Obama's 'change' is not enough
Despite what mainstream media and celebrity pundits would have you believe, leading 2008 presidential candidates give us little hope of changing the political minefields here at home or around the world.
Senator Obama may deliver riveting speeches, heralding hope and change; yet his political past and vacant promises for a better future fall abysmally short of the tectonic shift needed to dismantle Bush's empire.
As a freshman senator, Obama and his fellow Democratic legislators, who held a majority in both the Senate and the Congress for the past two years, repeatedly failed to stand up to the lies, distortions, demands of the Bush regime, even approving Bush' hand-selected terrifying nominations for key agencies. Failing, barely pursuing, to demand the truth from Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Cheney, Meyers, or Bush.
Despite the moral crisis confronting out nation, not once has Senator Obama recognized the inherent evil in government sanctioned torture and rendition, which clearly violates the United Nations' human rights standards, the Geneva Conventions, and even our own Constitution. Nor has Obama addressed the essence of our democracy, ballot integrity, regardless of two stolen presidential elections and a corrupted mid-term election in Ohio. Obama blatantly ignores the cornerstone of our nation's fundamental precepts.
Furthermore, Obama's melodic prose stops frightening short of explaining precisely how he intends to rein in a multi-trillion-dollar deficit or how he will reverse unprecedented unemployment and underemployment, let alone how he would reverse the housing market and halt a looming recession of unparalleled depth and scope.
Perhaps the very most disappointing policy lapse of Obama's platform is his repeated omission to confront the horrendous consequences of the quagmire in the Middle East, consequences devastatingly impacting the world, with an equally destructive reach here at home. There has not been a single instant in which Obama displayed authentic sadness or even regard at the tremendous, unfathomable loss of human life, our valiant troops and the millions of Iraqi casualties, or the demoralization and demise to the human race as a result of U.S. sanctioned torture and rendition. Instead, the messianic agent of change plans to continue our unethical occupation of an entire nation for the sake of oil and oil barons.
Obama is correct in asserting he is not Bush-lite. No, Obama is, in fact, continuing the treacherous dynasty as Bush III.
Gerrie Zaha
St. Charles