Oh Grandpa.
I’ve reached the conclusion that John McCain is going to be adorable right up until he’s elected President. Then he’s going to be downright scary. But until that time, I have a feeling that he’s just going to provide non-stop hilarity in how out-of-touch he is with modern America. And I’m not even talking about his Iraq policy. I’m talking about stuff like today where he talked about opposing a bill that would provide equal pay for women because he didn’t want more lawsuits. Much better that women just take less money and keep their mouths shut. Barring that, getting in the kitchen and baking a pie.
Said McCain, “I am all in favor of pay equity for women, but this kind of legislation, as is typical of what’s being proposed by my friends on the other side of the aisle, opens us up to lawsuits for all kinds of problems,” the expected GOP presidential nominee told reporters. “This is government playing a much, much greater role in the business of a private enterprise system.” While that’s at least old-fashioned offensive conservatism instead of neocon insanity, how he followed up is where it got funny. From the AP:
McCain stated his opposition to the bill as he campaigned in rural eastern Kentucky, where poverty is worse among women than men. The Arizona senator said he was familiar with the disparity but that there are better ways to help women find better paying jobs.
“They need the education and training, particularly since more and more women are heads of their households, as much or more than anybody else,” McCain said. “And it’s hard for them to leave their families when they don’t have somebody to take care of them.
So women, rather than whine about how you make less than a man for doing the same job, get yerself a fella! Hey, wouldn’t it be neat if the Democrats already had a candidate, someone could call him on this and take him down in the polls? That would be awesome. As it stands, let’s ignore the depressing fact that the Democratic Primary will continue for at least another six weeks and instead just have a hearty chuckle at McCain’s old-timey sexism.
One of the reasons that George W. Bush is America’s worst President in our history (and since I majored in American History, I know that he beats out the former champ, Warren G. Harding, who at least did us the service of dying in office) is that he’s wildly irresponsible. That’s not really a big surprise when you have a spoiled child who never had to work for anything in his life and who I believe took the Presidency not out of some desire to serve the public or even a hunger for power but simply because it would be a good gig. I think Bush would be just as happy being the commissioner of baseball as he would be the President of the United States.
