McBush Raising Bush Up From the Dead

No matter whether Clinton or Obama receives the Democrats’ blessing to hoist the party’s banner in the character war to become president, John McBush will offer the Democrats one major issue to embrace or to avoid: War.
McBush, also known as McCain, now acts as Jesus to G.W. Bush’s Lazarus. Bush started and intends to continue the stupid, unnecessary and morally and financially bankrupting war in Iraq. So does McBush.
Bush whines and wheedles to continue tax cuts for the rich and tax increases for the poor, in order, among other things, to repay his betters and bettors for their support for his disastrous foreign policy. We forget that the rich not only are getting giant cash backs, as it were, from the government in not having to pay much in the way of taxes; they also are receiving from their disciple’s hand the environment that allows them to make oodles of more money. That environment boils down to letting them, in the form of their banks, borrow dollars via the Federal Reserve at low interest and lend it at high interest to the rest of us, often through such come-ons and deceptions as having us take out mortgages that balloon the interest into the sky after a couple of years and as having us pay bills with the credit cards they issue at rates that would have embarrassed a Medici.
McBush accepts all of this, want to continue it, and indeed, maybe bring on another war, with Iran. Like all who formed their character as military officers, McBush is, while pleasant, not too swift under the brain pan and sees the world as something to be tamed with pistols and whips.
That means Obama or Clinton have to say what they intend to do toward our wars ongoing in Iraq and Afghanistan and whether they are so stupid as to pick a fight with the Iranians, folks who over the past three thousand years have proved themselves stubborn and fierce and united when no matter how much they may hate each other they perceive their unique culture under attack. They are, in fact, very much like us when it comes to tribal unification in the face of the foreign attacker: Unthinking and belligerent.
Obama has less of a problem here than Clinton. He never voted for the Iraq mistake and has sedulously avoided votes on such humble matters as extending the military budget. Clinton, alas, has hedged war and peace from the start of her efforts to become president by becoming a U.S. senator first. She voted for to war on Iraq and has voted to support Bush’s constant repairs to Congress for more money–money that the Treasury borrows from the Chinese, Saudis and other pals of ours.
Even so, McBush, by running as Bush Redux, offers both his wattles. The only question is which has the courage to attack tooth and nail. In that, I bet on Obama. He’s not impressed by old warriors and has learned that millions of other Americans want him to revolutionize the country. Clinton, I fear, is still figuring that out and doesn’t seem to have much stomach for upending the established order.