Watching what has been happening in American Politics over the last week is starting to give me that ill foreboding I had when it became apparent Georgie Dumbass Bush was going to be elected. At first I was a bit ambivalent between Obama and McCain, because I thought McCain was not your standard head up his arse looking for the sun republican, but was actually an honourable man and the election would really have been a case of the best man winning. Well McCain has given up all his principles and is using emotion, pride and one sentence sound-bytes to attract or scare the lowest common denominator of American (the dumb majority) into voting for him. I honestly thought McCain wouldn't stoop to that - he knows full well Obama isn't suggesting surrender or failure in Iraq and yet he keeps saying that, in the same breath he says he will fix Afghanistan when the Joint Chief of Staffs himself has said the only place to get troops for Afghanistan from is Iraq. This is what Obama is planning to do but McCain is making it sound like Obama is planning on surrendering in Iraq when he knows full well that Obama is really planning on winning in Afghanistan - which by the way in reality poses the bigger threat to America if they lose than Iraq does.

Also McCain states that he knows how to win wars and nobody seems to question or challenge him on this. To my knowledge he knows how to get a multi-million dollar jet fighter shot down and then be a POW in a Bamboo cage being eaten by leeches for four years. As far as I know he never made it to a military rank where he was involved in strategy, and his implementation of tactics was well........... less than ordinary. So as far as the strategy of winning wars I don't see that he has any more reason to believe he knows how to win wars than anybody else let alone Obama. Thats the craziest thing about American politics, it seems like the American Public considers anybody who made it to Second Lieutenant qualified to be commander in chief - I think that if they were in the military and they never made it out of the junior officer ranks that demonstrates that the military did not consider them worthy of making strategic decisions otherwise they would have been promoted to a level where they had that responsibility - so they are probably in actual fact less qualified to be commander in chief than somebody who has no military service.

Also McCain has admitted Economics is not his strong point - well how America performs economically over the next 8 years will have a much greater impact on the lives of Americans and the rest of the world than anything that happens in Iraq and Afghanistan put together - AND McCAIN WOULD KNOW THIS - so he is being disingenuous campaigning on Iraq which in the scheme of things is just a side show of the next presidency not the sole purpose of it as McCains Campaigning would lead one to believe, but he knows it will disproportionately affect the vote compared to its relevance and so is focusing on that which I consider totally disingenuous on his part and definately shows he puts his own ambition before the countries best interest (something I did not expect he would do)!!

Lets just hope the American public can get past McCains and Hannitys one line sound bites and actually consider Obamas positions and policy which unfortunately don't lend themselves to one liners to the same degree putting understanding them beyond the attention span of the majority of Americans. (After the last American election somebody made a table of the Average IQs of the various states and - this is no word of a lie - the bottom of the table were the states that voted republican and the top of the table were the states that voted democrat with only a couple of states crossing over in the very middle - which demonstrated that unfortunately in America the states with the dumbest populations are the ones with enough electoral college votes to decide who is to be president and they do - hence George Bush and probably McCain next!)