If this is not a reason to suspect Sen. John McCain’s judgment I don’t know what is.  Last Monday, Rush Limbaugh suggested on his show that John McCain go out to an oil rig and give a speech in support of his proposal to drill offshore.  A great photo-op said Limbaugh.   Yesterday, all of sudden, the McCain campaign announces that it will be giving a speech from an oil rig to counter Obama’s speech in Berlin. Are you serious???  McCain is taking strategy suggestions from the guy who proclaims himself the leader of the dittoheads…seriously…….I mean seriously!! 

A funny thing happened on the way to the rig.  The actual rig where McCain was set to deliver his speech is very near the 400,000 gallon oil spill that occurred yesterday in the Mississippi River.  There is a time when you have to ask yourself……is the universe trying to tell me something?   I can’t remember when the last time we had an oil spill this big….and the day before McCain campaign is scheduled to give a speech on how offshore drilling is the panacea for solving all our energy problems. 

This is a description of the disaster by a local paper:

Residents in Algiers, Gretna, St. Bernard Parish and Plaquemines Parish are also being asked to conserve water, as water intakes for those communities are closed to prevent contamination of the drinking water supply. Water flowing through the tap is from reserve supplies, which could run out in many areas by afternoon or early evening, officials said.

Oil from the spill is visible along the New Orleans riverfront, with a thick coat of black muck washing up along the rocks near the Moonwalk. Farther away from the bank, the muck broke off into small islands.

A thick blanket of oil stuck to the hull of a Coast Guard cutter patrolling the area between the wrecked barge and the riverfront near the Aquarium of the Americas. The surrounding air there smells like it would near a gas station or in a traffic jam, only stronger.

The McCain campaign claims that the photo-op was cancelled due to weather.  WE THINK NOT!  An oil spill of this magnitude does not exactly bolster McCain’s position for offshore drilling.  Can you say poetic justice??!

Not to mention the fact that this is what happens when you take campaign strategy advice from, of all people, Rush Limbaugh!!  Are you kidding me?