The beautiful world of McCain (in song)

I was reading over McCain's famous quote about how he don't know much about economics. and it brought a song to my mind. Amazing how the lyrics to this oldie fits what McCain doesn't know much about:

Don't know much about history
(Sunni? Shia? That's why I bring Joe)
Don't know much biology
(I support abstinence-only education, though the facts say it doesn't work.)
Don't know much about a science book
(Intelligent-design creationism should be taught in schools.)
Don't know much about the french I took
(According to Gallup, John McCain is less popular in France than perennial fascist candidate Jean-Marie LePen.)

But I do know that one and one is two
(and I'm a PO-double-you)
What a wonderful world this would be
(If you just stop complaining. As my man Phil Gramn, said, "We have sort of become a nation of whiners.")

Don't know much about geography
("I'm afraid it's a very hard struggle, particularly given the situation on the Iraq-Pakistan border." The countries do not share s border; oops.)
Don't know much trigonometry
(The Congressional Budget Office projects a deficit of $443 billion in 2013 if President Bush's tax cuts are extended, as Mr. McCain wants.)
Don't know much about algebra
(When was the last time you pumped your own gas and how much did it cost? "I don’t recall and frankly, I don’t see how it matters.")
Don't know what a slide rule is for
(except maybe figuring out how many homes one has.)

But I do know that one and one is two
(and I'm a PO-double-you)
What a wonderful world this would be
(as long as we stay in Iraq 100 years)

Now I don't claim to be an "A" student
("The issue of economics is not something I've understood as well as I should.")
But I'm trying to be
("I've got Greenspan's book.")
So maybe by being an "A" student baby
(but not a Harvard elitist, mind you.)
I can win your love for me

But I do know that one and one is two
(but I was wrong about the tax cuts, too,)
What a wonderful world this would be

McCain flap is reverse sexism

So I feel a need to speak out on a yet-unexpressed part of the flap over John McCain not knowing how many houses he owns.

(A problem that plagues many of us working class folks. I mean, I know I have two or three houses my wife doesn't know about, and I figure she does, too. Until the wills kick in, we'll never know. And it's hard to tell the condo in Malibu from the ones on Maui or St. Croix, since they're all on Ocean Drives.)

But really, we don't expect Giuliani's former mistress to know about his finances, even now that she's his wife. Spitzer pulled down a big salary, and I'll bet his girl toy didn't know more about him that his hotel room number.

And face it, rich guys have been marrying poorer women for years, and we never expect them to know much more than how to find their way back to one home. That's the definition of traditional marriage.

McCain's marriage is untraditional. Cindy makes the real money, pays the housing and airfare bills, and pretty much wears the pants. John McCain was the catch who dumped his old lady to take up with the richer prospect.

He's a kept man.

So yea, he's a senator, a part-time job which apparently take very little of his time. He didn't even show up to vote down the bill he opposed for more veterans' benefits. He's like the little lady who takes a part-time job at the boutique to keep herself busy.

We wouldn't expect her to know her family finances. To expect John McCain to know his is reverse discrimination. Or at least, a clear bias for kept men over kept women.

What McCain really believes

I've been traveling a lot and haven't posted, but I have been watching the presidential race closely. Or at least, half of it.

See, whatever I turn on -- including Fox News and right-wing talk radio -- I hear a great deal of what Obama says and believes, and who and what he might be.

I hear very little praise of McCain, even in the most Republican of places.

And McCain's most recent ad focuses on how so many people show up for Obama, why that is, and whether Obama is qualified. But there's nothing about why McCain is.

Of course, given the number of times he's changed positions, it's probably hard for McCain to take a stand for anything.

But if he wants to be president, it seems to me he should tell us something about himself besides the fact he approves of this or that attack ad.