Guest Blogger: George W. Bush

Hello fellow friends and readers of My Kafkaesque Life. It's the ex prezident the of USA, George W. Bush, hehe. I am writing instead of MKL today. Thank you, MKL, for giving me the chance to be the 2nd guest blogger on your respectful site, hehe.

I want to talk about current events around the world and my personal life in the past week. I went to the sawna with my best buddy John McCain, hehe. Check the photo here. Some people there were really buffled. They thought we're like BFF, because we got along so well. He told me that when he looks in the mirrow, he sees my face. We're like brothers. I like him, he's a funny guy. His demeaning jokes about women crack me up, hehe. Anyway, besides the sawna with Mac, I've been pretty busy. I went to the circus with my dad. I loved the monkey, hehe. Dad bought me a lolly pop (I won't tell you the flavour, but it was definitely a sugar overdose, hehe).
Yesterday I went to the movies with my wife Laura. We watched 'Hangover'. It really cracked me up. I thought I'm watching the old me from 20 years ago. but Laura didn't like it. She frowned the whole way back home and pulled my ear and scolded me. That damn dry pretzel (pardon my French) got me choking while I was laughing, so people complained behind me. What could I do? It was hilarious!
Since I used to be a politishan, MKL asked me to tell you something about the current political situation. Well, I don't know, if I wanna get sick in the future, since our hospitals will be socialized. I'm for small government. I only give money to big business. The money should trickle down to the rest. It worked until the system collapsed. I still don't know why it happened. I must ask Dick, he's smart. He has "the brains for mass destruction", hehe. And his riffle is no joke (no pun intended).
While I'm writing this, I'm trying to find prezident Obama's birth sertificate on Google. I don't know what to think, even if the republican governor of Hawaii says it's a valid Hawaii state birth sertificate, you know, republicans lie! So, I don't really know what to believe. But I've just retired recently and I'm writing my memoirs and watching reruns of Golden Girls. So I don't have the time to speculate about these matters, I let others decide. I'm not the decider anymore.
Oh, I'm feeling great today! Thank you MKL for this opportunity to write a little something on your well-respected blog.

And thank you, dear readers of MKL. I may write a regular column on this blog from now on.

43rd Prezident of USA, George W. Bush

[NOTE by MKL: I don't think so.]

[Photo: Source]

Obama is a genius!

My whole last year 2008 was accompanied with excitement about the US presidential elections and Barack Obama. I can say, I heard about him already in 2006 when he went to Kenya and CNN reported it. One year later, in 2007, I watched on CNN how he announced his presidential campaign. And they began to report more and more about him and I already became a huge fan. At that time, everyone was excited about Hillary Clinton. Most of the meadia thought she already won, but not me. I knew Barack Obama was the best candidate with the best ideas that reflected my views and conceptions. I didn't doubt Obama, I doubted the American people due to the recent history of racism and the dominance of the right wing (that's was the perception). Anyway, luckily I was proven wrong and Obama was elected. It was a roller coaster: From Iowa to the Supertuesday to the debates with Hillary Clinton. Then came Bill Clinton's 'Fairytale', reverend Wright, 'Bittergate', Pennsyilvania and a lot of distress. Was I relieved when he won North Carolina and virtually wrapped up the nomination. I was so sick of those CNN pundits and all their bickering and ridiculing. I got goose bumps when I saw him in Denver in that big stadium. Joe Biden was a great choice, too. It seemed perfect. And then came McCain and the Republicans with their low shots and of course the joke of the year: Sarah Palin, her stupidity and ignorance. It was hillarious. I loved the presidential debates with McCain. Obama showed that he has an exceptional intellect. And then: election night! When he got Pennsylvania and Florida I knew he won. I waited until 4am to hear him speak. That speech was really history made infront of my eyes. I will always remember where I was when I heard it. I felt I was there in Chicago, I felt I was American and all the positive things that are associated with it. I felt that in 1 single day the world became a better place.
And now here we are. It's March 2009 and I tune in CNN and see president Barack Obama has a town hall meeting, answering questions and trying to increase support for his bold policies. After the election and until the inauguration I was in Malaysia and couldn't follow his interviews and all that was happening in that period. So tonight I heard him speak after a long time and I thought: Wow, he is a genius! In this moment I think there's not a single democratic politician in the world who is as intelligent, witted and articulate as Barack Obama. He could sell you any idea by the way he delivers it to you. It's still incredible, it won't decline and I think even after he will face tough backfire, make mistakes, he will give a speech and you will believe him or forgive him. Barack Obama is a genius. He will transform the presidency like Lincoln or FDR did. He won't be topped in my life time, he set the bar too high for any successor, it's a once-in-a-century thing. That's why, even in these hard times, recesion, terrorism, financial crisis... I know we (the whole world) have someone who's honestly working the hardest he can to make a difference. It's a great time to be alive.

[Photos take by me from the TV]

Who will be the next president of USA?

Soon we will know...

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McCain is desperate and ugly!

The US presidential campaigns go toward it's end, yet McCain's new tactics are some sleazy personal attacks on Barack Obama. He was able to rally some angry mobs that are predominately racist and dumb (You can only see rural or small town white people, check this blogger from Ohio). When Obama had 250.000 people gather in Berlin, was as if America is reborn as the leader of the free world, allowing a person regardless of his race or background, to reach the highest office, with his intellect and great judgement. We were all drunk here in Europe. What we didn't see was small town Americans like in Ohio. People who call senator Obama terrorist, scumbag and other nasty things. It just made me sad. I really really hope that this kind of Americans are dying out. I hope it is a minority. Yet, I remain pessimistic. Barack is black and many people just can't vote for him. Which is extremely ignorant and dumb, but America is a divided country. Now we will see how many of these white Americans will be voting for McCain. We shall see.
And since Palin and McCain began these personal attacks, many rightwing blogs or online news jump on this train and stress how important it was with whom Barack was hanging out. I found a very good comment on that and I like to share it here.

Posted by: houran
Oct 10, 12:04 PM
Source: RealClearPolitics.com

What if things were switched around?.....think about it. Would the country's collective point of view be different? Ponder the following:

Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin

2) What if the Obamas had paraded five children across the
stage, including a five month old infant and an unwed,
pregnant teenage daughter?

3) What if John McCain was a former president of the
Harvard Law Review and Barack Obama finished fifth from
the bottom of his graduating class?

4) What if McCain had only married once, and Obama was
a divorcee?

5) What if Obama was the candidate who left his first wife
after a severe disfiguring car accident?

6) What if Obama had met his second wife in a bar and had
a long affair while he was still married?

7) What if Michelle Obama was the wife who not only became
addicted to painkillers but also acquired them illegally
through her charitable organization?

8) What if Cindy McCain had graduated from Princeton
and Harvard Law School?

9) What if Michelle Obama's family had made their money
from beer distribution?

10) What if Obama had been a member of the Keating Five?

11) What if McCain was a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

12) What if Obama couldn't read from a teleprompter?

13) What if Obama was the one who had military experience
that included discipline problems and a record of crashing
seven planes?

14) What if Obama was the one who was known to display
publicly, on many occasions, a serious anger management
problem?

15) What if the Obamas had adopted a white child?

You could easily add to this list. If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as they are? To not vote Obama because he's "too liberal" and his policies don't reflect your positions are fine. But if you're voting on someone's character, biography, and who you believe they essentially are, then what does this mean? This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference.

Sad but true: McCalin will probably win.

After being energized by US politics this year, I'm very disappointed now. Barack and Hillary had a tough fight in the primaries. Now we know: It did not help the Democrats. It did not help Barack. It helped the Republicans. Barack was the star of this whole year's politics, the front runner, while McCain would be somewhere in the back, usually very unlikely a target for real scrutiny. He knows how to use his age and history in his advance, playing the POW card, which looks good in the eyes of Americans. Especially if you compare a young intelligent black person to an old grey (sometimes forgetful and grumpy) old white man. The stress is on white. Race matters in America.
But it's a real mystery for me that Americans prefer to elect a dumb leader. Why would they think Barack is an elitist? Just because he is intelligent? I guess half of the Americans can't understand what he's saying. You can't give the Americans complex answers, keep it simple like drill drill drill. It's pathetic! After McCain spread all these cheap lies about Barack, he hired a joke for his VP! Sarah Palin, an unknown governer from Alaska, who's a phoney religious extremist with no experience and no solutions, spreading even more lies per second than McCain. America will definitely change! If they elect McCain/Palin, I think everybody will pray for the safety of John McCain. If something happens to him, USA will have a dumber president than George Bush. Can you believe it? She has no clue about economy and foreign policy, no wonder she wouldn't give any interviews! She's afraid of being exposed as a bimbo she is. It's such a bullshit! I mean the american politics. How can people fall for this kind of gimmicks? I just hope something will shift in these 2 months in people's heads. Please, America. For once elect an intelligent president. Look beyond the skin color and age. Please!
But realistically speaking, it'll be very hard for Barack. I almost don't believe in his victory anymore. It's depressing... America, don't ever push up a man so high and then drop him down on the floor. I thought America was different... Now I seem to have lost the faith in America. I watched the Democratic convention and I got all excited, but then I saw the next week the Republicans smeared, lied and mocked the Democrats. And... it worked. I don't know what it is that people believe McCain is an agent of change now... He keeps stealing Baracks ideas and at the same time leaning into the far right. It works. Cuz he will sell his soul to the devil just to get elected. Whatever! Let him bring America and the whole world in danger just to get elected. I think the American Empire must lose it's power, it's grown too big and too influential on the whole world. An American election is like a world election. Just that only some 100 million people decide about the rest of us. And imagining a bimbo as the strongest person in this world it's beyond my wildest fears. I'm just speechless when I see all these things developing right before my eyes. And we thought Bush was bad. Duh....

Republicans smear smear smear!

Republicans have only one policy: SMEAR SMEAR SMEAR! That's how they wanna overtake Obama. Make the American people afraid of him. They can do whatever they want! Start wars, ruin the economy, create a greater division between rich and poor, oppose the right for free health care, give tax breaks for the rich and wealthy, go hand in hand with multinationals - they can do whatever they want! As long as there's a 'stupid white man' elected president, Americans will tolerate all this s**t! So my proposal is: Dissolve the Democratic party and let's have one-party-rule. What kind of democracy is America? On the federal level - none! At least some american states take the democracy seriously. But then again. One-party-rule like China and two-party-rule like USA - what is the difference?
This year, I had hope with Obama... Now I'm just hopeless. McDumb is slowly overtaking him in the polls, Republicans keep smearing. And to have a black man win the elections, he would need at least 30 points lead in the polls. A dead heat in the polls is like 20 points lead for McCain. Many whites will say to the pollsters that they will vote for Obama, but at election day, they will vote for McSame and then the pundits will say: Well, he didn't convince the white working class, he didn't give specific solutions, they didn't know him! WTF????? I'm from Slovenia, I got to know him last year, I pay attention to his road to nomination - I know him! You have internet, media (also unbiased) and he gave answers to all the problems Americans are facing. You have his website, Wikipedia, thousands of blogs - how can you not know what he stands for? i'm really starting to believe, what Bill Maher said: 'Americans are too dumb to be governed.' Meanwhile the Republicans smear smear and smear. It's pathetic!

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McCain at his best

[Source: HuffPost]