No More Mr. Nice Guy!

Memo to Joe Biden: shut up!

That was my initial reaction to Biden saying the if Obama is elected, there will inevitably be a crisis in the first few months of his administration.

On the other hand, the McCain campaign is unwise to seize on Biden's recent gaffe, as it only casts a harsh light on the astonishing weakness of their own ticket. An elderly man in poor health with serious anger control problems, and a vicious but vapid attack Barbie waiting in the wings to replace him... are either of them the kind of person we want in the Oval Office when the inevitable crisis comes?

As always, the rethugs are obsessed with winning at all costs, and give no thought to actually governing. Government is the enemy, they chant in unison, the source of all evil, the beast that must be drowned in the bathtub. So put us in charge and we'll prove how bad government sucks! And enrich ourselves and our cronies at the same time. The incredibly corrupt Ted Stevens, Palin's mentor, being a good example. And Palin continues to out-Cheney Dick Cheney, with her arrogance, corruption, secrecy and vindictiveness, before she's even anywhere near the White House. (Memo to McCain: don't go moose hunting with Palin!)

How can anyone fail to see that a McCain administration, or worse still a Palin administration, would not only be a perpetuation of the last eight years of nightmare, but George Bush Junior on steroids? Not just more or the same, but worse of the same?

We don't need hostile foreign leaders creating crises for us - we already have the mess from Junior's incredible incompetence to clean up, and other crises such as global warming and oil depletion loom larger every day. The very last thing we need is an administration that rules by fabricating emergencies instead of dealing with them. The world can't afford McCain or Palin as president!