Well, if there is one lesson to learn in the past 10 days, perhaps it could best be learned under the tutelage of Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin with a new campaign heading:

"How to Rocket to the Top and Self-Destruct within 30 days."

And while McCain now plays the blame game for the derailment of the bailout measure, the cover is exposed on his trickery in attempting to buy more time for himself and his crib-note playmate, Sarah Palin as time now winds down on the campaign trail. Smarting by the recent dip in polls, McCain first attempted to stall the 1^st Presidential debate, and the upcoming debate between his protégé (Palin) and Senator Joe Biden by constructing some "emergent need" to appear in Washington for the bailout review last week and this past weekend.

Oh, and by the way, although McCain liked to poke Senator Barak Obama in the eye for "standing on the sidelines", as McCain puts it. Before criticizing Obama, he should have reminded himself that he also made much of his contacts regarding the bailout measure in abstentia and by phone, just as Obama did this weekend. So, as we can see McCain has this habit of labeling Obama with the supposed failures he exactly exhibits on a regular basis. He does so with great ease and in the same deceptive breath that the only slips by the less informed or those dubbed as low-information voters. And this is what the McCain campaign is banking on.

Although McCain would love to give all the credit of his campaign derailment, as well as the wall street bailout derailment to the democrats and Senator Obama, in all fairness, it would be more complimentary let the full credit lie where it truly belongs, and that is in the lap of the McCain/Bush doctrine for turning failure into dismal failure. Truly, the crafting of the McCain-Train's disastrous derailment began shortly after his recent appointment of Sarah Palin to the ticket, and was birthed in the brain of McCain himself. Although we can be sure that McCain is licking his wounds at night, it is very likely he is crafting another illusion to stave off his very likely impending defeat as his campaign limps to the polls in November. If he pulls this one off, either half the country is deaf, dumb and blind, or perhaps the other half of us are. You tell me.

In the past month, we've seen McCain play many roles as a chameleon on the road to destruction: War Hero, Master Illusionist, Fabricator, and now, Crybaby. We've watched as senator McCain exposed his hand at a table to which he invited us all, one to which not even he was invited nor wanted. In his failed attempt to distract attention from faltering campaign and from the obvious embarrassment caused by his Vice Presidential nominee, the smokescreen did little to conceal the weak platform he and Palin are now standing on.

First McCain demanded debates and town hall meetings with Obama. Then when a date is set for the first debate, he craftily devises an idea to postpone the debate he had been long licking his chops to have. Then after foolishly suspending his campaign to jump into a review and voting process of the bailout measure on capital hill, he tries to bully (yes, Bully) Obama into suspending the Obama campaign as well (obviously Obama saw the trap and decided there was no way he was jumping on that train). Then when that didn't work, McCain played the dejected, passive-aggressive during the debate on last Friday.

Like a toddler who lost at his own fixed-game of marbles, McCain looks very much a dejected complainer and less so the leader he proclaims himself to be. How serious can we take a man that is willing to put the stability and safety of the country under more stress by appointing a very much uninformed, unprepared running mate to the republican ticket? Neither of the two (Palin or McCain) obviously value their political brand enough to realize the toxicity of their recent actions and exposures. The McCain decision-making process clearly indicates his unpreparedness, as well as his faulty decisiveness in hastily vetting Palin. After all, what person, who proudly boasts of so many years of EXPERIENCE as McCain often likes to tout, would risk reputation and brand for the sake of saving face. Is this the same person who claims he doesn't need ON THE JOB EXPERIENCE? Could have fooled me.

And while he's willing to appoint someone a hair's breath from the presidency, a public official, a governor no less, who has exhibited a startling incoherence in answering questions and an inability in stating clear and concise facts within a common sentence structure of one's own native language. How seriously can Palin now take herself these days? I mean, what gibberish is Palin speaking when she is interviewed? Is she immune to the obvious growing dissidence among some in her own party, let alone the general public? Actually, it's quite sad.

At first, I was actually impressed by what Sarah Palin had achieved up to this point, as well as admiring her lovely looking family and values she appears to have. However, my compassion is now tempered by the obvious arrogance of McCain, Palin and the whole campaign in continuing to force the ‘Palin Factor' and this debacle of events down the country's throats.

If we learn anything, perhaps we can read it in the tea leaves more clearly than Palin can read her crib notes. And that is, if this is the best that John McCain can demonstrate in leadership, then perhaps we should be as much afraid of his leadership as of Palin's, and far less fearful of a so-called novice such as the republicans have named Barak Obama. After all, it was McCain's irrational and frantic thought processes that led to the Palin pick, as well as in McCain trying to stifle Obama's lead in the polls through a contrived and unfruitful site-seeing tour in Washington, D.C. this past weekend.

If this is how John McCain reacts in a crisis situation, then we'd all better be prepared to head for the hills if he gets elected. Clearly Obama has shown more leadership ability just by taking time to TAKE TIME in ACCESSING a situation before jumping off the bridge. Clearly, all of John McCain's years of experience had never taught him two things, clear-headedness and temperance - an obvious crisis in management and leadership styling.