Form of.... a maverick! Shape of.... a dottering old fool!

I was just reading this piece in the current New Yorker about Nebraska Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. Like McCain, he's a decorated Vietnam hero and social conservative, but Hagel is also a definite internationalist in his foreign policy thinking, which has led him to the Obama side, and to virtual explusion from GOP circles, in recent weeks.

In the course of his extensive quoting in the article, he talks about one of McCain's Very Bad Ideas for the future of foreign relations:

McCain has often spoken about his desire to create a League of Democracies. Discussing Iran during the first Presidential debate, he said, “Let’s be clear and let’s have some straight talk. The Russians are preventing significant action in the United Nations Security Council. I have proposed a League of Democracies, a group . . . of countries that share common interests, common values, common ideals. They also control a lot of the world’s economic power. We could impose significant, meaningful, painful sanctions on the Iranians.” He concluded, “So I am convinced that together we can, with the French, with the British, with the Germans and other countries—democracies around the world—we can affect Iranian behavior.”

The quote goes on to explain why this is really not a good idea, ( cut for the serious stuff about why )

but of course my inner 12-year-old is still stuck back at what McCain wants to call the thing.

C'mon, dude, you just want to be a world-leader superhero, hanging around a Hall of Justice in your cape and tights and wearing your Depends on the outside, hangin' with all your other Super Friends:

It's a bird! It's a bus! It's.... StraightTalkMan! Strange visitor from another generation who came to Washington with powers and abilities far beyond the comprehension of mortal man. Able to shape-shift his positions at will, bend treaties with his bare hands!

Brown-Nose!  Disguised as a mild-mannered Labour leader, his true identity came to the fore when his sidekick suggested he would no longer be wearing the costume and air unfreshener of his party predecessor: "We will not allow people to separate us from the United States of America in dealing with the common challenges that we face around the world. I think people have got to remember that the relationship between Britain and America and between a British prime minister and an American president is built on the things that we share, the same enduring values about the importance of liberty, opportunity, the dignity of the individual. I will continue to work, as Tony Blair did, very closely with the American administration."

Har-poon! Able to kill almost half a million baby seals in a single bound!

Sarkozybleu! When he's not chatting up Sarah Palin on the phone to discuss the important issue of helicopter-hunting, the half-man, half-Frog shows off his impressive water-bound ability to, um, drink like a fish!

Speaking of Sarah, she's definitely in as one of the Wonder Twins. Possibly both, depending on how those expensive Neiman-Marcus bras hold up.