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A Seventy-one-year old Nicotine Addict Wants Your Vote.

Alcoholics Anonymous tell us that once a person becomes addicted to alcohol, he or she is an addict for life.   If alcohol addicts are scarred for life, what about  nicotine addicts?  Are they, too, scarred for life?   After all, nicotine is far more addictive than alcohol.   It's even more addictive than heroine.   Members of Alcoholics Anonymous stand up in front of their peers and begin their talks with, "I'm an alcoholic."   

If we use this analogy and say, nicotine addicts are also addicts for life, have we reached a reasonable and logical conclusion?   Are we correct?   You be the judge.    And how about those who have suffered extreme battlefield stresses?   Evidence from those who served in Viet Nam and evidence from those returning from Iraq, indicates that many of the former military servicemen are severely psychologically damaged.   And how about those who have faced cancer and survived.   Are they under the constant threat that it may return?   And how about those who have won multiple bouts with cancer?  That must be even more stressful.  

Now let's talk politics:   Is seventy-one-year-old, nicotine addict, John  (Grandpa) McCain still under psychologically stress as a result of his years of torture at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors?   We really have no way to know.   Are his three bouts with an extremely deadly form of skin cancer affecting his mind?   Is senility setting in?   We don't know, but we wonder what' going on?   We ask these questions because John (Grandpa)  McCain,  the former champion of clean politics  has  switched to dirty campaign advertising with a vengeance.   

We ask these questions because  John (Grandpa) McCain,   former champion of campaign finance reformer is now the champion of secret fund raising meetings and the recipient of millions of campaign dollars from the wealthy cronies of George Bush.  (Fund Raising Reference)   And we wonder about his drug addiction to nicotine.  Apparently it's still there.   Here's a quote form:   

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/15/mccain-fumes-over-smoking 

Mr. McCain said it has been 28 years since he quit smoking.   But he still has pangs of desire, he said.   “If there were a hydrogen-tipped weapon heading toward America,” he said jokingly on his campaign bus, "I would probably reach for a smoke."

You've probably heard the psychological saying,  "In times of stress, a person reverts back to type."   John McCain dropped bombs of the citizens of North Vietnam.   People died form those bombs.  Bombs don't discriminate.   Of course we know he was doing his job, and we honor and respect that, but we wonder if there is any residual guilt over the innocent mothers and children who died at his hand?   We don't know, but we wonder. 

McCain Has Shed His "Mr. Clean" Skin:   Now in the 2008, Presidential campaign, Senator McCain has emerged as a typical, political, snake oil salesman.   He is adamantly using slanderous, George-Bush-style, negative distortions of the truth in his anti-Obama  advertising.   Based upon the source of his campaign finding, we can only conclude that he's owned and paid for by the big-money special interests.

Senator McCain is now seventy-one years old.   For many of you, he's old enough to be your grandfather or even your great-grandfather.   How many of you no longer want your grandfather doing something as simple as driving the family car, let alone driving the most complex country in the world?   Perhaps politicians should also retire when they have passed their functional years.   

Do you want grandpa's finger on the nuclear trigger?

Do you want a George-Bush-Clone in the Whitehouse?

Do you want more ultra-conservative judges on the Supreme Court

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A Seventy-one-year old Nicotine Addict Wants Your Vote. 

Are you going to give it to him?