Now that the Republican poppycock is over with, we move on to the Democratic re-anointment of the incumbent President.
I'll tell you right now. I will not vote for him, no matter how many balloons fall, no matter how many relatives fill the stage singing his praises, no matter how good the marketing.
I would vote for Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of Oakland California, if she were running. Have you even heard of her?
She is the ONLY person who voted against Public Law 107-40 which is the bane of our existence. She is the ONLY person who was brave enough to stand against the Cheney-Bush war machine. Not a single other Democrat did that, sycophants and cowards and self-serving feckless slugs that they are.
(For those who don't know, P.L. 107-40 merely signed over Congress's most important power to the Executive, and for all time -- similar to what happened in Germany in 1933, if you can bother to learn a little history).
Congress has a 10 % approval rating because it is worthless, and that's because they can't do much these days beyond re-naming Post Offices and running for re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-election. They gave away the store, Constitution-wise, and we are now morally bankrupt because of it.
It is because of Republicans and Democrats alike that we are trapped in this insanity of HOMELAND SECURITY peering into every American's orifices in search of future terroristic intentions.
P.L. 107-40 declared war against enemies to be named later. It's hard to even imagine such monumental stupidity happening in this country, because supposedly we are better than Nazi Germany.
Bush named al-Qaeda and the Taliban as our enemies. Since Congress couldn't even bother to put an end limit on naming enemies, Obama now names them individually on an almost-daily basis, acting as judge, jury and Chief Executioner in droning these INNOCENT until proven guilty children, women and men into oblivion. We used to be a nation of legal procedure but that has gone out the window. We used to care about international law. We used to be a good world citizen, but now we're just a big bully who claims the right to kill anybody, anywhere, whom we don't like.
P.L. 107-40 started the DAFT war to forever prevent future terrorism. Obama speechified in Dec. 2009 that the law was still in effect, in case you are one of those who believe that egregious and dangerous laws disappear if you ignore them, or if you believe that politicians don't take advantage of every bit of loose power left lying around unattended and unguarded.
I will not vote for Mr. Obama this November, because he acts as Executioner-in-Chief, which is the sort of thing that people started a revolution to stop when King George III did so. If Bush behaved this way, well, many people have speculated that the left would be up in arms against such despotic rule.
With such a weasel and turd as the Republican nominee, Obama should be a shoo-in.
But he isn't.
He ignores the issues that I find most important. Perhaps there are many that feel the same, which would explain Obama's weakness.
Thank you for reading, if you've gotten this far. I appreciate being allowed here.
locust
literally one computer user stubbornly typing
p.s. We are doomed unless we do something about Public Law 107-40.