The Republican Party made the mistake of working with the Democrats in order to restore the Two Party System. The Democrats were led by Howard Dean at the time. When George W. Bush won the elections of 2000 and subsequently 2004, the Democrats went berserk and decided to go all out and destroy the Republican Party through a campaign of lies and outright character assassinations. All their efforts failed and, in fact, the Republicans had majorities in both Houses of Congress for a few years. To be quite honest, the Republicans felt lonely without the Democrats; they had grown so used to being the minority party that they lost their bearings and began to wonder if it were not better to share the leadership granted to them by the people of America and restore the Two Party System to its original luster. The Democrats, however, had different intentions. They had never been the party of one agenda; they picked and chose whatever suited their fancy, what gave them victory; the policies were formulated later.
When Sen. John McCain ran for the office of President in 2008, he decided to unite the nation by offering to work for all the people and bring members of both parties to the bargaining table in order to forge the legislation that would rebuild America after the attacks of 9-11 and keep its enemies in check abroad. The Republican Party was not behind Sen. John McCain for a long time; they had preferred one of the other candidates who were less enamored of working with the Democrats, now that the Republicans had lost both Houses of Congress. That left the gap in the credibility of their candidates pretty wide and the Democrats seized the opportunity and went with their wildcard, namely Barrack Obama, and not Sen. Hillary Clinton.
The Democratic Party could not have destroyed the US through their choice of Obama any better even if they had tried; but the venom of losing the two elections to George W. Bush was so painful that they were desperate. They swallowed hard and elected their own nemesis, a politically "conservative" Harvard graduate community organizer from Chicago, who also ironically was the son of a leftist foreign student from Kenya. Now the Democrats could also claim that they had broken down the racial barrier, and the nation ate it up. The deception was so brilliant that even Sen. Ted Kennedy, who had called Obama "Osama," and Sen. Robert Byrd, who had been a grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, both endorsed, yes, endorsed Obama for President.
Here is the beauty of all this tragicomedy, as the most astonishingly unlikely scenario, Obama wins the Presidency and goes on to unite the world in a hapless attempt at a new World Order, a world order based on equality and humanism with total disregard to the realities of the world economic, political, religious and social systems.
Right now, Obama is trying to convince the world not to produce too much carbon dioxide (also known as green house gases) and accept US paper money as the basis for trade of real commodities worldwide. At this point, as Americans, all we can say is: good luck!
July 10, 2009