In Hog You Ration Day

Barack WHO? Do you mean Mr. Obama, the "Peace Candidate," who did, in all fairness, warn the peaceniks, me included, that he would escalate in Afghanistan? And who escalated so massively he pushed the bill for Amerika's Af-Pak debacle well over a trillion smackers. And the death count from Big Brother Barry's "anti-Taliban" crusade is getting up there too, starting to give the Iraq War's roster of dead "Heroes" a run for its money. And Obama, the suave killer, who wages a number of somewhat shadowy wars, too, in Somalia, Yemen, and now in support of the French. Turns out the US is playing a hefty role in support of the current Blitz directed against Mali. And yes, you can criticize me with much justification, since I did vote for the evil of two lessers. I just figured Romney and Ryan meant what they said about "We need to attack Iran sooner rather than later." Well, at least it hasn't come to that. Yet. And it hopefully won't. Then there's Vice Lord Biden, who promised us he wouldn't (totally) privatize Medicare, unlike Paul Ryan. And the "Democratic" administration, hasn't, yet. Gawd only knows if they will. And the Obamarama Machine that said Social Security is "off the table," in the ongoing Austerity, or "Fiscal Cliff" brinkmanship maneuvers. Then they put it back on the chopping block, a sacrificial lamb to assuage bloodthirsty Republican butchers. But one can only imagine what the Mormon-in-Chief would have done to the ragged remnants of the safety net by now. Yes, I acknowledge I bear my share of the responsibility. I hate to be such a pragmatist, measuring the likely bloodshed from one scenario against another. But I thought I needed to, in order to have the effect of contributing the least amount of harm. Ah shit... I don't know what the fuck I'm doing anymore. I know it isn't enough to rationalize the deed by saying: "Jill Stein will not be inaugurated January 20th," as much of a trite certainty as that always was. Harry Truman, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama; they've ALL given us Change We Can Believe In. It's called Perpetual War, supposedly for Perpetual Peace.