John McCain giving the GOP (and America) the bird

So I was away from the computer and all sources of the media so I had no idea what's been happening in the world and evidently MUCH!!!

I had given McCain's choice more thought and I figured I had a very good argument; now I'm sure of it.

Everyone has a story. In our heads, we are our own heroes and we have qualities that we love and qualities that we don't love so much and those we try to ignore. We write this story and see ourselves ending up somewhere, in a place that validates and vindicates us. We of course have to develop as a character to get us there.

Sometimes that doesn't happen.

This is what I think is going on with McCain.

First he is an old man. Do you know what men do at this time in their lives, 70 years old and such? They face their mortality. I don't know the theorist's name right now but my master's thesis was on this very thing: the last stage of life is integrity vs. despair-- you accept your life for what it was or you despair over it.

John McCain has always been the son and grandson of heroes. He graduated at the bottom of his class, crashed a few planes and ended up a POW and his value came from being "Somebody's son."

He and the media created this hero, this maverick image and he's tried to live up to it. The only place for him to go-- the very top-- being a white man and such is the presidency. Running the government of the wealthiest and sometimes very powerful nation in the world.

He wanted it and the GOP gave it to Bush. Don't know if it's true but I read that he was once in discussion with Kerry about being his vp. If that's true, then that shows how badly he wanted it.

Okay, so no one, not Hillary, not McCain, not the GOP was counting on Obama. So the story's changed.

And now John McCain is facing something he didn't have to face. He and Obama are pretty much even, and the polls are just a representative; we really won't know any numbers 'til that Wednesday morning, so maybe John McCain has decided he's tired ( maybe he recognizes that he really is old-- I mean Paris Hilton said so) and he doesn't want to fight.

He picks someone who clearly is unqualified and has some issues of her own that need her attention.

If he wins and something happens to him, (and she remains the vp pick) then America is screwed 'cause she won't know what to do.

If he loses, then the GOP loses.

To hell with you America-- you didn't recognize him for who he was and reward him with the presidency.
To hell with you Republicans, you never gave me what I wanted 'til it was too late.

Middle finger up in the air.