John McCain - The Fear Factor POW!

What's the difference between a pit bull and a soccer mom?

Cute question isn't it?

You want a real answer, or a cute one?

You know the cutesy answer right? Lipstick. HAHAHA. How clever. The American education system at work.

The real answer is: try putting lipstick on a pit bull.

The serious question we need to address is this: Why are we living in fear? You wonder about the relationship between this and the first question? What does pit bull remind you of? A sweet cuddly puppy? Or a killer dog that would make you sweat if you confronted it alone at night?

It's all about fear not soccer moms. Who is afraid of a soccer mom? Maybe a soccer mom's kid. But otherwise? No one. Certainly not the President of Russia or Iran.

Why do Republicans love fear and use it subtly and often?

I'll get to that in a minute.

In the meantime, here is a fearful image. Sarah Palin with control of America's nuclear arsenal. Try putting lipstick on that.

John POW! McCain is not a maverick. He's a man who egotistically believes that Americans owe him big time. Why? He is an ex-POW. Forget about the men and women who died fighting for our country or the POW's who never complained or used that status for personal gain. We don't owe them as much as we owe John POW! McCain.

What does this have to do with Sarah's finger poised over the button that triggers nuclear war? What does discussing John POW! McCain's ego have to do with a cold weather soccer mom?

All of it has to do with fear and its application to American life.

On September 11, 2001, Americans had a reason to be fearful, outraged, and angry. They had the right to expect the federal government to perform its main function: defend its citizens. At first, they led us to believe that they would carry out that obligation.

But the members of the administration had other ideas. A golden opportunity was at hand. Fear was rife, one could almost smell it in the streets, see it in the eyes of each one of us. This type of opportunity comes around once in a lifetime. The previous occasion was when the Empire of Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

In 1941, the president chose to downplay fear with a speech that included: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."

Sixty years later, not only had times changed but the growing divide between red and blue states, rich and the rest of us, had defined America in a way never before imagined.

Starting with Richard Nixon, the real icon of republicanism, and up until Newt Gingrich, the festering sore of fear had been coddled and had spread like an emotional plague. When religion stepped into government in Newt's time, the plague swelled into mental leprosy.

George W. Bush, now the worst president in history, in 2001 knew he had a means of fulfilling his own destiny. Fear, the strongest tool for manipulation, had been placed at his feet. Being the soulless man we now know this drunkard to be, he fed on this fear and used it to pry apart red and blue state Americans.

Sure, he had men and women behind and around him to help him craft fear through propaganda, but GWB was the man who signed his name to the deal.

Throughout it all, John POW! McCain stood shoulder to shoulder with George W. Bush, supported his efforts, and knew -- if he didn't then he's too moronic to run for president -- that he was involving himself with a master of fear.

John POW! McCain was George W. Bush's pit bull -- put lipstick on that. Oh, McCain was a maverick, but he needed to be to accomplish his goal of hiding his support for Bush behind the thin veil of opposition. McCain knew that the money he termed pork barrel spending, most of which was used for projects that made life better for Americans, was now needed to promote fear and support war. The average American is not as important to McCain as is war, or his ego. Remember, we Americans owe John POW! McCain for the years he spent in a cell--did he tell you he was bombing civilian targets?


Now for a brief history of fear.


Egyptian Pharaohs used fear to control their people. The Pharaohs were gods.

The Romans used fear to control their empire. Julius Caesar may've been the first ruler to announce that fear is the best tool for controlling people.

The Catholic Church through the Pope, used and still attempts to use fear to control followers of Christ, and the same is true for the American Evangelical movement.

George W. Bush, with his ruling elite Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, John POW! McCain and others, knew about fear and knew how to finish the job begun by Richard Nixon (Google him for a history lesson you'll not soon forget).

911 was a doorway, and once the Bush government crossed the threshold, America was in deep trouble.

The pieces are in place. Fear has divided this nation. Fear rules the Internet and TV. People flee into their electronic worlds of cell phones, Ipods, Blackberries, computers, and on and on. Each of them catch glimpses of events that are shaping their world, but never enough to form opinions based on facts with more depth than a Rush Limbaugh rant, which has the depth of dog feces.

Now, John POW! McCain the maverick who supports corporate America with more tax breaks for CEOs, and his narrow-minded running mate the raving Evangelical Sarah Palin, want to carry the torch. With them they drag along the chains of fear that both the Bush Administration and the Evangelical right have nurtured to promote corporate dominance of American life.

Thousands of us die for lack of healthcare. POW! wants to give HMOs more authority to cut off service to more Americans. Oil corporations run the cost of gasoline to record levels and POW! demands they have the right to drill for oil wherever they want. Neither of those decisions on the part of John POW! McCain are signs of a maverick. They are stated positions that support special interest groups, and are decisions based on the use of fear.

Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton. They are not even in the same league. Now there is something to put lipstick on. Hillary never used fear.

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