In Continuum.

Dear mister Obama, I am a college student from Singapore, halfway around the world from wherever you are right now. I am a communications student, and very little aspect of my life has got anything to do with politics or politicians. But here's the thing, your presence in the American political arena has given me a new level of interest with politics, when I usually detest anything or anybody who has got an inkling of relation with it. It's strange, and I am still getting used to the idea of me checking up on news in regards to the election, when I am not even eligible to vote in your country. In fact, I cannot care less about the politics here because there isn't such a thing as politics around here. Sure we have politicians, but they pretty much do whatever they want and, the people don't really have a say in a lot of things, although we are suppose to think that we do - we don't. You really only need to visit this country and take a cab from the airport to know the general view of things. The cab driver is not going to waste any time on small talks. He's going to update you on the way things work around here. We can have an election with no contest from the opposing party, and an eighty odd year old president who does nothing but kiss babies on television. So, there. 

Anyway, Barack, can I call you Barack? I'll call you Barack. Like I said, I haven't been interested in politics, I think it is a great big dump filled with rotten people. Given, I still think that it is a great big dump filled with rotten people but, at least your presence has changed that perspective, somewhat. I feel very strongly about where you stand in the midst of all the bullshit that the politicians now stand for. It isn't the problem with the White House, or Washington, but that is the political climate all around the world. That is how politicians roll, they lie about everything to cover up their mistakes. Who doesn't like to have both money and power anyway, not a lot of people can keep their hands to themselves, they always want a little more. Especially when you can take a little more, you can't help but reach out. That is the type of politics all over the world, not just the White House now, the kind of dirty politics that can only be witnessed in really bad soap operas. But you know how it is, people are stupid all around the world. People would swallow anything thrown at them, in any manner, in any way. Hitler once said, that if you tell a lie often enough, it becomes the truth. That is probably what your opponent is aiming at, and I wonder how you keep your cool against such a low-life like him and his campaign. 

I am thankful that you are keeping it clean, or trying your best to keep it that way anyway. I don't suppose attacks on each other can be fully prevented in times of war. And, by "war" I am talking about the campaigning of course, what did you think I was talking about? Anyway, the campaign, it's ugly. From where I am halfway around the world, the Republicans are lying politicians at their best, which is strange because politicians are already lying scum bags in the first place. That is like calling someone a stupid idiot, when it really should be either "stupid", or "idiot". Well, actually, calling somebody a stupid idiot does emphasizes on that person's stupidity. Getting back to the point, calling the Republicans a bunch of lying politicians is like saying that they are even bigger liars than liars. I do wonder if that is possible, but they have obviously crossed the line here. I mean, there are rules about elections, right, and there are stretched out truths that you can talk about in your advertisements. But you don't outright lie about something, and then lie about not lying in the very first place. That's a double lie, and that is the lesson my mother told me when I was younger: don't ever lie, because you'd have to tell more lies to cover that one lie up. The Republicans lied about everything, and now they are just wiping their butts with a piece of tissue that has your face on it. 

I don't know how they do things like that and get away with it. You didn't want to teach kindergarten kids about sex, you wanted to teach them about sex predators. You didn't call Sarah Palin a pig with lipsticks, you were referring to the idea of changing Washington - I get that. The Republicans get that too, which is also why they are making blatant lies about you that I just cannot sit here and take it all in. Of course, things are not going to change because of one single blog entry from halfway around the world, written by someone who hasn't got a voice in this election at all. I am venting, and that is what I do best. So here I am, saying that the world will be doomed if someone like John McCain gets into the office. I am not that worried about that, actually, because his health is probably going to fail halfway through his presidency and have Sarah Palin take over the role as the president - oh, the horrors. It'd anger the Gods, like the way it already has pushed Him over the edge with all the legalized gay marriages. It is going to be jumping from a guy who doesn't know how to turn on the computer, to a woman who thinks that she can stand up to Putin just because she lives next door to Russia. Georgia is pretty close to Russia, look what happened to them. 

From where the rest of the world is, the decision is pretty clear, Barack. To us, it should be you, and only you, and Joe, in the White House in November. The reason is simple to us: we do not want another stupid president ruling a country that affects the world all over. It's true, as much as people don't like to admit it, America affects the rest of the world in more ways than one. Even if America didn't invade Afghanistan or Iraq, its economy is still going to be vital to the health of the other economies around the world. We don't want a president who is president because he lied his way through the elections, that is not what we want. We don't want a person who hardly knows what he is talking about most of the time to be managing his country and, indirectly, the rest of the world. We don't want a person with serious health risks to be running for office, especially after experiencing four separate cases of skin cancer. We want to know that the words of a candidate is going to be carried out during his presidency, and not because he said those words to get elected. It is kind of like flirting with a girl in a bar with all the sweetest words, and then you leave right after you've get into her pants. So much for the promises. Unless, of course, "straight talk" means "talking without processing the thoughts through the brain". 

I think the world should vote, instead of just the Americans. I'm sorry, but I don't think such a decision should be left to just the Americans because, let's be frank here, the fact that someone like John McCain is that close to you in the polls speaks a lot about what goes on in the minds of a lot of Americans. It is an easy choice from all the way around here, it's kind of like picking between apples and dirty socks to eat for a snack here, really. It's simple, really, and it is amazing how there are still percentages of people who are "undecided". If at this point, at the end of September, you still cannot decide between apples and dirty socks, then something is seriously wrong with you. I'd go for the apples, but I am not sure about you. Maybe you have a fetish for dirty socks, you like to smell them and rub them on your crotch, who knows. But I like my apples, and I like them a lot. If it is such a hard decision to make, then you don't even have the right to make a decision. If it was down to me, though, I won't even vote in the first place. I don't want to be responsible for a lousy and incompetent president in the future, I don't want to be a part of the fifty percent of the population that voted an idiot into the oval office. I want to reserve the right to complain because I didn't vote, because not voting is a vote by itself. But if I have to, though, it'd be you Barack, it'd be you. 

Of course, American politics, it really is none of my business. I've only really been to America once in my life. I remember Los Angeles very well, and Disneyland no less. It is a beautiful country with beautiful people, but you got to admit that there are times when you just want to shake some sense into people and have them wake up, you know? Just a few days ago, I saw the video of a woman speaking of a government conspiracy when she saw a small rainbow being formed in her backyard by her garden sprinklers - how stupid do you have to get to know that it is the cause of light refraction and not because of some secret plot to poison the Americans. And we are supposed to have these people decide for the rest of the world who gets to be elected? Sometimes, I think people should earn the right to vote, things really shouldn't be as simple as being a citizen of a country at the age of twenty-one. It should involve an I.Q. test of some kind, or at least know what a "light refraction" is. I am surprised that she didn't look for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, because I have a feeling she believes in all that mumbo jumbo. 

So yes, the American elections, the result is going to be revealed in less than two months. I hope dearly that you will win, I really hope that you do. You are now about four points away from John McCain, let's not screw up at this point or have him bring you down, man. I can imagine how America would be like if the Republicans are going to be running for the next four, or maybe eight years. It'd probably be like the picture above really, with the Republicans thinking themselves to be God and then running the world with machine guns. That has been the case for the past eight years, and it might be the case for the next eight years if we actually make yet another wrong decision. Eight years, like you said, really is enough, and I'd like to see you in the office because, well, I just want to see you bitch slap those racist yokels, figuratively speaking of course. So, do whatever you can within your principles and morals, and try to win this time around, OK? I'm serious, America does not need another George W. Bush. We don't need another George W. Bush. Worse, a George W. Bush who has Alzheimer's. He could invade Iran, mistakenly launch nuclear missiles to Moscow, and then forget about it by lunch. It'd be the end of the world, as we know it. Please, Barack, please win.  

If these videos do not make it easier for you, as an American, to make a decision, then you do not have the right to be making a decision at all.