And I'm up!

My first Quarrel poem has been posted.

"Across this country this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners."

"The same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent."

Huh?

Political trainwrecks, two versions

Does John McCain have dementia?

I've been thinking so, but when I've brought it up, people think I'm joking. But I'm serious. Now I find I'm not the only one who thinks so... read this article.

Also, there's a video on youtube analyzing the issue:

"He Will Make Cheney Look Like Gandhi"

If you're voting for John McCain, here's what you're voting for:

And now a Quiz about McCain, aka "Senator Hothead":

Q: What did Richard Kimball, John McCain's opponent in his 1986 Senate race, do during a debate that got McCain so upset that, according to his aide Jay Smith, he "wanted to kill" Kimball?
A: He revealed that McCain was standing on a riser behind his podium.

Q: What prompted Jon Stewart, on "The Daily Show," to ask, "Has John McCain's Straight Talk Express been rereouted through Bullshit Town"?

A: McCain decided to speak at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University six years after calling Falwell and Pat Robertson "agents of intolerance."

Q: McCain told workers at a gun factory, "I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of Hell and I will shoot him with one of your products." How did he later clarify this declaration?

A: "I certainly didn't mean I would actually shoot him. I am certainly angry at him, but . . . I would not shoot him myself."

Q: True or False: When he was a boy, McCain liked to blow up frogs with firecrackers.

A: True.

Q: True or False: When Chelsea Clinton was eighteen, McCain told this joke: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because Janet Reno is her father."

A: False. (Just kidding, True.)

Q: What was McCain referring to when he told reporters, "It's up to you to find that out, kids?"

A: The financial connections between Cindy McCain and Charles Keating, the man behind the nation's biggest savings-and-loan collapse.

Q: Who said the following about McCain: "He will make Cheney look like Gandhi"?

A: Pat Buchanan.

(adapted from the 3/17/08 New York Times)