Well, folks, October 29 is the 79th anniversary of the crash of ‘29. Today there are similarities galore, with the months-long roller coaster ups and downs of greed followed by fear preceding the deadly date.

Surely, it can’t happen again?

Then, it took a Democrat to get the country out of the financial profligacy of previous Repuglycan administrations. The first election following the crash and the beginning of the Great Depression took place in 1932. By then America and the world were on their knees. The Repuglycans had no one to replace Herbert Hoover, today regarded as one of the nation’s worst presidents, so it was left to him to do battle against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

It is widely assumed that if Hoover had won, the nation would have been plunged into a revolution.

So here we are eight decades down the timeline. Today’s FDR is Democrat Barrack Obama. This year’s Herbert Hoover is George W. Bush, regarded as the worst president in history. But since Dubya can’t run again, the baton goes to John McCain and his sidekick Sarah Palin.

Palin is the ignorant git who would hold the highest office. There are people with intelligence who regard her candidacy as a positive step forward in American politics. Which proves that intelligence does not always equate with intellect. When she gets in front of a microphone you can’t help but think of American Idol. Or of her as a contestant on a quiz show. And now Ms Palin, for the presidency of the United States, explain the Bush Doctrine in 25 words or less.

It is widely assumed that if McCain and Palin were to win the election, the world would be plunged into a turmoil far worse than the inevitable recession/depression facing Obama and Biden. Regardless of Obama’s qualifications, he represents a worldwide hope that respect and sanity can be restored to the America the Bush Administration has so assiduously worked to destroy.

As the election draws near, the campaign of the formerly quasi-honourable John McCain has become textbook smear. Commentators for both sides are using the word “erratic” over and over again. Apparently the only rusted on supporters are the lunatic fringe of the right. And a huge percentage of these folks are fundamentalist Christians who lust after Armageddon and the Apocalypse. Like the Muslim fanatics they detest but closely resemble, death is preferable to life.

And that is the bottom line here. Christian or not, supporters of the Repuglycan ticket of McCain-Palin harbour nothing less than a death wish.

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