McCain Fries

I'm watching the McCain acceptance speech, and I've come to realize that Senator John McCain is no different than Emperor Palpatine from the Star Wars Saga. He's just as old, evil and white to fill that role. A brief pan of the audience proves just as much. Those who follow him are as white as he. Even the black security agents lurking in the background look as though they've been dipped in bleach. The average age of his supporters is 10.000 years old. Yes, Republicans are reanimated mummies. I'm not talking about Mummies from the Bradon Frasier movie, "The Mummy," or any of it's subsequent movies, I'm talking about real 10,000-year-old mummies. Have you seen a mummy without it's bandages? It's like  Play-Doh that's been used already to make a Science Project volcano. They try to show the kids in their public speeches dancing to music we can't hear, (their great-great-grandchildren,)  but we know that once the dance is done, they'll sacrifice them to their mummy-God Ra to prolong their already over-lived mummy-lives. McCain's mom is 96 years old. 96. Former First-Lady Barbara Bush is younger. Have you seen her? It's like looking into a coffin. At 96, you're a corpse. I don't care what anyone says, you should be dead, and I had a 106-year-old Great-Grandma. Try getting kisses from that, you fuckers. One touch and you're cursed by the mummy. At 96, you can't even decompose, because you're already dust. Old dust.
Fuck you.
Just though I should put that in somewhere. There was a time and a place where I'd accept McCain as President, and that was before G.W.B. became President. Back when he was the Bush-Alternative, not the Bush-Adoptee. Seeing Obama as the Democratic nominee is like seeing Jesus brought to life again. Seeing McCain eight years past his prime is like seeing Genghis Kahn 8.000 years past his prime.
There was a time when I would have accepted McCain as a P.O.W. war hero without question, but that time is past. Now I see him as a baby-bombing dick-hole who shouldn't have been spared by his captors. Honestly, if McCain had fire-bombed my village and killed my brothers and sisters, I wouldn't have kept him prisoner. I would  have straight-up shot his ass. So McCain got a few beat-down in war camp? They don't equal the pain and death he's dished out. You can't be a gear in a war that no one would support and call yourself a hero.
I had a Great-Uncle who turned his plane back out of fear of being shot out of the sky, rather than bomb locations in Germany, and I didn't realize until considering McCain's credential how my uncle's apparent cowardice probably saved dozens of lives, including his own. McCain's job in the war was to bomb the shit out of Vietnamese villagers based on very poor intel, if you could claim there was any intelligence in the U.S.'s actions. When he was shot out of the sky, he was kept prisoner for years. He's the equivalent to the Vietnamese as Hitler. To America, he's somehow Jesus.
McCain has enough medals to cover his sleeve from shoulder to wrist, but what nation wouldn't  give him his consolation-prize medals after doing ten-or-so-years as a P.O.W.? They give medals to any soldier who doesn't die these days, (and any who do), so where's the honour in that? My own Grandfather sent his WWII medals back to Queen Elizabeth II after she knighted The Beetles. Mark of honour from the dog the bites you don't mean very much these days. They're just incentive for your grandchildren to enlist in dubious causes.
Don't get me wrong, McCain is the one Republican I'd want to run. Out of them all, he's the sanest, which is saying so very, very little. I wish he'd have run these past eight years instead of Bush, but things wouldn't have changed. 9/11 would still have happened. The U.S. would still be in Iraq/Afganistan. That's true even if Gore was in office, or what's-his-name John Kerry.
So what does any of this matter?
It matters because it lays bare a piece of America's soul, and it's a soul divided against itself.
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. "-Lincoln.