Democracy in America Pt. II

Deep, thoughtful, and all-around political heavyweight, Meghan McCain has come out with a new book titled America, You Sexy Bitch: A Love Letter to Freedom.  The book, co-written by comedian Michael Ian Black, is about Meghan and Michael (the blurb on the back of the book tells us that Meghan is a " single, twentysomething, gun-loving, Christian, Republican writer and blogger" while Michael is "a married, forty-year-old, gun-fearing, atheist, Democrat comedian, the son of a lesbian former Social Security employee") traveling the country to find some common political ground that, though unsaid, of course, has been stamped out of today's politics by those dastardly right-wing conservatives.

Betsy Woodruff at NRO has taken the time to read through this weighty tome and finds that

...perhaps the most frustrating aspect of this book is that McCain and Black set themselves up as proxies in the culture war, voluntary standard bearers for the two halves of American political culture that they perceive. Though McCain, the designated conservative, emphasizes throughout the book that she doesn’t buy Republican “orthodoxy” on everything — including gay marriage, global warming, marijuana decriminalization, and how superfun it is to go to strip clubs — she seems to think that her friendship with Black is somehow remarkable, proof that there’s still hope for America.

Meghan also displays her deep theological knowledge -- on par with St. Thomas Aquinas, Pope John Paul II, and the Cookie Monster -- throughout:

This book might be for you also if you’re interested in McCain’s thoughts on theology: “God for me is found everywhere; in my family, in the desert, in first kisses, in smiles, in laughter, in friendship, in cheesecake, in red wine, and above all else in love.”

But Meghan and Michael find their ultimate political messiah in that man who bankrupted the City of Cleveland while he was Mayor, Dennis Kucinich:

The book reaches its emotional climax in our Dynamic Duo’s penultimate stop, Washington, D.C. There, after a 45-minute conversation with Representative Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio), McCain and Black bond over their shared admiration for the former presidential candidate; Black becomes “a convert to the Kucinich Way,” and McCain calls Kucinich “a living example of an antidote to the problems in politics right now.”

Who knew that the problem with America is that we don’t have enough Dennis Kuciniches?

No doubt, this book will be the standard political text that Ivy League professors, think-tanks, and first-grade teachers alike will be using in the next hundred years to analyze the politics of the early-twenty first century.