If Obama becomes President Will He Stop Cyber Stalking Me?

It all started innocently enough... but like someone said the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Early in the Democratic primaries I emailed Senator Obama's website to point out that Senat0r Hillary Clinton's claim that Obama was 'too young and inexperienced' made no sense given that he would be the same age as Slick Willie was when he got into the White House. Oh sure Clinton had been a two term governor of Arkansas - but trust me, I've been to Arkansas: it's literally where 'Deliverance' and 'The Beverley Hillbillies' originated - before they loaded up the truck and they moved to Beverly... Hills, that is! I think Arkansas ranked 49th in terms of education spending and its biggest industry is/was chickens (I'm not making this up). Arkansas makes Missouri look like an orgy of effete sophisticates. (Missouri makes hillbilly jokes about Arkansas). It's hard to imagine a less likely place to originate a president - until Sarah Palin slimed onto the world stage. (Incidentally you've GOT to read Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi's riff on Sarah Palin - 'Mad Dog Palin'. What a classic piece of righteous political rant. P.J. O'Rourke would be green with envy. Dr Hunter S. Thompson would've bought the man a drink or a hit of ether or both).

And because I didn't want to tempt fate I didn't mention it to Obama, but all these media comparisons with Kennedy have always been extremely dicey if you ask me - and not just because of the whole assassination thing (though it's hardly a small thing). Read Seymour Hersh's awesome book on JFK - The Dark Side of Camelot and you come away with the realisation that Kennedy was a handsome, charismatic disgrace: not because he had the sexual proclivities of an alley cat on crystal meth - but because he had the chance to get America out of the Vietnam War in early 63 but turned the North Vietnamese down till he'd won a second term (JFK couldn't look 'soft' with the Commies) and that disastrous lack of intestinal fortitude cost 50,000 American lives and who knows how many Vietnamese!

And it was here that you can pinpoint the 'end of the American dream'. 3 years earlier Eisenhower as he was leaving office got on television and warned the Americans (and the world) about the threat from the influence of 'the military - industrial complex.' The sums of money that have been lost in the various financial 'catastrophes' over the last 50+ years are nothing compared to what's been pissed away by the Pentagon. What a country America could have been, should have been with all that wasted treasure. And what a world we would have had without their paranoia!


Anyway back to the Hillary's mendacity ... By the way, I don't dislike Hillary cos she's a woman - I dislike her cos she's yet another overpriced liar in an overpriced suit (pant suit in her case). The fib about her being named after Edmund Hillary was fab enough but claiming to be instrumental in the Irish peace agreement! Puh - leese! Then the real topper of 'flying into sniper fire in Bosnia!' Sweet Jeebus! ]

Anyhow since then Obama's emailed me constantly asking for money! I kept replying explaining that I was a poor student: monetarily and literally . Even $5 was going to help according to their cyber panhandlers! (What's an Aussie version? Cyberbotters? Cyber suckups?) I told them I was Australian and I think it's against their law to accept foreign money (and knowing what hardball playing pricks the Repugnicans are my little $5 could likely see his campaign stuck in the Supreme Court while Bush declared martial law).

Soon Michelle Obama was also on my case about handing over some dosh, then his campaign manager - somebody called David Plouffe (Could you invent a woosier name?) kept updating me ad infinitum, ad nauseum and asking for more moolah. Then Joe Biden started spamming me! I do wish Obama and Biden all the best - I really do : but my good wishes and a little email advice is all I've got for them . And it's not like they are strapped for cash! They raised $200 million last month! They could do a 'Scrooge McDuck' swimming in an Olympic pools of greenbacks. Sure the greenback ain't what it used to be but come on! These guys would make televangelists embarrassed!*


(I do have a terrible feeling at the back of my mind that despite all the polling saying otherwise we'll wake up on Nov 6 with raging hangovers from the Melbourne Cup and see McCain grinning maniacally holding up the front page of a paper that says 'OBAMA WINS!' like Democrat Harry S Truman did exactly 60 years ago with Chicago Tribune proclaiming his opponent Thomas E Dewey had beaten 'Give 'Em Hell' Harry. I also highly recommend Rollings Stone's piece on John McCain... The biggest difference between W and John McCain? Bush was a much better pilot!)

God Speed the US election - hopefully THEN these cyber beggars will leave me the hell alone!

*Yes I'm not a complete technotard... I realise there's such a thing as an unsubscribe thingamejig but then I couldn't indulge my Blog given right to bitch about something.