Monday, November 3, 2008

Beware of What You Want – My Predictions for the US Election

Barrack Hussein Obama has the momentum and I read that most of the world outside of the USA is a big supporter of this bloke. Hey, why wouldn’t we given the mess Dubya has made? George W Bush has taken the US’s reputation and trashed it, bankrupted the place and started a false war in Iraq using trumped up intelligence (sic) reports. (FYI - there is a movie coming out by Oliver Stone called “W” which whitewashes Bush as a bumbling nice guy who “got it wrong”. Don’t be fooled by this movie).


It may not be as close as it appears. The US presidential election is not simply a popular vote – it’s an electoral system which means that a big majority in one state does not necessarily help you win the election overall. Also, it is well understood by pollsters that a significant minority of people are reluctant to say they will not vote for a black man so the margin of error is higher. Our newspapers in this part of the world show glowing reports, but then as I said above, anyone outside the US wants a dramatic change in US policy and so this Obama character looks to be that.


But have you actually looked at his policies? Looked at what he says he’ll do? If you look past the feel good “Change” message what do you see? This is what I see:


It Doesn’t Matter Who Wins


The US economy is stuffed and the so called Banking Bailout a heist of monumental proportions with the money being used for banking consolidation first and foremost and to stave off the impending depression caused by the derivatives scam that these very same bankers created to steal real assets. Vice President in waiting Joe Biden’s speech to the faithful tells you what’s really coming. All the nasty medicine is waiting until the next pres is signed up. One thing I am convinced of is that this will be a one term president.


The Democrats, of which Obama is one, have had control of the congress for two years and continued to support the wars, subsequent patriot acts, military commissions act and trillion dollar defence budgets. I mean this guy voted for the retrospective [retroactive] FISA bill!!!! Why does anyone think there will be fundamental change? There won’t be but he’ll make great speeches.
Put simply, Obama is a globalist like the rest of them. Don’t get fooled by the left-right paradigm as we are presented with two candidates that essentially have the same broad policies but say it in different accents.


Obama is saying a whole lot of warm and fuzzy things and giving us all hope that things will change, they won’t. Only real change will occur when enough people understand the trap of the left-right paradigm and seek to influence government from the grass roots up.

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