Piffle

I don’t usually think a lot about piffle. But I know it when I see it. I see a lot of now, oozing out of the mouths of dishonest Brafia and others who wish to mislead us. They are doing everything they can to make light of Obama’s trip to Europe and the Middle East. “A five minute visit won’t make him an expert on foreign policy,” “it’s just a political trip, a photo-op,” “it’s just going to be an overseas political rally,” and so on. Anything to make his trip as trivial as possible. But think about it. Does anyone believe that the powers that be in the Middle East and Europe are not going to take seriously meetings with the man who will almost certainly become the next POTUS? It doesn’t matter if they are friends of Bush or not (if, indeed, he really has any friends), nor does it matter what they might think of Obama himself, they obviously have no choice but to take him seriously and try to explain to him what they see as problems, solutions, and strategy. Obama will gain more on this trip that McCain did on all of his previous trips while wearing his rose-colored glasses. The behavior of the Brafia during the Clinton administration, and all through the Bush/Cheney administration, and now while trying desperately to cling to power and denigrate Obama, has been shameful beyond belief. I am not a political historian (or any other kind of historian, for that matter), but I do not believe there was ever a time in the history of American politics when one party consistently and shamelessly put their party before the interests of the nation. It seems to me that all politicians, no matter what party they claimed, always had the best interest of the American people and the nation in mind. It has not been so under this current administration. They have consistently favored corporations and corporate profits (for their friends and supporters) over the national interest. How else did we arrive at such a dismal situation. A soaring national debt, wages lower than they were even a few years ago, the price of gasoline and food rising daily, decaying infrastructure, recession, a complete loss of confidence in government, and so on. This is all the result of the Brafia and the military/industrial/political complex that has systematically squeezed all the money out of the taxpayers they can to feed their unfathomable greed. No politicians in the past that I can remember, no matter what their stripe, promoted endless war with whatever countries they fancied at the moment. However much they may have disagreed they were all patriots at heart. They believed in the country and the constitution and the rule of law. This Bush/Cheney criminal conspiracy is the first administration to abandon those beliefs, and we are now paying the consequences for their greed and short-sightedness. I sincerely hope (and wish) Obama will sweep all 50 states and show, once and for all, that people of the Brafia ilk are not welcome in our country and such behavior will not be tolerated. Some say, “a new broom sweeps clean.” Let’s have a new broom and sweep out the filth that has infiltrated our political system and government.

I know, I get carried away at times. I can’t help it. I am absolutely convinced that the Bush/Cheney bunch are nothing more than a criminal conspiracy, running their rackets at a higher level than those of Capone or Dillinger, and guilty of multiple war crimes. I cannot see how anyone can honestly dispute this, nor can I understand why more people do not want to see them held accountable for their horrific crimes. Hundreds of thousands dead, millions displaced, torture, profiteering, misery beyond human imagination, and they wish it to continue, apparently forever (it’s good for business). We cannot allow this to happen.

LKBIQ:
Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
Joaquin Setanti