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Yet Another Attempt at a Wake-Up Call

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I’m guessing we all sighed a sigh of relief when we came to the conclusion that Bush was not reelected, that he merely stole another presidential election. 

 

Four years have passed and George W. Bush is still the president in spite of the effort of many of our finest citizens to have him and his entire administration impeached.  The nation has lost more of its military personnel, we’ve murdered more Iraqi civilians, the economy is still in decline in the real world even though there are statistics that can be and are erroneously used to debate that conclusion and war as a way of life has taken us to the brink of a winner leave all confrontation with Iran.

 

Again, I write an article that attempts to gain your attention and distract you from the most important issue of the day which is, “What’s the score?”

 

How many delegates does Barrack really have?  How many does Hillary really have?  Should we count Florida and Michigan? 

 

And what about those sneaky “super delegates”?  My god, we’ve even stolen the lingo of the sporting world!

 

Super delegates?  Super Bowl.  Super heavyweight.  Super duper delegates.

 

Ladies and gentlemen – wake up!  No one is running to be the next commander-in-chief of the American armed forces, the next “leader of the free world”.

 

Oh, I’m a Truther all right and I’ve even read some interesting articles about the assassination of John F. Kennedy, although I’d never gotten into that for some reason or another.  But this one is a doozy, isn’t it?  The conspiracy theory of conspiracy theories.  See, I told you I was a bit paranoid.

 

Note that I didn’t write that no one is running to be the next president of the United States.  You see, I’m not sure I’m talking about a true conspiracy.  I’m not sure that Hillary, Barrack and McCain got together and decided they’d put on a show for the American people.  I actually believe that they’re vying for a position as they perceive that position.

 

They’ve even told us how they perceive that position.

 

They’ve raised otherworldly sums of money to finance these theatrics.  They have received a fair amount of that money from corporations and groups to whom one of them will be beholden once the “election” has been played out.  We can easily find out how much money any one of them has received from corporations or “special interest groups” – god I hate politalk. 

 

When they’ve given a moment to speaking about what intelligent Americans want to hear, the “real issues”, we’ve found that none of the candidates is in any hurry to end our occupation of Iraq. 

 

All of them, in one manner or another, want to keep some kind of “emergency force in the area” or want to make sure that, when and if we bring our troops home, we do it in a “responsible manner”. 

 

All of them, even Barrack, is willing to engage Iran militarily.  It’s just that he’s said he’d talk to them before “obliterating” them.  Oh, yeah, that was Hillary, wasn’t it?  Not the talking part, the obliteration part.

 

Any Democrat is better than John McCain?  If I’m an Iranian and my skin is slithering from my bones, I bet I’m not saying, “What a relief.  It’s so much better to be obliterated by a Democratic president than a Republican president.”

 

Yet, intelligent people, like my favorite radio host Thom Hartmann, say that Hillary’s “obliterate” remark truly troubles them.  Thom, in fact, said that he’s waiting to hear Hillary define “obliteration”.  She’s a Democrat, so I’m sure it’s not the kind of obliteration that John McCain would initiate.

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