Posted on 27 October 2008 by Will O' in Politics
How else is McCain going to win? Threatened with the biggest wipe-out since that other Arizona Repuglycan, Barry Goldwater, lost damn near every state, McCain has had to throw every fear ‘n’ smear tactic in the books at Barrack Obama. So far they haven’t worked. But wait, didn’t he just guarantee an election victory?
Was that just blowhard bullshit, or are the Repuglycans frantically putting the finishing touches on a message from their latest stand-in for the world’s most feared man. Oops, that’s George W. Bush. I meant the other one, Osama Bin Laden.
One of my favourite conspiracies is the one where the Bush Administration routinely trots out a “new, improved” Bin Laden video whenever Umeruhcans start to forget they are under a constant, manufactured threat of a terrorist attack.
It’s hard to believe Bin Laden is still alive. If he is, then how unlikely is it that Umeruhca’s military hasn’t found him after all this time? Unless they want him kept under wraps for those ripe moments when they can scare the population into retaining the incumbent.
Towards the end of the last week of the 2004 election, here came Osama Bin Laden telling folks to back neither Bush nor Kerry, but that security could only be achieved if they urged their leaders to call off the “war on terror”. Bin Laden might as well have recited The Lord’s Prayer in Yiddish, because the very sight of him put the fear of that Mean Motherfucker of a God they all believe in right back where it belongs: in that chunk of apple pie a la mode they call a heart.
So they ran back to Bush. Instead of voting for Kerry the war hero, they once again chose the deserter. Kerry’s long-held lead evaporated overnight.
This time, you can bet Osama will throw his whole-hearted support, and the support of every terrorist on earth, behind Obama.
John McCain may be a boring, lying hypocrite, but he’s not stupid. Well, maybe he is stupid, but he’s cunning. Cunning and clever: two benchmarks of the right wing bent on retaining or attaining power at all costs, the well-being of the nation be damned.
