Barack Obama must make McCain his running mate.
by Clyde N. Wilson
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily.
Life is but a dream.
In these times of real change, new conditions require new ideas. The crude, outdated processes of American electoral politics have left the nation with an impossible situation. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4337 in history as the man who profited from the ineradicable racism of America and as the last die-hard defender of white male oppression and privilege.
How save the Republican’s best leader and the nation from this unacceptable result? The solution should be obvious in this time of change and diversity. Barack Obama must make McCain his running mate.As everyone knows, the two parties are actually branches of the same party. They serve the same interests, with slight variation. All Americans, except for a few extremists, agree on what is important—global democracy, diversity, welfare, the War on Terror, reparations for oppressed groups, and America as a land open to all believers in our founding principle that “All Persons are Created Equal.” This move by Obama will avoid the necessity for an election, for elections are terribly divisive. An election now would allow the dangerous minority of white supremacist hate groups to spew out their evil propaganda. Unfortunately, we do not yet have adequate punishment for hate speech.
The advantages of an Obama–McCain ticket elected by acclamation, are many. McCain’s acceptance of second place will be a long-overdue and much admired symbolic gesture of repentance for centuries of white male oppression of women and people of color. Thus McCain will go down in history as an heroic figure pointing out the way to the glorious future rather than as the symbol of the last gasp of an evil reactionary cause.
On the other hand, if Obama offers McCain this opportunity for homage to the future, he will be acknowledging graciously American society’s contrition and determination to continue to repair the oppressions of the past.
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