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OBAMA

Being a musician I can claim to be above politics and as such do not have any political allegiances. Notwithstanding, I find it interesting that the Americans have just ‘elected’ their 24th lawyer as President. As a mere uneducated observer I would say that all the ‘talk’ sounds very familiar, then again it would do because Tony Blair is also a lawyer and as you probably know was elected here in the UK back in 1997, using virtually the same rhetoric as Obama (change, hope, new dawn etc.). Blair actually said at one point that ‘this is not a time for sound-bites’ and then promptly delivered one “I really feel the hand of history” yada yada…

So I’m afraid I’ve heard it all before, and when the dust settles I think you’ll find that things won’t have changed that much, certainly not to the extent that ordinary people will feel a difference. Governments simply do not have the money to affect the sort of change envisaged or promised. Obama is already talking it down….I think you’ll find, rather worryingly, at the end of the day that there isn’t really that much difference between Blair and Obama and Blair, with Brown at his side, have destroyed the United Kingdom and have put us ALL in harms way by alienating the entire Muslim world. Bush played his part of course, he was the muscle, but Blair and Brown were the brains behind it.

So, my advice to my American cousins/friends is to not get too excited, don’t expect too much because the problems caused by the political leaders of the past ten years are going to have biblical repercussions for many years to come. The problems for Obama will increase in time because he has been responsible, just like Tony Blair, for raising expectations beyond what is sustainable.

Take interest rates; they are talking about a significant drop in interest rates, which has now happened. In my opinion this is bad news. Low interest rates encourage excessive borrowing and discourages saving. Conversely high interest rates discourages borrowing and encourages saving. No matter how you look at it , it’s all robbing Peter to pay Paul economics, it’s an elusion, it cannot serve all the people, in other words it’s not possible for everyone to pay into a system and get more in return without a debt being created somewhere down the line. So, whatever Obama’s economic spin machine manages to come up with, take it with a pinch of salt. Whatever it turns out to be, whatever the plan, it won’t be a million miles away from what Blair and Brown did here and when you examine the reality all you’ll discover is that the deck chairs on the Titanic have been rearranged to suite them, the people who surround Obama, watch closely.

On the issue of ‘race’; I would say that, from what I’m hearing from the British media, who appear to have completely lost the plot by perpetually over emphasising the colour of Obama’s skin and harking on about ‘slave ships etc. is that racism is very much alive and well. Why on earth make such a big issue of the fact he’s black? Yes he’s unexpectedly reached the top of the mountain but if that’s happened as a direct consequence of the fact he just happens to be black; in other words people voted for him just because he’s black, then that is a clear act of racism…I couldn’t care less what colour Obama is, to me he’s just another well presented/spoken lawyer. In any case, he may be the chief jailer but all the white guys are holding all the keys, unless he’s planning on doing a Mugabe?

My daughter happens to be half Japanese, that doesn’t make her ‘of a different race/colour’ does it; to me she’s simply a human being, a citizen of the world, like me. What my daughters genetic inheritance certainly does not do is cause her to *think* in a different way to me or anyone else for that matter. Given that Obama seems to be afflicted with intransigent religious beliefs, the most worrying aspect of fundamentalist Christians’ being involved in world politics, I am concerned, given the dire economic situation created by our beloved politicians, that I’m not going to be forced to sell my daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in the Bible (Exodus 21:7) I hope that’s not the ‘promise land’ he’s been promising everyone? I have to say though; certain black people seem to be their own worst enemy, just like a certain few whites I could mention, and have done. 

Anyway, a few years ago they were talking-up the idea of having ‘black cinemas’ how utterly mad is that, it’s nothing short of a self imposed apartheid, the only outcome of which would be to emphasise that there is or could be an intellectual difference between various shades of the rainbow. Here in the UK the Labour party is talking about fast-tracking certain black MPs or potential MPs into so-called ‘safe seats’. This is another form of racism; it’s only going to get worse!

Just how far down this genetic route are they going to go? As I understand it we all emanate from Africa so why make such a big deal out of lineage and skin colour? Every time the British media talk about this they succeed in generating an ‘us and them’ mentality. Just the other night, on a serious BBC news program (Newsnight) with Jeremy Paxman he interviewed the Hip-Hop star Dizzy Rascal in what I could only presume to be an attempt to let the British people envisage what a black Prime Minister would be like. A more unlikely character you could not wish to meet but by interviewing this person in particular, they (Paxman) made an absolute mockery of this news program and this whole pseudo debate….

Obviously I don’t know Obama but let me just say that I have NEVER met a decent lawyer. As we speak, a firm of lawyers are taking my family to the cleaners. As you’ve probably gathered I have an exceptionally low opinion of lawyers, and for good reason having been confronted with them on various occasions. Although not particularly clever they are incredibly devious and manipulative and have a very nasty habit of grossly exaggerating their case to the point of blatant lying, especially when it comes to their ‘costs’. On that note, I bid you all good day….

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