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Insane 2008 American Presidential Campaign

by taipan

There has never been a political campaign like it. No Hollywood
script writer could have presented such a story and retained any
credibility, The 2008 American Presidential campaign has become
not only bizarre but insane. Consider the following:

First a brash African American guy with a most un American
sounding name, Barack Obama, defeats the Bill and Hillary Clinton
long established political powerhouse in the Democratic primary.
For the first time in history a black man was nominated to
represent a major party in a bid for the Whitehouse. And he did
it against a Hillary Clinton that in 2006 was considered by most
as unbeatable. While this is a historic achievement that America
should be proud of it is an unlikely and rather bizarre event
that makes the 2008 campaign unlike any other in American
history.

Then as if Obama's upset victory wasn't enough, John McCain
resurrects himself from the political graveyard to win the
Republican Party's primary. This is an amazing feat as there are
many in his own party's leadership who are not all that fond of
the "maverick". McCain is considered by his own party leaders as
hotheaded and unpredictable and has on many occasions not been a
team player. Yet he was able to prevail. Amazing stuff.

There is more. As a conflicting footnote to his message of
change, Obama, to round out his ticket, selects a white haired
old Washington hand, Senator Joe Biden, who has considerable
foreign policy experience. Obama is then criticized for bringing
experience to his team in an area where he was criticized for
being light on experience. Go figure. It must be American
politics at its finest.

Then a day after Obama's convention speech McCain hurls a
bombshell by naming a largely unknown Alaska Governor Sarah
Palin, as his running mate. The first news reports on Palin
discloses that she is a hockey mom, eats mooseburgers, is a hard
line pro life advocate, is under investigation by the Alaska
state government on ethics charges, and that her seventeen year
old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant.

With a little over two months to go until election day more
revelations about Palin are sure to be revealed. Most will
probably be of the sort that should have no place in politics.
But in the insane election year of 2008 appearently no topic is
considered out of bounds, no matter how tasteless and meaningless
it is.

McCain, ever the gambler, has rolled the dice in a major way
with the Palin nomination. There goes McCain's high minded
sounding campaign theme "county first" as far right votes were
more in the logic of his selection process than Palin's ability
to lead the nation if anything happened to McCain.

All of these twists and turns would be highly amusing if only
the need to have the right leaders correct the course that the US
has been on for the past eight years wasn't so urgent. The rest
of the world must be observing events with a mixture of amusement
and horror. To think that a 72 year old man with medical problems
could be elected to the most important job in the world is by
itself world wide attention getting.

In addition, to think that McCain's backup would be a 44 year
old PTA hockey mom with only small town mayor (about 9,000
people) experience and two years small population state (about
660,000) experience as governor is truly unbelievable. Once again
America would prove to the world that the nation has gone insane
and as a result the entire world must suffer.

Palin even believes that global warming is a fiction. And that
polar bears should be left to fend for themselves, just forget
that we may be next if we don't get the global warming challenge
fixed.

Today I saw one comment from a big shot Republican Palin
supporter that "Americans will love Palin because in Palin and
her family they can see the sameness to their own situations".
Has American politics come to that? Instead of wanting a highly
intelligent, accomplished, and competent leader Americans want
leaders who are average Joes just like themselves?

If that is the case in the near future America will not be able
to compete against nations that place education, competence, and
accomplishment far above "sameness". The insane 2008 American
Presidential campaign may be an indicator of a nation gone far
off the tracks. Should McCain Palin win, America may well be on
its way to sameness when compared to second tier poorly
performing nations.

As there would be a fair chance that if elected to the VP office
Palin would eventually become President, especially if McCain
entered a second term, a President Palin would probably seal that
unhappy fate.

Learn more about the 2008 election and the coming energy crisis
and its consequences for the way we will live and work at  <a
href="http://www.articlediscovery.com/">Crisis News Analysis</a>

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