The shift will just accelerate. This shift has been underway since the founding of the Republic. Twenty-first century American culture is a pretty ghastly pool of financial, political, and moral bankruptcy. It reels like a drunkard.

The historical America that all true patriots love and cherish definitively died in 1865 with the defeat of the South and has been dying progressively ever since.

Exactly my experience seeing and hearing the man in person.

If there is a McCain presidency, it would be very difficult to mount an effective oppsition to it within the Republican Party. As we saw during the primaries, Republican voters tend to have pathological support of "the leader" or any kind of "leader" that presents himself as such. This why McCain won. He stayed loyal to the war in Iraq, loyal to the President's overall policy and gave himself credit for advocating better strategy for that war, helping out the commander-in-chief. Ron Paul himself noted that support for the war among many Republicans was out of party loyalty for the war they started and loyalty to the President as commander-in-chief (this goes to show that the military-industrial complex, more so than the so-called "Christian Right" or "economic conservatives" calls the shots in the modern GOP). A McCain presidency would make it impossible to oppose McCain's neocon policies from within the GOP because no politician would stick their necks out to oppose someone as hair-tempered and as vindictive as McCain and most rank and filers would support McCain out of that same sense of loyalty, perverted though it may be.

With Obama the situation completely changes. Now it's the Democrats that are in charge now it is Obama ideology that is front and center for conservatives to oppose and the neocons, who would not fundementally reject what Obama says, get squeezed out. It's the same situation that presented itself with Bill Clinton's arrival as President back in 1992. It was easy to create an effective conservative opposition to Clinton in the early 1990s than it would have been had George Bush I been re-elected. There would have been no Republican Revolution had the latter happened. A badly beaten GOP with McCain and the neocons utterly discredited, leaves a wide open GOP with a vacumn to fill and that vacumn can be filled with clear opposition to Obama's Jacobism.

I wonder how one gets a working permit for Ireland, New Zealand, Australia.

If you want to laugh like mad as an adult rent or buy the film: "What About Bob?" starrying Bill Murray. You can't do much better than Bill Murray as a comedic actor. You could die laughing - which I guess ain't a bad way to go.

Someone also suggested I don't think it was Dr. T., that the Viet Cong kicked McCain out of prisoner of war camp; finally figuring out he was more of a detriment to their enemies, if permitted to function in their behalf. OR maybe the chip was successfully implanted? Could he be the new manchurian candidate? (I can't imagine who would 'want' to be president these days. Shouldn't they be disqualified on that basis alone?)