More Questions and Questions again...

Time is running out in the sand. The democrats are starting to reveal themselves as they run around in circles, sweaty palmed, and shouting about how they stood up to the elites in Washington. Part of what makes American politics so interesting is the importance of the candidates identities. In other countries, most people vote for parties with a specific policy in mind. Not so in the United States where its about who you vote for first and then secondly what you vote for.

This is the reason that a character like Sarah Palin makes so much headway in the US. Or am I really off on this one? This is also the reason that a party like the Democrats had to make so many compromises on something like Health Care Reform i.e. there simply weren´t enough votes for something too radical. Of course the word "radical" is all about how you define it. What Obama has done from a standard Western European scale is simply centrist policies that leaned a bit to the right. In the US he was labeled a communist, a fascist, a socialist, and every other label that the right could throw at him. Sometimes the beauty of history is that we can read about what idiots have said in the past. Unfortunately we aren´t always able to evaluate them so rationally in the present. Thus the loud banging of drums and calling for heads to roll in Washington.

Lets consider the Tea Party. Again. Its really becoming a boring topic wondering who they really are and what they stand for and so on. From where I am sitting they are among the most stupid people in America. This goes back to their understanding of American history as well, which has led to an almost national religion based on the founding fathers. Isn´t that what other stupid countries do.

I left a country in 2006 and thought now there is no hope for that place. Fast Forward four years and if the Republicans get back in then I´ll be there for Kaddish at the all American funeral of the nation. Au Revoir just and fair America, we never knew ya!