There were a lot off sad similarities in both conventions. The poor had no say; here I agree with Bill Maher. No voice was given to the antiwar people, to Cindy Sheehan, to Veterans for Peace. In fact, the big issues like Peace, Justice, equality, development, Social Structure were not even addressed. The exception of Dennis Kucinich only fortified the rule. Obama scored surely by his magnificent speech at the stadium but McCain got his day of fame appearing surrounded by chicks. Of course, no one even considered the primary issue; whom did the candidates represent really. If we put the rhetoric aside Obama represents the powerful Midwest Political Power rising, the one who made a deal with the Kennedy clan to take back control over the Demparty from the Clintonians and that they did. For the GOP McCain is a their Hindenburgh, a transitional President to pass the buck eventually to someone like Bobby Jindal. Hey, this time they helped Bobby big time in New Orleans; he was their golden boy after all.
Our spinmeisters, of course carefully avoided the obvious explanation of the future role of Sarah Palin. That role is money management. In the famous interview with the Evangelist pastor McCain promised them federal money; he sold our tax dollars for their votes. That Palin appointment is the signal to them about the deal stricken. And right after that Dobson and his crowd followed their part of the bargain endorsing Madame Palin, lock stock and barrel. Always money, son. A billion dollars for Georgia and about 5000 dead young Americans in Iraq together with hundreds of thousands of civilians dead are nothing for those money- grabbers who put the whole country on the way to death for a fistful of dollars. That simple and that deadly.
There is a glimmer of hope though. People get tired of the political games drenched in blood even in the US. Senator John Kerry decided to say the truth at last, maybe because he jest got fed up with lies or maybe because he considered that the stakes were too high. In his most eloquent speech at the Democratic Convention (http://www.demconvention.com/john-kerry) he said, “The choice is clear; our cause is just; and now is our time to make Barack Obama the next President of the United States.”
OUR CAUSE IS JUST! We better stick to it. And let’s elect the right man before it is too late for all of us and before the fatsos crush us with all the weight of their fat asses.
On my way back right after we crossed the Mason- Dixon line I turned on the Johnny Cash CD and heard the right words, ‘Oh, Lordy, Lordy, Lordy, have your mercy on me!’ Dream on.
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