McCain’s Mansions

As that self-made man, McCain, has done himself, pull yourself up by your bootstrap (Ferragamo moccasins, in his case). If you can’t hack it in this economy, get a second job.

All in your head

The McCain campaign finally rid itself of former Sen. Phil Gramm. Let’s put aside for the moment whether Gramm should be investigated and, possibly, imprisoned for corruption and economic crimes against this nation when he was a United States senator and destroyed banking in this country.

The particular comments that led to his demise (“You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession. … We have sort of become a nation of whiners.”) is pretty much what McCain has been saying all along, as this MoveOn.org ad attests.

Americans have a choice to make in the general election: to back a political party that has shifted the wealth of the nation from the working and middle classes to the very rich, or back a Democrat who, maybe, could protect the American way of life.

It’s a no-brainer.

My friend Lucy Wilson (not her real name), in a e-mail, wrote that she found the bit where Lieberman whispered into McCain’s ear and then McCain saying, “uh I mean the Iranians are training the extremists, not Al Qaeda” particularly funny. “Are you serious? That was a comedy routine.”

Sen. John McCain: Barack Obama is “out of touch” and “insensitive” on issues of the economy.

Last August, a bridge fell in Minneapolis and we learned it would cost $225 billion a year for the next 50 years just to maintain America’s crumbling roadways and bridges.

A new report just out says African Americans still lag behind white Americans significantly in income, education and other measures of well-being.

Healthcare in America is abysmal. Education is even worse. The health index for America’s children is worse than in many third world countries.

Remember that illegal war that we lied our way into? It’s still going on and America’s service men and women are still dying for lack of proper gear.

Another new report says one in every 100 American is now behind bars, a new record.

Every indication is that the American economy is cratering, on the verge of collapse.

And I am sure there are even more serious problems plaguing our nation that I am overlooking. At least I know the men and women that we elected to the United States Senate and the House of Representative are hard at work tackling those problems.

Why, just yesterday, a Congressional subcommittee held a hearing where it threatened to impose on America’s major sports cartel testing for performance enhancing drugs.

A different committee has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate whether an athlete lied in his testimony trying to refute allegations of PED use made by a former friend of his, an admitted serial liar.