My economy topic has unwantedly turned into an election topic. In general I don't like politics, I think it's the babylon system, and I hardly ever support a party or a candidate, and normally I don't bother to vote. And when I do feel the need to take part in the ritual, then in the aftermath I never find my vote made any differance.

Looking from another part of the world, the American presidential election is in my eyes a very strange phenomenon. It's a two candidate race for one political position, which sets the political agenda for half of the time. The candidates have to bow for all kinds of political pressure groups and bureaucratic lobbies, so much that it's seems impossible for themselves to remember all their pledge and promises.

Than again, the position has become so powerful, that it becomes surrounded by myth and conspiracy. The White House more and more looks like an emperor's court in a Platonic sense, and the intriguing goes along the line of Machiavelli. It seems to me that the parties have become resentful against each other, and don't have any confidence in the other party's leaders. It's so pittyful that they never have heard about Erasmus, or have they?

Conspiracy theories are always a lot of fun, and in search of set ups, it's always handy to ask yourself: 'Who's taking benefit of the situation?' So the set up could have been: Let's now blow up the financial market, so that America will look good in five weeks, with the world's economies collapsing, or at least it will take the heat of the Irak issue, where Bush promised to bring freedom and democracy, he said it was a gift of God. But in the end he has only destabilized the country and driven the oilprice skyhigh. Was this what the Saudi and Houston friends of the White House wanted?

Who would the world vote for? In Holland the polls say Obama would win by 90% (Doesn't that sound East-European?) More than half of them thinks Obama supports gay mariage and abortion, and opposes guns and death penalty, so I guess the Dutch people were into some surprises if they would elect Obama as their leader (what could never happen because Obama is much too American to win a Dutch election). Other surveys say that Obama is favorite in 90% of the world nations, McCain is only favorite in Syria, Pakistan and North-Korea, at least that's what they said on Dutch television, so for what it's worth, but I do know that an Obama win will make Africa proud and happy, and the Islamic world bewildered. Europe and Russia will be positively surprised, so will be China and India. Half of the worldwide anti-Americanism will be vanished instantly, when the world sees America vote in tradition of intellectual freedom and civil rights, and not for the martial tradition, which McCain seems to represent.

I think the world is eager for american leadership. Not a devide-and-rule leadership, but a moral leadership of Western values. I mean, the Islamic, the African and Asian cultures don't want to get Westernized, but when they get some help to modernize, they will do it themselves. The whole world wants an American way of living, and when elected, Obama will get momentum and opportunity to really get something moving.

Ps. : It was a bad choise to take the Palin woman (I don't like her). The Republicans could have really tricked the Democrates with Gondaleeza Rice, woman, black and experienced (Jimmy Hendrix would say: 'Not necessarily stoned, but beautiful')