Reply #50: A penny for your thoughts = McCain didn't even need the questions in advance...

[bridgit]

He knew perfectly well he was sitting in front of various forms of bubble-headed fundamentalists & blown dry tel-evangelicals. What? Someone needs a probable question & likely answer fed them through a fiber optic listening device to know the answer to: When is a baby entitled to human rights? In front of such a group? Please, those were softballs of the 1st order. Pitched by a pastor leading whole tracts of people not reeeaaaallllly intended to do unto others as they would have others do unto them.

To his handlers great relief; McCain wasn't being called upon to delineate sectors between Shia & Sunni this time, where the borders of Pakistan really are, or call forth the names...of the blood...of the stones of Jerusalem;

Who do you listen to for guidance? What are your moral faults? And the moral faults of America? Define what it is to be rich .......I detest *I'm OK your OK* pop psyche; it's for suckers. Pop-theology is for chumps.

McCain isn't the only one that has handlers. Barack isn't going out there on a wing and a prayer, he's has smart people behind him too. But pulling the eyes & ears away from the import of simply being able to absorb the gravity of the moment one stands or sits within is imo the province of canard, a game of 'find the lady'. There's no time to 'find the lady'.

Instead, rather, knowing ones audience becomes supreme. There is no substitute for an acute relationship to what is situational awareness. Hearing the pretty words we find so balanced and strung like pearls or popcorn; others prefer NO! - I'm not going to say it, I'm not going to say straight-talk; I'm going to suggest instead they like it simple, because they are themselves simple. And if it's one thing McCain delivers routinely, it is the chaos of a war monger wrapped within the image doddering simplicity.

Knowing full-well that they are in fact after us...paranoia I leave to Lenny Bruce. It's time to get busier...