by Tom Laughlin

What do you do when the word “despicable” isn’t enough to describe what the Bush campaign and Republican party leaders like Trent Lott and Don Nichols are doing to John McCain because they are terrified that his determination to have real campaign reform will catch on with the American voter and become a reality?
  What do you say when a candidate for President, his closest advisors, and the Republican leaders of the House and Senate sink so low that the word “despicable” does not do justice to what they are doing, without a twinge of conscience, to a good and decent human being who gave more of his life for his country as a POW tortured for five and a half years than all of these other character assassins put together?
  To accuse McCain of being mentally unstable because of the incredible agony he suffered as a POW – when they know before God that there is absolutely no truth whatsoever to this vicious rumor they’re spreading – is more than despicable, and despicable means vile, contemptible, morally depraved, mean, detestable, low, sordid, shameless ... and that’s just for starters. That’s also what these men who call themselves leaders of our nation and want to hold themselves up as distinguished members of our government are doing, simply for money, or the money they won’t get if McCain’s candidacy catches on.
  Evil as this carefully calculated Bush spin machine campaign to destroy McCain’s character was before, it reached new heights with the Republican debate in New Hampshire last week.
  The woman from WMUR asked McCain a question so despicable – in every sense of that word – that you just wanted to reach through the television set and ask her how dare she ask such a question, and who put her up to it, for having been on the campaign trail as a Presidential candidate in New Hampshire in 1991, I know full well how these campaign operators recruit people to destroy opposing candidates ... and WMUR is one of the most immoral, bought-and-paid-for television stations in America, and I will shortly tell you why, from personal experience with WMUR, I know how corrupt that station is. I will also tell you the horrible way they cooperated with George Bush to destroy Bob Dole’s reputation and candidacy, with a false tax evasion charge at the request of the Bush's and John Sununu, former governor of New Hampshire, 24 hours before the primary in 1988.
  Here is the carefully calculated question this woman was recruited to ask – a question that would forever smear and destroy the reputation of anyone being asked that question, especially on national television, a question that was unanswerable in any way, an oxymoron filled with such poison that whoever had the question asked against them was forever damaged because there was no possible way to reply.
  After setting McCain up for character assassination with the “temper” charge that all the Republicans who are terrified of McCain have been asking, this twit of a human being, and that’s the proper word to use to describe a person who would do such a thing, asked John McCain – without blinking an eye – “Senator McCain, how do you explain that the people closest to you dislike you the most?”
  Think about that. How would you answer that if it were asked you at a dinner party or on national television? The woman, err twit, states as an absolute fact that the people closest to John McCain dislike him the most, even though this is not only an oxymoron, it is absolutely false. It’s a lie of the most blatant order possible. It’s the old, “Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” question. She offers no evidence, let alone any kind of proof, that the people closest to John McCain dislike him the most. She simply states it as a fact that no one disputes, and the Republican strategists who got her to ask that question know full well that millions of people will just accept it to be true, that the people who are closest to McCain dislike him the most. The next day I heard someone say to a John McCain supporter, “ ... well then, why do his closest friends dislike him the most?” To smear someone in such a way the bell can’t be unrung, and to label them as someone so horrible even those closest to him dislike him the most, is, as I said above, beyond despicable, beyond vile, beyond morally bankrupt.
  Who are these people who are closest to him who dislike him the most? As is always the case with professional character assassins, not one single name was given, and I was sorry that John didn’t ask her to name someone specifically. I can’t blame him, because there is no way I or anyone else on earth could ever have been prepared for what has to be far and away the dirtiest low blow question a so-called independent moderator has ever asked a candidate in a debate.
  Is it John McCain’s personal family, his mother, his brother, his wife, his children his aunts, uncles and cousins who dislike him the most? Obviously, they are the closest to him. She was careful not to mention the name of one of these relatives. Is it his close friends and associates and fellow prisoners of war who suffered with him through that hell hole in Viet Nam who dislike him the most? Is it his inner circle of advisors and professional staff, some who have been with him for ions who dislike him the most?
  Such a statement is so infuriatingly unfair and foul, not only because it’s self evidently untrue on its face, but the moderator knew it was absurd on its face. If you “dislike someone the most” you don’t stick around. Why would anyone stay close to someone they dislike so intensely? Staffers would quit, employees would flee, and friends would change their phone numbers if they disliked someone “the most.” It is one of the classic self contradictions to say that people the closest to you dislike you the most, but it serves the purpose of getting millions of people to believe that’s true without having to bring forward one shred of evidence, one witness, not even one simple example.
  It is a new low in political dirty tricks. It is a new low in professional moderators being not just being biased and an advocate, but a vicious advocate as well. It is a new low for the media that has rightfully earned the contempt of the American people. And it is even a new low for WMUR, which when you learn some of the other despicable things WMUR has done to please party bosses, brings into question whether or not they should have a formal complaint filed against them with the FCC.
  That question was no accident.
  It’s also the proof any voter needs to know that John McCain is for real ... that he really means what he says about radical campaign finance reform in order to take the government back from the oligarchy and special interests, and return it to the people.
  The well organized vituperation systematically being dumped on John McCain is the most convincing proof anyone can have that John McCain is the only one who truly represents you and I, the people. He is the only one who really will take steps to restore our government back to us, the people – and the party bosses and the wealthy power broker corporations now controlling the House and Senate know it.
  If I was wavering in my determination to support John McCain because getting involved in politics in this country today is like jumping into the cesspool, this escalated attack proves to me McCain is not only our only hope – but is a realistic hope for change. If he has the courage to take the beating he’s taking after what he has already given for his country, solely to make this country a better place for our children and grandchildren, then I cannot, out of cowardice and a disgust with the political process shrink from what is a clear duty for every one of us who are fed up with our political system – support John McCain.
  And I will do it in the bizarre way I mentioned last week, which I will give you next week.
  Because the whole purpose of this website is to help people become more aware of this powerful unknown part of our personality, the Unconscious, which without our knowing it controls everything in our lives, including our political beliefs, and because without a thorough knowledge of those two components of our personality, the Persona and Shadow, we can be deceived, manipulated, and easily led by these extremely sophisticated opinion makers, especially in politics, next week I will discuss the Persona and Shadow of George Bush and show why he is not only not fit to be President because of his immaturity, but because of the serious problems in the Shadow part of his personality.