The World Just Became A Better Place

The number one enemy of life on earth is the 'Good Old Boy Network'. Groups of men with power and authority always abuse it. Forever it was so. The Good Old Boys manifest in various guises - African tribesmen who insist on female genital manipulation, Catholic paedophile priests, Russian Old Billionaires who put money before everything else, Taliban clerics who want to turn the world back to the Dark Ages, NHS administrators who are obsessed with targets at the expense of lives, drunk and corrupt Conservative politicians and incompetent and delusional Labour ones. All these groups and more have two things in common. First - they detest people who rock the boat and ask awkward questions. Second, they are all run by men.
But, now, finally, we have a chance to break free from this stranglehold.
The maverick, independent minded John McCain has picked the maverick reformer Sarah Palin as his running mate in the forthcoming US Presidential election. This is the change the country and the world needs.
The Democrats pretend that a young black man and an old white guy are the way forward.
Give me a break. Surely the world has had enough of fresh faced men that speak well to the converted. They always let us down. And it'll be the same this time round.
The voters of America have a clear choice and no excuses. If the world disappears in a puff of smoke during an Obama Presidency it'll be no consolation that a black man finally got to the highest office in the land.
At the first possible opportunity to demonstrate fresh thinking and new ideas, Obama bottled it and McCain embraced it. Obama is not the way forward and the world will live to regret it if he becomes President.
But, at least for today, Sarah Palin enables hope to triumph over fear.
We might just make it after all.
Welcome to the New Age!