In a previous post, I described how John McCain would be the next president of the United States. This was on March 16th of this year. I said: “By October, some of you will have left the wagon because you think that he might have known a guy that once worked with a dude that emailed some chick once that said she saw Obama put a stamp on a letter upside down.”
I do believe that there will be a huge campaign by the compliant media to sway independent voters (who by many accounts make up about 40% of the voting electorate) towards the fear of Iran, the false idea that somehow McCain will keep you safe, and the all around dubious experience of Barack Obama. And, as with any election cycle, they will be quite successful.
Obama has not been fully vetted, and there are not-so-swift boaters in the weeds looking for, say, some woman that he dated before Michelle that, for a price, will describe things BHO did that would make the average white woman go “eewww.” Whatever.
But, being honest and contrite, and having had a few months to watch the freak show that is McCain’s campaign, I have to say, I doubt that there will be enough sheep in that majority of undecided to give him the nod. Here are a few points to consider:
1) McCain is in lockstep with an administration that has cried wolf one too many times. Even the most easily swayed by fear mongering have had enough. Lieberman, calling himself an independent, but willing to Zell Miller the St. Paul Convention, and send out letters to independents using his contradictory “I was the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee” AND calling his old affiliation pejoratively the Democrat Party in lockstep with those that refuse now to say the word Barack without saying Hussain after it, will be rendered useless.
Saving a false flag dirty one in Tel Aviv, they ain’t got a chance. And why do we all seem to give a fuck about Israel anyway. Someone please tell me. What are we afraid of?
2) McCain has on his website, get this, on the main page, as a tab, on the top with his other three most important items: Environment (that’s right, no joke, it is fucking on his first tab), Decision Center, General Election, and, wait for it… Golf Gear.
Metaphorically, that is just about as out of touch as it gets. The fucking nuts! Maybe, maybe 30-35% of the voters want a John McCain Tee-Holder. Maybe. After that, as you try and pay your upside-down mortgage, and keep your autistic child in school whilst his teacher has a class vote whether he should even be allowed even in the class anymore, and your boss has told you that you got two months to find a new job as it is being outsourced to India (oh, and your 401k is gone, packaged with sub-prime bonds and sold to Singapore… sorry), I don’t see many more converts to “A Leader We Can Believe In.”
(http://johnmccain.com/Informing/News/Speeches/fdf5f9ab-f743-43a8-aded-5be426db44c5.htm)
3) There is no way to quantify hope or a movement. Like a viral YouTube video, you can’t describe it by the usual punditocracy buzzwords or previous metrics. There are no rules to follow. And polls about this are really questionable.
There hasn’t been an exciting time like this in politics since RFK. People to want to be involved in the process, volunteering, and voting - this scares the dying bejesus out of these old, white, pasty, monied, privileged, bought-and-paid-for sell-outs to the corporatocracy. Motor-voter denials, caging, denying military (blacks and Hispanics) absentee ballots, outdated and far too few voting machines in urban areas and college campuses - Screw that. We are going to vote in such numbers that the Rovian techniques will not turn anything but a county here and there.
The emotion is just too large to fix. They botched it up too bad over in neo-con land. But more than that, they just didn’t see it coming. They really thought that the church swipes, the association with a 60’s radical, and the stuff coming still, would put in the armor chinks. He is becoming teflon, if he wasn’t already, before he hits office.
The bigger fear these soon to be dead old really racist, sexist conservatives should be having (A brief history overview - long term, they have always lost. Civil rights, woman’s rights, worker’s rights, and soon - gay rights. It takes a really long time, but they just can’t stop progress, fear and ignorance - the kind Pat Robertson foments - forever), is that as they start walking more slowly, whining more from their gated Naples, Florida country clubs about the fear of the future of our country, and telling increasingly lame jokes about black guys and uppity strong women, they are not watching that the house could pick up 50 seats this November, and the senate possibly 7.
That is a super majority, and overrides vetoes. So, even if McCain were to miraculously pull this off, he is a lame duck from day one. And, progressives, just image what can be reversed from this horrid excuse of leadership with the executive and the legislative firmly devoted in most part to change. And the ability to drop a few libs in the Supreme Court might be nice as well. I would like to see Scalia and Thomas try and attempt some end around and push for a “unitary judiciary.”
Brief story: My parents were lifelong conservatives. My father spent over 30 years in the Air Force. He believed that liberals were ruining America, and that every conservative from Ronald Reagan to Poindexter were absolutely correct and nobel. He never believed that he might be being used by the free marketers to really just advance the corporate agenda of the political puppet masters. To him that was all just “Michael Moore and his friends” coming up with hooey.
He would play Lee Greenwood’s “Proud to be an American” whenever I was at the house, and actually turn it up a notch, before he went out on the porch to have another Marlboro red - even after lung cancer, brain cancer, thrombosis of the legs, throat cancer twice, emphysema, and hospital pneumonia. I asked my mother why he would put that on and leave the room, and she said “He just wants you to love America.” I shit you not.
He would fall down, and hit his head, and forget he fell down. He would forget where he is, what day or year it is, he would shit himself and piss the bed. But, he still had the strength to write a check for $35 to John McCain for President.
My long suffering mother told me last week that she tore the check up in front of him. I was surprised. He said “Why are you doing that, I am voting for him.” God bless her, she responded, “Well, maybe I’m not!” and “I need that $35 more than McCain does with his wife’s 100 million dollars. What is wrong with you?”
Wow. Amazing. I could not believe it. She then said that she was worried about the future of America and that we are through, as she saw it. “We are about done as a country, there is no hope left.” I said, “Because of the corporate controlled politicians, the military industrial complex running foreign policy, and too much money in the political process making a clean elected official with no quid pro quo or bribery favors almost extinct?”
“No,” she said, “if that Obama guy wins he will only take care of his own.”
I will pause to let that sink in.
My father’s first barely audible comment once committed to the hospital after his last fall was “cig…ettes.” Wow. Now THAT is an addiction. Kind of like, I don’t know, attacking countries that have no threat to us, but have what we need more than cigarettes. Oil.
Coming soon - Part 2
A teaser…
To assure that Obama is safe and sound, I have one suggestion for vice-president that is foolproof. Pick Ron Paul. The federal reserve will send extra guards to Barack’s side just to keep that guy out of the oval. Seriously.
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