Why Americans should vote Obama

In my post on August 30, 2008, my suggestion was that should Obama become President there cannot and will not be any real change in American foreign policy. By this stage of the proceedings, with the United States entrenched in two unwinnable wars and up to its eyes in debt, he should be well on his way to becoming President and I should just be waiting to see if my prediction was indeed correct. Nevertheless, something has happened to make me rethink my assertion that in the area of foreign policy he cannot offer something different and my belief that he is most certainly going to win the election in November. That something is the populism of John McCain and Sarah Pallin and its obviously influencing the great discerning American public and it would appear that John "was captured and tortured in the Hanoi Hilton" McCain and Sarah "has got five kiddies, loves God and hunting and has nice tits and glasses" Pallin have a very real chance of winning the election. Moreover, in the area of foreign policy while the aims might overlap their methods of achieving those aims won't. Here I would like to draw a little comparison with Stresseman and Hitler; both ulitmately wanted to achieve German hegemony in Central Europe. However, while Stresseman favoured a softly, softly diplomatic approach, Adolf was more like the proverbial bull in the china shop. Furthermore, Stresseman's ambitions stopped at hoping to establish German hegemony in "Mitteleuropa", Adolf on the other hand went looking for "Lebensraum" in the East after establishing German dominance of Central Europe at Munich in 1938. The frightening flights of fancy that McCain and Pallin might take us on can only be imagined.