Salon: Where We'd Be If John McCain Were President

Salon:

Picture, if you will, an America apparently like our own. A country like ours bogged down in war on two fronts and suffering from the greatest economic slump since the Great Depression of the 1930s. An America indistinguishable from ours in every respect except that when you turn on the nightly news you see the face of President John Sidney McCain ...

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Comments

[garymc8]

THANK GOD THAT MEAN OLD GREEDY DISHONEST LIAR DID NOT WIN.

[Rain-man]

I got up this morning to read about the stupid "sh it" Palin and the rest of the Wasilla Hillbillies did overnight and there are no news. Are they in hiding since the failed attempt to overthrow David Letterman?

Anybody pregnant today? Any drug deals gone bad? Build any buildings on the wrong property? Charged anybody for rape kits? Stoled any clothes?

Everybody says they don't want to hear about her, but you have to admit it, we love hearing about that backwards family. It is cheaper than going to a movie.

[TheDarkAngel]

Well look at it this way. If they had won, we'd all be rich by the end of their first term. That is, if we invested stock in war companies (KBR, Blackwater, Lockheed, etc.) Between McCain and the Governor, with the AEI running things, there'd be a bombing every other month, an invasion every other year. By 2012, the KBR stock alone could pay me through any given university, here or abroad.

[indywoman]

I think that this article is an extreme response to Bill Maher's speech last Friday night concerning Obama. I think Bill should have left out the bit about seeing Obama on tv too much. That was really stupid. Of course he is going to be filmed every day doing everything he does, he is the first black President, and he is a dynamic person, and so is his wife. I think it is a great mood booster for a beleagured country that had way too much Bush and Co.'s "be afraid, be very afraid".

However, he made very good points concerning health care. It seems that Obama is making too many concessions and that will result in nothing much changing. I believed him when he said he wanted change!! On the other hand, I think every President during the first term, has to watch what he does so he can get elected for the second term. After the second election is where they can really make change happen. I also think that every person that contributed to the financial collapse should be fired, not retaining their jobs. If you were in a position of power, and you didn't fire an alarm years ago, you should be canned. If you contributed to the deregulation legislation, you should be canned. If you committed crimes (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc.) you should be prosecuted.

[ENOS]

this is completely speculative and biased.. but generally, I agree, which is why I voted for Obama.

[Emerald1943]

Ms. Mooseburger would have s h ot McSame from the presidential helicopter on the White House lawn. Then, the Supreme Leader Mooseburger would have called in her spiritual advisor "Witchdoctor" to exorcise all the Democrats from Congress. A nuculur exchange would take place with places she could see from her front porch, and the end times would be upon us! Praise Jeeeezus! LMAO

[alwqb]

Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran... Need we say more?

[felisa11]

What if Mccain had won? the gay community would not have any of the progress they have gained so far.

They would have not been so vocal in their over the top criticism because NO one in that administration would have given them the time of day. They would not expect to have a lapdog like some tries to treat Obama

[yvonne61]

BOOM BOOM BOOM IRAN

[trisha08]

I wonder if McCain smacks himself in the head everyday while muttering...stupid....stupid....stupid.

All his years in the Senate and his legacy will be that he opened Pandora's box and brought the wrath of Palin to the lower 48.

[hollybork]

LOL. "The Wrath of Palin" sounds like science fiction, doesn't it? Well put.

[trisha08]

Palin would make sure we stayed engaged in a war so our miliary can "secure" our right to Freedom of Speech. Say what?

[indywoman]

I think she would have kept us at war so that she could continue to thank the troups and talk tough like George W. She LOVES to talk tough!!!

[swellsoire]

We would be living on sugar mountain under cotton candy skies. Gumdrop children would swim in milkshake lakes. Then the drugs would wear off.

[norkas]

Had Mc Cain Palin won the election i was closing my business and moving out of America .

I also found many others would of done the same. Yes there would of been a exodus.

Mc Cain and Sarah Palin love war and would of brought America into many more major confrontations.

Sarah Palin and many of those who embrace her believe in the end of times and a clesing of the earth. This is what some of the extreme rights church teaching say.

The extreme right would be plaing a major part in leading policy for America.

This would of been the most dangerous time in America and although some of you may not agree i am a consertive who supported big time Barak Obama as others did and would of left America as many other Americs would of if the election results would have been different.

[nervousexpat]

people said the same thing about Bush Jr.'s second run.. that if he won, they would all move to Canada.... didn't happen..

[MANK]

There wouldn't be anything left of U.S. so don't bother packing!

[indywoman]

Well, thank you for voting Obama!! Thank God there are intelligent thinking Republicans out there, and not all "End of Days Extremists".

I was so shocked with the Palin pick. At that moment when McCain announced her and she came out and gave her first speech, I lost all respect for that man. I was dumbfounded, and it only got worse and worse every time she spoke. And now, she won't go away.

Now more than ever we need a great and explicit SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE!! Because it seems extremists are everywhere.

[Scar1]

Dreaming and wishing for change.

[debrief]

They should not post articles like this in the mornings, before people have their breakfast...

[AmericanDreamWarrior]

Hmmm.... "what if".... (insert scooby doo like flash into the future)

Mccain would have been found mysteriously at the bottom of the stairs an hour after inauguration. After Palin is sworn in as president hours after Mccains inauguration and her 1st act is to declare herself queen of the world! Everything on 4 legs would be hunted into extinction and a Nordstom would be installed in the white house anlong with the Lincoln bedroom being redecorated with mooseheads and wolf skin rugs. Fox news would be the only media outlet allowed and critisizing The Palin would be punishable with beheading. Oil drilling would immediately begin in ANWR and off shore. The only thing taught in schools would be the bible, rewritten by Palinls ghost writer in the new official language, gibberish. All museums of natural history would closed as places of heresy and all art work displying nudity would be destroyed and altered. A mandate would be issued that all women must procreate. Abortion would be punishable by being drawn and quarted in a public square. Women (except for The Palin) wouldn't be allowed to work or allowed in the military. And finally, The Palin would do away with all taxes and instead inact the "40% of everyones everything because I'm the most glorious" tithe fund would be implemented!

Did I miss anything?

Woosh! That was a really scarey "what if" nightmare! Think I'm going to help myself to a scooby snack!

[One more Thing]

After declaring herself Queen she recognized Barack Obama by removing the HOPE Diamond from the Smithsonian and had is fashioned on a but.t plug which she inserts whenever she hears his name.

[AmericanDreamWarrior]

Lol! I must now go and scour my cortex to remove that mental image!

And how does it all end? By virtue of all supreme goddess/ruler, after moving the capitol to Wasilla she then bans contact lenses which kicks off a vicious optic blackmarket. Her undoing however, is when she then changes the Mcdonalds menu by forcing them to trade in the Big Mac for the Palin family mooseburger recipe.

Two months later the American institution declares bankrupcy depriving the people of Supersized fries. It ends up being the final straw, the people revolt and the Palins seek refuge in Russia where Mrs Palin must take a job substitute ethics professor!

[neocon666]

My sentiment exactly; I always believed that John McCain's cancer would have come back "agressively" within 6 months of being sworn in.

[AlwaysRightLeftist]

I think you forgot nuking the world.

[trisha08]

A new law makes it illegal to criticize, joke about, or make any negative comment about Supreme Leader Palin*

*Think N. Korea.