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Meh

Meh

So, we're about to hold yet another election for president in these United States, and the peoples of the world are holding their breaths, hoping and praying we do the right thing by electing their choice of Barack M. Hussein Obama to the highest office of our land.

WTH?

Look, I know this will smack of extreme arrogance and hubris but I don't really give a hoot in hades what some wine-sipping effete French pseudo-intellectual, or neo-Marxist Oxford Uni Econ professor, or power-mad Iranian Parliament President thinks or wants us to do.


No, really. I do not care what they think.

At the end of the day, it is *we* - and not some Euro Weenies - who will go to the polls to elect the fools, charlatans, con-artists, philanderers and foolish shysters who, in time-honored American Tradition, will filch from the public coffers, bend and break the laws to suit their purposes, abuse the power of their offices, and commit other sundry offenses against God and man.

And if those doggone furners don't like that, they are free to come to New York City on a tourist visa and pay some young thing to marry them for a Green Card, and then register to vote illegally, just like all the others, durnit. So, yeah, Euro Weenies: get in line!

Okay, so we're about to elect our first socialist president since FDR. How the hell did this happen?

It can't be blamed on just the granola-crunching Birkenstock-wearing former hippies, the Punk Rockers, the Hollyweird elite, and the brilliant Graydon Carter. They will always vote as far to the left as they possibly can, in every election, and who knows, might even vote Democrat, when Nader isn't running. (Wait, he *is* running this year, just isn't on the ballot in most places.)

That's the thing: it takes a massive number of the unwashed masses, the middle-of-the-roaders, the 'independents,' and even that strangest breed of American known as the 'undecided,' those sad sacks who, after all the evidence presented them from both sides, just cannot commit to anything until very the last minute.

(I don't exaggerate: I had a friend tell me that she had not decided whom to vote for in one election until she was literally inside the booth. Shame on her.)

So, how did the we get to the point where some Music Man, some Empty Suit has been able to convince significant portions of the public that he is their savior, their salvation, the very Second Coming of the Obamessiah?

Again, how the hell did this happen?

Well, to start with, George W. Bush is quite simply the most unpopular American president since Richard Milhous Nixon, and the Obama camp has pitched the McCain candidacy to the public as a referendum on the Bush years, to great effect, and millions are considering this election exactly such. What's more, we are going thru an economic crisis of massive proportions, which promises to get ever more worse. Life is scary, and dangerous, and it's at times like these when both great leaders and charlatans alike emerge from the woodwork.

Thing is, Obama has kept much of his past under wraps, such as his birth records, his college records, his health records, merely pointing the public to his memoirs, asking the public to accept his account of his past as gospel, and the media has been complicit in refusing to do the hard reporting they would do on any other candidate, and in fact, have done with the Republican ticket.

Throughout his campaign, both in the primaries and in the general, Obama has managed to say a lot about nothing, allowing his adoring audiences to project their fears and hopes and dreams onto him, while in the process pledging a little something for everyone, knowing all the while he cannot possibly deliver. And even though some of the press has actually pointed out that he is not going to be able to keep his promises, by and large this has been ignored by the fawning Obamaniacs, and by the Fourth Estate that desperately wants him to win.

On top of all of that, Obama is a amazing speaker on the stump, perhaps the greatest we've seen in a generation. He's attractive, eloquent, and tells people what they want to hear, like all great seducers of the mind and the heart. He's as good at it as they come.

Additionally, he broke a pledge to take public funding for his campaign, freeing him from the spending limits that have hobbled his opponent, and since his donations have been reportedly primarily under $200, there is no accountable record of where his hundreds of millions of dollars of funding have really come from, but anyway, he somehow managed to raise over $600 million dollars, and has outspent McCain nearly 3 to 1, carpet bombing the airwaves throughout the country with his brand of Opraesque New Age economic mumbo-jumbo, designed to leave the hoi polloi feeling good, without having a clue what was said.

Anyway, I am convinced we are about to enter a very tragic era in American politics, in which our economy will be ruined in the name of a socialist re-distributive 'fairness' - why don't left-wingers understand that you cannot tax a nation into prosperity - and our national interests will be subordinated to the whims of that of other countries whose goal is to bring us to heel, and when this coming nightmare is over, we may never recover the greatness that we once were.

To be fair, this has been ongoing, not just under Democrat administrations (remember Jimmy Carter?) but during Republican ones (Bush Senior) as well. There seems to be an inexorable move towards socialism in this country, and we have been relinquishing our sovereignty, incrementally, for decades, but a President Obama will accelerate the dismantling of the foundational values of this once-great nation.

While I am encouraged that a person of color might actually be able to be considered a serious aspirant to the Presidency of the United States, that's not a good enough reason to vote for a cipher of a man whose personal associations are suspect, whose legislative accomplishments have been next-to-nil, and whose campaign promises are either undeliverably benign, or out-and-out dangerous.

Anyway, I've been feeling rather down this past week due to several things, big and small, and this whole Obama Charade has has left me feeling a bit hopeless, and swirling around the edges of The Dark Place. I guess as we are about go through what I assume are going to be some of the most trying times this country has ever seen, I just need to again remember the paraphrased truth: to try to accept the things I cannot change, to try to change the things I can, and to try to strive for the wisdom to know the difference between them.

Shabbat Shalom.

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