Barrel Strength

In this election, US has two primary choices with the following attributes.

McCain: old, experienced, upstanding character, centrist with a relatively inexperienced VP candidate.

Obama: a dabbler who has never held the same job for more than three years, only limited executive experience was deemed to be a failure by others, socialist, wouldn’t pass security clearance due to association with radical friends, coke head, murky background given the reluctance to release background information, gangsta approach to politics, member of a racist church and an inflated ego.

Given the above, your correspondent endorses Obama for the following reasons.

The polling numbers do not accurately reflect the weakness of the Republican party and its ideology. They are about to lose a substantial number of seats in the Congress and a few Senate seats, some of which, as noted by your correspondent earlier this year, was inevitable due to significant number of retirements on part of the Republican incumbents. Even in its current form, the party is so weak that it was unable to fend off charges that they are the party to blame for problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.  The marginal political strength that the party enjoys, masks immense weakness in the broader society.  Where are the conservative community organizations? Where are the conservative newspaper-of-record?  Where are the conservative trade unions?  Where are the conservative art organizations?  How is it that Obama can decline to be interviewed by Fox till well into the campaign, yet Palin has to immediately report for an interview with ABC and CBS?  The government is the tip of this base and the liberal/left/progressive have over the last 30-years, without any significant opposition, taken control of or neutralized virtually every cultural, political or civic organization in US.  Outside the political sphere, the ideology of the Republican party is non-existent.   A win by McCain will lead to further false sense of security and once again delay the necessary soul-searching.  How did it come to be that a sign of patriotism, as stated by Joe Biden, is the amount of tax one is willing to pay?  The Republican grassroots is better off rolling back this leftist tide than enjoying the perks of a Republican White House as it will more beneficial over the long term.

Another reason it is best if Obama wins the presidency, is that the current crop of economic problems, the most pressing of which is the deleveraging cycle, will lead to a recession that is deeper than the ones previously experienced.  The current set of problems are difficult to address in the best of times, but they will be further compounded by the poor policies, that are being implemented and will be implemented under a socialist president, with unfettered control of Congress and Senate.  These policies will further exacerbate the problems and underline the obtuseness of current policy choices.  Republicans will be unable to fend off charges that they are to blame if McCain is the president.  Additionally, it will be good if people such as this, face the reality after hearing a constant stream of overblown rhetorical nonsense that has emanated from BHO.  And to think that Mandela only promised a free washer and dryer.

So let them march.