OK, take a breath.
In some 11 hours the polling stations are closing and by that the reign of George Walker Bush has come to an end. Well, he will be in the office for another 2 months until January 20th or something, but at least we, they, the Americans, have a new President elected. And that’s a start, and we have survived. Survived 8 years of fear, everyday monitoring of the private life and a politic of trade and marked liberalism that would have not only Marx to turn in his grave, but also Adam Smith. Let’s face it; Bush supported the Lassize Fair, and not conventional liberalism/conservatism in European style. Like it or not, he did something not even senator Obama will manage unless he really manages to get the US out of the shit: Bush did change the world; to the worse. Ask the Palestinians, or the Kurds, or the 23 % of the Americans who’s living for below 60 % of the median income (6.4 % in Norway, and infernally 16 % in Ireland, the Celtic Tiger up my…nose) or those who had to leave New Orleans after Katrina, the Iraqis, the Israelis, and not to mention the new cold war atmosphere we are facing against Russia and Iran, and to some extent China. Thank you so munch for inflicting our life even we didn’t have the opportunity to vote against you. OK, let us change.
However, Obama or McCain, there is huge differences between them and honestly: even as I find it quite hard to believe McCain when he says he will take America in a new direction, as long as he stays alive and gov. Palin remains as Vice-President, US will, despite the outcome of the election, have a highly skilled and a quite stronger Presidency than the previous, as it did show to be rather a constellation of daddy Bush’s friends cooperation with some NGO’s who’s intentions are rather speculative. And even if it should come to the surface after some digging in the new President’s past, friends and voting record: it can’t get worse. And Joe Biden is fare more trustworthy in Foreign Affairs, and I guess when it comes to Human dignity and human rights than Dick Chaney. That it will be change with sen. Obama and sen Biden: absolutely. A liberal presidency after 8 years of neoconservative rule will bring changes in one or another way. We will see a improvement in the social policy, we will see a expanding public sphere when it comes to health care and gun control, not to mention a quite different approach to international relations not to abuse a expression that I like, but the new approach are really a move from the Armalite to the ballot box. When it comes to McCain I find it quite hard to believe when he says he will bring America in a new direction. I am of that opinion that a Republican is a Republican, liberal, centrist or conservative, and a man who openly says that his opponent will bring a atomic war upon them, and a VP candidate who argues that there’s a lot of terrorist around them waiting for Obama to be elected so they can us the proposed cuts in the US defence to attack them; compare to the Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld/Wolfowits doctrine, where is the new direction? To use fear as primary tool to win the keys to the House in Pennsylvania Avenue, isn’t that pretty much the same way that Bush become re-elected? And Palin, who prayed to the Almighty for a pipe line in Alaska (as far as I know she’s the Governor there and could simply by proper arguing and deliberation manage to get the pipe line granted through regular mechanism) is that a new directions from the pray meetings in the White House? I seriously doubt that. When McCain talks about how he will get America into the right track and bring the changes they need, I get a flash back to the 1984 election when Walter Monedale did the same, claiming that he would bring the changes to the White House just after Ronald Regan had turned the House into something posh and glamourious after some decades with dust collecting presidencies and little memorable occations. As we all know, Mondale lost. Big time. 13 Electorial votes and hardly 40% of the national votes. It was devestating. Have McCain/Palin gone into the same trapp, promoting changes from the heritage of Bush, but still stay to the party manefesto? Will changes from something to something els without doing changes that could be claimed to be liberal? I thin they have entered that trapp, and at this point, there's no bloody way out of it.
Anyway; the first polling stations in New Hampshire have just closed. Dixvill Notch, a republican stronghold since the 1960s have fallen. Perhaps a coincidence, perhaps just a bad day for McCain or perhaps a silent start of something greater, something unexpected that as close as four years ago were unthinkable, something I seriously had thought Americans were way to conservative and racist to do: vote on a African American, that have been raised among Muslims (The peoples who always tries to kill off Jack Bauer, James Braddock and McCoy as they get them in site; you know the terrorists who can't wait to bring their wrath and pagan religion upon the inocent, God fearing Americans in their own family homes in Kentucky, Utha and Nebraska and are hiding at the Canadian and Mexican boarder waiting for Obama to reduce the defence spendings so they can rush towards them and strike them as they are getting weak (satiric for those who didn’t notice!)), and of course that are not representing one of the Southern States (Carter-Bush-Clinton-Gore-Dole(Kansas)). Quite extraordinary in something that actually are turning to a setting that the West Wing could have created. We all remember that the sudden death of John Spencer (the VP candidate and Foreign minister Leo McGarry) before in the 3rd last episode in the final season were finished, suddenly were not too far away from the reality now as Obama’s Grandmother past away the day before the election night. It’s a kind of symbolic. It is however magic. It’s nearly a bit too good to be true. It’s hope and it’s huge speeches. Tears and Bruce Springsteen against prays and Gretchen Wilson. Rock against Country. A "Socialist" against the party who Nationalized the largest banks in US. It is New England against the Mid-West. Blue against Red. It's the American Reality against the American Dream.
It’s Election.
In some 11 hours the polling stations are closing and by that the reign of George Walker Bush has come to an end. Well, he will be in the office for another 2 months until January 20th or something, but at least we, they, the Americans, have a new President elected. And that’s a start, and we have survived. Survived 8 years of fear, everyday monitoring of the private life and a politic of trade and marked liberalism that would have not only Marx to turn in his grave, but also Adam Smith. Let’s face it; Bush supported the Lassize Fair, and not conventional liberalism/conservatism in European style. Like it or not, he did something not even senator Obama will manage unless he really manages to get the US out of the shit: Bush did change the world; to the worse. Ask the Palestinians, or the Kurds, or the 23 % of the Americans who’s living for below 60 % of the median income (6.4 % in Norway, and infernally 16 % in Ireland, the Celtic Tiger up my…nose) or those who had to leave New Orleans after Katrina, the Iraqis, the Israelis, and not to mention the new cold war atmosphere we are facing against Russia and Iran, and to some extent China. Thank you so munch for inflicting our life even we didn’t have the opportunity to vote against you. OK, let us change.
However, Obama or McCain, there is huge differences between them and honestly: even as I find it quite hard to believe McCain when he says he will take America in a new direction, as long as he stays alive and gov. Palin remains as Vice-President, US will, despite the outcome of the election, have a highly skilled and a quite stronger Presidency than the previous, as it did show to be rather a constellation of daddy Bush’s friends cooperation with some NGO’s who’s intentions are rather speculative. And even if it should come to the surface after some digging in the new President’s past, friends and voting record: it can’t get worse. And Joe Biden is fare more trustworthy in Foreign Affairs, and I guess when it comes to Human dignity and human rights than Dick Chaney. That it will be change with sen. Obama and sen Biden: absolutely. A liberal presidency after 8 years of neoconservative rule will bring changes in one or another way. We will see a improvement in the social policy, we will see a expanding public sphere when it comes to health care and gun control, not to mention a quite different approach to international relations not to abuse a expression that I like, but the new approach are really a move from the Armalite to the ballot box. When it comes to McCain I find it quite hard to believe when he says he will bring America in a new direction. I am of that opinion that a Republican is a Republican, liberal, centrist or conservative, and a man who openly says that his opponent will bring a atomic war upon them, and a VP candidate who argues that there’s a lot of terrorist around them waiting for Obama to be elected so they can us the proposed cuts in the US defence to attack them; compare to the Bush/Cheney and Rumsfeld/Wolfowits doctrine, where is the new direction? To use fear as primary tool to win the keys to the House in Pennsylvania Avenue, isn’t that pretty much the same way that Bush become re-elected? And Palin, who prayed to the Almighty for a pipe line in Alaska (as far as I know she’s the Governor there and could simply by proper arguing and deliberation manage to get the pipe line granted through regular mechanism) is that a new directions from the pray meetings in the White House? I seriously doubt that. When McCain talks about how he will get America into the right track and bring the changes they need, I get a flash back to the 1984 election when Walter Monedale did the same, claiming that he would bring the changes to the White House just after Ronald Regan had turned the House into something posh and glamourious after some decades with dust collecting presidencies and little memorable occations. As we all know, Mondale lost. Big time. 13 Electorial votes and hardly 40% of the national votes. It was devestating. Have McCain/Palin gone into the same trapp, promoting changes from the heritage of Bush, but still stay to the party manefesto? Will changes from something to something els without doing changes that could be claimed to be liberal? I thin they have entered that trapp, and at this point, there's no bloody way out of it.
Anyway; the first polling stations in New Hampshire have just closed. Dixvill Notch, a republican stronghold since the 1960s have fallen. Perhaps a coincidence, perhaps just a bad day for McCain or perhaps a silent start of something greater, something unexpected that as close as four years ago were unthinkable, something I seriously had thought Americans were way to conservative and racist to do: vote on a African American, that have been raised among Muslims (The peoples who always tries to kill off Jack Bauer, James Braddock and McCoy as they get them in site; you know the terrorists who can't wait to bring their wrath and pagan religion upon the inocent, God fearing Americans in their own family homes in Kentucky, Utha and Nebraska and are hiding at the Canadian and Mexican boarder waiting for Obama to reduce the defence spendings so they can rush towards them and strike them as they are getting weak (satiric for those who didn’t notice!)), and of course that are not representing one of the Southern States (Carter-Bush-Clinton-Gore-Dole(Kansas)). Quite extraordinary in something that actually are turning to a setting that the West Wing could have created. We all remember that the sudden death of John Spencer (the VP candidate and Foreign minister Leo McGarry) before in the 3rd last episode in the final season were finished, suddenly were not too far away from the reality now as Obama’s Grandmother past away the day before the election night. It’s a kind of symbolic. It is however magic. It’s nearly a bit too good to be true. It’s hope and it’s huge speeches. Tears and Bruce Springsteen against prays and Gretchen Wilson. Rock against Country. A "Socialist" against the party who Nationalized the largest banks in US. It is New England against the Mid-West. Blue against Red. It's the American Reality against the American Dream.
It’s Election.
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