A NEW LOW FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

A NEW LOW FOR A PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

So ends the worst presidential campaign in my lifetime. Literally billions of dollars were spent on ads demonizing both candidates. Running for the most important job in the world, neither man even mentioned the essential issues facing this country: the upcoming fiscal cliff that can throw the United States right back into deep recession, the too-big-to- fail banks gambling with over-the-counter derivatives totaling 1.1 quadrillion dollars while valuing their worthless assets at one hundred cents on the dollar and a Federal Reserve that is engaged in counterfeiting zillions of confetti money to prevent the system from collapsing. And then there’s Europe always on the brink. Truth was missing in action.

 The Right Wing crazies plummeted to a new low as they used religion and racism in a desperate attempt to bring down the man they have hated for four years. Their contempt for women was an outright disgrace. I felt I was living in a Third World Country controlled by billionaires who financed the shameful obliteration of a once democratic nation.

Yes, the better man won. He is a remarkable campaigner who only slipped up once when a different Romney showed up at the first debate. In fact, it’s difficult to know which Romney lost the election. How does one go about choosing?

But now the candidate has to become the president again. After all the Progressive speech making on the stomp, I fear he will turn to the Right and push for oil and gas extraction on a scale unimaginable and at the expense of the environment. And in his obsession with bipartisanism, I see him dealing with the opposition with olive branches instead of fight.

Maybe he’ll surprise us and throw some punches when the moment is right. Anything is possible.

November 8, 2012