I’m very disappointed in the American people. Palin/McBush sell the idea that they are change candidates and it seems the average white voter is so desperate to vote for white people he/she leaps to their campaign and rejects Obama/Biden.

What I can’t understand is how little most people think. OK, so you don’t like or trust dark-colored people. You don’t like or trust Democrats. That shouldn’t obscure for you (rhetorical “you” I know noone reading this is an average voter) the obvious similarity between McBush/Palin and Bush/Cheney. And polls show the vast majority really want change. Palin is a governor from the outside. Bush was a governor from the outside. Bush didn’t know anything about foreign policy. Palin doesn’t know anything about foreign policy. Bigger parallel still: Palin is a right wing fundamentalist right-wrong-anything-nonChristian-is-evil person. Bush was the same.

I heard on NPR yesterday a very good point about Palin’s problem: She has a simplistic view of right-wrong, black-white without grey that makes her a terrible foreign policy president. McBush is so in favor of using war as a foreign policy tool he also is not a good choice for president aside from his terrible economic policy which is also a continuation of Bush/Cheney.

We absolutely have four more years of Bush coming if these bozos are elected. There is no difference. Lower taxes for the rich and corporations. War as a tool to stop evil (anything nonChristian and nonAmerican is evil) as the first choice. New Supreme Court appointees that will further guarantee corporate hegemony over average citizens, money = free speech, women’s rights eliminated, affirmative action dead.

Obama blew it with the choice of Biden. I suspect Biden knows it himself right now. He is smart. He admitted it as much yesterday in a campaign town hall meeting. The polls have already turned. According to Lou Dobbs, the race is McCain’s to lose. Obama does not seem to know how to regain his lost ground. After all, he has never been behind before. Or at least when he was behind in states like West Virginia and California he didn’t seem to have any strategy that allowed him to gain ground against Hillary. He just won in the states he was already leading in–such as Miss., Ala., the Carolinas.

Biden admitted Hillary might be a better choice than he yesterday. That is good humble politics. Maybe he will get out and get Obama to replace him with Hillary. She is our best choice to steal Palin’s thunder. We need Hillary to debate Palin. Biden cannot beat Palin without losing in the end. An old experienced Washington man against Alaska Palin means Palin wins in the eyes of all the average Americans who want an average vice president.

We may still win this election. The only way is if youth votes. I would bet 60% of youth that votes will vote for Obama. If so, and if these voters constitute millions of new voters not factored into the polls, Obama wins. Under these circumstances Republicans will be angry and suspect fraud. That would be a good thing. We probably should get rid of the electoral college and Diebold voting machines and both might be accomplished by millions of youthful voters overwhelming the rigging of the machines. The electoral college gives too much power to little rural states and if Obama wins a few of those maybe Republicans will question the necessity or even wisdom of an electoral college standing between voters and the outcome.

This country is definitely in decline. It is in decline because the voters do not want the smartest, the most thoughtful, the most qualified and gifted people to lead this government. They want a woman in there to serve them moose stew. We need brains in the White House.