Summer 2008 = Pessimists' Valhalla

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Summer 2008 = Pessimists' Valhalla
by Bob Patterson | July 11, 2008


As President George W. Bush, who has committed American troops to two simultaneous quagmires, weighs the possibility of sanctioning a military strike on Iran, which might precipitate a perpetual war, pessimists are asking: “Can it get better than this?”

Prophets of doom and gloom are quick to point out that in addition to a new war, which could last beyond the lifetime of anyone reading this column; this Fall holds even more ghoulish possibilities.

The Republicans presumptive Presidential candidate, John McCain, has been looking a bit frail recently and champions of despair muse about the possibility that if McCain suffers a major medical setback before the National Convention, the decision makers in the Republican Party may have to plead with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to continue his family’s tradition of public service and to continue the dynasty by accepting the nomination.

Those with a truly lugubrious philosophy of life think that this Fall things will deteriorate (war with Iran, closure of the Strait of Hormuz, oil at $500 a barrel, and more terrorist strikes inside the United Sated) to such a low level that the elections will have to be canceled and President George W. Bush remains in office until the war on terror has been successfully concluded. That would also spare the Republican incumbents the embarrassment of being resoundingly voted out of office.

Republicans, who epitomize optimism and the virtue of self-sufficiency, dismiss such negative thinking as complete lunacy that is as absurd as the suggestion that the troops participating in Operation Iraqi Liberation (O.I.L. ) wouldn’t be greeted in a manner reminiscent of the liberation of Paris in 1944.

Optimistic Democrats are looking forward to an administration that will deliver change but a pessimistic Democrat source reports that he is worried about the possibility that if something bad happens to Senator Obama while he is visiting Iraq, it would be successfully exploited by the Republicans.

Here’s a question for Republicans: Which would you prefer: Seeing representatives of the nation’s first black President haul George W. Bush off in handcuffs for deportation and a war crimes trial in some other country or would you prefer that some computer experts make a “compensation for ill-informed Democrat votes” type adjustment on the electronic voting machines and that the elections be rigged?

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