Obama Owes Presidential Victory to George W. Bush

The strangest and most sincere commentary on the American election came from Simon Jenkins of the British Guardian. He said that American President George W. Bush was the primary reason that Barack Obama won the American presidency … and this is true.

He also said that the amount of tears shed by millions of happy people when Obama won has been the most in human history, and that he – the writer – is weeping too, but in pity for the naivete of the massive hopes loaded onto Obama. This is a strange and shocking idea.

Obama was originally slated to wade into the elections and enter the White House in 2012, until Bush’s disastrous policy hastened Obama’s ascent and win.

Bush left no friends outside of America except for former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his allies in that comedy called “the war on terror,” and his minions who have helped him in this war to divide the spoils – otherwise known as Iraq’s wealth.

Bush coldheartedly sent the sons of 4,000 American families to be killed in action in an unjustified war that had nothing to do with them, and caused thousands of others to become mentally or physically handicapped because of their military activities in the land of Mesopotamia.

Bush made millions of Americans curse the day he came to power and spoiled America’s reputation and esteem in the world after it became the lowest of the low.

Bush caused the economic crisis after squandering 400 billion dollars on his so-called war and this sum became a deficit in the American budget.

Bush became, in the eyes of Americans and people in the third world, the model of a person lacking in humanity who has turned the food on many plots of land into fuel, without even a glance at the hungry.

Bush has made Americans despise the Republican Party because of these actions.

So this has created a move to the Democratic Party, and they chose Obama in loathing for Bush, his minions and his party who brought ruin, death, and the world’s hatred upon them.

The American people have chosen Obama. He has big hopes tied to him to change America’s image, position and reputation, and to restore life anew from the ruins inherited from Bush.

Obama does not possess a magic lamp, or the staff of Moses (even though he has worn a Jewish cap before the Wailing Wall).

Obama won’t save the 400 billion dollar budget deficit in the blink of an eye. He won’t return the millions of evicted families to their homes which were seized due to missed payments. He won’t acknowledge Bush’s error in entering a war and occupying Afghanistan and Iraq. And he won’t risk negotiations with Iran as a peaceful solution to the nuclear crisis, because this solution is unmentionable for Israel.

Perhaps this is what made the British writer let loose with an expression of pity for “the massive hope loaded on to Obama [which] seems so naive.”

Obama can’t change American politics 180 degrees, but even so we should wait until he officially takes over and shows his cards to the world.

In all the years, the words have not deceived us…our only concern is the actions.

(Originally published in al Messa)