When one surveys the sundering landscape of the American socio-political sphere, I’m certain even the most daft and cognitively-lax plebian can detect the subtle, sinister underlying aura incubating in the very foreground of the whole chaotic interface. It has now become a normative expression of the political culture to extrude daily the grotesque and obscene exhibitions of flagrant abdication of every conceivably standard of morality and integrity imaginable by the slobbering goons purported to be our anointed representatives. On every side, translucent demagogues deliver driveling, fabrication-laden artifically-manufactured pandering propaganda to the masses. This is Orwellian ilk, just flat-out obfuscatory lies streamlined with nonsensical little catch-phrases and buzz-words intentionally forged to conceal, distort, or absolve the speaker of the very notion or importance of truth. This is patently obvious rhetorical garbage any child with a primary education can a fragment of primordial sentience could cut through instanteously. In fact, a child would probably be insulted by the very proposition that they could have been stupid enough to subscribe to the outright untruths spewed by politicians in their laughable little campaign speeches.

And yet the sycophantic lemmings that comprise the constituencies of completely unfit to lead opportunistic frauds the likes of Hillary Clinton, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee Barack Obama and John Edwards evidently have relenquished their naturally-imbibed resistance to subversion, shamelessly swallowed their dignity and continued on their dangerous propaganda binge. This testifies to the culmination of the sobering trend of a societal fatalistic shrug; of an abandonment of any regard for the truth or a constant sustainment and acquisition of knowledge, a total compromisation of the probing and skeptical mind, a rejection of the cornerstone American principle of an informed and vigilant American citizenry. Nothing proves this grim conceptual supposition more than observing the insanely tumultuous applause received by the inherent charlatans lobbying for presidential ascention in 2008.

Why do people perceive Barack Obama as such an commendable an impressive man? What does have? What has he done? He virtually has no record, he served two terms in the Senate, and now its blazingly obvious those years were simply to satisfy a rudimentary prerequisite, so that he claim to have something under his belt. He constantly, ad nauseum, to the point of didactic bully pulpitry, blathers on about “change” and how he’s an agent of it. He casually tosses this word around as if its a self-evidently awe-inspiring and scholarly term. Well, maybe it is to those devoid of any forensic faculties, as is apparent by the rancorous following he’s established around himself. But to the rest of us, this sort of rhetoric is not only wholly banal and unimpressive, its downright suspicious. Change? What kind of change? Change for whom? This is an international man of mystery, we essentially know nothing of his platform, at all. We know nothing of his economic policy, nothing of his domestic policy, and the only thing we know of his foreign policy is that he seeks the sheepish retreat from Iraq shared by all democrats, but has also espoused bizarre, improvisational invasion plans for Pakistan, as if to demonstrate that he’s not the non-realist isolationist creampuff which has become the archetypical template for a democrat nowadays. On top of all this, his cultural upbringing is exceedingly dubious, with a whole myriad of credible charges of madrassa education and the fact that his “black culture” church’s master was an overt racist, this is not consoling to me at all, and it doesn’t help that he’s shamelessly evaded or denied all such scrutiny. The only thing I can honestly say I find truly admirable and unique about Senator Obama is his unprecedented figure as not only the first person of color to make a serious contention for the presidency, but also for the fact that he hasn’t pulled the race card. This, I must say, is quite a desirable expression of character, and unlike the other two democratic candidates, I’ll openly admit I wouldn’t be absolutely dismayed if if Obama was my next president, only very disappointed because I don’t believe he poseses the mental equipment or experience to lead us in such an extraordinarily volatile point in our history.

John Edwards I can’t really speak about with much fervor just because I don’t care. Does anybody? Dick Morris, granted a guy I really don’t like very much, said a good contingent of Edwards’ followers were white, classical populist southerners who don’t want a black or a woman president. I don’t know if this is true or not, but it may very wll be. Regardless, the thing that irritates me about Edwards is his silly little speeches about “two Americas” and the squalor and woes of the “common man” and other such cliche-ridden, depthless euphemisms. These transparent, contrived Huey Long impersonations must be the original lofty-minded, long-winded propandist American campaign capitulation, they’ve been used throughout the country’s history by fools attempting to appeal to the “all-American”, working class everyman population. As it was then and as it is now, its all innuendo and no substance, and therefore no one cares and no one votes. Its unsuprising that Edwards dropped out of the race today, even though he confidently and steadfastly asserted his commitment to campaign to the very end. Then again, if I was to posit that he cares abou broken promises, I’d be making the fallacious assumption that politicians have integrity. In any case, I’m pretty certain that all political pander aside, John Edwards is ultimately a good and hard-working person who’s had to endure a great deal of personal tragedy and turmoil in his life, so I wish him the best in that regard. I also think John Kerry, who was already one of the stupidest and most distasteful political underlings ever to shimmy into a position of actual power, ought to be thoroughly ashamed of himself for endorsing Obama rather than his own 2004 presidential running mate, so much for all that liberal fellowship.

Mike Huckabee reciprocates much of the same so-called “southern charm” and liberal populism exhibited by Edwards, except muddled by even more idiotic communicative baggage. He melds the highly dangerous components of laughably moronic religious innuendo and regressivist beliefs with atrocious and alarming socialistic economic policies and tops it off with a derelict and detestable paleoconservative disdain and absolute ignorance of foreign policy to create an unscrupulous, obnoxious, and backwards-minded doofus of a canddiate that can’t be acepted by either serious liberals or conservatives, evidently aiming to attract solely the most embarassingly mentally-calcified and impossibly credulous contingents of the religious right. He attempted to formulate around himself an image of a “good ol’ southern gentlemen”, compensating for his abject mediocrity and lack of knowledge in just about every category by framing his responses to inquiries with asinine yuk-yuk barnyard humor and devious political pirouetting. But evidently no one was dumb enough to buy intot his goonery, as South Carolina, the most evengelical state in the country, the place that Hickabee predicated his entire campaign on, went to McCain by a more than slim margin. The thing that made this whole episode worth it, even the ridiculous spectacle of Chuck Norris (a guy who in all due respect isn’t an authority on anything) campaigning on his behalf, was the sheerly hilarious sight of Mike Huckabee’s face after he lost the SC primary. And the insane fantasy ends.

And then we come to Mitt the Moronic Mormon. I don’t know what it is about him, his wholly unlikable, cold, anti-charismatic patrician demeanor, his ridiculous religious beliefs and his conniving refusal to acknowledge them, his constant, arbitrary corporate pandering and re-emphasis of his long presence in the business world yet his devious omission of its often disastrous implications and the vast numbers of employees he’s laid off. Or maybe its just his mind-bogglingly repetitive regurgitation of his meaningless little adopted slogan “Washington is broken”. What an astute observation, now remind me again why I’m to trust the son of a dynastic cult family, the peformer of one of the most incredibly unconvincing, non-genuine and universally ridiculed 360-degree spins on the abortion issue surviving in American politics, the former governor of a failed economic state and the benefactor of a multitude of failed business enterprises with absolutely zero foreign policy experience to come fix it and fix the plethora of problems we face abroad? Much like Obama’s “change fallacy”, Romney appears to be under the impression that repeating the same tired tripe over and over and not backing it with an iota of substance or credibility is enough to win elections. Clearly its not, as Romeny continues to plummet in the polls and in the delegate tally. Which is just great, I wouldn’t task this fellow with managing a bus station, let alone managing immensely complex international geopolitical configurations of which he knows nothing. He’s persistent, and has enough unearned wealth to squander on this likely ill-fated campaign to remain non-mollified up to the very end, but just like most everything else he’s said and done, it probably won’t amount to anything.

Which brings me finally to the truly monstrous villain of this whole political season, Hillary Rodham Clinton. To say that I would be seriously distraught and ashamed of my fellow countrymen if “she” (final adjudication of gender pending) was to be elected would be a colossal understatement. The election of Hellary would not only be one of the greatest national disgraces in American history, but it would also strike a devastating, perhaps irreversibly crippling blow to America’s standing in the world. A ’60s “New Society, Government is a Virtue” liberal of the worst conceivable dye, this is truly one evil, perhaps psychopathically disconnected bitch. The only other human being I can think of so utterly devoid of any sense of dignity, shame, integrity, or even genuine empathy towards his fellow man is her equally loathsome husband. It is as if to the Clintons all the previously enumerated inate funtions of the human psyche are mere illusions, anything and everything around them is stripped of all conceptions of a right-wrong dichotomy; the only thing that matters is if it can be employed as an asset for their own self-aggrandizement. They will and have pulled both the sex and the race card, are more than accustomed to lying to everyone about everything, often under oath, alternating opinions flagrantly for the purpose of political expediency as in Iraq, sometimes holding up to 3 different positions on the same issue and interchanging them within 15 minutes, as in the illegal immigration issue, and are expert practioners in some of the most callous, back-handed and downright nasty campaign tactics imaginable, i.e. “accidentally” discussing Obama’s previous drug history and then “apologizing” for it. These aren’t people with just distorted or deranged principles, that’s common place in politics. No, the Clintons are a vile duo to whom principles mean nothing, and evidently they mean nothing to their de-sensitized constituency either. Politics is like a fun little diversion for the Clintons, a game where the end prize is the White House. Once that’s been achieved, well, that’s it then! The End! Four years of fun for them, national and economic security, bah, what irrelevant banality, that can’t get in the way of the frivolous philandering that’s to be conducted in the Oval Office. The nation and its troubles can go to hell, the Clintons are back in town, and America’s its bitch, as well as many poor interns.

W ell, what a squalid squadron of presidential hopefuls, have we nothing to choose from? In my book the only desirable rarities in this batch of mediocrity are Rudy Giuliani, whom dropped out of the race this morning, and John McCain, who is now the essentially undisputed front-runner and poised to win the nomination. Rudy’s cataclysmic downward spiral will be taught in political science courses for years, the fact that a candidiate whom 3 months prior was the unchallenged supreme Republican de facto pre-appointed nominee, and now has abdicated his presidential bid with a sorry 4th place ranking, this is just extraordinary and unprecedented. Its not as if anyone couldn’t see this coming by about a month ago, it became increasingly obvious that Giuliani had somehow relenquished his critical thinking faculties, actually believing that he could stand a chance skipping Iowa, Michigan, New Hampshire, andSouth Carolina and still retain the momentum to move forward. Its rather sad, I liked him a great deal, but I suspect we’ll be seeing him again considering his endorsement of like-minded friend Senator John McCain, whom responded with a gracious thanks and praise of Giuliani, strongly insinuating a McCain-Giuliani ticket, something I called weeks ago. If this actually will fulminate, it will mark an incredibly badly needed and long-awaited transition of the Republican party back to the more moderate, secularist, neoconservative-minded rather than theoconservative-minded that is required to sustain itself for a very long time now. John McCain is a good and educated man, a hero and a genuine patriot, and the only candidate who knows a great deal about geostrategic foreign policy and the only candidate excluding Giuliani with a record of balancing the budget.. People sputter on about his age, but I see a genuine energy and ambition in him that I don’t see in the bored dronings of someone like Barack Obama, who looks like a young guy testing the system to see how quickly one can become president. I believe McCain-Giuliani have enough bipartisan appeal and galvanization power to easily squash a shriveling hag the likes of Hillary, however, this does lead to a bit of an old-school philosophical conundrum:

On one hand, I want Hillary to win the Democrat nomination, as she would be an easier opponent to vanquish and mobilize against than Barack, who is far more appealing and far more formidable on the national stage. On the other hand, I don’t want her to win, simply because I don’t like seeing her happy. But I suppose the ultimate solution to this puzzle is the factthat even if Hillary does win the party’s nomination, a defeat in the general elections would be a far sweeter victory for the side of justice.

In the end, all the straight-faced lies and shameless rape of the very notion of truth, the disgusting, almost pornographic politikking and pandering and manipulation of human perception that is the make-up of American politics, in the end it all amounts to an over-arching aegis of absolute white noise. Here we are, just on the nascent beginnings of a new century and a new millennium, facing one of the most dangerousenemies of our time and great economic struggles, and a whole gang of moon-faced plutocratic grunts are blathering on against each other over the most trivial of matters, just to succeed into an office they damn well know they’re unfit for just to attain status recognition. Have we not greater matters to concern ourselves with? What the hell are you imbeciles thinking?

President George W. Bush just delivered his final state of the union speech. Gone were the rigorous declarations of animus towards our enemies in North Korea and the theocrats in Tehran, all was left was an admittedly admirable call to remain steadfast in Iraq, as if to cling upon this one great idea before it is finally dissipated into the final mire of American political indifference. The final verdict of this presidency in the history books will not be one of failure, the ability to democratize two fascist states and neutralize several others in 8 years, that’s commendable.

No, Bush’s greatest failing was his inability to proclaim his own message. The reason we’re seeing this maelstrom of chaotic political dementia is in part a filling of the void created by the president’s incapacity, or perhaps refusal, to decry his vision. Instead of categorically capitulating his true inner-convictions of what he perceived as the true implications of 9/11; not to fight a “war on terror”, which is a self-evidently ludicrous term tantamount to calling World War II a “war on kamikazism”, but to fight a “War on Islamic Fundamentalism”, which would entail not simple WMD easter-hunts, but a grand, long-lasting civilizational confrontation encompassing drastic geopolitical, cultural, and economic re-configuration. This is what he truly believes was necessary, and this is what his core neoconservative supporters and advisors believe was necessary and still do. I do as well. But he didn’t, beyond his quite well-done 9/11 aftermath speech, his rhetoric has been glossed with fluffy innuendo and circumvention of the real issues at hand, all in an effort not to tell the truth he knows is true, in part because he doesn’t possess the natural linguistic and intellectual faculties to express it with precision, also in part because its an immensely complicated and difficult case to make, and the population may of rejected him.

But it would have been worth it, and it would have been necessary, and it would have saved us from the torment we endure now; a politics contorted by the inane squabbles of unknowing politicians babbling to an unknowing populous.

When faced by daunting and numerous adverse forces and are rendered incapable of making a serious reaction, turn the other way and slobberon about something else.

Thus is the creed of the American politician.