I have to start these comments by making it crystal clear that I have nothing whatsoever against having a woman as president, and, last year, in the second round of our own presidential election, I personally voted for Ségolène Royal, whom I considered to be the least bad choice when compared with the winner, Nicolas Sarkozy. The sex of the candidate had no effect on my decision, although I deeply regretted the paucity of the choice available to me at that stage of the election. In the first round I had voted for the centrist candidate François Bayrou, although, as I have written to him from time to time, I disagree with some of his decisions on extremely important matters. However, when faced with a list of candidates, and one wishes to vote, one has to choose the person who seems most likely to make a reasonably good job of running our country.
That said, I see some cynicism in Senator McCain's selection of Mrs Sarah Palin, the Governor of Alaska, as his running mate to be vice-president if he should win the election. It seems to me clear that this young lady, seemingly an efficient politician as well as being of very attractive appearance, has the advantage of not carrying with her the baggage of the Billary years, since her political record seems free of such disastrous mistakes, failures and criminal actions as those of Hillary Clinton herself, as well as those of her husband. Senator McCain has been trying for some time to destabilise the efforts of Senator Obama by working to harvest the votes of those who supported Senator Clinton in the particularly nasty battles of the Democratic Party's primaries, and this move may achieve this, at least in part.
Apart from that, I have for some time wondered how and why any decent citizen who favours liberty and democracy could support such a repulsive candidate as Senator Clinton, again a woman of attractive appearance, whose own record on many matters showed that she backed George W. Bush in some of his very worst criminal excesses, while Senator Obama has a much cleaner past, despite his more recent grovelling and worship at the shrine of Zionism/Mammon after he had been given more support than his rival.
On reading these lines some will dismiss my comments as being the ramblings of a sexist old man, but most unfortunately I can imagine that many voters, both men and women, in the USA will allow their judgment to be swayed by this choice. Senator Obama has been given most eloquently backing by his beautiful wife, who showed that she is also a highly intelligent person, but he has chosen as running mate a man with his own dismal record of stupidity, ignorance and wrong choices over many years.
Political commentators outside the USA have not been slow in reminding the world just how idiotic it is to speak of "experience" when it is that of such pathetic politicians as Senator Biden, or for that matter Senator Clinton, and, of the four principal candidates now in the battle, Senator Obama and Governor Palin, despite and perhaps because of their comparative youth, have a much cleaner image than the others.
Although I fully understand the arguments of my friends who edit Axis of Logic that it is better not to vote when the choice is between Tweedledum and Tweedledee, both of whom are in thrall to the corporate rulers who aim to impose their tyranny on the whole world through the misuse of such power as the USA, despite their economic and other woes, have still managed to retain. We now hear both principal candidates speak as though the USA were the one and only super-power in the world, which seems to us over here to indicate that they have overlooked and not noticed the massive potential of both the Chinese Peoples' Republic and the Russian Federation, and also such other up-and-coming powers as India and Indonesia. This has been explained as being necessary in the USA because vast numbers of the populace have been tricked into believing that the tyranny from which they suffer is the best in the world, and must therefore be imposed on every other country without raising such basic questions as what such an intellectually challenged puppet as George W. Bush means when he mouths the words "Freedom and Democracy". As we can all see so easily from outside, this has been achieved by burdening ordinary men and women with an excess of wearisome work and a constant diet of nonsense as their entertainment. Such entertainment seems (from what has unfortunately been exported to our side of the Atlantic) very skilfully geared to suit worn-out exhausted workers. As I and many others have often written, this mixture has since the time of the Roman emperors been known as "Bread and Circuses", and such leaders as the late unlamented Adolf Hitler and Josef Dzhugashvili (aka Stalin) serve as warnings of the danger represented by their use of such means of control.
All that we outside the USA can now hope is that the least bad pair wins, but it is far from obvious which that is, either for the USA themselves or for the rest of the world.
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