Rocky Mountain Why?

Here is an IM chat I had with my wife Susan in the lead up to yesterday's meeting between John McCain and the Dalai Lama in Aspen.

10:39amSusan
Hey Seth, did you see McCain is going to visit the Dalai Lama in Aspen? Do you think he's a seeker?

10:40amSeth
I think he wants to discuss the four noble truths, and how he can use them to beat Obama.

10:42amSusan
But were it not just political expediency, what would that conversation be like?

10:43amSeth
I think McCain would ask him where Tibet was.

10:44amSusan
And if the Dalai Lama brought up interconnectedness?

10:47amSeth
McCain would ask if it was covered by Medicare.

10:47amSusan
And compassion?

10:51amSeth
I think McCain is for it except when it comes to torturing prisoners. Then he's against it. So he's nuanced on the issue.

10:53amSusan
I can't imagine what that conversation would be like -- the Dalai Lama and McCain on torture. The Dalai Lama and anyone on torture, but with McCain, I'd like to be a fly on the wall.

10:55amSeth
I bet the Dalai Lama's against it. If it would get him votes, do you think McCain would pose with the Dalai Lama in Buddhist robes?

10:57amSusan
He'd probably do it anyway. Politics aside, McCain seems pretty loose.

10:59amSeth is offline.

10:59amSeth is online.

10:59amSeth
I can envision McCain grilling burgers for the fawning press -- who still think he's a maverick -- at his Sedona pad, dressed like a monk. I think I might vote for him if I saw that picture.

11:00amSusan
Shaved head?

11:01amSeth
He'd be the first monk with a comb-over.

11:02amSusan
Ok so let's get serious, maybe McCain'll be the next president of the US -- stranger things have happened; look at our current president -- what message would you want him to leave this meeting with -- what would you like the Dalai Lama to say?

11:03amSeth
Vote for Obama?

 

Comments

[BottomLine2008]

05:45 PM on 07/27/2008

Very funny!

[Jude2004]

03:23 PM on 07/26/2008

I joined roughly 15 others in a peaceful protest about McCain's visit. We don't have many protests, peaceful or otherwise, in rural western Colorado, so it was a fairly festive occasion. The fact that McCain took the other road out of the Aspen airport meant that he maybe only saw 5 of us, but the cars driving by appreciated our stand.

[66rock]

04:01 AM on 07/27/2008

What did your signs say?
And thank you for your time spent and being an involved American.

[Jude2004]

12:32 PM on 07/27/2008

Mine said "Honesty Above All" Most said something like McCain=Bush, but every one was different. I want the candidates to not lie about each other, a la Karl Rove, but so far McCain isn't getting that right.

[BatedBreath]

02:55 PM on 07/26/2008

Thanks for the chuckle.

[SamThornton]

11:39 AM on 07/26/2008

Wouldn't John McCain be the first elected U.S. President with a comb-over?

[mick7191]

09:25 AM on 07/27/2008

And a bad one at that.

[Querent]

11:32 AM on 07/26/2008

10:42amSusan

This is probably the only IM I've ever seen which uses the subjunctive.

[SconnieGrl]

11:13 AM on 07/26/2008

Seth + Susan = WAY funny!!!

[perk]

10:53 AM on 07/26/2008

Hmm, guess I am missing the point on this post.

I am ROFL thinking the writer will regard Sen. Obama's upcoming meeting with same as a Messianic endorsement.

Ok, now I am getting the point of this post.

[BADEN]

10:42 AM on 07/26/2008

It kind of reminded me of Elvis's visit to Nixon in the Oval Office, asking to become a member of the FBI...

McCain doesn't have a clue - the Dali Lama had to literally hold his hand with Lindsay Graham's and lead them down a grassy hillock.

I don't know what McCain is trying to prove.

"Peace, Bro"?
"Got yer back"?

Naw..

[shades3]

03:24 PM on 07/26/2008

I suspect it's an attempt at a non-denominational nod to spirituality. If McCain posed with any of the religious leaders who support him we'd be looking at pictures of him with Rev. Hagee or Rev. Parsley, or any number of wild-eyed holy men who call themselves "Christians", but unlike Jesus, are all for killing a many of those who don't believe them as they can.
The Dalai Lama is spiritual, but not a hater, or a bigot. McCain most likely has NO religious affiliation.
That wouldn't be a good thing, since so many insist on publically demonstrated Christianity, like George W. Bush's, whether it's real or not.
Sad really that in order to be elected President, a candidate must begin, if they are not a conventional believer, with a lie, even though being President is not being a religious leader, nor should it be.

[genia]

11:16 PM on 07/26/2008

Oh just look at the week these two candidates had.
...I think his camp looked for anyone or anything that McCain could use to focus attention on his campaign.
Don't you just love the transition Republicans go through before each and every election.....bunch of fakes