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Yes sir, that electoral buzz is out there. Do ya feel it yet? Barack and Hillary, Will she? Wont She? As in Hillary willingly doing the “right thing” and falling on her sword, thereby ending a distasteful little hissy fit between her and Mr. Obama. A nice little media circus that’s dovetailing perfectly with the Bush administrations best laid plans. “Plans, you ask? What plans? Oh, don’t go and start that conspiracy crap again, I mean, it just wasn’t the Bushites fault, that Iraq thing! They proved that! Right?”

 Now, hold on there friends, steady on! This isn’t going to be some whacked out “Zapruder/grassy knoll” diatribe. Think for a moment, about Iraq. Think about The lead up, the mis and dis information, the outright proven bold faced lies. High placed officials like Colin Powell who had the sense that god gave him to bail on Georgie. (Just as an aside, I always thought that this countries first viable African American candidate would be Gen. Powell. I think his military background would allow him to overcome the redneck sect in this country, but that’s just, as they say, my opinion.) Anyhow, where was I? Oh yea, that pesky war thing.

If anyone would have suggested that Bush would show up in the Israeli Knesset and open his mouth and make an ass out of not only him but more importantly the United States in particular I would have said, and I quote, “Yea, he’d love to say something like that, wouldn’t he? But even he’s not that stupid”. Hell, I guess he really is. The thing that gets you, when you stop and think, He’s the president of the U.S. and yea, that’s a really big powerful job and all but it’s not like he fly’s without a net. Where were his press secretaries, his handlers, anyone, someone, someone with an IQ better than a handball? Any one remotely familiar with history will know of the “appeasement” and Neville Chamberlain comparison (if you don’t, go find out, history is a wonderful thing!). It’s infamous. Mr. Chamberlain was rightly vilified as basically laying down and letting Adolph rub his tummy with a promise of “oh, don’t worry about that silly Channel invasion thing, I wouldn’t do that!” But. That’s not at all what’s going on in our time. What we are dealing with now is simply blatant and unashamed war mongering. For profit. Plain and simple. George is going out and man he’s going out big! Jimmy Carters recent trip was a good tip off. The way the U.S. (both Dems and Republicicans, I’ll add) either took a hands off “we don’t know him. He aint one of ours” attitude at best, or an outright condemnatory stance at worst, should have been a tip-off. It’s pretty clear what were going to have to sit down at table with a lot of folks we might not necessarily like, but it’s also pretty damn clear it’s the only way we just might get our rep as a peace making country back. America is a great country full of some pretty smart people. So why doesn’t our “world face” show that side of us? We have to stop letting these simpletons speak for us as a country.

The race may be on, but we don’t have to finish in the money on this one, if anything we don’t even want to leave the paddock. Right now the only jockey we have up is deaf, dumb and blind. Its time.Yep, you got it. Change! We need it, we have to have it and we will have it. Lets hope we get it the right way. And,  just remember, in a perverse sort of reverse big-stick diplomacy, don’t loose dad’s plans for that air-raid shelter. It may come in handy someday if we keep this shit up. Duck and cover!

2 comments on this topic:

Newsguy says:

May 16th, 2008 at 12:20 pm

To bad the Dems can't come up with a viable candidate. The only thing Obama can do is hand the election over to McCain. The pundits are certainly misjudging the power (and prejudice) of white blue collar voters.
Looks like 4 more years of war and high fuel prices.

OnTheBus says:

May 16th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

Your right, Newsguy. Its sad. Very sad. As a party the Dems cant come up with that one golden boy (or girl, I don't care) to make the big time. We've had all these years and yet still the party is a mess.
I do think Obama has some good points and I do think he far outshines Hillary (read "biggest sneaky two-faced crook since ole RM Nixon), but I just don't think he's got the form for this race.

Maybe, just maybe, with the right VP choice he could overcome the unspoken good ole boy thing and finish in the money, but like you, I fear the worst is yet to come.