Senator John McCain is worth about $100,000,000 - assuming his wife dies and he inherits her fortune. Therefore he has a lot of money to spend becoming President. But he doesn't have to spend it all. Traditionally, we Americans pick the dumb guy, so he's a shoe in.
Think about it - in 2000 there were two Viet Nam veterans, Gore and McCain, and a draft-dodger, Bush. We elected the draft dodger. While he lost the popular vote, he won by 5-4 in the Supreme Court.
Again in 2004, there was one Viet Nam veteran and a draft dodger. Again we elected the draft dodger - and this time he actually won the popular vote (altho that may have been because certain people were excluded from voting in Ohio).
So today the election is between the Navy Pilot who lost 5 planes, including the one in which he was shot down, and the Harvard Law alum who edited the Harvard Law Review and went on to teach Constitutional Law, became a State Senator, then a United States Senator. You might think that having a President who actually understands and respects the Constitution would be a good idea, but, education is so old fashioned, no one's educated today. President Bush ignores the Constitution, and the way the Republicanista have stacked the courts pretty soon no one will have the right to sue any corporation so what's the point in knowing the law or the Constitution?
But we'll always have Paris. Maybe she'll run for President.
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