That is what George W Bush needs after his latest speech. He is babbling on about how the US have won the war in Iraq and how America was right to topple Saddam Hussain from power. Let’s face it the Allies still haven’t won the war in Afghanistan let alone won in Iraq. How many troops, both US and UK have been killed since the war was declared as won? Why is Bush’s troops still in Iraq when there is a clear anti-American feeling in Baghdad. The vast majority of Iraqi’s don’t want overseas troops in Iraq and that presence is causing antagonism sparking violence. Just as well that Bush’s tenure at the White House will be over by the end of this year. But the bad new is that yet another war monger will probably be taking over in the form of John McCain who is an outspoken supporter of Bush’s policies and Bush has endorsed McCain. Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton have both condemned the war in Iraq but neither of the Democrat candidates stand a reasonable chance of being elected as the next US president, America won’t vote for a black man or a women to run the country for the next five years. I am amazed that America voted for Bush, not ONCE but TWICE, although it is widely suspected that the vote from rigged in favour of Bush. I really hope that America can see the light and vote for either Obama or Clinton, my personal preference is Barrack Obama as he seems to be the one that talks the most sense. But I won’t be holding my breath on that happening as I don’t consider America to be a progressive enough place to vote for a black man or a woman to be commander and chief!
While I am on the subject of Americans. I had an interesting conversation with Jill’s mother the other day and to say I was taken aback is an understatement. She seems to have the impression that Jill and myself are in a relationship, which isn’t at all true. Maybe if things were different then maybe that might of been the case but my intention is to visit America to meet up with Erin for the first time in person and pursue that relationship. But Jill’s mother didn’t pull any punches in her comments about how I would make an excellent son-in-law, telling me how beautiful and intelligent her daughter is. Which is something I already know and as I said if Jill had made her feelings known earlier then who knows what might have happened but now I just consider her a friend and I enjoy talking with her and that’s as far as its ever going to go and I really hope Jill isn’t holding a torch for me. Especially as her mother had to get the idea from somewhere, that really worries me as I don’t want to hurt her as she is such a nice person. Guess that I am just going to have to play it by ear for now. One thing is for sure I am 100% committed to Erin, I am not considering using Jill as a fall-back plan should it now work out with Erin, that simply wouldn’t be fair.
As I said a while back I have given up on my personal myspace because of all the bullshit going around on the social networking site. If I believe all the messages I got; I am a lonely man who needs help with getting it up based upon the messages advertising dating, x-rated webcam sites and Viagra. But that’s not my point, I am amazed by the people that publish their every activity in bulletins, the amount of bulletins I see every day saying I am taking a shower, eating my tea, or watching a movie is astonishing. And even more astonishing is the amount of people that have arguments in bulletins. You know something guys’n’galls no-one cares, argue in private messages or here’s another idea why don’t you actually talk to each other, it’s not so hard to pick up the phone and talk is it? It seems that these social networking sites just encourage people to stay at home even more and become even more socially inept. There is already loads of virtual worlds web applications out there, is this really the future where no-one actually meets up for a chat or a few drinks anymore. When I was young I was always out and about somewhere, now the whole world seems to live their lives online. OK, rant over, just needed to get this one off my chest… I feel better now!