The "First" Debate

Dear friends,

I just sat through the entire two hours of the first presidential debate. Frankly, I do not feel that McCain did anything other than repeat a "tactic" of showing his alleged experience by continuously using the childish debate strategy of insisting that Senator Obama did not "understand" what is happening as it relates to various affairs. However, he was lucky that Senator Obama did not have better skills in polemics, since McCain should have been pressed, first of all, about the $300 billion dollars in tax cuts that Senator Obama charged the former would provide for the wealthy. That let John McCain off the hook, in my opinion...

On foreign policy, particularly during the lengthy discussion over Iraq, Senator Obama could have easily blown McCain away had he mentioned the fact that it was the Bush administration's disbanding of the Iraqi Army that had been under Saddam that caused the growth of the insurgency; therefore, the "surge", as it were, that came later, at best, has only drawn cosmetic results. This is especially so, as Senator Obama, unfortunately, did not say, because the Iraqi people want the US out; yet, neither candidate mentioned that important point. This is precisely why I insist that Iraq has already become a colony of the US and will be "occupied", just as South Korea has been for the past 56 years, for a long time.

But this will bring the US military/industrial complex problems (colonizing Iraq), since Iran and Iraq are mending fences in a way that neither country has enjoyed, probably, since the US' puppet Shah was in power back beginning in the Fifties. The mainstream media keeps focusing on Iran trying to join the arms race with nuclear power, but neither candidate mentioned the fact that Iran is preparing to send a rocket into outer space, in the very near future. Iran is a developing world power about whom the greedy low-lifes that are being bailed out on Wall Street could care less. Talk about a new world order? NATO will not mean squat, when the Russians get through forming their alliances.

Oh, by the way, on Russia, both stunk! Russia is rebuilding as a dominant world power. They are already making ties with Venezuela (which is about to become what Cuba was to Russia until the late-Eighties). The Russians are blatantly creating ties with Latin American governments. The US is about to be surrounded with powers who will have Russian-made weapons and are not afraid of the US. Neither candidate mentioned that, and I do not believe that either knows much about that, much less the world.

Additionally, and, at least to me, more importantly, neither candidate, for all of the brave words about fighting terrorism, dared to bring up the fact that 19 Saudis flew into this country, killed thousands of people, wounded tens of thousands more, messed up the economy, while destroying billions of dollars worth of property and causing tens of thousands of small busnesses to close, yet, not one hair on the head of one Saudi has been touched. Why is that?

Finally, when Senator Obama made reference to improving education, McCain continued to mumble (and even tried to shed a tear or two, a couple of times at the end) about how much he loves the veterans, never acknowledging the American people, only trying to hoodwink Hillary Clinton's racist supporters. After the debate, the "pundits" came on with their usual useless analyses.

The American people are just being suckered, as usual. Still, we have a chance to start destroying "white" supremacy. That means that all children in this country will finally have a chance, one day, to be judged by their ability to contribute to the commonweal. Being judged by the content of one's character may sound cute and accomodating, but it will not build communities. I do not have to like my neighbor, nor does he or she have to like me; rather, at least to me, what is most important is: We respect each other's right to seek to be fully human, constantly progressing as living beings. John McCain, George Bush, and Sarah Palin just do not think that way. Dig? Peace.

G. Djata Bumpus