“Well I’m not an astronaut, and I understand space.”

And…realizing that this was a “spacey comment”…said…

“Well, I was out of government service for a few years before I ran for Congress”

[Fact: He was still covered by Veterans health benefits, however]

And then he came up with a blathering statement about how he really believed that government should not be involved in “everything in our lives” and that private businesses do a much better job.

Ahem…if so, John, why don’t you advocate putting Veterans on the private health care system, and why not currently enlisted service-members to boot. After all, nothing runs better than PRIVATE enterprise. Also, John, wouldn’t that mean Kennedy was WRONG to support a Space Program to put men into space and on the moon…that this should have been done by private firms?

This is the very issue…idealogues like McCain can’t see that many things are NOT best managed or operated by private interests. When QUALITY, AFFORDABILITY, and UNIVERSALITY are the objectives…privatisation is deficient. Note, for example, that McCain isn’t talking about sending the unemployed workers to PRIVATE Schools to get retrained. Rather he wants Community Colleges to teach them. Why? It’s cheaper…vastly cheaper.

I never heard all the screams (oh no?)
I never saw the blood and dirt and gore (oh yeah?)
That wasn’t part of the dream, (yes, we see)
Of maps and generals and uniforms.
I’d always like the big parade,
I always wanted to be adored…

Stick a fork in him, he’s done. This is the absolute end of his candidacy.

(No violence intended to forks, of course)

Worse than Shrub. Freakin nutcase.

Notice that little sigh and fake concern when talking about people getting car loans and small biz lines of credit? How phony can someone be. Yeesh.