Why do we not get a say in what the ‘candidates’ talk about in their ‘debate’? Did anyone else notice that you can’t even see the audience? It’s creepy, like the debate took place in a whole other world where we, the people, certainly weren’t welcome. Who decided that these two candidates were the only important ones? I certainly did NOT.
What purpose does it serve to have a closed debate where the people don’t get to ask questions of the candidates? Why are the candidates arguing over which soldier’s mom gave who a bracelet and told them “go win the war in Iraq”? And how does anyone even ‘win’ a war? So now that all other excuses are exhausted, we’re winning a war for vengeance? Let’s be mature here. Why does even Obama want to send more troops to the Middle East? Why is war even an option on the table?
Why is the president of Iran so demonized? Both Obama and McCain made comments about the threat of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons. Why is Iranian possession of nuclear weapons held over our heads like some boogeyman that we need government protection from? Last i checked, Iran in fact does not have nor do they intend to involve themselves in a nuclear war. In fact when have you ever heard the Iranian president say anything? If you’re mind immediately went to those supposed homophobic comments he made in New York last year then congratulations! You’ve been duped by the Military-Industrial-MEDIA complex. Ahmadinejad is not part of our administrations little game. Compare >this story from an Iranian news source to this story from an American news source, Fox News, no less. Home of ‘free and balanced’ news coverage!
Why is it more important to have an hour long arguments over what’s going on with other countries like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Russia when we have a financial crisis and looming depression on our hands at home? Why do the candidates avoid real issues?
I personally do not feel that the candidates discussed the important issues that need to be discussed. What about the financial crisis and the bailout? What about the Black Budget that even the head of the Department of Defense doesn’t have access to? What about the fact that all commercial production is outsourced to other countries like China so that if worst comes to worst the United States could not sustain itself independently? What about ending our reliance on nonrenewable energy sources? What about the corporate monopolies that run rampant in the global economy? What about the chemicals that are in everything we eat and drink, even the air we breathe? I don’t know how anyone in their right mind thinks either of these are ideal candidates when they can’t answer these important questions. Yet they appear to be the only candidates?
Check again my friend, we are supposed to live in a republic (or democracy if you want to call it that). Just because there’s more than one party does NOT mean we have a choice. It’s just the two headed eagle. There ARE other candidates, better ones I might add. Ralph Nader gets shit every year for “taking away votes” from the ‘main parties’ when in fact his goal is to remind us that this isn’t supposed to be just a two-party system. Ron Paul, Dennis Kucinich, Cynthia McKinney and, of course, Ralph Nader just to name a few…all candidates who are running in the 2008 election but have been buried by mainstream, corporate-owned news outlets. This, sadly, seems to happen in every election. When will be the year we will say no more?
Also, did anyone pay attention to the background they were standing in front of? First of all, the giant eagle crest with olive branches in one claw and arrows in the other is the American version of a fascist symbol. It isn’t much different than Hitler’s use of the swastika, the Soviet Hammer and Sickle, etc. Secondly, the placement of words on that blue backdrop in relation to the candidates was no accident. The words destruction, government etc can be seen behind John McCain’s head and when they panned to the side, the word ‘right’ was directly in front of McCain’s mouth as if to say ‘everything coming out of his mouth is right’. Well, it is not and the same goes for Obama.
This debate and this whole circus of an election is made even more meaningless by the new story that has just come out that Bush has planned to declare Economic Emergency on October 5th and suspend the election indefinitely in addition to other news stories that say that starting October 1st there will start to be active troops stationed within our own borders by our own government. This is the beginning of martial law.
The purposeful dismantlement of the United States is underway here, are we blind to it? Turn off the TV, turn off the radio, shut that magazine, it’s go time. It’s our right as American citizens to overthrow any government that is not looking out for our interests and i think it’s safe to say that the American government has not looking out for our best interests for about 100 years now.
“It must be difficult for those who have taken authority as truth rather than truth as the authority” – George Massey
