Last Sunday, at St. Ann's Catholic Church, in Cleveland Heights, I saw the first McCain bumper sticker I can recall. Perhaps I've simply overlooked the tiny, militaristic, white-on-black branding on all those massive suburban Suburbans and Hummers. But this one star general caught my eye. Seeing this brought me understanding... so this is where the McCain community lives... although I didn't see any other McCain stickers in the lot, which mostly contained simple, spartan, sensible, socially conscious vehicles. I thought, "at least one bible-thumping Republican practices the preach". Then The General left the service long before it was over... before anyone else left the church... and I realized The General had been in church not for a shared community experience but drive-through religious self-service. Probably escaped right before the offerings basket was passed.
Perhaps The General was off to the real McCain headquarters - The Country Club or some rich Republican's estate in Gates Mills - but he sure wasn't spending a real Sunday connecting with the Lamb of God. And, it seems, no other admitted McCain supporters go to St. Ann's catholic house of God in Cleveland Heights.
Where are the proud supporters of McCain? Anyone else had a McCain General sighting in their community, or stumbled across one of their secret hideouts... perhaps marked with a tank, steel gates and acres of Hummers and Cadillacs?
Have you ever seen a McCain yard sign...?
What does such lack of conviction say about those living McCainalds lives, in the McCainalds world that is, which is not as the world should be.
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