Obama: America's Great Hope

Barak Obama is preparing for a legitimate run for the presidency in 2008, but can the right man ever win again in an electoral system that has produced two very suspect elections (Bush in '00 and '04) and suffered a continual constitutional attack?

There are a set of questions here:
1. Can there be a 'right' president a la Lincoln? Someone truly equipped and called to rule?
If you believe in God then pray for a legitimate president and vice president and banish Bushism in the trashheap of history.

2.If such a man were to run, could his legitimacy be known in against the distortion of corporate media stranglehold of American conscience (NY Times, Washington Post, AP, NPR, CNN, ABC, NBC) and the corruption and deep pockets of major corporate lobbies?

3.If the majority of the people could recognize this leader and elect him (or her) could the so-called legitimate democratic electoral system prevail against the deceptive voting manipulative practices as seen on both elections in Jeb Bush and Kathleen Harris' Florida and in Diebold's electronic voting techniques in the state of Ohio in '04?

4. Even if all of these hurdles were met and crossed, could the US voter have enough courage to vote their conscience and not their pocketbook?

Please tell me once more why American democracy is to be preferred over other legitimate political systems in which Justice and freedom prosper (ex. Belgium), and how can we tell eighteen year olds that their vote is important and a legitimate expression of their freedom when there is a snowball's chance in hell to elect a real hero?

If this critique is disturbing you, O! naive American voter, then why don't you please elect a legitimate president in '08? Show the world that America is still a democracy to be emulated and not a plutocracy, or rule of the wealthy. After all, if this critique is accurate then what exactly justifies our Global Imperial Warfare in the name of democracy if all we are selling is greedy capitalistic hegemony? Why are our soldiers being killed in Iraq? If all we are selling is this Bush's broken trail of lies, corruption and wealth, if this is being sold as the American Way, then I can think of many superior political systems which better deserve allegiance.

'08 will indicate whether a chance for restoration remains or whether the rot that the Architect and his puppet have wrought will be the undoing of American democracy forever.