The northlondonhippy

Archive for May 26th, 2008

I haven’t really weighed in on the upcom­ing US pres­i­den­tial elec­tions yet and I thought it was about time I did.

I think I was wait­ing for the field to nar­row to the final two can­di­dates and like most of the world and media (of which I play a small role), thought it would have been resolved by now. It just goes to show you what the media knows…sweet FA.

Except me, of course with my crys­tal balls and amaz­ing pre­dic­tive pow­ers of foresight.

I’ve always joked that news­rooms should replace their for­ward plan­ning desks with psy­chics any­way. Just imag­ine if some­one could tell you where to put a TV cam­era for the next big plane crash or polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tion. Talk about a world exclusive!

And speak­ing of polit­i­cal assas­si­na­tions, why are peo­ple so obsessed with some­one bump­ing off Barak Obama. You know, some wacko doesn’t have to kill the black can­di­date. It’s not a rule, or even a sug­gested guide­line. It’s actu­ally rep­re­hen­si­ble to sug­gest it, but the sug­ges­tion is out there, far more than you might expect.

My friends over at ANORAK NEWS, have been chart­ing the OBAMA DEATH CULT, thanks to pub­lic com­ments by for­mer Repub­li­can can­di­date Mike Huck­abee and now HILLARY CLINTON.

These are just the two most recent and high pro­file exam­ples, but there are more.

Why is every­one so afraid of an Obama presidency?

I think the answer to that is quite com­plex and any­one who says its just down to racism, is miss­ing the point. I’m not going to deny there is a racist ele­ment to it, because it is cer­tainly a com­po­nent and for some, the only rea­son, but there’s more to it than that.

Obama rep­re­sents change and a break from the past. He is, if noth­ing else, cre­at­ing an illu­sion, that he will take Amer­ica in a dif­fer­ent and more pro­gres­sive and dare I say, lib­eral direc­tion. Whether or not that is true, remains to be seen, but he is cer­tainly mar­ket­ing him­self that way.

So many peo­ple wouldn’t be talk­ing about some nut killing Obama, if they weren’t afraid of him.

I have a silly the­ory that he might be the anti-christ, but of course I don’t believe in that non­sense any more than I believe in the real one. It always gets a laugh though, except from com­mit­ted Chris­tians (and shouldn’t they all be?), who give me know­ing glances and a cou­ple of leaflets from their church.

When­ever I lis­ten to Obama speak, I actu­ally like what I hear. I realise that’s a politician’s job, but he does do it well. When he says he would talk directly with his ene­mies, I applaud him, when he says he’ll pull all the troops out of Iraq as quickly and safely as pos­si­ble, I com­mend him and when he says he’ll allow the use of med­ical mar­i­juana, I’d kiss him.

But would I vote for him? If he ends up being the demo­c­ra­tic can­di­date, of course I would, but it doesn’t mat­ter, because I am not a voter. Any­thing is bet­ter than another four years of McBush.

But back to the “kill Obama” sideshow…I found this clip from Fox News espe­cially dis­turb­ing. Actu­ally it really fucked me off. See what you think…