The Woes of the US Economy & Our Political Strife

28th March 2008

The Woes of the US Economy & Our Political Strife

While I am disillusioned by the strife that seems to be gripping our country as Presidential election seemingly has stalled. We hear an enormous amount of rhetoric, great sound bites, but very little substance behind the words. This pattern seems to be draining the American people’s faith in our political system.

The only thing flowing in Washington seems to be corruption - with inside deals, big corporations buying and using our politicians like pez candy extracted from a pez dispenser while the only money that flows fluidly are the payoffs made to political pundants for sale to the highest bidder. The cash pouring out of our pockets to the gas companies trying to raise the price of fuel as high as they possibly can get it before President Bush leaves office. There is nothing rosy about this picture no matter how you look at it.

I am disillusioned with our political process when two candidates can’t stop fighting over who will win the nomination from their party and the only other aspirant is a bigoted, racist man who can’t spell the word constitution, much less defend the one he swore to do for all citizens. The only thing I know to be truthful in this election is that I won’t ever vote for a man who can’t pretend that all of the populace within our boarders matter to him (Senator John McCain) and the wrangling between our other two candidates has me thinking we would do better if all three were somehow removed from the race. The only thought worst than John McCain winning the Presidency is if George W. Bush remained in office one day longer than he is suppose too. I for one want the American people to write in ratifying an Amendment during the November electoral process removing the delegate and superdelegate system that is simply a means to buy votes. This failed structure that was meant as a means when the popular vote is too close to secure a rightful winning, yet has become the means of election. Former President George Bush Senior showed us just how compromising the delegate system is when he bought his son’s way into the Presidency the first time. How our voting abilities was stripped away from us, I will never know; however the American populace has seen one of its most cherished rights atrociously removed by the very government it elected. The authors who crafted such a sham eliminating our right to elect the leader of the free world should be imprisoned for eradicating one of the main reasons our forefathers struggled to settle this great nation.

Somewhere in the process we the people of the United States of America lost our rights to vote in a Presidential election as proven by the last two elections. In the first election it became obvious we had no say as the popular vote gave the job to Al Gore, however, the Superdelegate and Delegate votes ushered in one of history’s worst Presidents ever, George W. Bush. Twice we’ve witnessed how we the people were stripped of a fundamental right…the right to vote for our President!

I cannot weight in with who I will vote for in our November elections because both choices have done and said some ridiculously scary things over the past year. However, I heard one of the most impressive statements come from Mr. Obama in a speech he gave Thursday on the shape of the economy and his ideals for correcting the downward spiral our wonderful President has put us in. Obama said “aided by a legal but corrupt bargain in which campaign money all too often shaped policy and watered down oversight” as he was indicating the housing debacle that we are in the midst of is self induced. This wasn’t a finger point stances across political lines, Obama acknowledges that it was agreed upon by both parties for all of the wrong reasons – GREED & CORRUPTION. Our current situation was bought and paid for by big business paying off politicians.

Our country is being torn apart by Corporate America in its thirst for greed and dominance. Our politicians are as Machiavellian said a means to an end. When companies like UPS buy million dollar properties close to the White House and Senate chambers for the sole function of sponsoring fund raisers to support politicians that should easily be considered on the company’s payroll.

More political leaders need to be rebuking big business contributions, standing up for the people and pointing out the corruption that flows like the undercurrent of Washington as Obama did in this speech. If the race stays the same, this one statement may be what decides my vote, but I don’t think my vote or even your vote will matter, because the race isn’t for who we consider a truly viable candidate, it is who the delegates and superdelegates are paid to vote for. Washington is a city that is bought and paid for with you and me trying to act as the police catching the johns who solicit favors for money from the whores (our politicians who refuse to vote in campaign reform measures that eliminate pac money, soft money, corporate sponsorship and lobbying efforts) in other words, the pimps of our political process selling their wares to the highest bidders regardless of the debaselist act that must be performed.

Washington cheapens the oldest profession in the world by giving the word whore a bad name. Obama – good job and we need to hear more on how you plan to refuse the corruption of this office bringing true HONOR back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

These are the expressed opinions only of your humble servant – Todd M. Dobson