As He Slips Back In Polls the Ex-Vaudevillian Dips into His Old Bag of Tricks
10-27-2008
SELMA, ALABAMA - While performing before an all white audience here in Alabama, Senator John McCain took folks on a wonderful trip back in time to a place where he and his father (before his father became a Navy Admiral) did their song and dance act in Vaudeville theatres throughout the U.S.
The very thought of those joyous days of bawdy, irreverent burlesque and minstrel shows catapulted the ancient war monger into a bizarre flashback, "My fellow prisoners, long before I entered politics and married my rich as shit wife, Ole' Pappy McCain and me used to carpetbag all over this great country of ours.
We entertained White audiences (wink, wink) with our hilarious misdirection comedy routines, sweet melancholy songs and vast tap dance and soft shoe repertoire. We'd dress in top hat and tails and perform in hilarious stereotypical blackface as we sang all the old minstrel songs of the south. Songs like 'Swanee' and 'Old Black Joe', and 'Alabama Mammy!'"
McCain then loosened his tie and doffed his old familiar glasses and nose and wowed this rural town of 5500 by singing and tap dancing across the stage and around reporter's questions.
The elderly tenor's voice never sounded as well as he tried to raise the specter of doubt and fear in the white audience.
Between racial innuendoes and scare tactics McCain told a few corny 'code' word jokes and then softly crooned the sad old Irish refrain, 'Barrack's a commie bastard!'
For his finale the former Johnny One Note got down on a knee and clutched his white gloved hands to his heart just like in his old Vaudevillian days, and then began a wild-frightful, break-dancing rap:
Da name is McCain and I'm white as alabaster
'Ya best elect me cause Obaahh…mmaaa's a disaster
If ya rich old honkies don't stop his ass
Ya gonna pay higher capital gains jus like in da past…
Wink, Wink
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