The issue of the 2008 presidential primaries is one that is causing me great personal distress and disillusionment. The idea of Barack Obama sitting in the same chair once occupied by the likes of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt is of such a nature as to infuriate me to a sickening extent. This guy is a pretty little fresh faced flash in the pan who represents the most noteworthy chance to get a Republican back in the White House imaginable in any sane scenario. We as a nation are being afforded a very real chance to get the war pigs out of the political picture for a while. George W. Bush is one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. One would think that most Americans would be glad to be rid of him and his evil cabal for a while, including, perhaps at this point most relevantly, John McCain. However, the situation is more complex upon closer examination. McCain is not the same type of right wing hardliner that Bush and Cheney are. His neoconservative, moderate standpoints on many issues have made him a widely acceptable and attractive candidate. The more people have learned on the issue of his history, the more they seem to like him, as he has used his aforementioned attributes to make himself a tough and durable candidate who will not be easy to beat. McCain, in many ways, combines the best of many worlds when one considers the political attributes of experience, openmindedness, and toughness. He was a naval aviator in Vietnam, where he was shot down and badly injured. He then spent five and a half years as a P.O.W before his release in 1973. He recovered from this in a highly admirable fashion, entering politics and getting elected to his first office, the U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, in 1982. From prisoner of war to successful politician in under 10 years. This is a guy who knows how to win. An extremely worthy adversary. The only thing capable of stopping him, in my opinion, from running roughshod over either a black guy or a woman is the stain on his hands from being another Iraq war supporting crony of George Bush. I believe people are tired of this war. The consensus I personally have received from traveling for years around America hearing the word on the street on these issues is that we tend to feel that Afghanistan’s important, because that’s where the guys who inflicted 9/11 on us are hiding out, but Iraq is just an unstable mess that we created for the sake of cheaper oil. Which has not, incidentally, done a thing for the guy on the street, now paying upwards of three bucks a gallon for gasoline. John McCain publicly stated on January 3rd of this year that he’s in full support of staying in Iraq for one hundred years. A hundred years, sending American kids off to die in the name of bringing lasting change to the oldest civilization in the world. Whose inhabitants have been killing each other over this and that since before the pyramids were built. Upon America’s military conquest of Iraq, one of the first things we did was to set up little McDonald’s and Burger King stands, like hot dogs or pretzels, in the streets of Baghdad. Something tells me it will take more then some Chicken McNuggets to successfully execute the idealogical conquest as well. My belief on the subject is that this war is just as unwinnable as Vietnam was, and for the same reason. We can go overseas and win fistfights with any other proverbial kid on the block that composes our world. However, we cannot force them to live their lives according to American standards with all the atom bombs in the world. This country is less then three hundred years old, and almost certainly viewed as a bit of a johnny- come- lately from the perspective of peoples who have survived life on this planet in their respective areas for thousands of years in some cases. An idea is much harder to kill then a person.
Rightwing American policymakers have been notoriously bad at grasping this concept, and have tended to want to play with the might of the American military like so many new toys simply because the events of World War Two have left them in a position to be able to. And they do not seem eager to give up this amusing privilege. Dwight Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States of America, knew that in order to have the resources necessary to win World War Two, he was going to have to make the production of armaments profitable for American industries. This diabolical alliance between the forces of money and death gave rise to the term military-industrial complex, defined by the nationalisation of armaments firms and control over the arms trade by private industries and the ruling body of the nation. This complex and its members will henceforth be referred to simply as war pigs, after Black Sabbath’s epic song on the subject. Eisenhower knew that he was opening Pandora’s Box by breathing life into this particular golem. In his farewell address to the American public, he warned against the looming spectre of unwarranted influence by this threatening colossus, and wrote in a letter to his wife, Mamie, stating “God help this country if someone ever gets into office who doesn’t understand the military as well as I do.” Eisenhower knew that the power he’d created would do all they could to keep it. While he was in office, he held the reins firmly. Having been the Supreme Commander of Allied Forces during WWII, he knew how to deal with the military. Unfortunately for the rest of humanity, his predecessor John Fitzgerald Kennedy did not.
The speculation about the reasons for the assassination of JFK will probably go on forever, with evidence produced on both sides of the controversy in such overwhelming volume that it will be touched upon only briefly here. But one thing that is beyond question is that the war pigs profited from it immensely, like the Nazis did following the Reichstag fire in 1933, or like Bush and the rest of the gang did again in 2001 following 9/11. With the great war over, Kennedy envisioned a speedy return to the political climate of pre- war America. Constitutional boundaries had been shattered by the necessities of wartime situations in a myriad of different ways, including the concentration camps built for Japanese- Americans and the birth of the CIA. Kennedy had intended to set a lot of things to rights. One of the first acts of his presidency was the creation of the Peace Corps, an agency designed to provide relief to third world countries. He publicly stated that it was his avowed intention to “shatter the CIA into a thousand pieces”, he refused to commit us to a large scale conflict in Vietnam, and he made it clear that the civilian government ran things in America, not guns or money. The opposition was not happy. The question as to whether or not the war pigs actually killed Kennedy and his brother, who later became an even bigger threat to them, will probably never be answered beyond a shadow of a doubt. However, the stranglehold these events allowed the war pigs to put the rest of America in could be easily ascertained by anyone brave enough to smoke a joint on the sidewalk could tell you after their trip to a manufactured hell over a plant.
The infrastructure of our government was much weaker in the 1960’s then it is now. The whole thing was damn near overthrown by a bunch of college kids scattered throughout campuses across the country. To keep the status quo intact, the war pigs were reduced to what was the basic equivalent of the Nazis’ 1934 Night of the Long Knives, where Hitler ordered the death of anyone he thought might possibly be a threat to him or his beloved Reich. In the 1960’s, we had an absolute plethora of brilliant, strong, and dedicated leaders. Men whose boots Barack Obama wouldn’t have been worthy to polish. The list of those of them who died unnaturally chills the blood. John and Bobby Kennedy. Malcolm X. Martin Luther King. All these icons of American hopes and aspirations were mowed down like so much cannon fodder. And now Barack Obama comes along and in essence is attempting to attach himself, like a barnacle, to the legacy of the Summer of Love. One could hardly be surprised if Mr Obama meets the same fate.
The only thing that in my opinion will save him is if the powers that be don't even find him worth killing. It may well be that they are just allowing this because they know he's so beatable. All this noise from him about hope and change, but what has he really done to deliver it? He got elected governor of Illinois on a fluke when Republican primary winner Jack Ryan dropped out of the race due to public disclosure of child custody divorce records containing sexual allegations by Ryan's ex-wife, actress Jeri Ryan. His new opponent, a guy named Alan Keyes, had less then three months with which to plan a campaign, and so obviously he lost. Obama has all of 3 years experience as a member of government in Washington, compared to McCain’s 26. If Nietzsche’s old maxim that what does not kill you makes you stronger is true, then Obama and McCain are a mismatch there too. John McCain was a Vietnamese P.O.W while Barack Obama was six years old, and probably still wetting his bed. this is not a worthy fucking adversary. secondly, what if he did get elected? we'd be handing over the most powerful military machine that the world has ever known in the hands of a rank amateur, a total unknown who has come frome total obscurity to out of nowhere become the chief executive of the United States, a country whose continued stability secures, de facto, that of the rest of the world?
My point is, we don't know this Obama. We don't really know what he's capable of, or what racial grudges he might be hiding beneath that smiling face. i'm not even discounting the possibility that there's something truly sinister about him. His profile fits that of the biblical antichrist to a t, with all his one world union and equality talk. the Antichrist, too, is good looking and charismatic. the antichrist , too, came from relative obscurity to be in a position to destroy the lives of billions. The mayan calendar ends in 2012, and predicts the end of the world for that year. obama's first term would be ending right about then. I don't really believe that Obama's the antichrist, but i do think that putting him in charge of the world's only superpower, during wartime, is reckless and irresponsible to a nightmarish extreme. His coming to us is as the footsteps of doom. i feel this in my gut, in the most visceral way describable. People had better realize that 9/11 was only 7 years ago, and that maybe, at a time when we are at war with Islamic extremists all over the world, it's not a good idea to place the whole of American interests in the hands of a guy named Hussein! Is this why we fought World War Two? So that we can just throw the legacy of American prominence we inherited right into the toilet by handing it over to some unqualified pretty boy? This is too disgusting for words.
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