No More Mr. Nice Guy!

No more appeasement!

One thing I really like about Barack Obama, he won't take any crap from rethugs. I'm sick and tired of Neville Chamberlain Democrats who appease the neonazi-cons and cave faster than a West Virginia coalmine in response to their schoolyard taunts. Somehow I can't see Hillary answering McCain back as forthrightly as Obama did.

It's funny how, when the Democrats ran a genuine war hero in 2004 against the cowardly war-dodging George Bush Junior, who couldn't even handle a cushy sinecure in a champagne unit of the National Guard and went AWOL to avoid a drug test, the punditocracy sneered that Kerry was wrapping himself in the flag and that his Vietnam service was some cynical ploy to run for president years later. Now, all of a sudden, war experience is relevant again. Fine! Let's revisit Junior's rank cowardice and duplicity. Let all the facts come out, without discussions about memos and typewriter fonts.

Anyway, I'm getting sick of McCain hiding behind his war service while stabbing the military in the back with his votes against benefits for them, his record as Junior's lapdog, and his eagerness to "bomb bomb bomb" Iran while staying in Iraq a hundred years.

Let's face it, the rethugs are wrong on every issue. Years of absolute power have exposed them as not only absolutely corrupt, but absolutely incompetent and unable to achieve anything of value. The only thing they're good at is bullying, blustering and shouting down everyone else - and they get away with it because far too often, sane people don't answer back and point out their lies and ignorance. When someone does stand up to them, they melt down.

I look forward to Obama taking on John McCain and giving him hell. This campaign should be interesting!