My precious

Gail Collins can sometimes be too snarky and annoying, but today she is spot on. I am disappointed in myself that I failed to see the startling resemblance between McNut and Gollum...








http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/opinion/11collins.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

Remember how we used to joke about John McCain looking like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn? It’s only in retrospect that we can see that the keep-off-the-grass period was the McCain campaign’s golden era. Now, he’s beginning to act like one of those movie characters who steals the wrong ring and turns into a troll.

During that last debate, while he was wandering around the stage, you almost expected to hear him start muttering: “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.”