Let us now turn to praising those who see world events and would-be leaders for what they really are and then inform us so that we get the proper perspective. John McCain recently spoke at the biker's rally in Sturgis, SD and told the crowd that he would rather speak to 50,000 bikers than to the 200,000 Germans in the crowd that Obama addressed over there. Yes, on the surface that does seem to be an appropriate comment since Germans don't vote in our elections. But last evening on the Countdown with Keith Olbermann Show on MSNBC he and Rachel Maddow interpreted the situation quite clearly: Obama's crowd of 200,000 people came expressly to see and hear him speak, while McCain's crowd stood waiting for a Kid Rock concert to begin which gave him a captive audience.
The most entertaining part of McCain's presentation was when he offered up his wife Cindy to be a contestant in the rally's Buffalo Chip Beauty Contest. You could hear the crowd roar as they hooped it up over that prospect. If John only would have known beforehand he never would have mentioned it. The contest is a semi-nude affair where all the contestants are issued a banana (your imagination can draw that picture). A self-respecting man of national prominence would not have suggested his wife's participation in such a contest if he had prior knowledge of it. Mrs. McCain, standing near her husband, looked embarrassed and acted like she knew the score. Maybe the following story describes what occurred when they were alone again.
Three men were at a bar. Two of the men were discussing the control they had over their wives, while the third remained uninterested. After a short while, the two men turned to the third and asked,"What about you? What kind of control do you have over your wife?" The third man turned to the first two and said, "Well, just the other day I had her on her knees!" The two men were dumbfounded. "Wow, that's incredible! What happened next?" they asked. The third man took a healthy swig of his beer, sighed and grumbled, "Then she started screaming at me to get out from under the bed and fight like a man!"
