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While i generally find Christopher Hitchens an execrable human being, I think he touches on something that I began to think about a while ago, and am becoming more and more convinced about as days go by in this comedic farce that is the US presidential election.
As he points out, there is no way on Bobs
green earth that Obama should be where he is at the moment.
Everything in the world of current events is turning out great for him.
From the National economy turning belly up, the incompetant way in wich its being handled now and the fact that in eight years of Republican oversight, no-one saw it coming and no-one did anything to mitigate it. The dollar cost of this alone is in the trillions of (taxpayer)dollars. Credit crisis, mortgage foreclosures, unemployment (McJobs don't count) industrial wasteland etc etc.
The war in Iraq is a failure. A bloody expensive one too. In terms of dollars?..trillions when you take into account future benefits to disabled servicemen. Expensive too in terms of civilian and military deaths, global reputation and credibility. Afghanistan? is circling the plug-hole. Why did the US and others think they could 'win' in Afghanistan when the Russians, most recently, and numerous others have failed throughout history.
A majority of the people in the US think that Bush is a ******* moron. Even half of Republicans think Bush is a ******* moron. Bush is a Republican. ergo McCain is just more of the same ****.
McCain is a septugenarian who has cancer and probably wont live for very long, and tho' he seems to be a pretty personable sort of chap, isn't exactly the most dynamic candidate to run for office in the history of the US.
When he dies, that would leave Palin. Tho some people seem to get their fantasies serviced by imagining her with a shaved **** and a shotgun over her knee, these ar'n't qualifications for being the President. Add to that her lack of experience of anything outside of Alaska, let alone mainland USA, and her complete inability to form opinions based on evidence (creationism anyone?) then it should be obvious to anyone that if the Obama camp wanted to destroy her, then they could without breaking a sweat. Hell! My dog could outwit her in a debate.
So that brings me back to my theory.
And that is, OBAMA HAS NO INTENTION OF WINNING THE ELECTION THIS TIME.
Yup. There you have it.
Obama knows that the good folk of the USA have the attention span of a nematode, and when all the sh*t inevitably comes crashing down over the next couple of years ie. recession as deep as the Marianas trench, civil unrest and homelessness and yes! even hunger, on the streets of the US. Slaughter on a grand scale in Iraq when the US leaves, Maliki gets strung from the nearest (made in Detroit) lampost and all those guns start getting used again. Afghanistan descends into a full scale rout of the international forces who, like the Russians and numerous others before them, will leave with bloodied noses and a personal vow to never try and **** with the pashtuns again.
Pakistan....Well who knows about that place, but I'm sure it wont be good.
Iran? See Pakistan.
China?? They are in charge now. You'd better get used to that idea sooner or later...
The list is endless.
So...when all that stuff happens, some of it the fault of the current moron in chief, some of it not... the person who is left holding his package when the music stops, is the poor sad **** who is going to get blamed for it. ALL of it.
Obama knows this. He's young. He can wait a bit (4 more years?)
He wants McCain to be in charge when it happens. Or Palin. Doesn't matter either way.
Because when it does, teh Dems are gonna stand up as one and shout 'YOU ******* IDIOTS!! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!ITS ALL THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS!!!".
And then the very next chance they get, they will landslide into the Whitehouse and then they will be there for ******* decades!
As he points out, there is no way on Bobs
green earth that Obama should be where he is at the moment.
Everything in the world of current events is turning out great for him.
From the National economy turning belly up, the incompetant way in wich its being handled now and the fact that in eight years of Republican oversight, no-one saw it coming and no-one did anything to mitigate it. The dollar cost of this alone is in the trillions of (taxpayer)dollars. Credit crisis, mortgage foreclosures, unemployment (McJobs don't count) industrial wasteland etc etc.
The war in Iraq is a failure. A bloody expensive one too. In terms of dollars?..trillions when you take into account future benefits to disabled servicemen. Expensive too in terms of civilian and military deaths, global reputation and credibility. Afghanistan? is circling the plug-hole. Why did the US and others think they could 'win' in Afghanistan when the Russians, most recently, and numerous others have failed throughout history.
A majority of the people in the US think that Bush is a ******* moron. Even half of Republicans think Bush is a ******* moron. Bush is a Republican. ergo McCain is just more of the same ****.
McCain is a septugenarian who has cancer and probably wont live for very long, and tho' he seems to be a pretty personable sort of chap, isn't exactly the most dynamic candidate to run for office in the history of the US.
When he dies, that would leave Palin. Tho some people seem to get their fantasies serviced by imagining her with a shaved **** and a shotgun over her knee, these ar'n't qualifications for being the President. Add to that her lack of experience of anything outside of Alaska, let alone mainland USA, and her complete inability to form opinions based on evidence (creationism anyone?) then it should be obvious to anyone that if the Obama camp wanted to destroy her, then they could without breaking a sweat. Hell! My dog could outwit her in a debate.
So that brings me back to my theory.
And that is, OBAMA HAS NO INTENTION OF WINNING THE ELECTION THIS TIME.
Yup. There you have it.
Obama knows that the good folk of the USA have the attention span of a nematode, and when all the sh*t inevitably comes crashing down over the next couple of years ie. recession as deep as the Marianas trench, civil unrest and homelessness and yes! even hunger, on the streets of the US. Slaughter on a grand scale in Iraq when the US leaves, Maliki gets strung from the nearest (made in Detroit) lampost and all those guns start getting used again. Afghanistan descends into a full scale rout of the international forces who, like the Russians and numerous others before them, will leave with bloodied noses and a personal vow to never try and **** with the pashtuns again.
Pakistan....Well who knows about that place, but I'm sure it wont be good.
Iran? See Pakistan.
China?? They are in charge now. You'd better get used to that idea sooner or later...
The list is endless.
So...when all that stuff happens, some of it the fault of the current moron in chief, some of it not... the person who is left holding his package when the music stops, is the poor sad **** who is going to get blamed for it. ALL of it.
Obama knows this. He's young. He can wait a bit (4 more years?)
He wants McCain to be in charge when it happens. Or Palin. Doesn't matter either way.
Because when it does, teh Dems are gonna stand up as one and shout 'YOU ******* IDIOTS!! LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE!!ITS ALL THE FAULT OF THE REPUBLICANS!!!".
And then the very next chance they get, they will landslide into the Whitehouse and then they will be there for ******* decades!
Glad I'm not the only one who finds the present situation a bit surreal, but, for slightly differing reasons.
