- WASHINGTON DC -- "Politics
is now all the vogue in the American press. It doesn't matter if the economy
is going to hell in a hand basket, we all get to hear the latest thrilling
news about the Oscars, JayLo's babies, the latest Spears craziness, and,
of course, Hillary and Obama dukeing it out in Texas. The money here is
on Obama. He has outfought, out organized and out talked Hillary. I have
met her and while she is very smart, she is a mean, conniving and establishment-bought
and paid for witch. She hates men, is very sharp and totally a sell-out.
But the thing that shocks me is the elevation of John McCain to the Republican
presidential nominee. Inside the Beltway, McCain is known to be going over
the edge mentally (see the Green Zone Follies below, ed.) and just another
sleazy politician on the take. John is coasting on his "war record"
which really has been overblown but mentally, he is losing it. Everybody
on the Hill also knew about Mark Foley and his frantic lustings after underage
Congressional male pages but no one ever opened their mouths until after
he was outed. Look, Mommy, at what the Republicans have wrought! Fruits
and nuts!"
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- Green Zone Follies
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- Baghdad , 20 Feb 08, "There is nothing new here
to report. The troops are clearing out one nest of patriots only to have
them move down the road. The DoD is fudging on the death tolls and they
never mention the lunatics, the drug use or the semi-mutinous grunts, the
constant attacks on the Green Zone with mortars and rockets and so on,
and on. I am considered useful so I get to stay here. At least I get good
food and relative safety unlike the foot troops. Now, the nutty Cheney
wants to hive off more troops to invade Pakistan to help out their vanishing
dictator. Never happen, Dick. And here is just a personal vignette of an
experience I and my psychologist buddy had with the Republican probable
nominee, Senator McCain. He came here, as you might know, to "inspect
the situation." Jesus, what a farce! There he was, walking around
a marketplace with more armed guards than Bush has, and wearing a huge
bullet-proof vest. Anyway, after he "inspected" the market, he
came to the Green Zone for some rigged conference with the lying generals.
My buddy and I were going to visit another friend when we saw guards, etc,
in front of a rec room door. Curious, we went into another unguarded room,
opened several doors and guess what? There was the Senator all by himself,
sitting on a folding chair by a card table. We were a little awed so I
said 'Hello, Senator. Sorry to bother you." He looked at us like we
were cows and kept blinking. Finally, he smiled and said, 'Hey, there,
soldiers! How is it going? Is it going good?" and my friend the shrink
said, "Why yes, Senator. Everything is great!" And McCain smiled
at nothing and looked around the room.
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- "WellI'm glad to hear it. You are the General?"
And I said, a little sarcastically, "Why no, Senator, not quite yet."
And he looked at me like I was a sheep or something, smiling s silly smile.
"Oh" he said to the table, "Let's hope it gets a little
cooler here. Have you been here long?" My friend said, "Too long
Senator." "Why that's good, General," the Senator replied
to the ceiling. Then his lips moved but he said nothing. He looked up and
smiled. My wife's grandfather did just that. And the Senator may have been
sitting right near us but believe me, he was somewhere else. Then he began
a conversation with someone who wasn't there and my friend took my arm
and said, "I think we should get the hell out of here," and we
started to go back the way we came when some civilian came in. "It's
time to go to the meeting, John," but McCain just smiled and kept
on talking to the table. The civilian said, "All right, gentlemen,
time to go. The Senator is very tired and has jet lag." And when we
left, the Senator was talking complete nonsense. Later, one of the staff
personnel told both of us that the Senator had "a little accident"
and he had to change his pants. Jesus H. Christ! This nut is going to be
a President? My friend, who is a pro, said he was very obviously suffering
from pre-Alzheimer's and believe me, although I am not trained, this one
was a pure space case. They must know this. I guess they give him a shot
of something before he gets out in public but if you saw him with a vacant
stare, talking to himself, you would not have to be a professional shrink
to know that putting this pathetic man into the Oval Office would be a
worse mistake than putting Bush in. At least as far as we know, Bush doesn't
talk to the walls and wet himself."
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