The Future of Sarah Palin

"Well, folks, I know where I am going..."

Hail Palin! Death to all moose!

Today is D-Day in the USA

Yes, the day is finally here. Today is D-Day - Decision Day - in the USA, and by tomorrow we will know who's the next man to spend four years in the White House.

Hard to believe how time flies.

Back in January, when the whole spectacle of primaries and caucuses started and more than 30 politicians from the two large US parties put their hats into the ring, it was all very confusing, and even more so for someone like me, here in Ireland, where we don't have this kind of political circus.

When we elect our President - once every seven years - there is of course a modest campaign with all the candidates, and then the people vote. Our President is directly elected by the people, with no 'electoral college' in between, even though the office has very little political power and is more of a representative position, like it is in most other European countries as well.

But we take a lot of interest also in the US elections. After all, there are about 50 million Americans with Irish ancestry (that's one in six US citizens), and above that the USA are now the only 'super power' eft on the planet. So whatever they - and their President - do has a lot of consequences for everyone else in the world, regardless where they live.

I followed the developments in the USA with great interest, but as I said, my understanding of the process and procedures was limited. So I read a lot about it, in papers and on-line. And I did learn a lot from that.
However, there is only one blog I read that really impressed me. As it happens, it's written by another Irishman and called "Views from the Emerald Isle". (the URL is http://inishtrahoull.blogspot.com/)
This man seems to know his politics and has an amazing power of analysis and vision. He was the only one of all the journalists and bloggers whose articles I read who wrote back in January that the final contest would be between John McCain and Barack Obama.
While most of the Irish media - including RTÉ - were sure that Hillary Clinton would win the nomination of the Democratic Party and almost campaigned for her, this single blogger dismissed her and her chances back in January, and he explained his reasons in detail. I just read these articles again, and with hindsight they are even more impressive. I think this man should be on RTÉ or write for our major papers. They all got it wrong for a long time, but he was right from the very start.

But enough about the past. Today the Americans have to decide, and I hope they will make the right decision. Which - in my humble opinion - is Barack Obama. He's the only one who could bring back some decency and honour to the American nation that has been turned into the true "Empire of Evil" (the phrase used by Ronald Reagan for the Soviet Union many years ago) under the criminal and corrupt administration of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney.

John McCain was an honourable man eight years ago, when he ran against Bush in the primaries of the Republican Party. Had he won the nomination then, he would probably have won the election as well and - perhaps - been quite a good President. But a lot has happened since. In fact way too much has happened. And since McCain joined the Bush camp four years ago and sold his soul to Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove (the evil spin master behind Bush), he has become a differnt man and part of the evil machine that dragged America down into the gutter.

If one had needed more proof for that, his selection of Sarah Palin as 'running mate' said it all.
This right-wing woman, who could have made Adolf Hitler smile with pride and joy, is the personification of everything that is wrong with the USA today. Even the theoretical thought that she could be "one heartbeat away from the Presidency", which she would if the Americans elect the 72-year-old McCain, makes me shiver.

I have no vote in this election, and I would never want to live in the USA, no matter who is the President. But I can only urge the decent Americans - and yes, there still are some - to vote for the right man today, in their own interest and in the interest of the whole world.

Quite a lot of Americans visit this blog, so I hope they will read this and do the right thing. I will be sitting here and waiting in anticipation. My gut feeling tells me that Barack Obama is going to win the White House, and probably with a good majority. But as long as people like Karl Rove are around to muddle things up (as he did in 2000 and 2004), one can never be completely sure.

Please give yourself and the world another chance for peace and prosperity and vote for Barack Obama!

John McCain has a Dream today...

"Oh yeah, I have a dream today..."

(But that's all it is and ever will be)

"Are we there yet, are we there yet..."

The Republican Truth

John, you are eight years too late

and got a real bad running mate!

Creationists love and support Sarah Palin

This group of dedicated American creationist women meets every Tuesday at their local country club for a coffee morning. They all belong to the same evangelical church and are sure that the world was created by God in six days, 6012 years ago, as their preacher keeps telling them every Sunday. They also believe that they were created after God's own image.

All four also belong to the Republican Party and are over the Moon (also created by God 6012 years ago) that Sarah Palin, the creationist governor of Alaska, will soon be Vice-President and - perhaps in a few years - the first female President of the USA. They are sure about that, since no-one will elect a negro as President. That would be as idiotic as the idea of Evolution. But to be sure, they have turned their weekly coffee morning into a fund-raising event for Sarah Palin. The four of them pose - for a donation to the cause - in their bikinis for local photographers. We can well imagine that their efforts are highly successful. And Sarah Palin has said that she is proud to have such dedicated supporters.

Sarah's Chick comes home to roost...

Animal killer, creationist "Christian" and "hockey mom"
Sarah Palin, also governor of Alaska, has apparently
been too much concentrated on (ice) hockey, hunting animals
and weird religious doctrines.

In the process she missed the little matter of her eldest daughter
Bristol (what kind of name is that for a girl?) sleeping around with
the boys at school. Now that 17-year-old Bristol is pregnant, it is of
course entirely "a private matter" for the Palins and has nothing to
do with Sarah's ideas of parenthood, sex education and morals . . .

Alaskan Girl still wants to be Beauty Queen

Meanwhile Sarah Palin has been out shopping with John McCain
and his credit cards. To make her look presentable, the campaign
has spent $ 150,000 on Sarah's new wardrobe. That's nearly
four times as much as "Joe the Plumber", McCain's special friend
from Ohio, earns in a year. I hope Joe is watching Sarah and her
attempt to become a beauty queen at last. When she tried back in
1984 to become "Miss Alaska", she was beaten into second place
by - now, wait for it - the first ever black "Miss Alaska".
Some Omen - or what?

While Sarah is focused on her new clothes and her dream of
living in the White House and nuking moose and caribou one
day in the future, an independent investigation in Alaska has
found her guilty of abusing her gubernatorial powers
when she sacked the Public Safety Commissioner (something
like a Minister for the Interior) after he refused to kick Sarah
Palin's former brother-in-law out of the state's police force.
Not because he was a bad cop, no. The only reason was that
Palin wanted to punish him for divorcing her horrible sister.
Bitches, you have to realise, always stick together like glue.
And as Barack Obama pointed out so very well and clearly:
"A pig with lipstick - is still a pig..."

And, as we know since George Orwell's 'Animal Farm', pigs
are more equal than all the other animals. I can see that.

Republicans - the Sick Party

Sarah Palin - just one heartbeat away from
the man who will never be US President...

Sarah Palin's Track Record

I love to kill. I'm ideal for the White House!

Sarah Palin is a Bitch

Well, we should not really be surprised about Sarah Palin. In her first public speech - at the Republican convention which made her the 'running mate' (a strange word with more than one meaning) of John 'Oldie' McCain - she said it herself, for all the world to hear: she is a bitch, a pit-bull with lipstick.

Now the independent inquiry into her less than two years of gubernatorial experience in Alaska has found that "Sarah Palin abused her authority by pressuring subordinates to fire a state trooper involved in a feud with her family".

Why am I not surprised...?

The story is that her sister had married a 'state trooper' (policeman), the marriage didn't work (as so many others) and broke up (as so many others). After the divorce there was some dispute over access rights to the child (also quite common) and some harsh words were exchanged (happens here all the time).

But then governor Palin demanded from the public safety commissioner (who is in charge of the state troopers), a man named Walt Monegan (sound oirish), that he should fire Trooper Wootten who had been stupid enough to marry Palin's sister. Not because he was a bad policeman. Oh no!
Trooper Wootten's only crime was that he had fallen out with a member of the Palin family.

When Commissioner Monegan refused to break and bend the law in order to please his governor, she sacked him instead of Trooper Wootten. That's the kind of woman Sarah Palin is. A bitch.

She wouldn't know what fairness is, if it came along the road and hugged her... She is just an evil and meanspirited bitch, badly educated, biased, prejudist, creationist, reationary and - most of all - power-hungry.

Sarah the hunter... she needs to find and kill her prey, and the more the better. No other creature has any rights or chances in her world. It's a dog's world. Dog bites dog. And bitch bites everyone else...

Beware Ye, people of the United States...
though hast a beast at the gates of the White House!