On Sunday, I went over to a neighbors' house to write postcards for the Obama campaign. These were handwritten notes to undecided voters explaining why I was voting for Obama. It took 2 hours to write just 15 but all of us there were exhilirated and it felt like we had done some small thing for the campaign.
While I was writing the notes, my neighbor told me about an experience her mother had with John McCain. Her mother had worked as a discharge nurse at a hospital, and was on the floor the day McCain came to pick up Cindy after she had delivered. She told her daughter that it was one of the worst experiences she had gone through as a discharge nurse--McCain was in a hurry and extremely rude to the staff. He did not want to sit through and listen to the discharge instructions, and he was loud and abrasive about it.
Although this is a small story, it seems that, as Jung was wont to say that small stories illustrate larger issues and in this case it is a significant personality problem that Sen. McCain seems to suffer from. We are fortunate in that the Rolling Stone has just given us an in depth look into McCain's grandiosity with the publication of The Make Believe Maverick.
The Make Believe Maverick is fully available on Roling Stone's website at:
http://www.rollingstone.com/...
It's a scary picture of an individual who may be our commander in chief one day. Let's use it to energize ourselves to make sure that that does not come to pass.