Let’s talk, America.

Good afternoon, friends. Let’s have a talk. It’s about Barack Obama. I’m concerned about you, America. It seems like you keep falling for the same tired shit over and over, and I’m concerned you’re getting played again. Now, I know you’re all “hope-y” and excited and everything, but please, folks. Let’s be rational about this. Let’s all take off those silly-ass rose colored Hope Glasses ™, and assess the situation like adults.

Let’s start abroad.

• Would Barack Obama get us out of Iraq? No.
• Would Barack Obama get us out of Afghanistan? No, quite the contrary, he wants more troops there.
• Would Barack Obama get us out of the World Trade Organization? No.
• Would Barack Obama pull the plug on our unceasing (and grossly expensive) support for the terrorist regime of Israel? No.

Okay, foreign policy thus covered, let’s move on to the home front.

• Would Barack Obama repeal the Patriot Act and roll back the police state that we live in? No.
• Would Barack Obama take action (be that in the form of impeachment or my preference, actual federal charges) against the Cheney-Bush Junta? No.
• Would Barack Obama fight for separation of church and state? No, he wants to expand federal funding for “faith based programs” (puke).
• Would Barack Obama stop this idiotic, agri-business funded push for ethanol, which is an expensive, inefficient fuel whose manufacture ruins our soil and destroys the economic stability of what’s left of our farm economy, and actually push for real renewable energy instead of this band-aid approach? No.

So where does that really leave us, America? What does that leave us with, other than the same tired platitudes about Hope and Change that the Democrats try to feed us every four years? What exactly are we talking about changing here, Barack?

Don’t mistake me here. Barack Obama in the White House would be a “change,” and even, compared to the terrorist junta that currently occupies said space, a “positive change.” But when you cut all the bullshit out, here’s the bottom line. Barack Obama’s change means “a change in the way the empire is run.”

And deep down, America, you know that’s not the change we need.

-p.