It seems that as soon as someone becomes President in the US, the losing party spends the next 4 years squabbling amongst themselves in order to come up with someone to run against the incumbent at the next election. With all the money and effort spent on this process it's amazing that anyone has time to actually run the country. Maybe that's part of the problem.

With one exception, the Republican candidates are a gong show. With most of them falling over each other to state how much more and how much faster they'd bomb Iran if they were President.

And the Obama supporters look on upon this circus with glee as they're confident their man will easily get a second term.

However, I fail to see how that would be a good thing. In terms of foreign policy Obama has proven himself to be even worse than Bush was:

- Increasing drone strikes in Pakistan 300%
- Breaking his promise to close Guantanamo Bay
- Invading Libya on a BS pretense equally as ridiculous as the rationale for invading Iraq
- Selling bunker buster bombs (which Bush refused to do) to Israel effectively giving them the green light to attack Iran
- Renewing the Patriot Act
- Repealing the ban on assassination that had been in place since 1976

And most horrifyingly, only a couple weeks ago signing into law the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) - which amongst a litany of horrors gives him the authority at his sole discretion to arrest anyone, US citizen or not, anywhere in the world, and hold them indefinitely in a military prison without trial. This effectively makes him a dictator.

The one shining glimmer of hope amongst the Republican candidates is Ron Paul. He stands for slashing spending, eliminating government bureaucracy, eliminating the ability of a private company (the Federal Reserve) to dictate the nation's finances, eliminating Israel's control over foreign policy, and most importantly eliminating the policy of interfering in other nations affairs through economic warfare, covert warfare, and outright warfare. A state of endless war that has encompassed the US for over 50 years and has been overseen by countless Presidents both Democrat and Republican.

However the moral decay of the world's mightiest nation has grown so much that the thought of using the military only for the actual defense of the country and not as pawns in empire building somehow makes him 'unelectable' and a 'fringe candidate'.

The mainstream media (MSM) and officials in both parties are absolutely horrified that this guy might win. That explains why since the beginning of this process the MSM have gone out of their way to marginalize him. He is almost never mentioned. He was excluded from early debates. And then when it became apparent that despite those efforts that he wasn't going away they started to dredge up all kinds of nonsensical garbage - he's a racist, he'd make abortion illegal, he believes the earth is only 3000 years old etc. etc.

When that didn't work, his own party conspired against him in the Ohio caucus race. For the first time in history ballots were counted in secret. Then during an interview on TV one of the top Republican strategists admitted that the party was working together so that he wouldn't win. And while early exit polls had him winning the race, suddenly out of nowhere the distant third place candidate shot ahead into the lead. And despite all that, Ron Paul still managed to only lose by a few percentage points!

Later that night CNN interviewed a soldier who was a Ron Paul supporter.....as the soldier begins to say that 'Israel can take care of itself' he is cut off due to 'technical difficulties'. That pretty much says it all.

Sadly, the status quo will continue. America's downward spiral will continue. And unfortunately Canada will be dragged down with it...