VOTE OBAMA 2008

by Andrew Arnett


The situation in the White House is so serious and tragic, and has gone on for so long now that at this point almost the only thing you can do is to laugh at it, and it would be a nervous laughter at that. The current administration is like the bad house guests that have well overstayed their welcome and now, finally on the eve of their departure, are taking with them everything that isn't bolted down. Watch out because there go the towels and the TV set and the paintings hanging on the walls, and whoops, the silver ware has gone missing as well. Did someone check Fort Knox? Someone should before January 20, 2009 sets in, or else the new tenants are going to make an unpleasant discovery there. Unless of course the new tenants are McCain/Palin, who are members of the same extended family, and they'll know all about it and will be concerned only with rummaging through whatever is left over for themselves. The 700 billion dollar bailout is a case in point. The US Treasury coffers have been practically stripped down to the kitchen sink, and have been given away to friends and cronies of the first family. Perhaps we should all be thankful for what we still have left as a nation. A few years back McCain voted for Bush's plan to have the Social Security fund invested in the stock markets. We narrowly diverted that stroke of genius that came from an administration that has, if nothing else, been ruthlessly consistent.
Perhaps then, we should also be thankful that we're saddled with only two wars. And in addition, being the freedom loving people that we are, we should all breath a sigh of relief that we have the Patriot Act, and not actually having to wear shackles on our ankles with computer ID chips embed under our skin. At least not yet.
The litany of woes and mismanagement by the Neocons is too numerous and tedious to mention here, that would require a tome of Biblical proportions. I think the murder of New Orleans is representative enough of what this great nation has had to endure under the dictates of this bad luck hit and run crowd. They have succeeded in turning the American Dream into a nightmare. Now, when I wake up day after tomorrow, let's hope we can all wake up and say "wow, that was a very long (eight years long) and terrible collective dream we all just shared. Thank God it is over with." Whatever the case may be, please God, don't let me turn on the TV Wednesday morning to see McCain/Palin waving and grinning and doing a victory dance. Vote Obama 2008