Barak Obama on the Environment

I want to throw up. American politics suck. The candidate of the people is Cynthia McKinney - the green woman running for president. She's my candidate of choice and the candidate who espouses "Leave the oil in the soil." Now you, I and the lamppost on the corner know, she won't be living in the White House anytime soon. The power money political machine has this country too tightly harnessed for a progressive candidate. I'll be voting for Cynthia because quite frankly, I want a woman president, I want a progressive president, and I want a president who understands that our future won't come from clinging to our destructive childish ways of living, but from exploring new options and letting that good old American ingenuity run with new energy, extreme sonservation and revamped manufacturing processes. We can't compete with Asia playing old games, but we're damn good at inventing new games.

So what does this have to do with Barak and the environment? I don't claim to know what's in the man's heart, but based on what's being said out there on the campaign trail, Mr. Obama now supports drilling for oil (wars in the Middle East), extraction of clean coal (destruction of communities and black lung disease) and nuclear power (able to destroy entire regions in a single bound). WHAT THE FUCK! I thought we, as a country, were starting to realize that energy conservation and renewable energy were the ways to provide security for the American people.

So in spite of my initial excitement at Mr. Obama's nomination by the Democratic party, I guess the song remains the same, big money wins, and the United States is going to continue it's downward spiral. Are there any job openings for a database administrator in Chile?