For nearly two years, the collective eyes and ears of America and the world have been focused on an election which is now ancient history. In some respects, the whole thing somewhat reminds me of two weeks on non-stop hype preceding a Super Bowl; only to have the game end with a score of 76 to 7. There is something amazingly anticlimactic about all that has gone since Tuesday night at 10:00 pm when the election was “called”.
After daily being the top of news, regardless of other events going on, the election itself proved to be about as interesting as comparing the fashions of Michelle Obama and Nancy Reagan. There was a certain sense that the whole thing had already been decided and putting the numbers on the television screens was a mere formality. Perhaps the huge advantage Obama had in the polls contributed to this, but maybe not.
Maybe John McCain was getting old or maybe he just didn’t care if he won; but he never looked like he was trying to win. He went through the motions but it appeared his heart was not into doing whatever it would take to even be competitive. The entire election process gives off a very strong scent of being pre-orchestrated and pre-arranged long before the actual events played out.
Last season a NBA referee was found guilty of fixing games. Throughout the history of sports, there have been scandals where teams (black sox) and individuals were found guilty of “throwing the game” to enable someone to clean house via a bet. Horse racing has been rife with rumors of this happening for years along with boxing. No one will ever forget the Sonny Liston fiasco.
I do not believe for one instant that those who run for President of the United States do so out of the goodness of their heart and as their patriotic duty. Those who actually end up the nominees of the major parties have been handpicked and prepared to stage a campaign every bit as real as numerous movies depicting campaigns. No one will ever forget “Wag the Dog”.
In trying to determine what is real and what is not, it must be remembered that those who devote their life to running for public office face one of the most insecure jobs known to man. Perhaps only a college basketball coach or a NFL football coach has a more insecure future than someone who must run for office ever two , four or six years. At lower levels of politics of course the contests are real, but once one attains the level of Senator or Presidential candidate; things are not as they appear.
The election of 2008 was signed, sealed and predetermined long ago. There was no way those who control the affairs of this country and world would let an “accident” happen in an election. Only those directly involved can say what “really” took place in the 2000 election and why it ended the way it did. The best guess is that Al Gore did better than expected and thus the whole Florida mess.
George W. Bush served his masters well and accomplished for them what they asked of him to deliver. He will go down in history as one of the least recognizable Presidents (along with his father) who really did very little for eight years except drag the country into wars. George W. was the perfect “fall guy” to reap the public scorn for the economy since he already was their enemy for the Iraq war. When the perfect economic storm blew into town in September, it marked the end of the election campaign.
Barak Obama will deliver whatever it is those who selected him to be the next President want from him. He will appoint who he is supposed to appoint and yield to who he is supposed to yield to. He will provide an articulate and charismatic leader who appears to be working hard to help the average American. He will, no doubt, perform his duties just as flawlessly as George W. performed his.
That is it; these people are merely actors in a great theatrical production. They learn their lines and they perform them flawlessly. They succeed in convincing everyone they are the real thing, but in reality they are merely actors perfectly producing the characters they are paid to portray. Obama has grown into the very image he has projected. McCain did the same. Biden already was that image. That leaves Sarah.
Sarah didn’t play by the rules. She took this whole thing seriously and thought she was supposed to really try to win the election. She was told to back off and quit doing what she was doing. She did not listen. She insisted on attacking to the very end the credentials of the opposition.
From the minute the election was over, the very people she worked for have been tearing her apart and trying to portray her as the reason McCain lost the election. She has been accused of being “stupid” and naïve and unlearned in civics and government. She has been maligned for clothes purchased, errors in understanding and for being herself. No person of her character deserves what she has been given, by her own party.
The Palin fiasco of the past few days proves conclusively that the election was nothing but a long planned operation to put in power the people now being put in place. Sarah played by her own rules and pissed off those she should have been bowing down and kissing the feet of. Her reward for two months of faithful service is to have her name and reputation drug through the mud, not by the opposition, but her “friends” in her own party.
I am glad this silly excuse for an election is over. Let those who are going to do what they are going to do, do what they are going to do. Whatever happens is what those really in charge have planned to have happen for years. John McCain will land on his feet doing something that will make him happy. Unfortunately, Sarah will have a much harder time doing the same since she has been cast as the scapegoat for an election defeat preordained to happen since probably 2000.
