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Read the following as it comes from an overseas diarist over at DailyKos. I am not posting the entire because it is lengthy. Just a few excerpts.
Nothing has exposed the moral bankruptcy of John McCain, his intellectual crassness and the inherent intolerance afflicting the Party he heads, as the fierce candidacy waged by Obama. The hollow emptiness of Conservatism as a movement or ideological fulcrum has been uncovered for the world to see—herpes riddled arse, gonorrhea infested scrotal region, flies a-buzzing and all that. You cannot spin it away, you cannot explain it away. A good number of these people are sick in the head. When Colin Powell, a four star General, endorsed the candidacy of Barack Obama, far-right Republican operatives and ideologues densely attributed it to race, insisting that the General, who chose to serve his country at a time of painful racial disparity, would naturally favour the black guy over the white guy irrespective of position or substance. What vulgarity, what loutishness, what stupidity. The decision to exploit racial division and suspicion amongst black and white is particularly reprehensible. John McCain, a man who carries the historical blemish on his record of having voted against honouring the civil rights hero, MLK, has turned a blind eye to the race-based whistles his campaign has been sending out. His Party has sent out fliers insisting that Barack Obama is "not who [Americans] think he is", an attempt to feed the obvious lies and despicable smears that Obama is a closet Muslim terrorist intent on destroying America. There have been incidents of McCain supporters, among them some unsalvageable racists, yelling, "Nigger" at his rallies. A McCain supporter, in the bid to incite what can only be described as an all out race war, lied that a bad, big, black man had attacked, assaulted her and carved a ‘B’ on her forehead. Without adequate verification, John McCain "reached" out to her. Turned out it was a lie. McCain supporters have called Obama every name in the book from "socialist" to "baby killer", and that America even considers putting a product of such an ultra-hate afflicted movement in the White House is astounding to us. As the astute diarist, billmon, said on the 10th of October:
I've been following politics for going on 35 years now, and I don't think I've ever heard a Republican candidate publicly refer to his Democratic opponent as a "socialist" -- not even while hiding behind a cardboard cutout like "Joe the Plumber". This from a man who told the entire nation on Wednesday night that he believes an obscure nonprofit group is "perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy." Likewise, I don't think there's ever been an American vice presidential candidate who explicitly referred to entire regions of the United States as "pro-American" -- with the clear implication that other regions are something less than "pro-American."
On McCain's constant claim that being in the military makes him more suitable to be President,
What John McCain should have done was to take a forceful stand against the deplorable position his Party has chosen to walk. Then, only then, could we TRULY call him maverick. Right now, he’s just sick. He’s nothing but a desperate and pathetic old man trying to win an election. John McCain is not an honourable man; John McCain is a filthy piece of shit. The fact that one serves in the miliraty doesn’t automatically confer on one patent right to the word "honourable". As we understand it, Richard Nixon joined the United States Navy and rose to the rank of lieutenant commander during World War II. But there was hardly anything honourable about Watergate. Idi Amin of Uganda was a soldier but hardly honourable. That you wore, or wear, the uniform is an honourable thing in itself, but at the end of the day that is where it stops.
Let us not forget about Sarah Palin.
Empirically, this reflects fatally on McCain’s judgment. This shows McCain to be a man incapable of complex considerations, a man with incuriosity rivalled only by Bush’s stupidity. The sheer thoughtlessness of McCain’s first executive decision provides a window into the kind of decisions he would take as President of the United States. The rashness of it all is astounding.
This is basis to believe that a President McCain is capable of simultaneously starting wars with Russia, China, North Korea and Zanzibar (for good measure). How a 72 year old man earth can select a woman who is so unsubtly unprepared to be VP will be one of the questions people will ponder for generations to come. Can anybody seriously go to bed peacefully knowing that Sarah Palin may be sitting in the Oval Office negotiating nuclear defence systems with Putin and Medvedev? Or tackling the sitting-bomb that is Pakistan? Or taking constructive steps about global warming? Does she even have a vision?The Editorial page of the Guardian today says it best:
Though we lack the vote, this is our election too. Such statements outrage many Americans and inspire others. But the rest of the world has not just lived this election. Our life chances and societies will also be shaped by what happens next Tuesday. The world has an interest in the outcome because, in spite of everything, America remains the world's pre-eminent military, political, financial and cultural power. America's standing in the world has been damaged during the Bush years. He has inflicted massive direct harm to many parts of the world through his military actions, has set back the quality of life on our planet by his indifference to climate change, international cooperation and the rule of law. He has been anti-Americanism's best recruiting sergeant and al-Qaida's too.
The world may not have the vote on Tuesday. But it certainly has a candidate. That candidate is Senator Barack Obama. If the world could vote on November 4, Mr Obama would win by a landslide. Polling shows him preferred in Egypt by two to one, in Poland by three to one, in Canada by five to one, in Brazil by six to one, in Britain by seven to one, in France by 11 to one and in Kenya by more than 17 to one.
He is not just the preferred choice of liberal Europeans. He is also the choice of the rest of the world, of all races and creeds - and of young people in particular. No buses crammed with lawyers would be needed to validate the accuracy of these votes. He commands this support, not only because he is not George Bush but because he personifies so much of what the world still admires about America. Americans ought to think about that. The world longs, perhaps unrealistically but palpably nevertheless, for a new America. Only Mr Obama can provide that.
Read the entire article HERE
As you can see, it isn't only those of us here in America who want change. The rest of the world wants it also.
VOTE November 4th!!
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