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As I’ve written previously, I generally ignore election campaigns and prefer instead to pay attention to politics *between* elections. The problem with U.S. politics is that they’re *always* campaigning. I’ve been calling an Obama win for over a year now, and of course I’m still convinced (though I still have the strong taste of crow in my mouth since calling an Obama/Gore ticket so vehemently for so long . I’ve always held the belief that the U.S. (s)election would always be made out to look like a close race even though popular sentiment would decisively back Obama as President.

I’ll still be blogging away while the world tucks itself in for a nice long 4-year slumber with visions of *Hope* & *Change* dancing in their heads.

Sarah Palin will fade from your memory quicker than a season of Survivor….

Seriously folks… I write because I care. I maintain this blog because I actually *give a shit* and if you’ve read this far, I already think you’re an awfully swell person and just want you to know that Sarah Palin is bad for you. This is an intervention. If you’ve thought about her in the last 24 hours, I’m ordering you to pick up a glass of something with alcohol in it, pick up a bong, download some porn and forget about her. It’ll be easier than quitting smoking. She will never become the President of the United States of America. If you’ve ever spent any of your precious time even *fantasizing* about such a thing happening you need to turn your thoughts to sex *right now*… and not about sex with Sarah Palin, that’s cheating… she *is* hot but she’s not *that* hot. Tina Fey is the obvious second choice, but *even then* you can’t think about having sex with Tina Fey *as* Sarah Palin… that’s cheating too… you need to stop thinking about this woman altogether… it’s a moot point.

Cheney’s the dude that needs to be kept under constant scrutiny… not Sarah freakin’ Palin. She’s not getting the financial backing that’s kept Cheney in the White House off and on for the past 3 decades, nor is she getting the kind of support that Obama’s getting. She’s a “red herring”.

Hope is not a plan…

If we’re truly *Hoping* for a *Change* we need to keep asking the question: where does Obama get all of his money from? Consider this… “campaign contributions” and “fundraising” are terms that are used to describe personal private money given to a Candidate during a “campaign”. This affords a person running for the *office* of the President of the United States of America the opportunity to say to the “establishment” – “this is how much money I can get people to give me”. Not  *only* is this money from the “plain folk” – it’s also *huge* cash raised from within the establishment itself!! In other words… the *same* people that made George W. Bush the most highly financed campaigner in U.S. history… the same people that put their money where there mouths are for Bush policies have decided that they like Obama’s take on the world *so much* – they’re making Obama the most highly financed campaigner in U.S. history!! I wonder… did the establishment just change their minds *completely*? And just how does President Obama go about paying his debts to his financiers?

There’s so much freakin’ history happening out there right now I can’t understand how people can sit through a full interview with Sarah Palin. She’s says *nothing* while Cheney travels to Georgia to deal with the Russian war. She says nothing of any consequence while Hank Paulson (former CEO of Goldman Sachs…Goldamn Goldman Sachs is the #2 top contributor to Obama), *creates* the $700 billion line of credit for himself and future Secretaries of the Treasury. She’s not saying anything worth listening to while Obama prepares his incoming Cabinet to keep flooding the world with American dollars (thereby continuing the crash of the economy) and continue further wars in the Middle East (Pakistan, Afghanistan).

5 Questions I have for an Obama Administration:

1. Will the Patriot Act be repealed?
2. Will the Glass Steagall Act (or something like it) be brought back from the dead?
3. Will American troops be brought home, or will they just be redeployed to a neighbouring country?
4. Will Obama (a Constitutional lawyer) re-write and *restore* the Constitutional right that Americans have to *not* be spied on by their government? How’s about the right to due process? Will he bring that back? Habeus Corpus? Posse Comitatus?
5. Will the *Change* that we *Need* look anything like the *Change* that we *Hope* for?

The great Orator…

For the life of me, I just can’t get as excited as everyone else when Obama speaks. You know… he’s a politician. To get to this point (most highly financed campaign in history, right after W.), Obama had to serve the same masters as every President before him. Folks… you don’t get there (POTUS) without assuring the “money” that you’ll do what needs to get done. Please don’t fall asleep at the wheel for the next four years. Don’t believe the big toothy soothing grin in a year from now when President Obama explains why Pakistan needs to be “dealt with” or why it’s not his fault that his version of a $700 billion line-of-credit needs to be added to the inflationary U.S. money supply.

Instead… keep going back to the words of the greatest American orator. Martin Luther King Jr. King was *not* a politician. He was a true leader. He wasn’t *Hope* for *Change*. He *was* change.

We don’t need another President. We *Need* *Progress* that can *Change* the way that we *Hope*