A McCain bashing for today:

(Via The Regressive Antidote, thanks to Harvey C. Photo via darkblack)

Hey, have you heard? America is worse off than it was four years ago!

Big shocker, eh? I mean, it’s not like the clues are all around us or anything.

So how ‘bout that John McCain, eh? For an old geezer who hasn’t yet tried out the Internets, he’s a pretty sharp feller, no? Not only has he figured out that his country is worse off than it was four years ago, he’s even running ads saying so.

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McCain, who actually calls himself a “maverick” (if I never hear that word again I may have to hurl) in his ads, would like you to forget that he helped bring you this nightmare by avidly campaigning for George Bush in both 2000 and 2004, telling us what a great choice Lil’ W would be for president. He’d like you to forget that he agrees completely with Bush on the issues Americans are most unhappy about, including economic policy, fiscal policy, energy policy, and the Iraq nightmare. He’d like you to forget that he actually bragged in 2003 about having voted with the president over 90 percent of the time. And he’d also like you to forget – though die-hard Fox Snooze was so angry at him for having the temerity to comment even semi-honestly about the emperor’s new clothes that they themselves reminded his campaign – that last year he voted with Bush over 95 percent of the time. Some stray calf he is, eh?

So, um, ouch, Senator McShame. Why didn’t you just get it over with and run an ad saying “America is incredibly worse off than it was eight years ago, and I’m one of the nice folks who brought you this disaster”? Maybe that kind of straight talk would be just a bit too straight for a guy trying to become president.

When I see Senator McSame on the TV, I am shocked and appalled that he is anywhere near the Senate, much less that he is a Presidential candidate. Anyone who thinks he is any better than Bush should have his head examined.