How is it that Sen. John McCain, a rich old white man from Arizona can command the same poll results as Sen. Barack Obama who is clearly promising us a different America? John McCain can be the same as George Bush and practically unoriginal but Barack Obama has to be the most extraordinary black man to even have a chance to be President.
How do Americans let the Republican party convince them that Barack Obama is elitist because he worked hard to attain the education that we routinely tell Americans will pave their way for a brighter future? Yet, John McCain, the son and grandson of Admirals who benefited from his military connections and his wife’s wealth, were it not for being a POW, gets a free pass from being labeled “privileged.”
After today’s antics with John McCain’s rush to Washington to be the hero of the proposed bailout plan, then watching the plan unravel under stress of a protest plan submitted by conservative house Republicans and the injection of Presidential politics – Barack Obama was compelled to be present - then not saying much but staking his appearance at tomorrow’s Presidential debate on an outcome coupled with Sarah Palin’s utterly unintelligible answers in her interview with Katie Couric, an interview where many of the questions were similar to those previously asked by Charlie Gibson, and she still did not have any good answers for, which clearly shows that she should not have been sequestered and should have been given the opportunity to practice and now appears to be undermined by a lack of confidence, and you have the recipe for campaign disaster. Thank goodness the campaign is run by Karl Rove acolytes; what will they pull out of their hat tomorrow?
On another note, with Washington Mutual (WAMU) seized by the FDIC this evening becoming the worst bank failure in U.S. history, underscores the urgency of some sort of bailout plan. Deciding on what avenue to take now seems to be the bane of Congress and the American people, none of us having the breadth of knowledge and understanding of complex financial instruments and how this all functions in today’s global economy, except Congress is supposed to go on recess tomorrow so they can all run home and campaign making a push for a decision tomorrow guaranteed to yield nothing less than disaster.
While the rest of the world is laughing at America, they are because if I didn’t witness this in real life, I would think that I was watching a movie; a satirical circus pageantry envelopes the most powerful country in the world while it attempts to choose the next leader of the free world and heal the economic calamities befalling it. An educated black man arises to save the people from ruin because the maniacal white man, who comes complete with the charming, but disarming, sidekick hailed as mavericks as they unleash their diabolical plan for world domination, finally and suddenly implode leaving trail of Republican destruction behind them.
Sadly, this is not a movie, this is the great meltdown of 2008. If you choose McCain-Pailn, you deserve your own stupidity and the boat you rode in on it or you choose Obama-Biden, who though better suited for the job, will face the greatest odds challenging a Presidency in the history of the nation with little margin for error. Good luck with that.
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