Did you ever notice that McCain never seems to be on camera without Cindy, Lindsey Graham, or Joe Lieberman being within, like, 10 feet of him? Just you keep watching the news and tell me I'm not right. You can't do it. I think McCain might have issues being alone (as alone as you can be with at least 50 people around you all the time, but you know what I mean)...
I think McCain08 misses McCain00. I think that's why he has that misplaced half grin/half grimace and painful laugh. McCain00 still lives and breathes inside McCain08 and it makes him uncomfortable (not like Kuato/George in Total Recall, but you know what I mean)...
No, wait, let me take that back... it must be like Total Recall... why else is McCain going to hire Schwarzenegger's campaign manager (ten thousand McBlogger points to anyone who posts a photoshop of McCain as Kuato/George)...
And, while I have more ruminations about McCain, which I will share shortly, I must say I have a problem with the Netroots Nation agenda, if you will just humor me...
Okay, so it's not a serious problem (otherwise why bury the lede). I just find the online agenda difficult to use. I think the Netroots Nation online agenda is not very user friendly when trying to plan which sessions to attend. I guess I just like to see things in a different format. So I put the agenda in a different format. This just made more sense to me, and maybe it will be useful to you, too, so I am sharing it with you here. I don't know how much Google Docs lets you manipulate this into something useful, but I thought I would share nonetheless (this by itself clearly didn't qualify as a diary, and you can tell me below that all of THIS doesn't qualify either, but you know what I mean)...
By the way, I really like Classic Coke... not Diet Coke. Classic Coke. Better yet, Classic Coke in a glass bottle. It just tastes better...
I think McCain is like the little lapdog who likes to please. No, let me revise that. NEEDS to please. I think that's why he says one thing one day, and then something completely the opposite the next day. And then claims he never said the first thing. It's probably a daddy issue... you know, trying to live up to expectations, trying to be the admiral's son of the admiral's son. He's just so damn eager to please whomever he's talking to that he'll just... say anything (not that John Cusack movie, but you know what I mean)...
I am totally down with the organic thing... but leave my Double Stuf Oreos alone. Newman O's just don't cut it for me...
I think McCain's problems with his temper arise out of dealing with authority. It's probably a daddy issue... you know, rebelling against expectations, rebelling against being the admiral's son of the admiral's son. And I fear how that temper manifests itself if he becomes the "ultimate" authority. If your entire sense of self is wrapped around bucking authority, what happens when you are in charge. Do you become self destructive? (I got nothing to keep the parenthetical conceit going here, but you know what I mean)...
I LOVE TiVo...
I think McCain hates the TelePrompTer because the campaign managers keep telling him to use it. He sucks at it only because he doesn't want to put in the work to be good at it. It's the bad student thing all over again. Which might explain his devotion to Dubya. When you finish in the bottom 0.55% of your class, I guess a 23% approval rating looks stellar. That's like 4200% better, right????
If you're John McCain, don't you just hate YouTube? And bloggers? And bloggers who YouTube? But we all love The Jed Report...
I think the starting line-ups for the All-Star game are completely useless. I don't care how many times ESPN puts the Yankees and Red Sox on TV, they do not have the top two players in every position in the American League. They just don't. So to all you Boston and New York fans out there, get over yourselves...
I think John McCain policy "opinions" are informed by whoever is last in the room. I think he lacks the intellectual rigor to sort through differing points of view, so he just agrees with the last thing he heard. I think that's why he says one thing one day, and then something completely the opposite the next day (If I were a maverick, I'd tell you I just flip flopped on my position. I'd tell you that in light of additional information (4200% better!!!) that I've reconsidered my previous stance. Instead, I guess the Maverick™ thing to say is, "Nah-ah. Nah-uh-uh-ah. Never said it. Said I was stronger with national security issues because of my time in the military.")...
Or I could just reach across the table and grab you by the shirt collar...
I think Netroots for the Troops is a great and you should help out any way you can...
Oh, yeah... Go Twins!!!
(with apologies to Andy Rooney and that suspenders guy on CNN who had those ellipsis columns in USA Today... you know who I mean)