A Chicken In Every Pot, A [Volkswagon] In Every Garage

With his falling poll numbers, Senator McCain pulled out the stops and promised the American people that if he was elected he would ensure a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. Or was it?

Wait, hold it. Now I remember correctly. No, it wasn't Senator McCain. He's not that small minded, he is a maverick. He's much more ambitious then that. What Senator McCain said at his second Presidential debate was, "I promise every American that the Federal Government will buy him or her a house to cook a chicken in and a garage to park their car in." Yeah, that was it.

It was President Herbert Hoover who in 1929 promised each American household the chicken and the car and it was Adolf Hitler who in the early 1930s promised all of Germany a KdF-Wagen [Volkswagen] for every family. And it worked. Hoover was elected President and thereby had the honor of escorting the American people into the great depression and Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor and promptly lead his country into the hell of the holocaust and into total war.

So, yes, Senator McCain continues to pull out all stops in his bid to gain the Presidency. Will he or will he not escort the American people into its second great economic crisis and into endless war in Iraq? It certainly does seem a possibility when he says it, for who better to promise to buy your vote and make it sound oh so patriotic and palatable? This is so because although a rose may smell as sweet when called any other name, a sick ploy to buy votes having come from a democrat would be smelled out for what it was -- a crock of s_ _ _ gilded with instant-gratification gold.

Open that up for cheap smelling salts when you feint as the billion dollar bailout fails, because that is all it will be good for, I promise.

Loren M. Lambert
Copyright October 18, 2008