John McCain got to cross an item off his bucket list today, doing a photo-op from a big ol' offshore oil derrick, which he shamed into producing cheap oil for America and solving the economy for this nation of whiners.
Of course, it just wouldn't be classic McCain without a sudden and unexplained bit of message drift. And so it came to pass that after a few perfunctory remarks about how Barack Obama was a James Bond villain and how the gas tax holiday was not a "gimmick," John McCain launched into the story of his recent visit to the dermatologist, and how all Americans should visit their dermatologists (and use their pretend health care to do it, presumably) and "stay out of the sun as much as possible." But how else will we enjoy our awesome "gas tax holiday" if we can't go out in the sun?
Anyway, long story short, John McCain went to the dermatologist instead of visiting our troops, the end.
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...clean energy and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions but nuclear power is also a way to employ hundreds of thousands of Americans. We can build 45 new nuclear power plants by the year 2030, it would employ some 700,000 people. So, Senator Obama opposes offshore drilling and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and opposes storage of spent nuclear fuel, and so he is the Dr. No, of America's energy future and he also opposes the gas tax holiday as a gimmick. So I am very pleased to be here, and we'll be talking about the energy and economy and continue to do to. And by the way, as I do every three months I visited my dermatologist this morning and she said I was doing fine and she took out a nick from my cheek as she does regularly and that will be biopsied just to make sure everything is doing fine but I want to urge all Americans to wear sunscreen particularly in the summer and stay out the sun as much as possible and wear sunscreen and if you ever have any slight discoloration please go to your dermatologist and doctor and get it checked up on. Melanoma is a preventible occurrence. It really is, it's one of the most preventible occurences. Remember a lot of damage that people receive from the sun when they are young, sometimes comes back later in life and that is the end of my lecture from the American Dermatology Association today. Thank you all very much.