Crooked in Canada

After two years of campaigning it has come down to today and either Republican John McCain or that other guy, the Democrat nobody really knows anything about, Barack Obama will be the next American president.

Obama, who has spent little if any time at all honing his leadership skills since becoming a senator four years ago, is on the verge of making history if the Americans do what the polls say they are going to do, hand the White House keys over to him.  Hard for me to believe that Americans would elect a guy whose only experience in federal politics is running for president. That’s really funny when you think about it, and certainly lends credence to the that oft said off the cuff remark made over a few beers, “anybody can be president.”

Oh well, if Obama wins it is an American problem. Thank God I am not an American citizen, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I think it would be a sad day in America if Americans were to leave their fate for the next four years in the hands of a man who during this campaign became better known for the radical element he associated with than anything else, not to mention somebody who has no federal political experience domestically or internationally whatsoever. You know what the means, he is going to be a puppet, or in another light a lame-duck president like his predecessor, albeit in a different sense of the term.

Obama in the Oval Office, hmm…

North of the 49th parallel there are Canadians like myself  who are of the mind that Obama might just be a bigger risk to America’s national security and economy than he’s worth, and that this “change” he claims to be all about just might mean change for the worse.  By the way, I am of the mind that American voters are motivated to elect Obama to their country’s highest office because of the colour of his skin, and not because of what he brings to the Oval Office table, which is nothing really.

Then there’s the black thing. America despite what an overwhelming of white Americans say right now, aren’t ready to handle the collateral damage electing America’s first black president. Anybody who thought or believed that racism in America was on the decline had better rethink that because a black man in the White House is going to upset a lot, not just a few racist groups and white Americans.

It could mean a huge step backwards in the fight against racism if as expected Obama wins the election. It will be interesting to see how Obama copes with the racism thing if the shit hits the fan, which the moment he steps into the White House is exactly what is going to happen.

I doubt racist groups are going to tolerate a black man in  the White House, and they will respond in some way, shape or form.

When Joe Biden, Obama’s vice-presidential candidate mention a couple of weeks ago that there would be a major event that would test Obama’s mettle within 6 months of his taking office if he won the election, he wasn’t talking about a terrorist attack from Islamic extremists, he was talking about something a little bit closer to Amerca’s heart, the racial divide that has infected Americans for decades. That’s my take on it anyway.

Putting the Democrats in the White House, at least this time around, isn’t a good idea despite how good Obama makes it sound. There are a lot of risks associated with putting Obama and Biden in the Whitehouse, not withstanding the race issue I have already mentioned.

With Obama at the helm Americans can look forward to higher taxes, an admission that Obama, Biden and a few other Democrats have already indicated will happen, but in a deceptive and misleading kind of way.

Then there’s the war in Iraq, which by the end of 2009 will be an embarrassment created firstly by the George Bush’s administration and made worse by the Obama administration who at this point and as far as Americans know, doesn’t have an effective and workable troop withdrawal plan, though I’m sure that Colin Powell one of the architects behind the invasion of Iraq will play a big part in those plans.  It’s why Powell endorsed Obama with such fanfare in the first place. He is looking for a job, an opportunity to fix something that he helped to make wrong-the deliberate destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure to take down a despicable world leader who could have been taken out by an assassin’s bullet instead of with military force. But…

Anyway I digress.

The American economy is going to continue to suffer whether the Democrats or the Republicans win today’s election, and suffer it will for a couple of years to come. Bye the way does anybody think the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have played a part in the economical crisis the Americans, never mind the world is facing today? I certainly do.

Then there’s the health-care issue, an issue that will undoubtedly cause personal tax to rise if Obama has his way and is able to implement his multibillion but rarely referred to health-care plan. Don’t forget taking from those who earn over $250,000.00 (or is it $200,000, a hundred and fifty thousand or less-hard to say given the fact that certain Democrats have a difference of opinion on what middle class earning is) that an Obama administration is going to take money from to give to the dole bludger and those who can’t be bothered to work anymore than they have to make ends meet.

Last but certainly not least and the most serious threat to Americans is terrorism, only now there will a bigger terrorist threat coming from within the U.S., that threat being born out of racial divides.  Then there’s the anarchists who are going to pop out of the woodwork once the taxes begin to rise for them.

I could go on and on why I think Obama is bad for the U.S. but given I am an outsider looking in, I think I’ll just bite my tongue and invite American Crooked in Canada readers (believe it or not there are a lot of them) to add their two-cents worth to today’s blog entry if they are so inclined.

As for the John McCain and Sarah Palin ticket; other than what I have been hearing via the media about them, I really don’t know anymore about them than I do about Obama. But I do know that neither one of them are planning to raise taxes, and at the risk of being made out to be a racist-neither one of them are black. I also know that when it comes to the economy and national security they could fair no worse than Obama or Biden. I do think they come with less baggage too.

Either way though history will be made to today. There will either a black man with ties to radicalism and socialistic notions in the Whitehouse for the first time, or there will be a woman vice-president, the latter I think being a little easier for Americans (at least the white ones anyway) to swallow.