Why I Don't Support Barack Obama
By seannelson
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As brevity is the soul of wit, and I have other things on my plate, I'll be brief. I watched the "foreign policy" debate last night; My opinion is actually that we shouldn't have a head of state as the modern world is too complicated for one individual to play such a large role. But, through outdated tradition, we still do have "presidents" and we're in the process of electing one here in the U.S.A.
Of course I don't support McCain; Actually, I think he's a scummy spokesman for the real scum of the earth and wish the Vietcong would have kept him. And I don't think there's any real chance of his taking the presidency; Too many string-pullers and power-players back Obama and, besides, the Bush Administration is not only ruthless and crooked... they've also behaved insanely, uselessly invading Iraq, wrecking the economy, etc. So we'll get our change of party, a change back to the party to which my family has always belonged since my great-grandpa, light-weight boxing legend, and Chicago Chief Bailiff and Senator Henry Leonard, a Lt. of Richard Daley.
But I do not support the Democratic Party or its nominee Barack Obama and last night's debate is a perfect example of why. Both candidates expressed imperalistic and war-like attitudes toward pretty much the whole world... everybody who doesn't buy into one-person, one-vote democracy; Those who actually read history would know that this included every one of our "founding fathers," more or less; the U.S.A. was not intended to be and wasn't originally a pure democracy.
As a native of this land, I wish it were the best in the world... as it was when we came to the aid of Europe, spilling lakes of blood on the beaches of fascist-held Normandy. But we are no longer, not that nations really matter that much anymore.
We are all citizens of one world... whether we choose to be good citizens or not. We must treat virtually all cultures with respect and dignity; And the U.S.A. should conduct diplomacy not just for the interests of the 300 millions residents of our new world, but also see humanity's value in China, The Middle East, Russia, Spain, South America, etc. This business of only treating foreign lands with respect if they obey and emulate us is, to be informal, complete fucking bull-shit.
So, Barack Obama and the mainstream Democratic Party is only the better of two evils; I'm not personally calling Barack evil as I see a certain inspired decency in him. But at this point he is a naive spokesman for an evil imperial machine, which doesn't care about the blue-collar workers of America any more than those of Cuba.
I don't say this for theatrics; I deeply wish it weren't the case. I would like to hold my head up as an American; Maybe it won't be too long before we can.
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