Obama: Young Messiah, McCain: Old Fart

Well Barack Obama's much anticipated Berlin speech went down today much as expected: a half hour of articulate rhetoric and promises delivered to an audience of thousands of screaming, eager Berliners. Obamamania is already sweeping through Europe as Barack enjoys widespread support in that continent. If only Europeans could vote in American elections..... Overall, I was very impressed with the content of Senator Obama's speech: it was full of his trademark optimism and promises to reshape the world as we know it as president. As opposed to some of Obama's rhetoric towards the beginning of the campaign when his promises of "change" were backed up with little substance, this speech had some real meat. Obama touched on a variety of issues from the economy to the environment to nuclear proliferation and Iran's nuclear ambitions just to name a few. Obama, citing nuclear terrorism as a grave threat to the United States, also solidified his position of taking aggressive action to secure and destroy old Soviet nukes in order to protect America's national security. It was a pretty fucking good speech.

All matters of substance aside, how fucking good did Obama look? I mean, this guy looks and sounds every bit the part: he has to be one of the best, most captivating, inspirational speakers alive. Whether or not you agree with his politics, you have to admit this guy makes a damn good impression with his youth, optimism, and fucking incredible ability to express himself...... And right wingers claim "left wing" media bias when the media flock to covering Obama's foreign tour over McCain's... whatever the fuck it is that he does in between naps. Barack Obama has JFK written all over him: this guy is the real deal: a good Columbia man may I add: he is the embodiment of the multiculturalism and progressive "academic elitism" that the right despises. Put that next to John McCain, headline reads: "Old conservative white male to keep shit the way it is" Fuck that...

Speaking of John McCain, I was watching some debate show with couple conservatives arguing with a couple lefties. One of the dems brought up Senator McCain's age, only to be rebuked immediately by the righties for even bringing up the issue: "ageism" is not cool I guess. Is it really not a legitimate issue though? If John McCain is elected president, he'll be knocking on 80 at the end of a potential second term. Not only is the potential for serious health problems great at that age, but the possibility of mental deterioration is even greater. Take Ronald Reagan: by the end of his second term the guy was so fucking senile that he was absolved of any wrong doing by the Tower Commission investigating the Iran Contra scandal because of his lack of oversight (it is widely reported and believed that Reagan's had early stage Alzheimer's in the White House). Now, with the multitude of problems facing our country, do we really need a senile old fart in the White House? Fuck that...