AAAGGGHHH!!! George McGovern rises from the crypt!

From the suspiciously named Missoulian.com Missoulian.com comes the quavering voice of the shade of the South Dakota pinko who was destroyed by that idiot Quaker, Nixon. Ooooooooh, scary.

The United States has lost its standing in the world and strayed from its purpose, former Sen. George McGovern will tell an audience at City Club Missoula on Friday.

"We've wandered too far away from the founding principles of the country," McGovern said in an interview in advance of his speech. "We do so many things that, if not unconstitutional, have wandered from the spirit of the founders."

You'd think he'd notice how the founders spin in their graves every time he opens his skull and wheezes.

McGovern was a Democratic U.S. senator from South Dakota from 1963 to 1981 and ran for president against Richard Nixon in 1972. He was a staunch opponent of the Vietnam War. In the Senate, he crafted - with Sen. Bob Dole - the legislation that created the Special Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, or WIC, and the national reduced-cost and free school lunch program.

He went on to work extensively in hunger and agriculture issues internationally and was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Agencies on Food and Agriculture in Rome. His book, "The Third Freedom: Ending Hunger in Our Time," was published in the winter of 2000.

McGovern's new book, his ninth, is "The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition," published this month by Simon & Schuster.

THE DEAD CAN WRITE!

McGovern's remarks will draw from his book, he said, which defends the American liberal tradition and clearly criticizes the current administration for what he sees as its arrogance and go-it-alone approach.

The United States initiated a war in Iraq despite the disapproval of most of the rest of the world except Great Britain, which dismays McGovern.

"It's this sort of go-it-alone, bullying tactic that bothers me," he said. "We've become the most unpopular country in the world."

THE DEAD ARE PANSIES!

The Bush administration draws attention away from the domestic crises that are real by creating emergencies that are not real, he said. For instance, there is no crisis in Social Security.

"The truth is Social Security is the only part of the government that's solvent," he said. "Every other branch of the government is borrowing, except for Social Security, which pays its own way.

The truth is as a dead former senator, McGovern's ghost has a taxpayer paid pension and was exempt from Social Security for decades before he died.

"The real crises are, for instance, the high number of Americans without health insurance. They are citizens of the only industrialized country in the world without centralized health insurance.

I think noisy dead morons are a bigger crisis.

"I don't know how those 45 million people without health insurance get along," McGovern said.

I don't know how I can still here this differentially-lived American over the screams of the victims of his commie buddies.

McGovern will also talk about the "irresponsible unilateralism" that leads the administration to spurn the Kyoto Treaty, bypass the United Nations' opinion on war in Iraq and reject a ban on land mines that are killing children in the world.

McGovern and his wife, Eleanor, have a home in Stevensville where they spend four or five months a year; they spend the winter months in their home state of South Dakota.

THE DEAD GET HITCHED!