A Grim Prediction

"Either war is obsolete or men are." - Buckminster Fuller

About a year ago I wrote email to a few friends in which I said laughingly that regardless of skin color, ethnicity, political philosophy or religion, nobody with a name like "Barak Obama" would ever be elected President of the U.S. Well, it is beginning to look like maybe the laugh is on me. Obama's recent successes are impressive and his public speaking makes Hillary look shopworn and effete. Another couple of wins and he will almost certainly be unstoppable.

Around the same time I sent another mail in which I said that my nightmare election scenario would be Clinton vs McCain. Choose your Patriot Act embracing war monger!

As I watched the post Potomac Primary pundits ramble on with their explanations for today's results and predictions for the future a horrifying thought struck me. Though I don't have the time of day for "Let's invade Pakistan" Obama and his patronizing banalities ("One nation! One People. And the time for change is now!), were he the Dem's candidate in November I'd feel compelled to vote for him simply to stop that madman McCain.  The thought that made me shudder: In a McCain vs Obama election I think we can count on an international crisis erupting sometime in October. Mad Iranians will flood across the border into Iraq. Suicidal mujahadeen will blow up people in northern Pakistan. "Proof" will be discovered that Osama is buying nuclear technology from Kim Jung Il. Whatever. There will be something that will make the ungrateful electorate come to its senses and realize that security is dependent on a strong President and the job is too much for an unproven wimp like Obama. Thank god we have McCain!

Coming to a television screen near you. Autumn chaos! Count on it folks. You don't really think the neocons and the billionaires are about to give up after 8 years of having their way, do you?