Poker Politics: Obama Can Whip The Lip
It was the day after Bo Diddley died and Grip Booter was hosting his weekly poker game. ‘Braindead’ Farquar was on his third beer already and said ‘it looking like we gonna git us we first blekk president. Thank Christ it won’t no woman at least!’
Grip tut tutted and grinning as he said so, told his captive audience:
‘With McCain the only Republican presidential option and them two Democrats fighting it out and Obama not a choice coming from some scary nigga church in Chicago, Hilary was the only way to go.
‘What the hell, she had the white-haired, eminently patrician Bill Clinton tucked way in the back as part of her package, and he comes complete with the fond memories of how well America did when he was president. Well she lost out eventually - she was just a little too earnest, a condition all too easily undermined by whatever cause or issue surfaced, when she was just too ready with an answer to please the pundits! She came on more like some chick running for high school president to be honest.
‘And Obama was just so damned smooth and ready with the answers and the right measured responses to the controversies the media tried to lay on him. He’s a smooth operator. Not quite black - not quite white. Not quite a pacifist. Not quite a Moslem. And that’s what will undo him. He ain’t quite the perfect presidential package. Something ain’t quite right. And you can’t quite put your finger on it. My friend Buddy says a beautiful nigger gonna pop out of the woodwork any day now with her claim to carnal fame, and then the whole train of his prior conquests will arrive. But he ain’t that dumb. And he is a loyal, caring husband and father and that’s the kind of fact that the American public like.’
“I would not be devastated if Obama won. He’s a good man. A clever man. And someday the blacks have to have their man. The Man.
‘But if that geriatric cardboard cut-out McCain gets the presidency then we can kiss the country goodbye. He stands up there unable to speak without a tele-prompter and literally totally speechless when one fails. And here’s a guy who still thinks war is cool and believes that we think he’s some kinda hero because he was dumb enough or unlucky enough to go to Vietnam, get caught and live on rice in a jungle cell for a couple of years while his buddies were being shot and maimed on the battlefield.’
‘There’s nothing heroic about being a prisoner in a war. Fed, watered, hosed down. Hell, North Vietnam is a tropical paradise and other Vets incarcerated thus say they slept most of the time. Hell, Buddy’s brother died from a Viet Cong bullet just seventeen days before the end of his first two year stint in Vietnam. But McCain thinks he’s the hero because he came back to spout off a bunch of bullshit about how terrible it was in his dry hole cell with nasty Viet Cong guards teasing him in a language he couldn’t understand. Well if he’s a hero, what are these guys in Iraq now? They are living in the present and it ain’t funny. McCain is living in his manufactured past and no one gives a fuck - especially young soldiers who are being slaughtered and maimed in a country the retarded George Bush has been told to control so his dad’s investment company Carlisle can get a grip on the oil there and weasle commercial control of the Middle East. Not to forget the vice president’s claim to the oil wealth there. Am I the first to call it ‘Cheney’s Iraq’.
‘And McCain stands up there quoting his Republican claptrap written up by eager right wing university graduates who want the world to be their way so that they can keep their inheritances and their share of the oil-generated Wall Street wealth that is draining the rest of the world. McCain is a clone of the Republican Revolution - an idea that the world is fucked up and dirty and backward and moslem and only the educated, ideologically-retarded Republican storm-troopers can fix it - getting even richer in the process.
‘McCain is a puppet - watch him speak - nominated by the Republican party hierarchy to represent the interests of the powerful party members and protect the right wing ideals of a party that has been poisoned completely by the Bush dynasty.
‘George Bush’s grandfather supplied the Nazis in the Second World War with the gas that Hitler used to kill the Jews. Bush was chastised by Congress and he told them to mind their own business - it was the American thing to do.
I rest my case.’