An Obama does not fall far from the Bush
(Now with Barack and Biden…)
When Obama was running for president, I happily admit I very much liked the idea of a black guy becoming president. I also liked the idea of a woman becoming president but I felt little warmth for that particular woman. So, Obama would have been my choice, if I’d been allowed to vote. I’m not, so, like the majority of Americans who do have that right, I ended up not voting for any of the candidates.
Anyway, even though I can’t say I liked Hillary much, I would rather have supported her than the McCain/Palin ticket. Once a seemingly honorable man, McCain chose to sell out to the bigots and moneybags in his party. There hasn’t been a more pathetic deal this side of that famous ‘mess of potage’ and McCain deservedly lost.
Still, politics is, as the saying goes, the art of the possible – as practiced by the contemptible, I would add – so I can’t say I had that much faith in anyone who had been able to work the system to such a high degree that he (or she) ended up in the position of presidential candidate.
There are not many virgins in a whore house – and it hasn’t taken Obama long to show the world that his is just another case of ‘Hail to the new chief; same as the old chief.’
I mean, truly, what’s the use of Obama, if stories like the following show he is just a more suave version of the old Bush Mark One & Two?
In two weeks’ time, Barack Obama will accept the Nobel peace prize in Oslo for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between peoples” and his commitment to “disarmament and arms control negotiations”. Yet on Tuesday, as Americans’ attentions were turning to the Thanksgiving holidays, a state department spokesman, Ian Kelly, quietly announced that the Obama administration would not sign the international antipersonnel landmine ban. He also said that the Bush-era landmine policy, a regression from Bill Clinton’s position, “remains in effect”.
(New look, same shit…)
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