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Patricia, this quest by McCain is really strange and surreal. The commonly accepted wisdom is that McCain's earnest, but unfortunate, judgement in his dalliances with Charles Keating has been the defining event for this plucky independent, and that the stench of his involvement in the S&L debacle has provided the inspiration driving him incessantly. Driving him to an almost rapturous, divine mission from God to singularly revive political integrity and the public trust. And to get on every Sunday talk show, every friendly cable ally, and to own big ink in every news magazine. Letterman and Leno .... the iron's hot.

No sale Crash. This man is so empty, so phony and so sanctimonious ... and lookee here, the media queue up to provide him a platform as sweet as pumpkin pie. The guy is a loose, profane and dislikable bully, and everyone in the Senate knows it well. McCain and Lieberman. Whores using whores to whore around in a whorelike manner.

One can't help but sense, however, that there's something deeper, something darker and profoundly powerful at work in McCain's manic and vainglorious agenda. Col. David Hackworth has directly offered an unequivocal, direct, and accusatory account of John McCain's actions and dishonor to duty in the events surrounding his capture, identification and transfer for immediate and extraordinary medical care upon his disclosure of his father's rank and command. Hack pulls no punches, he considers McCain's original disclosure to his captors - that he was the son of an Admiral and the Senior Command officer for the Pacific fleet - an unforgivable appeasement, breach of duty and a betrayal to get the medical care he needed to save his life. He got special medical attention. Many pilots who didn't have his connections died of their injuries at the scene. The RNV guys couldn't care one way or the other. Having the son of a senior Naval command officer, hmmm ... there's a valuable little negotiating asset and leverage monster. Ya think? The offensive truth is, that to secure McCain's cooperation, his POW bretheren COULD be used as targeted and disposable hostages. "OK Lt. McCain, Captain Miller will be killed immediately if you don't cooperate. Lieutenant Barnes will be the next in line. What are the particulars, numbers location mission, of the Army forward divison you were sent to support? What do you know about submarine fleet numbers, weaponry and recent deployments? Where are your B-52s based? Who are the officers under your father's command? What is the address of your family home in Maryland? What is the phone number to contact your father in his quarters, discreetly?" McCain's disclosure compromised every American airman and naval aviator in that hole, and some may have been beaten or killed to elicit his involvement. Who knows what his old man did or didn't do to save his son's life. Can you imagine a scenario where McCain has to divulge the address of his mother and sister, the wife and daughter of the Pacific Fleet Commander, or by refusing sentencing several of his fellow American aviators to a prisoner "transfer" ... i.e. systematic execution? Or, his cooperation earns one of his deathly sick comrades medical care. I don't know, but Hackworth knows the score. Bah, the media has never touched this issue even though David Hackworth, a man with considerable standing and credentials, made these charges openly and unabashedly during the primary. The media is corrupt beyond belief.

This McCain campaign to acquire an almost spiritual sanctification and redemption is really annoying to me, especially in light of the Hackworth charges. I almost expect him to appear at a press conference with Diogenes -"Athens was dry, but after wandering 3400 years I've finally found the only honest man and it's John McCain!" Sorry, he's got some deep, dark nightmares and shame he's trying to exorcise, IMO. That's my psychic consultation for today ... and yeah, I was born in the Carribean and I could be Dionne Warwick, the queen of pop. A psychic revelation? Your co-worker ...let's call her Sandy or Julie or Mary.. is stealing your paper clips instead of walking to the supply cabinet and getting her own . Master Arne hates to be the bearer of bad news, but he is never wrong. That'll be $5.97 please.

I predict this McCain scheme for glory and cleansing will become increasingly painful, angering and ultimately sad to watch. The guy is obviously suffering from cancer (no network will show his left profile though), and he has the burden of being the last virtuous and honest politician on Earth. It's gonna get ugly, and the media bilge will build pedestals and create shrines for the man, as long as he's carrying their ball. Patient's bill of rights, folks, that's the next one to be jammed down our throats. McCain's demons and selfishness will once again position his Republican colleagues in a disadvantageous and needlessly vulnerable position. Can you imagine the loopholes and openings and mandates that a hurried and demagouged Patient's Bill of Rights will provide for Trial Attorney's and State AGs to wage class action suits against HMOs and their physicians? It'll be the end of private medicine in this nation. All doctors will become research scientists, they'll quit practicing medicine. If HMO's start getting sued, there's no doctor that can afford to defend himself from legal vipers with 1/10 of the skill, talent, training and dedication that doctors embody and live. Until, of course, the governments steps in, takes control of the entire Medical and Health care delivery industry, and then the doctors can be hired back with no vulnerability to malpractice suits. They'll be paid $60 grand a year. How about that, sue the HMOs into oblivion, and the feds will pick up the pieces. That's an otherworldly wet dream for all the liberal elves. National health care ... $trillions coming through the DC spigot, yee hah! That's the end game, I guarantee you. Open the legal door, let the trial attorneys run amok and get rich, destroy the physicians and the operators and insurers of our private system and then amidst the rubble ... here comes Hillary and McCain and Kenendy and the rest to propose a Marshall Plan to rebuild a government financed and operated system straight from their most vile socialist dream. 30% of our private economy just went poof, the Dems just got another $trillion to pass around the Government industry. Go John Go, you stink, and it's past time for your colleagues to stuff your hubris.

I trust Hack's gut feeling about McCain, he had no doubts or hesitation about his take. That sucks. Bush needs to start some Alpha Male pack discipline and McCain is the very first to be mock mounted. It's not going to be on C-SPAN, but Animal Planet is planning coverage. Boo McCain indeed!