I caught only the tail end of Sara Palin's speech last night and was surprised to hear her say something about a McCain presidency that rang true in a weird and scary way:
To the most powerful office on earth, he would bring the compassion that comes from having once been powerless ... the wisdom that comes even to the captives, by the grace of God ... the special confidence of those who have seen evil, and seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Commander John McCain was led down the hallway, by the guards, day after day.
As the story is told, "When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe's door and flash a grin and thumbs up" - as if to say, "We're going to pull through this." My fellow Americans, that is the kind of man America needs to see us through these next four years.
She's right. If McCain is elected, during the next four years I will feel as powerless as a POW, and they might feel like torturous interrogations.
Yup. We'd all be POWs: Prisoners of W's Third Term.
And John McCain would give us a cheerful smile and a "thumbs up" every day when we peep at him through a crack between the fingers covering eyes.
She's also right that the next four years would be different from the last eight. The president would wear a cheery face instead of a smirk, and the vice president would wear lipstick instead of a scowl.