(OKLAHOMA CITY) Senator John McCain is making a great deal of noise on the campaign trail trying to make his voice the louder in the mine's-bigger-than-your's contest of which presidential candidate has more experience to be president. McCain repeats like a mantra, "I've been tested, I've been tested," pumping his arms aerobically.
When McCain says he's been tested I don't think he means tested for his HIV-AIDS status.
So let's think presidential.
The big two areas of expertise that always come up are foreign and military experience. Just how has McCain been tested in the international arena of diplomacy? Flying around on Senate recess junkets? Strolling through Iraqi bazaars surrounded by bodyguards? Having a large number of stamps on your passport doesn't count as diplomatic experience.
Militarily, as a prisoner of war, he failed under his own self-proclaimed, chest-beating test where, let's remember, he did sign a phony, worthless confession. Yes, it was as a result of his breaking down under torture and I doubt if many men could hold up under such treatment. If he didn't try to make such a macho, bravado-filled issue out of his "testing" I wouldn't bother to comment. Countless men have been tortured and continue to be tortured but does that terrible experience make them suitable to be president?
And while we're on the subject, McCain voted IN FAVOR of allowing the Bu$h Junta to continue the use of torture in a rejection of international norms and conventions.
However, since the GOPers lie about all their so-called values, whether it be McCain's testing, Palin's pregnant unwed daughter, or Oklahoma Rep. Kern's carrying a gun twice into the restricted Capitol building, I'm going to call them on it.
And this includes the irresponsible endorsement of Palin/McCain by the Log Cabin Republicans as Palin, gambling on homo-hating, gleefully rejects the idea of civil equality for America's gay and lesbian taxpayers by wanting a nationwide amendment making real gays/lesbians AND the pseudo-gay GOPer Loggers into legal second-class citizens.
While McCain, tossing the same GOPer homo-hating coin as Palin, retreats to the identical state's rights attitude towards our gay equality as George Wallace took towards African-American citizenship: let the states decide how low to make gays and lesbians grovel for crumbs.
If gay/lesbian GOPers aren't recognized by their own party as equal citizens with all the rights, benefits, and privileges of hetero citizens then why should GOPer gay/lesbian viewpoints on any other of the sacred creed GOPer topics be respected?
Does one choose to be a freaking gay GOPer or is it genetic?
