‘politics of fear’, Palin harped on about America’s future, which involved taking on Iran and Russia, for their expansionist ambitions. Obviously, Palin believes that Iraq is a just war.

It was hilarious to see Rudy Giuliani, the twice-divorced former Mayor of New York, defend Palin on her small town religious values.