If the Democrats’ candidate in 2008 is Obama, we can be sure that the right-wing Republican noise machine will denounce the nation’s potential first non-white male president as a dangerous “leftist.” The charge will be absurd, something that will hardly stop numerous people on the portside of the narrow U.S. political spectrum from claiming Obama as a fellow “progressive.” Certain to be encouraged by Obama and his handlers, this confusion will reflect the desperation and myopia that shaky thinking and the limited choices of the U.S. electoral system regularly instill in liberals and some squishy near leftists.

Obama is and has proven himself to be another DLC poster boy: friendly to authoritarians, dangerously naive about the real potential for “bipartisanship”, and yet another Dem corporate bootlicker. If you’re going to vote for either of these two phonies, you might as well be voting for Bush. Again.

The US election system is now officially a joke, like something out of Paul Mazursky’s Moon Over Parador.