Is America doomed through lack of choice?

What choice do the American people face at the end of this year: John McCain, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama. First, let's look at John McCain

You can get anything in America it seems, it is, by all manner of definitions, the land of plenty. A bubbling, spitting, melting pot of every race, creed, sexuality, age and haircut. A shining, phallic beacon of Capitalism and democracy and surprisingly, and in no way significant, the largest population of Germans outside Germany. It is the undisputed Heavyweight champion of the world accounting for at least 50% of the world's military spending. It is the superpower and theoretically, the land of the free.

Then why, as a federal constitutional republic with one of the worlds largest populations and budgets, is it still operating under a two party system?

What choice do the American people face at the end of this year: John McCain, Ron Paul, Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

John McCain seems to be obsessed with marketing himself to America as a conservatives conservative, constantly bleating about war, abortion, race and sexuality. Whereas he had historically shown tendencies towards a liberal attitude (he believes in Evolution), he now seems dangerously unstable, ill informed and is whoring away, attempting to forge links with anyone that may hand him power (for example voted against same-sex marriage in 1996 then weedily voted to leave it to the States in 2006), including the disgraceful behaviour of hugging the Monkey President.

I can imagine McCain poised, sweating, naked and drunk, a three quarters empty bottle of Bourbon trailing from his hand, nervously licking his lips and eyeing that big red button as enthusiastically as a dog sniffs another's dog's a*s.

In a revealing article regarding him from Britain's "The Guardian", he is described as, "a volatile man with a hair-trigger temper, who shouted at Senator Ted Kennedy on the Senate floor to "shut up", and called fellow Republican senators "shithead ... f*****g jerk ... a*****e". A few months ago, McCain suddenly rushed up to a friend of mine, a prominent Washington lawyer, at a social event, and threatened to beat him up because he represented a client McCain happened to dislike. Then, just as suddenly, profusely and tearfully, he apologised."

Another great example of craziness was this baffling attack on healthcare, "It's indisputable that autism is on the rise among children," he said while campaigning in Texas. "The question is, What's causing it? And we go back and forth, and there's strong evidence that indicates that it's got to do with a preservative in vaccines." What? That's a completely arbitrary link akin to saying that school and college killings are directly linked to the rise in coffee consumed when bought from Starbucks.

He voted yes on recommending a Constitutional ban on flag desecration and on limiting, yes limiting, death penalty appeals. McCain has never claimed to be moderate Republican, he's claimed to be a 'maverick Republican', these views result in him being disliked by most sides for various different reasons probably due to his wildly inconsistent views.

The only thing he's really for is MORE WAR which given his background as a POW is unsurprising, but then, Americans do love a nutter, so he should do well.

Author's Note

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Reviews

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I am not fond of John Mcain or any of the candidates for that matter. I have given up on us. America is so messed up we don't know which way we are going. Our entire government is corrupt. You really can't trust anyone here. Our whole system is just ridiculous and I am so ashamed that this is the country I live in. If this makes me unpatriotic so be it.

[ShadowWolf]

These are the very reasons why I will probably do a write-in for Mickey Mouse.

[joshua rainbird]

As a Brit and watching some of the footage on the American elections from the comfort of my English couch, all I can say on the elections is - thank God we don't have the saturation of bitchy advertising that is poisoning your country. We have some and I think that is why the turn-out at elections is alarmingly low.

Your writing has a razor-sharp wit that conjures lasting satirical images that gets to the heart of the character but also sets them up as flotsam coasting on a polluting zeitgeist. This portrays McCain not only as monster but one of many that would rise in such a regime - a gallows-bird picking over what's left of a poltically impoverished graveyard.

I hope you will be as brutal with the other candidates.

[PhoeniX]

sadly, this upcoming election will go down in the books to be one of the most forth coming, hair changing, mouth dropping elections yet ever held in this country. a women running for president, an african american running for president, and a man who is too old to be president.

so many different views, different perspectives. why a 2 party system? because theyre stupid. the american leaders, sorry to say, but are a bunch of greedy sons of ****. same with the health care. no universal health care cause the health care companies will be out of buisness.

its all about greed. the taste of money is just too much to change this country for the better.