So, Barack Obama made a triumphant tour of the Middle East and Europe and…everyone’s pissed off. John McCain doesn’t know whether to piss or go blind. He taunted Obama for not visiting Iraq. Repeatedly, he taunted, like a school boy. So what happened? Obama went to Iraq and McCain is beside himself because it went so well. Even the so-called liberal media is looking for gaffs like crazy, but they can’t find any. Chris Matthews on Hardball said, after the successful Middle East visits, that perhaps Obama should call it a day and go home a winner, skipping Europe in case something went wrong there. Yeah, good idea, Chris. Germany was a bummer. Obama only managed to attract 200,000 cheering Germans, waving American flags. But as Jon Stewart put it, “Something is wrong with their American flags. They’re not on fire.”
Everywhere the man went it was magic. It doesn’t hurt that Barack Obama is taller than anyone he met or that during his visit, on a basketball court, he sank a swisher from well outside the key on his first try. The images were marvelous. When he held a press conference with France’s President Sarkozy he looked so presidential I almost forgot that Obama isn’t President. Yet.
Barack Obama is eloquent, articulate, smart, funny and handsome. And he was against the Iraq War Debacle from the beginning. George W. Bush can’t string together enough words to make an intelligible English sentence, he is a stupid man with zero curiosity about the world, he is coldly callous about the precious American and Iraqi lives being lost because of his lust for oil and power, and he looks hung-over. Always. I’m sure he is. He’s obviously back on the bottle. Sometimes his eyes are little more than puffy slits. But beyond that, he’s just a swaggering, arrogant, ignorant man (who thinks Mexico is in South America) and I loathe him and what he has done to this country. I don’t like to use the word hate, but in this case it applies. I hate Bush with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns. And I know many others feel the same way.
But Obama? I have never been this excited about a political candidate in my entire life. The man is not only a powerful orator, but a very intelligent one. If we can get past our Ku Klux Klan mentality, Barack Obama will be the next President of the United States. Fellow Democrats: Please, vote! Do you realize that if all registered Democratic voters actually voted in every election, we’d always win? Few Democrats realize that we outnumber the Republicans by a huge margin. But…we don’t vote. We stay home. Don’t stay home this time! VOTE! We may yet be proud of our country again.
© 2008 Judith Hayes
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