The Last Post on the Bugle

Using the term Manchurian Candidate for Barack Obama isn’t only insanely bigotted, it is also severely out of touch with the origin of the term as laid out by the 1952 novel, and the two films that followed.

In the novel, Sergeant Raymond Shaw and the rest of his platoon are captured during the Korean War in 1952. They are all brainwashed into believing Shaw saved their lives in combat, for which he receives the Medal of Honor when they return to the US.

The Communists intend to use Shaw as a sleeper agent and, using a subconscious trigger, they compel him to follow orders which he doesn’t remember afterwards. Shaw is controlled by none other than his own domineering mother, who is working with the Communists in a plot to overthrow the government.

Captured in an overseas war!?! Returned to the US a war hero!?! Controlled by domineering mother!?!
How is Obama the manchurian candidate in this race?

A McCain presidency would send a strong message to the world: despite the embarrassing state of our health care, and the appalling nature of our national diet, we Americans somehow still manage to get very, very old.

Cindy McCain taking pointers in presentation from Roberta McCain.

McCain looks for women that remind him of his mother – to the point of embalmment.