He’s Hot, He’s Sexy, He’s Almost Dead

It used to be that John McCain was the celebrity, hosting Saturday Night Live (with the White Stripes as musical guest) and cameoing in Wedding Crashers. Look at his IMDb page, it’s as long as Britney or Paris Hilton’s! But as we’ve seen, he’s willing to say anything right about now, and he’s rightly jealous of the attention that Obama receives both here and abroad. It’s funny how being respected by other nations is a bad thing in the GOP playbook. I’d rather say it’s called “looking presidential,” but it’s not surprising that Republicans would see this as a “foreign” trait. Today’s lesson for right-wingers: look up the word “diplomacy.”