McCain vs Obama: America lost

In their second of three scheduled debates, Senators John McCain and Barack Obama demonstrated why America is in such turmoil. On Oct. 7, 2008, in a townhall-style forum moderated by veteran journalist Tom Brokaw, a 3-ring circus unfolded its tent on stage. And instead of two deeply distressed, somber would-be heads of state exercising diplomacy, leadership and a great concern for the plummeting plight in which this nation has found itself, we instead were witness to a couple of clowns shooting zingers and gotchas back and forth.

It was an embarrassment.

Today, more people will be mortally wounded in places where we’ve sent our troops. Today, more families, both here and abroad, will be forced to deal with circumstances that are a direct consequence of Bush administration decisions. Today, we are still killing folks in a nation where we ought to never have sent our young men and women to kill and be killed.

Yet, there is no outrage. The smell of dead bodies rotting doesn’t travel across the ocean. The cries of children who have no place to go nor anyone to care for them cannot be heard here from the sands of Iraq.

But the show must go on.

Comedy performed by politicians isn’t funny

McCain and Obama discussed the economic crises. Not crisis, crises. Both targeted the other for put-downs and the blame game. Neither offered us any real explanation of the battled waged by the Bush administration and the Federal Reserve against the entire country (all 50 states) in order to initiate and maintain a practice of predatory lending while simultaneously the government was eagerly purchasing all of the bad debt and selling it overseas.

It was criminal conduct.

All 50 states attorneys general attempted to intervene on behalf of the American people. All were defeated by the very entities (U.S. Treasury under authority of the executive branch, and the Federal Reserve, which is an independent authority created by Congress to control the banking industry and economy of the entire country).

America lost that battle.

Fox guarding the hen house

When the so-called “crisis” turned into cascading dominoes of Wall Street fat cats, you and I were asked to change the Constitution. No, you weren’t asked directly. You never are. But you were asked to turn over $700B to George Bush. That’s money he otherwise would have to lobby Congress to get. Now, it is his to do as he pleases. He didn’t even have a plan when he threatened us all with dire consequences if we didn’t give it to him. Now, he (in the guise of his Treasury Secretary who works for him) will band together with the Federal Reserve and come up with something.

Are we really that stoopid? Apparently, yes. It was Bush and the Fed who fought to initiate and maintain a criminal practice in the banking industry. Now, these two have been given the keys to the bank by an unsuspecting public that relies upon liars and cheats in Congress. These folks have jurisdiction over the Federal Reserve … and stood by for decades while the nation was raped and pillaged.

None of this information was discussed in last night’s debate.

Callous disregard for life and death

Nothing of substance regarding how America got into the war in Iraq was discussed. Neither candidate pledged to hold the responsible parties accountable. And that’s where I got incensed.

Accountability. If the American people do not exact a cost upon the thieves and liars in office, how can we then claim this nation is “the greatest on earth” as was proclaimed several times last night? Just saying it doesn’t make it so.

America is the greatest? Says who?

And if we are “better than they are” whoever they may be, their poor plight must be hell. Because from where I sit, this nation performs in front of a curtain of deceit … behind which is evil that sets us so far apart from God that uttering the words “God Bless America” is tantamount to saying nothing. For how can God bless a nation that rejects Him and His Son? How can God bless a nation that ignores truth, prefers lies and applauds and laughs while murderers and thieves are set free to kill and cheat again?

In the debate between two would-be leaders of this nation, there was one clear loser: The American people.

Media meltdown

Of course, we weren’t represented on stage last night. The national media, commissioned by the Constitution with access to government in order to act as a watchdog, instead acted as a lapdog whining about losing control of the process. Such irony was exhibited when Tom Brokaw exclaimed that the candidates were blocking his written script on the teleprompter.

Ah, what sweet irony. A media completely powerless to read its script while failing to pose even a single question of accountability to the two men who seek an office that must hold its former occupant accountable for numerous crimes against the nation and world.

Posted on October 8th, 2008 by MikeGreen
Filed under: Election 2008

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