Eight Months and Counting....


Now, they’ve taken to meeting in all kinds of out of the way places.

Bush and McCain I’m talking about.

They met at a not so secret fund-raiser in the Midwest where it was reported that Bush raised 3.5 million dollars for the embattled Republican candidate.

He’ll need it to explain why he is not Bush III.

They also met for a few minutes on an air strip in the middle of nowhere.

Is this going to be about how our president and his leading man, the puppet master, conduct his attempt to gain the presidency?

It’s beginning to seem that way.

Why does he need to do this? Isn’t it humiliating?

Agreed.

But the reason is that nobody agrees with the Bush view.

More than 80% of the country finds that he has taken our country in the wrong direction.

And that ultimately more people find him responsible for the conditions that we are saddled with now: high foreclosure rates, loss of decent paying jobs, inflation, sky high energy costs, high costs of medicine and health care, poor education, a lack of college loans, tight credit and more….

If McCain associates himself the Bush myopia, he’s likely to wind up in the dust bin of history.

He knows it.

Bush knows it.

So they run around like little kids trying to cement their relationship so that McCain will carry forward the Bush ideas about staying the course and fighting terrorism—it seems the only two ideas that he’s been able to fit into his tiny brain..

After all, there doesn’t seem much else in the McCain bag of tricks; nor is he willing to learn about economics in the final seasons of his life.

As of now, Phil Gramm, the republican arch conservative who has the most backwards view of economics since Piltdown Man is running the show, despite his own business interests including an association with a foreign bank implicated in the home foreclosure deal.

No wonder, McCain doesn’t want to do anything with teeth in it.

So to see this sorry melodrama played out on airstrips and secret meetings, shows just how far respect for the great Punjab Bush has fallen.

In eight short months, Bush will be back at the ranch burning twigs and bemoaning the fact that the world never got to know the real him.

I can’t wait.

Les Aaron
The Armchair Curmudgeon