Why do we cats have the feeling that thousands of our posts this week are going to be about John McCain? And it's only Monday.
Are we going to discuss half-staff flags today? Speaker phones that don't work? Presidential statements grudgingly squeezed out that could have been painlessly issued 48 hours earlier? We could, but we won't. At least, not now. The week will bring so much more petty drama, because as we know, Trump will be Trump. The feast has just begun.
What's on our minds at the moment is that John McCain, close to death, tried to pull a Jack Layton. McCain issued a final letter exhorting Americans not to lose hope in these screwed-up times — for which, we have to point out, he did a lot to pave the way (i.e., picking Sarah Palin as his 2008 running mate).
McCain's letter mimics Jack Layton's last message to Canadians before the NDP leader died, also of cancer, in 2011. The difference between the two? Layton's letter was motivated by love, McCain's by contempt. We'll leave you with Jack's final words, because they make us PURR.
"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world."
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