"I don't know why you guys go around saying this baloney."

I've been slowly cogitating a post on the apparent death-wishing of McCain by some, as if he were going to inevitably snuff it just moments after taking the oath due to sheer annuated decreptitude, but yeah, that about covers it.

McCain's mama is 96 and still kickin' ass and takin' names, his medical reports have been released in the hundreds if not thousands of pages and he's apparently in great health for any age over 30, but the spectre of him abruptly turning to dust in mid-sentence from advanced age is still being trotted out at every opportunity as a scare tactic.

In the meantime Obama's complete health records have been kept tightly under wraps, with nothing but general summary statements released, and Joe Joe Biden Biden (old enough at 66 to collect SS himself, just six years younger than McCain) has had BRAIN SURGERY for TWO aneurysms, but no one's been making much noise about those little items. BTW, have we seen Xerox Joe's medical records yet? Heh.

Well, the media blasted Hillary's experience. Richardson declared that if Musharraf resigned and the moderates gained control, the war on terror would steam to new hieghts. Yeah right. Dodd? Edwards? I have left comments about Biden so we can see sometimes even experience doesn't mean one "gets it right".

Now you have some points about the GOP candidates for VP, but then McCain has plenty of experience to compensate. Now Obama sites his vacation to Pakistan during college and his ealry childhood in Indonesia as his foreign policy experience.

So let's consider one thing:

What foreign policy experience does Obama have? And this is the same guy who said he didn't need to pick a natinal security wonk for VP because he was expert enough. Does dealing with the South Side count as foreign policy experience?

He not only slices and dices, he also makes julienne fries!