Dancing W/ The Pols

Hitchens continues to vitriolize McCain & his army of lobbyists/staffers. (And that awful woman! Saw her give a last-ditch speech on the tube today. Stop her, someone, please!)

On the clouded synapses of Sen. John McCain, it became clear as his campaign limped and lurched to its close, the termites had been dining long and dining well. However much one might have admired the low comedy of his closing routine on Saturday Night Live, it had to be admitted that even in that context, he looked a trifle glassy and elderly, not to say lost. No doubt there was some safe refuge to be taken, by himself and his absurd choice of running mate, in self-deprecation. The true ghastliness, however, was revealed in the crudeness of the McCain-Palin attempt to deprecate others.

What can you say? Some of us have it, some of us don't. (A thesaurus, that is.) We also found it amusing that the non-celebrity candidate's supporters were very enthusiastic about the polling jump the Senator had taken on Sunday, allegedly as a result of the SNL appearance. Got that? It literally is American Idol out there in real (fly-over) AmeriKKKa. Some wretched old bastard can read lines from a cue card & he's got their vote. Even if Nader fucking won, it wouldn't matter at this point. This Great Nation of Ours has had it.