Don't Wanna be and American Idiot

Ok so as a christian I felt like it made sense for me to watch the special with Obama and McCain at Rick Warren's Saddleback church. McCain did his usual thoughtless extremism bit: "Evil exists and must be defeated". Yeah, John evil does exist. Evil like going into third world countries, using extreme poverty to pimp the people, setting up dummy regimes into order to exploit natural resources and watching the regions rip themselves apart. Hmm, sounds like evil to me. Well McCain's (and America's) preposterously idiotic and amoral (not to be confused with immoral) pretensions of foreign policy aside, I found the relevance of the program in Obama's message. Obama scares me, not because his policies aren't acceptable or because there's anything wrong with his personality, etc. He scares me because he's too mature for America. Barack Obama seems like a profoundly reasonable man in a completely unreasonable age in a country where punchlines seem to all too often become realities. Haha, the president is an idiot. Haha, we're killing people over natural resources and not even doing a good job pretending we're not. Haha, if we continue down this road we really might be responsible for the end of the world. Oh wait that's all true. But Americans eat it up. John McCain said that he would "hunt Osama Bin Laden to the gates of hell". What kind of crazy ass rhetoric is that for any grown man, much less a candidate for the leader of the free world? What Bin Laden did (well we all seem to forget that there isn't any verifiable proof that he was specifically responsible but anyway) was abhorrent. It was morally abhorrent and if he is responsible for the deaths of those people, he should be brought to whatever justice is appropriate (read: dragged into the street and shot in the head). The point is that I can say this because I am not suggesting that I should be allowed access to the preposterous number of nuclear warheads that the American military holds. In this day and age trying to bully the world is just silly because there are some people (evidently) whose countries you can bomb into parking lots and they will not stop coming. Let me make this clearer: THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WITH WHOM DIPLOMACY IS A GOOD IDEA. So installing and overthrowing regimes in their countries in regions that are already unstable is a good way to start World War 3. The problem is that Americans are so fat, lazy and spoiled that the idea of bullying the rest of the planet seems like a legitimate option. We have all been fed the notion that American ideals are innately superior to the ideals of other countries and that America has never lost a war along with many other myths and bedtime stories. This faux superiority is the basis for American warmongering enthusiasm. I guess everyone skipped US AP history in high school and forgot that we got our asses kicked on our own soil in 1812 and a foreign army marched through Washington and burned the White House to the ground. So clearly we aren't so vastly superior in terms of our military history (let's not forget Somalia, Vietnam and the other skirmishes in which we demonstrated our mortality) but what of our ideological superiority? Clearly American democracy is the best in the world right? Umm naw, not exactly. Democracy here is cool but we so regularly put it on hold. Japanese internment, Black slavery, cheated elections, the patriot act, national security legislation, all examples of people America putting democracy on hold on American soil, no less. We won't even get started on what America does abroad with its "democracy". What I'm basically saying is that this is all completely bogus. This superiority complex is a joke but its what keeps American idiots "safe" and happy. This is exactly why a reasonable adult cannot be president of the US. I'm not saying Obama can't win per se but I think that the only reason a senile old man who mistakes one country for another is still in the race is because of he plays into that complex. His black and white view of the world is shared by much of the rest of the country because they think that they can afford it. He who has the biggest gun makes the rules right? No, not these days. In the age of suicidal extremism he who cares less about his life makes can make the rules too, and if Americans don't start recognizing the need for reasonable foreign policies, we'll find out the hard way again. Obama, God willing, will be the next President because if he isn't another regime of intolerance and ignorance might just lead us to our last regime at all.