When Obama is elected (it feels great to type that), perhaps he will create programs similar to the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) which, when FDR’s New Deal created it, put young men who were unemployed to work building roads, fixing the levees, building and repairing dams. Just a thought.

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No need to spend a dime on the study.
Fix the levees.
Help people rebuild, avoiding rebuilds in the worst/lowest areas.
Clean it up.

I still have this crazy idea that the military could/should figure out a way to break up/disrupt hurricaine storms brewing out at sea. They have all this military might- why not use it for something good?

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Diva Joods last blog post..McCain: Bush Warmed Over

Obviously a birthday party was far more important to both of them than the thousands whose lives were destroyed.

Diva Joods last blog post..McCain: Bush Warmed Over

I think he wants to do those townhall meetings to dilute the impact of the bigtime debates in the fall where he’s going to get his ass kicked worse than Nixon’s vs Kennedy. I bet he’s hoping nobody will tune in if they’ve heard it all before and they’re numb.

Did you hear him invite Obama to ride in the same plane on the way? Great idea John! If anything goes wrong, Shrillary and The Huckster can step back in. Ditto for his idea of personally giving Obama a guided tour of Iraq’s green zone. Gotta make you wonder about McCain’s idea of national security…

But McCain speaks poorly; he’s arrogant; his temper is famously terrible; he’s dumped one wife for another who is filthy rich; he’s not the sharpest pencil in the drawer. He probably suffers from some degree of PTSD, and he’s been a mediocre Senator. One who forgets his own voting record, which is what this post was about, actually. Convenient forgetfulness.

Yes, he feels entitled. No kidding. Frankly, when I heard his speech in New Orleans last week, I was terrified by the tone - that soft voice, twisting Obama’s campaign slogans into something he wants his base to be afraid of. We cannot afford him at all!

Diva Joods last blog post..McCain: Bush Warmed Over

but i think he’s right. or there is this, and i’ve been thinking this a lot lately: i think the man has some mental problems. i mean that he has a dreadful temper, he’s incredibly self centered and selfish (as evidenced by his “family values” abandonment of his first wife), and he went through hell in vietnam.

that combination of things makes me wonder if he somehow doesn’t simply feel entitled to be president. it’s not that he really thinks he’s particularly capable. he’s not even worried about it. it’s all about him, about this country paying him back for what he went through, AS IF he was the only one who suffered that way.

it’s an entitlement mindset. he doesn’t bother to delve deeply into the issues. he’s not particularly educated or astute and he has never been a big policy guy. he’s a get-along-guy, one who likes to be the big man, to win adulation and acclaim, especially for things like being “a maverick,” or in high school, for being “mcnasty,” or post-vietnam, “war hero.”

but governing? not so much. that’s why he’s content to just hand off the process of developing policies about how he will govern the country to a select few lobbyists, the ones who stroke him, tell him what a great guy he is, assure him they’ll do what’s right.

he is not particularly smart. not particularly anything except totally indentured to power and money and in desperate need of payback. he sees the presidency as payback for his suffering.

fuck that. he scares me. seriously. bush III isn’t even close. he will be a disaster on a scale we’ve never seen before. given what we’ve seen in the last 7 years, that’s horrifying.

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