John McCain, what have you done?!  I was tuning into the debates last night waiting, watching, wishing for something to happen (cheap Push Stars  reference), and boy did it! 

I wanted to hear a firery McCain follow in the footsteps of Palin’s debate performance, and see this old mavericky guy get up on the stage and show the world why he’s better than Obama.  I was so hoping to see him out there kicking ass and taking names.

Instead, I got this (debate transcript):

“…I would order the secretary of the Treasury to immediately buy up the bad home loan mortgages in America and renegotiate at the new value of those homes — at the diminished value of those homes and let people be able to make those — be able to make those payments and stay in their homes.”

My mind paused for a second, and then thought, “what the fuck did he just say?” And McCain continued:

“Is it expensive? Yes. But we all know, my friends, until we stabilize home values in America, we’re never going to start turning around and creating jobs and fixing our economy. And we’ve got to give some trust and confidence back to America. ”

“OK,” I thought. “Did he seriously just say that shit?” And he had.  In fact, he continued….

“I know how to do that, my friends. And it’s my proposal, it’s not Sen. Obama’s proposal, it’s not President Bush’s proposal. But I know how to get America working again, restore our economy and take care of working Americans. Thank you.”

And exactly ONE question into the 2nd presidential debate, not too long after Senator McCain looked into the TV screen and said hello, he F’d me.

For months now I’ve wondered how the hell McCain actually got the Republican nomination.  He’s no republican.  Sure, he’s not as anti-republican as Bush, but he’s further out there than close. 

And for months I’ve tried to reconcile the fact that McCain should be the one to win and lead the country because of Obama’s inexperience and questionable past. 

I told myself, “How could anyone vote for Obama– who sat in Rev Wright’s church for 20 years listening to that bigot spew out anti-semetic and anti-american rhetoric week after week for those 2o years.  How could anyone vote for Obama who after saying that Wright was such a part of his life that he could no more disown him than he could the black community, dropped Wright like a sack of rags a couple of weeks later when it was convenient for his campaign.  He has no conviction.  He won’t stand by anything if it’s not in his political careers best interest!  How could anyone vote for Obama when he’s surrounded himself by other questionable folks, such as former terrorists, and former CEOs who helped him devise his economic plan while driving their companies and the US economy into the tank.  This Obama guy is a great speaker.  He’s a great story.  But he simply doesn’t have good judgement at all!  Plus, whenever he makes a tough call, if it doesn’t work out, he’ll switch his position and deny that he ever said the contrary!  How could anyone vote for this Obama?!?”

But now I’m at a crossroads.  Because not only does Obama’s campaign platform violate pretty much every economic philosophy I have, now McCain is coming out with this bullshit.

So, JOHN, you’re going to let people renegotiate their mortgages into 30-year, fixed rate mortgages, AND they’ll be renegotiated at the current market price.  That means if you bought a $300,000 house with a $250,000 mortgage, and couldn’t pay it back, but the house was now worth $200,000, you’d potentially be able to re-do the note for only $200,000…meaning you and me, joe taxpayer, are footing the extra $50,000!  There’s no word on the tax implications of this, but current law would suggest that you’ve just earned $50k in this deal, and would have to pay taxes on this forgiven debt, but I’m sure JOHN will figure out a way to work this in the bill (see McCain’s plan at his website). 

So now I wonder if I’ll even tune into the third debate.  I’m not sure I can take another hour-and-a-half of Obama saying that McCain is Bush, and McCain talking about energy independence and spewing out the same 4 sentences of rhetoric that his campaign cronies thought would sound good, and they did when you first heard them, but not after he’s said them in 25 different speeches and 20 times in each of the past 2 debates!!

So thank you, John McCain.  You F’d me at hello.

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