Mr. Secor, I certainly agree with you as far as you went with the subject of Obama but it would seem to me there is a great deal more to be said. The entire \'election\' process is theater.  
 
I\'m not sure why you only pointed out Obama\'s flaws without including McCain for it is not the man, men or women but the process itself that has no real meaning left. Big Money essentially owns everything (in fact the financial elite are at this moment completing the greatest transfer of wealth in the history of the world and by the time they are essentially finished they will own or be owed for virtually every hard asset in the U.S. Those foreclosed houses do not vanish in a puff of smoke; who owns them now?) Big Money buys the politicians and therefore the laws and regulations, banks, money creation et al. Globalization is a euphemism for imperialism; having found it fairly easy to knock off the U.S. in only seven years, they want to rule the world and believe they can. I think they\'re wrong but they don\'t care what I think. 
 
The only thing Big Money fears is the people themselves; their sheer numbers. This is of course why they go to so much trouble and expense to manipulate what the public thinks. 
 
The only thing to be determined by this farce of an \'election\' is how much the public actually understands about politics, propaganda and the economy. Naturally, if the public really understood no one would vote and the people would already be on their way to Washington to resolve the problem. 
 
Obviously that has not happened. Nor is the electorate going to stop paying taxes and therefore funding the criminal activities of this or any other \'administration\'.  
 
Voting for Obama, who presumably will change nothing and works for Big Money just like all the others, tells the financial elite some of the people are beginning to catch on to the game. If Obama were to \'win\' by a wide margin then this could send the message WAY too many people are catching on and the public may be waking up sufficiently to worry Big Money. 
 
I believe the result would be an effort to slow the process of globalization and imperialism in the face of possible exposure and potential revolution. I have noticed the records of the Project for the New American Century have been removed from the Net as well as various videos from youtube such as the one in which the collapse of building 7 on 9/11 was announced (time stamped) well before the event took place. You can see the neocons making an effort to cover their tracks. This would indicate some concern on their part. 
 
A \'win\' by McCain tells Big Money they can do whatever they want because \"the people\" are beyond any ability intellectually to respond; they will believe virtually anything they are told and/or at least submit to authority as they have been doing. In other words, a \'win\' for McCain unleashes the neocon minions of Big Money completely; not only here but around the planet. 
 
The only advantage I see at the moment for an Obama \'win\' is that it might allow more time to reach out to and educate the public for those who are attempting to do so. It is a process of grasping at the very last straw to be sure but it is the only genuine possibility for any sort of improvement I can see.  
 
So I will hold my nose and vote for Obama. However, in the secret recesses of my imagination, the child in me; the unsinkable optimist, will also note Obama did everything he had to do to get into his present position; i.e. NO ONE gets anywhere near a presidential nomination without pledging their undying allegiance to Big Money (and the Israel Lobby)......what if Obama did what was necessay and yet somewhere deep inside he is really a populist? What if he actually cares and has had to hide his true thoughts in order to get the nomination? I admit it is unlikely but isn\'t it possible?  
 
Needless to say, if this is true Obama is in the gravest danger and will almost certainly be assassinated if he attempts to actually help the people or the country and \'betrays\' Big Money.  
 
I really am pathetic am I not? When I went to Washington to protest the utterly fraudulent Ohio electoral votes, I still hoped John Kerry would step forward and stand with us only to discover he had left town entirely......HA!

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