Some Questions for Senator McCain

Oops! When we conceived this site, we assumed that the Republican candidate would be either Romney or Guiliani (two more preachy Boomers). Boy were we wrong.* Turns out the Republicans are so mired in the last century, they have chosen a candidate who is a throwback to the generation that preceded the Boomers, generally known as the Silent Generation, because they were the children of World War II, who were expected to keep silent and do everything the grown-ups said, while blindly buying into U.S. government policy.

Of course, at the time, the policy was to defeat Hitler and global fascism and that was indeed a valid reason to go to war, unlike Iraq, wherein the only reason to go to war was so that George W. Bush could settle a score for his old man.

In 2008, we are facing a global enemy no less perilous than the Nazis, but it is painfully obvious to all GenXers, most notably Senator Obama, that unlike the 1940s, the formative years of John McCain, foot soldiers, tanks, bombers etc. just aren't going to cut it. This war must be waged where it can (and will) be defeated: Finance, Technology, Intelligence, securing OUR borders, making OUR country safe, and, most of all, finally forcing Big Oil to invest their staggering profits in viable alternative fuels so we can defeat the real enemy, the financial backers of Al Queda (i.e. the Saudi's) and get the Arab Oil albatross off of our children's neck once and for all.

During the 1973 Oil Crisis, when the Nameless GenXer and Barack Obama were both twelve years-old, we heard a lot of boring adult talk about how "America must reduce its dependence on foreign oil" and whaddya know? Just a few weeks ago, on January 14, 2008, here was the top headline of the day: President Bush Gives Saudi Arabia $20B Arms Deal Now, we all know that Senator McCain intends to tow the Bush party line for four more years, so we guess that means he will continue to arm the Saudi's against us, while sending the best and brightest of the American Generation Next to die in some godforsaken desert so they can accomplish nothing in the War on Terror. Way to go, John! Now on to our questions...

Got a Question for the Senator?

Question 1: The Audacity of Hope
On February 12th, when you barely defeated the Toothless Huckabilly in the Potomac Primaries, you said in your snore-fest speech, that Senator Obama's Hope message was a mere platitude. We assume this means that your message is Lack of Hope – is this correct?

Question 2: The Unborn vs. The Born
On February 6th, the day after the Super Tuesday Primaries (when you got in bed with the Toothless Huckabilly so you could get a few unwashed, redneck votes) we heard you giving the same old tired, televangelical rhetoric about the unborn, and we got deja vu all over again when we realized it was a verbatim replay of a speech we heard out of Reagan 25 years ago.

1) Shame on you, John, for such blatant ass-kissing of the backward-thinking members of a lunatic religious cult and

2) Here is what we want to know about your stance on the unborn:

What about Sergeant John Osmolski of Eustis, Florida, who was actually born in 1985 and died on Super Tuesday during combat operations in Iraq? And what about the Nameless GenXer's cousin Maria's unborn baby? She's due any day now and we know it's a boy and we are all real excited about it. Will her unborn son be sent to die in the same godforsaken hellhole in the year 2028 because of the hypocritical policies you espouse today?

Question 3: The Unborn, Part Deux
Given your public political stance on the purely private medical issue of a woman's right to choose, we assume that if your granddaughter (or ours) were faced with an unwanted or problem pregnancy, you believe the right thing to do would be to force her to have a back-alley abortion, performed with a coat hanger, without the benefit of an accredited M.D., sterile conditions, anesthesia or antibiotics – is this correct?

Question 4: Speaking of Reagan...
We've been hearing a lot of ho-hum rhetoric out of you Republicans about how we need to turn the clock back to the last century, return to the kind of leadership provided by your boy Ronnie. Senator McCain: how do you reconcile your statement that you "enlisted as a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution" with:
1)	the undeniable fact that the Reagan Administration was responsible for having provided the primordial financial backing, weaponry, and CIA mentoring to Bin Laden, Al Queda, and the Taliban?
2)	the undeniable fact that the Reagan Administration was also responsible for the financial and military backing that cemented Saddam Hussein in position as the most inhumane, totalitarian leader since Hitler? Sure, we GenXers were young and stupid in the 80s and, of course, we empathize with the fact that memory is the first thing to go when you reach old age, but these days our memories are still sharp. This is what we remember about the Ronald Ray-guns era:
	Just say NO to drugs and sex, but YES to the Mujahideen!

Attention Fellow GenXers:
If you have a question you'd like us to ask the Senator, just send it on over and we'll put it up ASAP.

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