October 23, 2008- No Change At All

   The overwhelming theme behind the Obama campaign this year is "Change." The biggest slogan that the campaign is running out there is "Change That We Can Believe In".  Everywhere that Obama goes you see that shit plastered over everything and it is on almost every campaign sign that the dude has so it is what they are trying to burn into people's minds, that Obama is about change. That5 change suposedly starts with the obvious, the racil makeup of Barack Obama, that he would be the first President in history that was not totally white, and that represents change in and of itself, but the Obama people are saying that the changes that he has in store for us all go much farther than that, they shall change America entirely. The campaign is having fabulous success with that idea, they are selling it to the American people very well indeed, and that is about all that Obama is saying now in these last few days, that he represents change. He reminds us of that everywhere that he goes, while telling us that this change that he represents is sorely needed in America because of what George  W. Bush has done these last eight years. According to Obama, Bush has done everything from wreck the economy to fuck up earth's entire ecosystem, in short, that the dude has been bad news. That is not a lie at all, because it is true that Bush has been bad for many things, but Obama sensationalizes it all to the point of being downright silly at times. That is because many of the things that Bush has done are not things that are uniquely his, they are things that The Establishment has done for a very long time now to keep their place in society, George W. Bush just refined these techniques to the extreme. It takes an awful lot of people to wreck an economy like America's has been wrecked lately, one man just cannot do it,  but in an election year, financial hardships mean job hardships to politicians. However, there has been one aspect of things that the Bush Administration has excelled at more than others, and that has been fearmongering. They have gotten what they want by doing that from the beginning, and they have succeeded at it beyond anyone's expectations. Using the terror that was spread on September 11th, 2001, the Bush Admijmnistration has scared the shit out of the populace ever since and gotten them to say and do and believe in things that they otherwise never would. Fear was the overwhelming force behind the rush to go to war in Iraq, fear that another terrorist attack was imminent, and fear is what has been keeping an increasingly unpopular war going for years now, with no end in sight. Fear is how the Bush Administration has kept the people in line, kept them from criticizing or questioning antything that the Administration did or said, and fear has made Bush and his people an awful lot of money, set them all up for life. According to Obama, that fear has fucked America up something awful, and it is one of the biggest things that needs to be changed. So you would think that when Obama prattles on and on and on about change, that this fearmongering shit would be one of the main things that he is talking about. He claims to be so different and straighforward and such, that there wouyld be no need for fearmongering by him or his Administration, that they are of the belief that the truth shall overcome all, so there would no longer be any need to scare the shit out of everyone time and time again like Bush has done these last eight years. The problem is that Obama talks a good game, but talk is cheap, and his running mate, Joe Biden, proved that the other day in one of his campaign stops on Obama's behalf.

   When Biden has been campaigning for Obama, the main point that he tries to make is that Obama is indeed properly qualified to be President, that those that say that he is not are full of shit,and that the man is going to be exceptional at the job of being President. Every day this seems to be a harder thing for Biden to do instead of an easier one, because Obama never really goes out and proves that this is the case at all, he just has the attitude of it is so because he says it is so. He cannot prove it because he has never really done anything in his fucking life except run for President, so outside of campaigning and such, he has not had muich experience at anything else. He has never bothered to do much at any elected offices that he has held, because to him they all have been mere stepping stones to the White House, so to say that Obama has no practical experience is not a campaign smear, but the truth, and Joe Biden knows that. He also knows that he wants to be Vice-President very badly, the highest-paying and most important do-nothing job in America, so he has to make Obama out to be as experienced as Jimi Hendrix was, that he is qualified to save the world just like he says he will. To do that, he has had to bring out the big guns, and strat making statement that defy credulity and that also fit right into ther Obama as Messiah image that has been created. So a few days ago, he went off in a campaign speech about how Barack Obama just has to be ready and qualified to handle anything once he gets elected  becasue it is only going to be a matter of six months or so before he gets tested by the world like JFK did with the Cuban Missile Crisis. Biden used the term "a generated crisis" to describe this scene that he is sure will be coming before 2009 is out. He did not spoecify where exactly thsi crisis would be coming from, instead he spoke of several places that it could start at, without naming any specifically, but anyone with any sense knew that he was referring to the problem spots of the world like the Middle East. The point of bringing this all up was for Biden to reassure everyone that once these crises happen, that Obama will be more than ready to handle them, because he is indeed qualified and prepared to lead and be President number 44. This argument is supposed to counter John Mc Cain's argument about how his experience as an enlisted man and his experiences as a Vietnam POW, plus his advanced age, make him far more qualified to run America during wartime than someone that has never even served in the military at all, something designed to make Americans nervous about electing Obama to the White House in wartime and wary of his lack of experience. That is powerful stuff to say in times of war, andsince Obama does not have anything tangible to use to counter that, Biden has taken it upon himself to start talking about this imminent catastrophe that America is going to face once Obama takes over. These statements have caused a bit of a stir, as they were designed to, because up until now, the Obama camp has not said anything at all about thinking that the bad guys of the world are laying in wait for Obama to take over so that they can work out on his inexperienced ass, this was totally new stuff when Biden brought it up, and it was certainly not a brainchild of David Axelrod. Biden did something other than show that his prospective boss was not an inexperienced newbie that would be in way the fuck over his head if he is elected, but an experienced statesman that could handle whatever the world threw at him, he showed something about that change that Obama babbles on about all the time.

   What Biden did was to use fearmongering every bit as shamelessly and blatantly as the Bush Administration ever has. They took pages right out of their playbook with what they said and the way that they said it. Biden referred to vague, shadowy threats just the way that the Bush Administration has, raising the specter of the boogeyman lurking in the shadows, waiting for the most opportune time to strike, scaring the shit out of people just like Bush always has. In fact, all that Biden did was to take the Bush playbook and extend it into the prospedctive Obama years, making it seem lik ethe badguys of the Bush Admijnistration that have been laying  low for the last few years, like bin Laden,  and are just waiting for Obama to become President so that they can take advantage of his perceived inexperience so that they can finish the job that they started on September 11th, 2001, and that is to destroy America. If that is not classic fearmongering, I do not know what is. However, the Obama camp seems to think that this tactic is necessary to counter Mc Cain's arguments about inexperience. They have obviously seen how well fearmoingering has worked for the Bush Administration these last eight years and they want to try and use it to seal the deal this close to the election. If Bush has been able to use it so deftly to not only get himself elected twice but to make himself look like a big time warrior, then it must be something that is useful in today's world, so the Obama camp, never missing any opportunity, seems to have gone to fearmongering to close the deal. If Biden wanted to paint Obama as an experienced guy, he did not have to go painting some dire picture of the evil hordes of the world jumping out of the shadows befiore 2009 is over and trying to destroy Amerrica once and for all, hre could have painted a pictuere of Obama as a statesman that would be able to avoid such things through the strength of his character alone because he is experienced enough dealing with people so he knows how to defuse volatile and negative situations. Instead, we get a story about Obama having to be a warrior superman just like Bush, fighting off the terrorists because they think that he is weak. That is just a continuation of what the Bush Administration has done the whole time, paint the most dire of pictures all the time, and frame everything in the most horrible of lights. There has always been another catastrophe around the next corner in the Bush Administration, and that attitude of keeping everyone in a constant state of panic has kept them in power and in charge all the way to the maximum allowable limit, so the Obama people have seen that and have decided to start using it now in their campaign and later on, in their Administration, because it seems to work today. No one has wquestioned anything that Biden said about all of this, no one has asked why the terrorists will wait for Obama to take office and shit before they strike instead of striking now at a lame duck Administration that has very limited time left to adequately fight them and trying to create an atmosphere of chaos as the Presidential Administrations change in January. Instead, everyone is now looking at a possible terrorist strike in 2009 and how Obama would handle it, and since most Americans are being led to believe that Obama is a sure winner in two weeks, everyone is going to be freaking out over a possible attack rather than making intelligent choices when they go to vote next month.

   What this all shows is that an Obama Administration would be no different than a Bush Administration because they would use the same tactics to run everything, and fearmongering will be right up there on the list, just like it has been with Bush. The only difference seems to be that it is going to be delivered nicely and with a smiley face, rather than with stark tones and stern faces. It wil be easy for Obama to find some thing in the world and point to it as the example of what Biden was talking about, ther test of his mettle, and no matter how small a thing it is, the Obama people will blow it up into the largest thing that America has ever seen or faced and scare the living shit out of them once again and use that fear to prove whatever point is was that they wanted to prove. Thi sis going to prove to be every bit as successful for Obama as it has been for Bush, because Obama has the American people hypnotized now, and they would never think that he would use tactics like fearmingering on them, after all he is all about change, so they'll be every bit as compliant for him as they were for Bush and Obama shall succeed at fearmongering every bit as much as Bush has. This shows that this change that Obama speaks of does not go any farther than the racial thing I spoke of earlier, that he imntends to keep right on doing the things that The Establishment has always done, the things that they want him to do, and he has zero plans to rock the boat, no matter what his stirring speeches say. If he was really about change like he pretends to be, he would never have been allowed to get this far in things, actually have a great chance to become President, because only those that are firmly in the pocket of The Establishment are allowed to get this far, and Barack Hussein Obama is no exception, despite his claims to the contrary. He just looks and sounds different than what America ius used to, and that is why he can position himself as this agent for change and shit and have so many people believe that bullshit. The changes that he will make in society shal be purely cosmetic, they shall have no lasting impact on things, none at all. He knows full well that using these same old tactics is how he has any chance to be a retiring President like Bush is eight years from now, and he will do anything to get that shit, even sell his soul to Satan, so using freamongering tactics after deriding Bush endlessly for doing the same thing is nothing, hell, that's politics. He only has to fool the people into believing that change shit for twelve more days, and that can be done blindfolded and with both hands tied behind one's back, so that is why Biden was allowed to paint that stark scene and start using fearmongering tactics, because an Obama Administration has to gewt used to using these things sooner or later, and they might as well start now, so that they are experienced and ready to do it just like they said that they would be. However, that experience is going to be in areas other than what the people think, the areas that tighten and strenghten the control that The Establishment has over the ordinary people, and by the time that the people figure that out, if they ever do, it is going to be way too late because Obama will probably be well on his way to his second and final term as President by then. Change is just a campaign slogan to get Barack Obama into the White House for what he hopes are eight years, it is not a reality of any kind, Obama is going to be the same old shit in a different package,and the miracles that he is promising the people are just not going to happen, so that is why an Obama Administration is going to be a huge disappointment, that and many other reasons.

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