Why I won't vote for Obama

I'm voting tomorrow for Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party. 

No, of course I don't expect McKinney to win.  The CIA controlled media has made sure of that.  They will not allow someone as brave as McKinney, who recognizes 9/11 for the false flag operation it is, to ascend to the highest office in the land -- even though she has values, goals and ideals that are shared by a majority of Americans.

Most voters are still hypnotized by the mantra issuing from the corporate media that we must continue to support the party in power:  the single party that controls this country, bought and paid for by wealthy corporate interests such as Wall Street.

"But I'm voting for Obama," you protest.

Don't be fooled, Obama is the current anointed one for that single party that has been in power for decades now. Some wear red uniforms, some wear blue, one plays the good cop, one plays the bad, and they manage to create such a furor and fuss by tussling and fighting all over the media, that the people are transfixed by the spectacle and fail to notice that both parties want to continue to wage war illegally, continue to spy on us illegally, support the illegal financial dictatorship with Hank Paulson at the helm, and have conspired, with bogus commissions, to cover up the truth about the assassination of JFK and the attacks of 9/11, to name just two cover-ups. 

Our corrupt and complicit media tell us endlessly that we must continue to support this one party, the Dempublicans, or the Reprocrats, because if we don't, our "vote will be wasted."

I've come a long way.  Just two years ago, when the Democrats won a majority in both the US House and the US Senate, I was overjoyed.  I believed we were on the road to real change:  that we'd stop funding the illegal war in Iraq (humorously titled Operation Iraqi Liberation, or O.I.L.), and begin to see accountability in government, including impeachment. 

I began this blog on the eve of the mid-term elections, November 6, 2006, when I urged people to read some columns from The New York Times.  Boy, was I buzzed on the Kool Aid!

It's not a paper I read anymore. 

 On November 8, 2006, the day after election day, I wrote: 

What is this joy that fills our hearts? Don't confuse it with the exuberance of sportsfans, painted in gaudy colors, bellowing because their side won. When he moves to another city, that fan will yell just as loudly for a new team.

This is no shallow bolstering of ego derived from aligning with a winner. It's much deeper, much purer. It's about right and wrong. Many of us have been suffering the awful pain of seeing the country we love morph into a monster before our eyes: a lying, treacherous, invading, torturing, incompetent, greedy and arrogant beast that had gobbled up so much power it was tossing every challenger aside with a shrug. We feared it might have so gamed the system, that it couldn't be beaten.

But it was! There is a God.

My optimism cranked even higher two days later, when George Allen conceded and Jim Webb won the Senate in Virginia, giving Democrats a majority in the US Senate.  On November 8, 2006, I wrote:

The eyes of a nation turned to Virginia, and the world watched and waited. It seemed that the direction of the planet's only superpower would ultimately be decided by a few thousand voters in the Commonwealth. It was nail-biting time.

Allen finally conceded at 3 pm Thursday and Webb held a victory press conference an hour later in Arlington, standing on a tiny stage and surrounded by ecstatic Democrats. Senator Chuck Schumer spoke first.

"What color is my tie?" he asked the crowd.

"Blue!" we answered.

"What color is my suit?"

"Blue!" we shouted.

"What color is the Senate?"

"Bluuuuuuuuuuue!" we roared, screamed, clapped, and hooted.

I was to be bitterly disappointed.  As the months rolled on, as impeachment stayed off the table and our troops stayed in Iraq, the Dem's true colors were revealed:  not blue, but yellow. 

Or are they being blackmailed?  What has Cheney got on Nancy Pelosi?

Now it's election day again, and I'm far more jaded.  No fancy talking Democrat is going to fool me this time.  Despite soaring rhetoric that "We are the change we have been waiting for," Obama's positions are clear:

• Obama not only voted for the 850 billion dollar Wall Street bailout bill in the face of e-mails, letters, and phone calls that were 100 to 1 against it, but actively encouraged other Democratic Representatives and Senators to do the same.
• Obama voted for FISA after saying he wouldn't. A bill that allows the government to spy on the people in violation of the 4th amendment and which gave immunity to the telecoms for having illegally done so in the past.
• Obama voted for the Patriot act, an act which violates our civil rights.
• Obama supports expanding the military and the war in Afghanistan.
• Obama has not promised to end the war in Iraq, but only to follow the advice of the commanders on the ground, the same position held by Bush and McCain.
• Obama supports clean coal technology, which is anything but clean or environmentally friendly.
• Obama wants to force parents to provide health insurance for their children whether they can afford to or not and intends to fine those who do not comply. "Sorry Johnny there won't be any dinner tonight because we can't afford it, but the good news is that tomorrow we can take you to the doctor to check on your malnutrition.
• Obama opposed and still opposes impeaching Bush, who has violated the Constitution, and both U.S. and international law.
• Obama supports "free" trade which has enriched the corporate elite at the expense of the American worker by sending good paying jobs overseas to low wage unregulated areas of the world
• Obama voted against capping credit card interest rates at 35%. He said it would hurt "business;" instead he has hurt the working poor.
• Obama supported tort reform which lets companies off the hook regardless of how egregious their violations are.

No, Obama, this is not change, this does not represent my hopes for America.  I see you for what you are. 

Why you should vote third party

Whether you vote Libertarian, Green, Constitution or Independent (Nader) you will be sending a message to the two headed Dempublicans that you want real change, you want a real choice and you see through their corporately funded media shills herding us into the Obama pen. 

Vote for change.  Vote third party.

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