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More of the same with Obama -- 'Change,' not likely!
by Kingfisher Sunday, Nov 9 2008, 12:11am
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Are we able to see the nose on our collective, rustic face? A face that betrays its primitive and limited rustic heritage; a face resplendent with intellectual vacuity! Republican running mate, Sarah Palin, was unaware that Africa is a continent – it would be pointless asking the average American to name the largest nation that occupies the most well known sub-continent in the world today (India) -- you see, Palin is the norm, not the exception!
Is Bush home free?
Over the past nine years the world has been treated to the real America – an ugly, nasty, brutal, ARROGANT nation that thought it unnecessary to mask its true intent – singular, world domination!
Not surprisingly it FAILED in that pursuit, a short history lesson may have prevented another repeat performance from yet another self-willed, overconfident, imperial pretender but impetuousness usually accompanies grandiose thought. No imperial powers survive today though Russia and China could lay claim. But even those two multi-ethnic nations see the need to cooperate in order to prosper and survive in a world of relative peace.
America should have learnt in Vietnam that people fight invaders to the last; protecting family, home and traditional lands is instinctive to humans and there is no greater outrage or call to fight than to oust an invader. Doh! ‘Read my lips,’ you mindless, morons!
But let’s not dwell on the foibles of the past but on the prospects of catastrophe and desolation in the future!
Why or where on earth would anyone, faced with overwhelming evidence to the contrary, get the idea that Obama represents “Change?”
He shifted abruptly from his grassroots support base to Big Business funding, from mild support for Palestians to the rabid embrace of AIPAC and Israel, from war is not first option to we must fight Russian ‘aggression’ (?)
It wasn’t Obama’s recent turncoat tactics that led to massive disillusionment but his choice of Joe ‘any war will do’ Biden, as running mate early in his campaign. Biden has been succinctly and accurately summed up by Timothy V. Gatto in his recent article (link below):
“.. Joe Biden, a man who never saw a war he didn’t like. The self-proclaimed Zionist that has stood with AIPAC since its inception, a man that ranks right up there with Bush when it comes to Iran and Palestine.”
If choosing Biden wasn’t enough to awaken a numbed population, what about Obama’s recent choice for Chief of Staff – look it up, and try thinking for a real change!
‘THINK,’ God forbid! Americans don’t think, they elect Presidents based on slogans, ‘rhetorical flourishes,’ catchy one liners and image – policy and thinking play no part in American elections – need we wonder why nothing ever changes?
The entire world has learnt what America actually means when it uses the words, ‘democracy, liberty and freedom’ -- one million innocent dead civilians, the ruination of a once viable state and the theft of precious OIL/energy resources. The (illegal) Iraq war is really the appropriation of the “treasure” of Iraq, to use one of Bush’s descriptions! Bush stated that publicly, as if to remind the public that denial is the best option for average Americans -- don't ask questions and in return I'll fill your tanks.
The TRUTH is UGLY too difficult and horrific for average Americans to FACE; they would rather delight in inanities, the latest example is Obama’s choice of a puppy and the history of White House pets – agreeable content to accompany breakfast! REAL unpleasant news must be avoided or given the least and most fleeting treatment while saturation methods apply to puppy choices and other mindless content – did we get it right, Rupert?
Yet the UGLY TRUTH is that children are murdered almost daily by American forces – which is front-page news in almost every independent media outlet but not in Murdoch’s mainstream media, can’t understand it!
Murdoch seems preoccupied, he is more concerned with abstract values not the REAL COST of a REAL WAR in a REAL WORLD; every job is fraught with dangers and Murdoch’s is no exception.
Murdoch is drowning in fictive fabrications and constructed narratives. The media magnate suffers that peculiar dissociation that all megalomaniacs and sociopaths openly display. He recently thought it necessary to lecture Australia on his philosophy, which Kevin ‘puppet’ Rudd has already made plain -- we wondered where the visionless Oz PM got the idea that NATO should extend to the South Pacific, ridiculous! [You pathetic pipsqueak, Rudd!]
Overlords such as Murdoch are so far removed from the consequences of their actions they become insensitive to human tragedy but we also fare from ‘down under,’ Rupert, and we volunteer to rub your removed nose in the blood that your heinous propaganda machine helps spill, you despicable criminal; our hope is that you live long enough to be held accountable for your criminal actions. In many ways you are more culpable than Cheney who is a mere Halliburton lackey – you had a choice and you made it!
Today’s newswire reports yet another civilian slaughter in Afghanistan by armed American UAVs. Perhaps inverting blame this time?
Every full tank of gas comes at the cost of innocent human blood but that fact is TOO REAL for average Americans to face so let’s demonise and dehumanise the 'other' so WE, like the NAZIS before us, are able to kill without conscience. But like the Nazis before you – YOU will be held accountable by the same sentiment and civilised principles that formulated the Geneva and other internationally ratified Conventions.
In the meantime we are offered ‘real’ change; a BLACK man in a WHITE House – that should capture the attention and distract the whole world. However, the only change apparent so far is skin colour and that accounts for nothing!
Americans love slogans so here’s a variation on an early American effort; ‘the only good American is a dead American,’ – the original was applied to the native inhabitants of the North American ‘continent’ during the White invasion.
Read some history black man, especially the lives of the champions of social justice such as Martin Luther King jr. If you are able to muster the courage and address the many wrongs of the Bush administration – you would attract, as you did initially, the overwhelming support of the people of the entire world. If you fail your name would earn the ignominy it deserves!
We are One or we are nothing!
Peace.
Political expediency or moral and Legal integrity?
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