Imaginary Friends

Well I certainly tempted fate with my previous post, since then I have not been able to escape from the latest news of the US presidential candidates. You will be pleased to know that my radio is still intact despite my previous threats. I was trapped in the bath when the radio hijacked me with a whole program of highlights from McCain and Obama's latest spat. After my initial fury I must confess that I was fascinated because McCain brought along an imaginary friend. One of my children used to have an imaginary friend called Jimmy for a while. To be honest Jimmy was a bit of a pain, when the child did naughty things it always turned out to be Jimmy's fault, he had to have a place in the car and at the table and we had to be so careful not to tread on him! McCain's imaginary friend is imaginary in a different way - McCain imagines that Joe the Plumber is his friend and he imagines that he knows all about him. McCain decided to cling to his new friend throughout his encounter with Obama and Joe who objects to Obama's tax plans, became the star of the show. The problem with imaginary friends is that they always tend to get you into trouble and Joe the Plumber proved just as unreliable. It turns out that he is more imaginary than McCain expected, he's not called Joe, he's not a plumber and he doesn't earn what he claimed to earn. When imaginary friends get too troublesome children tend to leave them behind, the problem is McCain is not a child he is a presidential candidate. Perhaps it is about time he shuffled off quietly to a nice safe home for the bewildered. At least the end is in sight for us as far as the elections are concerned, we only have two or three weeks to go and then hopefully we will not need to think about him or his imaginary friend or that terrifying woman any more.