Obama victory is now certain

On December 14, 2007 I announced that Obama would win (You read it here first: Obama will win).

I based that prediction on the fact that Oprah had anointed him with her endorsement.

Today I can confirm that I was right because today I am joined by the kids who vote in the Weekly Reader poll.

They gave Obama 54.7 percent of the vote, McCain 42.9 percent and others 2.5 percent. Obama won 420 electoral college votes from 33 states, including Ohio and McCain's home state of Arizona, and McCain got 118 electoral votes from 17 states.

Weekly Reader kids have accurately predicted winners in 12 of the past 13 presidential elections.

I'm voting against urinary incontinence and vaginal discharge

Against the better judgement of the NRA and a bunch of other conservative groups I believe in, I'm voting for Obama. I think I made that decision long before I knew who Democrats would put up against the Bushies. I think I made that decision just after President Bush was re-elected and began revealing his true nature.

I don't care who it is, I would vote for McCain's opponent because after you cut through the bull, there's just another George Bush with God knows what real agenda, smiling and making empty promises.

What a laugh, this guy. He spent the past two decades contributing as a Senator to the screwing of Americans by Washington. Now he's running on a platform of "change."

I wish Obama came from a different milieu than from Chicago's Democrat-party machine. The damage his liberal ideals could bring to the country really bothers me.

But I am willing to risk that against the chance that he will bring relief to a nation oppressed by Washington's special-interest groups, the ones who have bought our Congress and our Presidency including, in my opinion, John McCain.

I think Obama has the courage and the will to bring back America's middle class and make us feel good about ourselves again. That, alone, is worth the risk on the other issues. And if he doesn't, well, it's still likely to be much better than anymore raping of America by Bush/McCain.

To emphasize how different he wants us to believe his administration would be, McCain imports a moose-hunting, sex pot, soccer mom from Alaska with heavy ties to the oil industry who would receive on-the-job training as a potential President - the one who might assume the world's most difficult and critical responsibilities, complete with the power, for God's sake, to send our children to another war based on a personal whim and ambition, as did Bush.

That's most scary of all. Sarah Palin is 44 and menopause could begin at any time. Any man who's ever been subjected to a woman in menopause ought to be shuddering at the thought of the U.S. President with hot flashes, nausea, headaches, insomnia, urinary incontinence, vaginal discharge, breast changes, thinning of the skin, bone loss, and weight gain, all of which are listed as menopausal symptoms at eMedicineHealth.

If nothing else might have swung me to Obama, that in itself would do the trick.

We're in a mental recession? How about that guy peeing in the pool?

America has for the past four years watched its president pee in the world's pool, particularly that part inhabited by this country's middle- and lower-economic class citizens. Meanwhile, Congress has never been more inept or ineffective against such a White House.

So distraught and angry with the complete breakdown of their government have citizens become that now even "desk rage" is in vogue. Read about it here.

To goose up America's wrath, there's this McCain fat-cat calling us a "nation of whiners" who are in a "mental recession." Former Sen. Phil Gramm, who said that (read it here) is probably a millionaire many times over at the expense of America's working people, something like King Bush's oil buddies.

How much more before a serious revolution?

We're screwed. Again.

A lesson from 1973, but Big Oil owns the government

If you think $4 a gallon is anything but a full-court press by Big Oil and Big Government to get America to agree to off-shore drilling, then you're too young or too historically lame to know how the game was played in 1973. That's when Nixon, Agnew, OPEC and Big Oil conspired to force the building of the Alaska Pipeline over objections of environmentalists.

I saw it coming early in May when I wrote here to watch for Bush to seal some Big Oil/Energy deals because it became evident to me that we were into a replay of the 1973 shafting.

May 2 was when Pat Tiberi, (the Republican representing the western part of Licking County in the U.S. House) revealed the Bush Government's plan to "reduce energy costs in the near term" - and put the blame on Democrats. I wrote then that "This is the Bush Empire's first move in a final drive to seal some deals for the oil/energy brethren before he departs. Watch it unfold."

Since then the drumbeat has grown louder. Yesterday, no less than Senator McCain joined up. According to today's Washington Post, he called "for an end to the federal ban on offshore oil drilling, offering an aggressive response to high gasoline prices ..."

Oh, yes, John. Like this isn't an exact replay of Big Oil/Big Government conspiracy of 1973?

First, a little tussle between the Jews and Arabs October 6, which gave OPEC an excuse to impose an oil embargo 11 days later. According to a report by PBS: "Overnight, the price of a barrel of oil rises from $3 to over $5. Gas at the pumps will soon rise from 30 cents per gallon to $1.20, and drivers will wait in long lines to fill up their tanks."

Then on Nov. 16, the report continues: In direct response to the oil crisis, President Nixon signs the Trans Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law. Nixon introduces "Project Independence" in a televised speech: "Throughout history, America has made great sacrifices of blood and also treasure to achieve and maintain its independence. In the last third of this century, our independence will depend on maintaining and achieving self-sufficiency in energy."

By December oil was at $11.65 and January 3, 1974 a federal permit was issued that allowed construction to start.

So watch the Bush-McCain Government at work. And if you don't think its owned by Big Oil, you will before this is over.

McCain: How abrasive can he get?

The depths to which "statesmanship" has sunk under the regime of George W. Bush is exemplified in the recent statement by McCain that he hopes for the early death of Fidel Castro. Here's the Reuters report.

If we are to have any chance to repair our damaged world image, it will take someone with an iota of common sense and a lip that can be brought under control. McCain has neither.

E&P reports on New York Times/McCain article

If anyone is interested in the follow-up by media on the New York Times article about McCain, mentioned here yesterday, Editor & Publisher published a short summary of it today.

Before you vote McCain, read the New York Times

Now it's Ohio's turn to get Clinton and McCain jammed down its throat, media-wise. Neither are worth the harangue.

Both are Senate leaders who have done nothing to repair America from the mess it's in. Nor are they now proposing anything of promise. Either of them in the Presidency is another four odious years.

The New York Times last night published John McCain's score sheet as a competent, ethical U.S. Senator, and every voter should read it. McCain - ever the power-player - tried to get the NYT editor to spike it, which is even more reason for everyone to read it.

McCain and Clinton have both danced along the line of unethical, if not criminal, behavior for as long as they've been in (my) public view.

Maybe the NYT article can boost Huckabee to a McCain challenge, but I doubt it. Not even the good sense of a fly-over state can fix what Good Ol' Boy party politics has wrought. But a Huckabee-Obama match-up would give Americans a better chance at fixing, somewhat, the disasters created by Mr. Bush.

Don't forget, I declared Obama the winner December 14, just after Oprah anointed him.