April 17, 2008: I think I have finally had it with the current presidential campaign - or is it still only the primaries? Aside from the obvious wearing down of the Democrat contenders, our Republican apparent choice isn't exactly setting the world on fire.

As I have probably written in previous blogs, there's not much of a choice on the table - two socialist candidates and one who is some kind of conservative, but I don't know which kind. Thomas J. DiLorenzo had it right,for this campaign season anyhow, that a truly patriotic American would not vote (for president).

For crying' out loud, even Maureen Dowd has noticed that Senator Obama is an elitist candidate, really out of touch with most of the people in this country. The last time a real intellectual ran for president - Adlai Stevenson - it was a pleasure to hear his speeches, but nobody wanted him as the leader of our country (well, some Democrats did vote for him).

I don't think it's a matter of being snobbish, as has been written about Obama, it's just a matter of believing that the person running for the job is really in touch with his constituents - whether he really is or isn't. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who sure as heck wasn't one of the "common folk", had the ability to make everyone think he was for them. Roosevelt, like Obama and Clinton, was taken, to some degree, with Mussolini's fascist socialism, as were many nations' leaders in the 1930s. And who knows how this country would have turned under the various New Deal programs Roosevelt pushed, if WWII hadn't intervened. Except for one thing - WWII was a call for all Americans to unite behind its government in order to defeat the Axis powers. And those who spoke out against the war were not looked upon kindly. The idea behind the internment of American citizens of Japanese descent in the name of security was the same as the Federalist Alien and Sedition of 1798, the Sedition Act of 1918, and the atmosphere surrounding the Home Security Act; by the way, the two acts were during the administrations of presidents who were not Republicans. The Bush administration's practice of creating fear is more reminiscent of those old Federalists - and Wilson and Roosevelt Democrats, and is all related to what we know is a tactic of a right wing socialist system.

Anyhow. to make this story short, at this time I do not see how any intelligent, constitution loving American can insult the country by voting for the current list of candidates. Clinton may be less of a liberal fascist than Obama, and as I said at the top of the blog, I'm still not sure what McCain is. So I'll vote for the other issues on the ballot, but right now, I can't contribute to what I don't believe is in the best interest of the people and the country.

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