Pfirsich - Peach

Millions of peaches, peaches for me. Millions of peaches, peaches for free. Although it sounds more like part of a George W Bush speech on world trade or poverty, these are actual lyrics from a band called The Presidents of the USA, and their song Peaches. That is the only song I can readily attribute to them, but it’s catchy as hell, so for me they should be spared being thrown on the awful one-hit-wonder pile. Perhaps a more appropriate lyric for the current president would be something akin to Millions for impeachment, impeachment of me. Millions for impeachment for free. Okay, that was lame, but at least slightly topical. But really, this whole intro was just a springboard to dive into the news surrounding the race to succeed W, that’s going to reach its blistering conclusion in just over two weeks time. Imagine that! Two weeks until the Bush dynasty is no more! Given it’s going to take years and years to sort out all the shit he’s done, even longer if by some anti-miracle, or rather just by plain old pessimistic inevitability, McCain beats Obama, but either way, the world should be a better place. Watching the last debate it genuinely amazed me how McCain was only behind by ten percentage points. Obama came across as the confident, commanding, eloquent and truly capable candidate, whereas McCain seemed nervous, beaten, bumbling and just hopeless. It would be more helpful for the USA in the long run if in the polling stations they instigated a simple system whereby a vote cast for McCain would result in a sectioning, delayed by twenty four hours so it doesn‘t discourage anyone else from voting that way. So therefore I’m not suggesting this is used as a fear-mongering tactic, Mugabe-style - it would have to be totally unbeknownst to everyone, including the candidates. The who point of it is that if someone turns up on polling day and votes for McCain over Obama, they are clearly mental, and should not be allowed to live amongst the general populace. And if you think this is just a crazy, crackpot idea, just think of all the assets that could be expropriated from the mentals, as well as all those extra jobs up for grabs. The US’ economic misfortune would be turned around overnight, and the rest of the world would breathe a collective sigh of relief, and maybe even scrape together a million peaches as a thank you gift to the new administration. Sorted.