The Next Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

In the golden era of cartoons, a familiar story-line dressed a wolf in sheep’s clothing to fool those the animal was about to devour. That story line could have been taken directly from the political history of American Presidential candidates, and their success upon achieving the office. Few have been as important as Washington, as brave as Lincoln, or as determined as Roosevelt. Nevertheless, even these men spoke one game, and delivered another. Often the lupine behavior of those seeking office only appears after the country grants them the keys to the kingdom.

When President Bush leaves office it will not matter who becomes the next President. Both John McCain and Barack O’Bama will appear remarkably like George W. Bush. THEY ARE ALL THE SAME GUY!!! Once in office, the lofty personality highlighted by smiles and platitudes will fall away, and the grim face of governance will take hold. It doesn’t matter which party puts up the agent of change. Never failing, the hype is always bigger than the payoff. How much disillusionment must one nation suffer before realizing that the problem is as much in the electorate as it is in their elected officials? Not only is the government corrupt, but so are the governed!

Parts of the country are beginning to make some rumblings like kids commenting on those wolfish cartoons. We know the wolves howl at the moon, and we know what’s going to happen if we elect them. Someone to do the leading that is untainted is required because we are as much sheep as the wolf who disguises himself to live among us.

There is no room for the whimpering and whining of the thin skinned post baby-boom and me generations. The work that must be done to alter the course of this country’s destiny will not be handled by the likes of Baby-face Obama or Grandpa McCain. If it is to them that we are looking for the change, it will never come. Both men have blind supporters seeing truth in their own rose colored glasses. They spur on the misguided and flawed candidates. McCain was the only senator to escape a sting in the Keating 5 scandal. Yet the question remains, what was he doing there in the first place? O’Bama, the alleged agent of a new tenor in D.C., has actually run the other way from working with members not of his own party.

Might I remind you that the last person, who said Washington was broken, before these two gurus arrived on the scene, was George W. Bush. We have seen where such political posturing took us. These two very typical politicians, that the country has decided to delude themselves about, will offer more of the same. The more change that they espouse, the more they pander to the electorate, and stray from their own true agendas and values. We won’t really see those until they turn them into action after being elected. Good night America!

Wake up! We have met the enemy and he is us; dressed in a fine suit, well groomed, able to seduce people with oratory, and carrying a reassuring wisdom for our senses. The path we ride is the one we’ve been on since 1965, and its trajectory is angled down toward the gates of hell. Both of these candidates want to be “Choo Choo Charlie” on the “Damnation Express.” Unless the people change their values, the train will forever be driven by wolves in sheepskin.