November 4, 2008- The Lesser Evil

   In just a few hours, the longest fucking Presidential campaign in American history finally comes to a close when the polls open across America and the people go to cast their votes for either Barack Obama or John Mc Cain. This is a day that America has been waiting for very anxiously for years now, and a day that many are glad to finally see come. No matter which way it all works out, it is a historic day in America today, every Presidential Election day is historic, but this one is even more so considerign what is on the line and what the final result might be. Unless you have been incarcerated in solitary confinement somewhere for the last few years, like at Guantanamo Bay or something, you know that if Obama wins the election today, he becomes what they are calling the first black President in American history, even though the dude is half-white, and if Mc Cain wins, he becomes the oldest dude ever to be elected President. This campaign has been in the faces of the American people for over two long years now, andmor etime, money, and energy has been expended on this campaign than on any other one in history. That has made interest run very high, exceptionally high for an American election, and people have not only been registering to vote in record numbers, but turning out in them as well, there have been very long lines in every state that has allowed early voting, and  even longer lines are expected at polling places across America today. People have been standing in line for four, five, even six hours these last few days to cast their vote, many of whom never even went near a polling place on Election Day before. Everyone wants to be a part of history, and be able to tell their descendants where they were when this all went down and so forth. It really looks like America has a case of Election Fever like they have never had before, because seemingly everywhere you go these days in America, the erlection has been the hot topic. On radio stations, TV stations, blogs, everywhere you fucking go, Obama and Mc Cain and the final showdown today have been everywhere. It seems as if the last eight years of George W. Bush has galvanized people to take their role in the process very seriously this time instead of blowing it off like they normally do, and everyone in America this day is a political pundit of some kind, even the wasted winos in the gutters of skid rows across America have opinions about what's about to commence today, and are even trying to sober up enough to take part in the whole process themselves, everyone and theior fucking brother is seemingly a part of th4 electoral process in America now. Conventional wisdom says that the American people are paying such close attention to the election this time around because there is just so much at stake here, as whoever gets the unenviable task of succeeding George W. Bush has quite a job on his hands, for Bush has not left the world the same way as it was when he started, not at all, and the next President is going to inherit a shitload of problems that were unimaginable just a decade ago. Bush changed the world a whole lot, and the next President is going to have to take that changed world and try to do something with it and try and change it even further, so being President in 2008 is even a more monumental task than it ever has been before, something that  George Washington and his Founding Father buddies never could have imagined no matter how much dope they may have smoked and booze they drank. There's a lot going on the line in a few hours, and it seems that Americans are taking it seriously this time, but there is more to all this than meets the eye.

   Everyone knows that Obama is supposed to have a victory tonight, it is just a question of how large a victory according to the media asnd assorted pundits. Mc Cain does not seem to have much of a chance, and there are numerous reasons for that, and I have enumerated them in previous columns this election season, but by all expectations, Obama is due to make history in about 16-18 hours by being officially named the winner of the election. When that happens, he is due to go to this massive fucking rally that is set up in Grant Park here in Chicago, and just indulge himself in the unbridled adulation of the masses, they say as many as 1 million people may show up for this shindig, and of course, the world media will be covering it live and breathlessly leading the worship services, and after they quiet down enough, Obama will make his victory speech, one that wil be filled with slogans and photo opportunities, but will inevitably veer into the territory that every victorious President's acceptance speech gets into on Election Night. What he wil start to say is that he has been given a clear mandate by the American people to go and do whatever the fuck it is that he wants to go and do, and that he has the unwavering support of said people to forge ahead with his agendas and so on and so forth. Naturally, every word of this will be greeted with thunderous applause and broadcast live around the world. The TV stations wil be endl;essly showing us the numbers that came in from the elections, and pointing to those as that mandate that Obama spoke of. He is going to win this election rather handily, Mc Cain wil be lucky to put up respectable numbers in defeat, and the media will say that this shows that America is overwhelmingly in Obama's corner. They'll pull out the numbers from all elections past, and show that the numbers that Obama pulls tonight are going to be comparable to the largest numbers in history, making it look as if Obama has won by record margins. However, it is going to be hard for him to beat Richard Nixon's margin of victory in 1972, or Ronald Reagan's in 1984, but it is going to be impressive nonetheless, and themedia will continually repeat that shit about Obama having a mandate from the American people. Then they'll sit there for hours and hours analyzing what that mandate means for Obama and America and the rest of the world and the universe at large and so forth, and all sorts of boring motherfuckers in suits and ties are going to be sitting there in the studios blathering on about what they feel that this mandate that Obama has been given really means. In fact, that should be the main story in America well into next week, what the Obama mandate means, because the dude is probably going to go on vacation after his grandmother's funeral is over, so he won't be around to give TV the sound and video bites that they crave so they'll have to speculate about that mandate over and over and over again for days, until Obama starts making fresh news again. For the eleven weeks between today and January 20th, Obama is going to repeat that mandate mantra again and again, and the media is obediently going to parrot it along with him, because he is going to want everyone to think that he did ideed get a great mandate from the American people and that they love his ass every bit as much as they now hate George W. Bush's. However, that mandate stuff is an easy term to throw around, especially when it might not be anything close to what it seems to be,and that is what we are facing as today dawns.

   The fact is that many Americans are less that thrilled about Barack Obama, they feel that the dude is unqualified to be President, that he does not know what he is doing, that he hangs with as many questionable characters as any politician (especially one from Chicago) ever has, and so forth. The reality is that Barack Obama is perhaps the most unknown Presidential candidate in history, mainly because about all that he has ever done is run for President and not much else. He intentionally hides and blurs his background as much as he possibly can so that people are very unsure of what exactly this cat is about. Just that race shit shows that, the dude has always marketed himself as a black politician, when he is as white as he is black, a 50/50 split, because he knows that marketing himself this way has been a sure guarantee to the White House, so he has only played up being black, so much so that there are many American voters that are not even aware that the dude is half white, because he never talks about that side of the family, just that African sheepherder from Kenya that ran out on him and his mom when he was little. He does the same thing with many other issues, like the people that he pals with, so that the American people have been left confused and unsure about what this guy is really all about besides slogans and speeches. The problem has been his opponent, John Mc Cain. First of all, the dude is a Republican, like Bush, and Americans are so pissed off at Bush that they are ready to punish his Party for that, and besides that, the dude is old and in questionable health, and his Vice-Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is every bit as inexperienced as Obama, maybe even more so. So all that shit adds up and has turned many Americans away from Mc Cain, not because they are in love with Barack Obama like he says, but because they are not into McCain, and they are told that they only have the two choices to pick from, so they pick Obama. They look at him as "the lesser of two evils" or some such shit, and that is why they cast their votes for him, not because they think that he is the second coming of Christ like David Axelrod wants you to think. They are very unsure about the guy, but they look at him as the lesser evil than McCain, so they vote for him ,and that alone should give Obama big numbers come tonight. That is hardly a mandate, because that's when you have many people solidly behind you, and Obama is going to have the majority of those that voted for him being far less than enthusiastic about him. Also, even though there is sure to be record voter turnout in the election this year, it is almost certain that less than 50% of the people that are eligible to vote in America are going to turn out, it is going to look so much larger because it is not going to be one of these elections where like 25% or less turn out nationwide. However, the majority of people eligible to vote in America should stay away from the polls like always, and that also would cut into any mandate that Obama may pick up tonight. So when you factor these two things into it all, the victory that Obama seems sure to get today is going to be far less impressive than he is going to be bragging about, and it won't be anything near the mandate that he will lay claim to tonight. Yes, he should win, and win pretty impressively, but it is going to be far from a mandate, just as it is with every victorious politician that claims that they have one, because the people are never as behind a candidate as they lay claim to on election nights.

   A lot of that is due to the fact that most Americans don't really give a fuck about who is President, even this time around, because they know that whoever he or she may be each time, that they are firmly in the pockets and grasp of the special interests and agendas that run this country, and as such, they have no ability to affect change like they say. There is no such thing as a President that does not leave office with lots of blood on his hands, because they make decisions that cost people their lives every day, and do it with no care for that fact at all. They are always in the grip of those that have these fucked-up, evil things in mind like American world domination and suppression of all dissent and competition, and every single fucking President, no matter which party he belongs to or who he is, does the bidding of these people first and foremost and the regular people come last. Since the people that get screwed by every President and his decisions and such constitute about 99% of the populace, many(such as myself) have totally given up on the idea that you can elect any person to be President that will do anything other than serve those special interests first and me last. So the people turn out on Election Day just because they are told to do so, and they do not support any candidates at all, it is just a crapshoot when it comes to actually casting votes, many people make up their minds as to who they'll vote for right there in the spot just to get the fuck done so they can get the hell out of here and get on with their day. Others stay home and watch Family Guy or ECW Wrestling or some such shit and do not even bother at all. So no President, not even one that kicks his opponent's ass like Nixon and Reagan did, gets that mandate that they crow about when they accept the victory, every last one of them are there mainly because the people looked at them as the lesser of the two evils they had to choose from, not because they actually believe in this person one iota. That is why the American system is so fucked up and never solves anything, and today is going to be no exception to that. In a few hours, Barack Obama is going to be chosen the lesser of two evils by people that are not really behind him much, but, like every other victoroius politician before him, he'll go on TV tonight claiming that he has a mandate from the American people, a mandate for change,and that he'll fulfill that mandate by bringing about change and everfyone will piss themselves with joy and adulation. However, it will all be a lie and an act, just like an Obama Administration is gojng to be, just like every Presidential Administration is,  because Obama is going to be like every other politician tonight and know that he does not have any kind of a mandate from anyone, and that he does not need one, because the people that really count are behind him, the people that have those agendas that they want fulfilled, the people that made Barack Obama  as President possible to begin with. So when you see Obama tonight in Grant Park (or Mc Cain in Arizona), making his victory speech and saying that he has a mandate from thne American people, don't believe one fucking word of it, for that shall be the first lie that the new President-elect will tell the people, the first of countless ones that shall come in the next four years. Electing people just because you see them as the lesser evil is no way to change anything, and since this election is going to be decided on just that premise, don't look for any substantive change to happen between now and the next time we do this whole charade again in November, 2012.

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