At the end of the day, it does not matter whether you are a white-collar elitist or a blue-collar gal or guy from Main Street, America. What matters is whether you are prepared to exercise your God-given intelligence to sift through the maze of Clinton-hued camouflage that the news media so assiduously throw up in your faces in their orgasmic eagerness to keep their ratings up with total disregard to where your prospects end up after the dust from this election has settled. I think that the America I know is good and ready to show, first, the power-hungry, baggage-filled Clintons and, then, the warmongering McCain the door, starting at North Carolina and Indiana.
Bigotry seems to be well and alive in America. For a while, I was beginning to see in Obama and his enthusiastic young supporters a silver lining in the ominous clouds gathering around the world, courtesy of George W. Bush and his cohorts. But, the wiles of the Clintons and their supporters – most notably the US news media, who seem to hold responsible journalism in contemptuous disdain – are slowly but surely snuffing out a nascent hope that was beginning to burgeon in the hearts of the young, the oppressed and the dispossessed of not just America but also the rest of the world. Bigotry is the only rationale I can adduce to the motives of the news media that are so unashamedly infatuated with a candidate like Hillary, whose baggage along with her husband’s – a fable for the ages – is considered to merit no more attention than a sweep under the rug and whose outright lies and deceptions are considered to be no more serious than innocuous misspeaks, and McCain, whose associations with shady lobbyists are considered to be issues of sufficient levity to warrant being overlooked for the trouble of a simple mea culpa, never to be revisited again, in preference to Obama, whose faults are those of guilt by association with some undesirables, flimsy though these associations are, or are genuine misspeaks, like his “bitter” comment. The Clintons’ slash and burn strategy is comparable to that of a suicide bomber. At the end, no one is left standing, including the perpetrators themselves. The Clintons’ hope not just of surviving their own current shenanigans but also of Hillary emerging as a viable candidate in 4 years is a forlorn pipedream. I predicted, to the disdain of several of my colleagues in 2003, that US will never emerge from the Iraq war with honor. Five years on, my prediction is on course for fruition in much less time than the 100 years that McCain thinks he can dupe the Americans to believe it would take the US to succeed in Iraq.
If the Clintons succeed in derailing Obama’s campaign and installing McCain as the President:
1. Here are my predictions for the Clintons:
Hillary’s career will undergo an auto-flush down the toilet. She will become an obscure senator making occasional noises that no one will pay any heed to. Bill’s reputation will suffer an uncontrollable nose dive, not that he has not been adroitly herding it that way anyway. His legacy will suffer its final knock that will prove to be fatal. Chelsea, whom the senior Clintons seem to be grooming for the mantle to perpetuate the Clinton dynasty, will try to launch a political career that will be dead-on-arrival and a ghost of what her father’s once was. Bill’s and Hillary’s dream of setting up the lineage for the Bush-Clinton dynasty – George H.W. –> Bill –> George W. –> Hillary –> Jeb –> Chelsea –> … – will come to a grinding halt.
2. Here are my predictions for the American niche in the world stage:
US will maintain its stranglehold on the world political stage by the sheer power of its military might in the foreseeable future. But, its leadership in politics and economy around the world will have suffered too deadly a blow to recover from. The American empire will see the beginning of its decline much like all the other empires that preceded it.
3. Here are my predictions for the American citizenry:
In the same manner that they underwent pangs of regret and remorse for letting the war-mongering clique of George Bush, Dick Cheney and Karl Rowe dupe them in the 2000 and 2004 elections, the American electorate will be knocking themselves on their heads for being taken for a ride for an unprecedented 3rd consecutive time. Indeed, one could say “Fool me once, shame on you! Fool me twice, shame on me!! Fool me thrice, get me a psychiatrist!!!” America will be sliding further and further into a bottomless quagmire from which there will be no return, while the rest of the world, led by a more empathic Europe and more strident Russia, China and India, will get their houses in order and look with disdain at the empire that once was as they march hand-in-hand towards addressing the real problems of the world – over population, a looming food crisis, an almost irreversible destruction of the environment and an unconscionable annihilation of our fellow voyagers from the animal kingdom – not little problems like the diminishing returns on George Bush’s oil stocks or Dick Cheney’s Halliburton stocks or the lack of real production from the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation compared to the extent of tax write offs it affords its chief patron and its rich and sometimes infamous contributors.
4. Here are my predictions for McCain:
McCain will lumber on to complete his one-and-only 4-year term of office, by which time, his gas all spent, his dream fully realized, his place in history notched up and his retirement bed of roses secured, he will bid his adieu, a frail old man, who had accomplished next to nothing as a lame-duck president.
