Ignorance is Bliss.

Remember the last time we thought the American people voted for a half-wit Texan hayseed and the world was plunged into the Middle East War ?  Mission accomplished !  Using some seriously dubious voting scam in Florida.

I didn’t think I would ever be able to forgive the people of America for the wash out of that global malfeasance.

Well, I think an apology is due.

The American people didn’t elect the President then, the time after and the time after that.  And they won’t elect the president tomorrow our time (or the day after their time).

Apparently, the great American Constitution does not even give her citizens the right to vote.  They have a patronising system  called “The Electoral College” who vote for them by some kind of proxy deal, not in any way open to skull-duggery, massive cash flows or other dirty deeds done dirt cheap.

So not only are American citizens relieved of their democratic rights – you know, the ones’ they’ve successfully transplanted to grow so well in Iraq, but less so in Afghanistan, but the remainder of the world can have our liberty and our superannuation circumscribed by the same folks.

In Australia, we have not only a right to vote, but an obligation.  But we have our own pack of dropkick unrepresentative swill, chosen by ……. wait for it ……. a mysterious ouija board process called “pre-selection”.

The only real electoral difference between the American democratic “system” and our own therefore, is the name of the scam and the shoe colours of the crooks who run them.

Oh, and when Australians screw up the election and vote for some unspeakable arsehat for Prime Minister, the rest of the world could not care less.

Accordingly, with hand on heart, I do solemnly entreat the American Electoral College, whomever you may be, to please not fuck it up this time, because when you DO, billions of what you call we “Aliens” get to live with the results.

Your humble peasant,

Emmjay

PS: The Pig’s Arms psephologist and bookie, Antony Puce has his money on Obama by a length.