Everyone in Green

Who's left in the US presidential race? Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John McCain. Have you figured out who's going to win? My money's on John McCain of course. And I made this prediction over a month ago and I do have a witness so there!

How's McCain going to do it? Everyone loves him in the Republican Party--except for those pesky evangelicals. One wonders why the hell they care about an election at all, isn't the rapture coming. Oh wait, it's been 2,000 years and it still hasn't happened. And the vast amount of people in the middle also love him. He's an old white man, enough said. Personally, I hope that the fact he's been tortured will help him to realize that it's a terrible and counterproductive practice; if only Bush and Cheney had similar experiences.

But most importantly, like everyone else, he's green. Which means of course that he cares about the planet. He's jumping on the bandwagon that the Governator started in California (just forget that he drives a hummer). McCain has read about climate change and he's serious about doing something.

Alas his plan likely follows the Bush model of more ethanol and weird contraptions like space mirrors. White elephants anyone? None of the candidates, including McCain, are going to even consider that the endless economic growth prescribed by capitalism might actually be the real cause of all the ecological misery afflicting the world today. We have to choose between capitalism and a habitable planet but it's a choice leaders can never make.

It's important that we continue to remind everyone about this fact and continue to reject the "shop to fight terrorism/climate change/recession" impulse of our dear leaders.