putin makes america his bitch, mccain’s undermining nature, and our pathetic press...

all of those jackasses that bought into fukuyama's "end of history" bullshit apparently never bothered to read paul kennedy (who's writings from decades ago proved eerily foretelling). russia, a nation with vast natural resources, a gigantic reserve of human power, and a history of belligerence, power and a chip on its shoulder, was never going to sit back and watch america overrun the world. after a few decades of american leaders thinking they could bend russia to our will, putin has now declared "this time you are MY bitch." if there was any doubt, it was erased after putin listened to the boy king's empty threats and immediately escalated russian activities in georgia. and here's the thing...what the fuck are we going to do about it? as much as mccain might want to beat his chest and prove how manly he is by wanting to start yet another war (more below), america cannot do shit. not only has putin brilliantly exposed the double-speak of american leaders and the neocon crowd, pointing to kosovo as the precedent and the attrocities commited by western supported forces as proof that russia needs to protect the georgians from the georgians, but he has exposed the impotence of america at this stage in world affairs outside of iraq and afghanistan. there isn't a damn thing we can do except talk tough...he knows it, we know it, the world knows it. (I must admit, I do take some perverted joy in putin specifically making the boy king look as idiotic as he is...bush never imagined that one of his "friends" would do such a thing, apparently forgetting that putin was kgb and spent his life stabbing "friends" in the back).

which brings me to mccain...imagine how absolutely fucking mad the right-wing talking heads would have gone if obama had made a speech like mccain did on such a big foreign policy issue at a time when the sitting president was outside of the country (nevermind that mccain butchered the name of the georgian president, whom he claims to be good friends with...I don't know about you, but I'm fairly certain I can at least come close to properly pronouncing my friends' names...I mean hell, at least I get the right number of syllables). isn't that one of the right-wing unwritten rules - never show up a sitting president on foreign affairs when the president is out of the country. the man has lost his fucking mind - although I am not certain that he retained it much after he dropped into the vietnamese jungle (and again, I wonder how getting shot down and tortured qualifies one for higher office rather than raising a red flag as to possible mental issues that have no business in the white house). at a time when we are trying to fight two wars and our economy is on the brink of disaster, do we really need a guy with a still-itchy trigger finger? especially one that has no problem talking down to russia - a nation that has proven throughout history it is not one to fuck with and highly resents american exceptionalism. maybe it is time we match the age floor with an age ceiling for the presidential office...

our press had a field day with a man that is not in public office having an affair while he was not in public office...and claimed it was important political news. to make it all the more humiliating to all americans, even the lefty talking heads on the radio were claiming it was news worthy and that it was something we should take our time discussing. and this is exactly why this country has hit the absolute shits...and yes, I am about to go on my old fuddy duddy rant...somehow our culture went from being one which applauded the self-educated and intelligent man to one that applauds the inane and stupid. is it any wonder that our president brags that he was an unaccomplished student when our political reporting during a presidential race focuses on the cost of haircuts and affairs of people that aren't running and aren't even in any office? is it any wonder that newspaper readership has fallen off the table when the new york times offers us brooks, friedman, novak and other faux-intellectuals? this shit makes me glad I never studied journalism...because if I had, I would hide my head in shame...

third time's a charm, third time you pay the price.