Amerikka Janathipathi Murugesan Vaazhga !!

Well, an enigmatic title to start off my blog. This one is about the American election scenario and the farcicality associated with it. Now, there can be only one plausible reason for me to follow the election scenario here with such fervour - vettiness :)

Getting to the topic at hand, the american election especially this year has been pathbreaking in many respects. One one side stands a near-senile white man in his seventies, John McCain -who represents the Republicans and the heir apparent to Bush's proud legacy.
On the other end stand two historic candidates. A Black man (well, half balck and half white actually) and a woman who are still fighting it out to be the Democratic party's presidential candidate.

Here is a brief summary about the candidates

John McCain (Republican Nominee)
The senator from Arizona and a Vietnam-war veteran. Has various nicknames among the party faithful like McShame, McBush, Warbucks etc. The guy is totally pro-war and trigger happy. Has frankly admitted that he knows zilch about the economy and the only thing that he dreams about is being the Supreme commander of the armed forces.
Initially , in the run up to being the presidential candidate, he had to beat his fellow republican Mike Huckabee at the primaries (a process within both the republican and democratic parties where they vote who their candidate for the main elections should be.)
Mike Huckabee is a self proclaimed 'conservative' who doesnt believe in the theory of evolution and swears by the theory that Adam and Eve were the first life forms on the planet. Surely, this guy was easy to beat :D (but the guy still managed to win two states before going down).

McCain has a temper problem and believes that the American economy is 'doing just fine'. In Response to a question as to whether more people needed access to healthcare facilities , he said "what healthcare ? go for a walk everyday ! be healthy ! Take inspiration from my 95 year old Mom"
some here liked it to Mary antoinnette's attidute :P
The biggest problem facing him comes in the form of one of his most ardent supporters. Bush himself ! Now, would the American people be foolish enough to vote someone who has been endorsed by one of the worst presidents ever ? It remains to be seen.

Hillary Rodham Clinton
who can forget the woman behind the man -Bill Clinton (atleast, she claims so). Some of her nicknames among the party faithful are - Billary, HillBilly etc.
Hillary started off the campaign on a high note thinking that the candidacy was in the bag (only to be rudely jolted out of complacency).
She pretty much went to every state in the US, said that she hailed from that state and still managed to lose most of them. Maybe because the american people realised that a person can have only one native state :P
She also got into trouble saying that she was "under sniper fire" in bosnia, while it was discovered that the only fire she was close to, was from the kitchen stove.
There was another rib tickling episode where the candidates were discussing about a Tax rule. All the economists in the country called it futile and counter-productive. Hillary Clinton said "I dont believe these economists..they are all wrong". Now that Hillary has said so, they need not have wasted an entire lifetime studying economics.
While almost having lost out to Obama, she said "we are on course to the whitehouse !!!" .
This one reminded me of the funny Iraqi official on TV , who kept saying "Saddam Hussein is very much in control" even though the american troops were almost at his doorstep.

Barack Hussein Obama (Democratic Candidate)
The senator from Illinois who came out of nowhere to thwart Hillary's hopes.
Nicknames include - Nobama,Obambi etc. A lot of hue and cry was raised about his controversial middle name and Barack was desperate to prove his christian roots. So, what did he do ? He created a controversy involving his Pastor !!
videos were circulated showing obama's pastor denouncing America in one of hs church sermons. Obama promptly denounced all of them and distanced himself from his pastor.
He is a black horse (no pun intended) in the sense that no-one knows a lot about him. He claims to bring about change in America, by changing the way policies at Washington work. Though most of his speeches were inspiring, a lot of people claim that those were lacking in substance. But however, with respect to the tax rule, he was the only person who got it right by saying that it was a meaningless rule.
Because of the bitter in-fighting between Hillary and Obama, the democratic party is totally spilt down the middle with half the people claiming allegiance to Obama and half the people by Hillary.
In fact these guys even threaten to vote for the other party (i.e the republican party headed by McCain) if their candidate is not the Presidential Nominee. Looking at the way things are going in the US, a wrong choice by the people can result in economic shambles.

That brings me to the title of my post. Who is best suited be the American president ?
My answer - Tamil Actor Livingstone =))

Few can forget the movie where Murugesan (Livingstone) is a local tamil politician and vadivelu is his able sidekick. Vadivelu goes about hiring people to 'cheer' (prachaaram, jaalra etc) for Livingstone. The supporters shout all random stuff like "Dhaana vallal murugesan" , "Thanmaana singam murugesan" etc
It is here that one of the most zealous of them proclaims "Amerikka Janathipathi murugesan !!"

I personally think Livingstone will do a better job than any of the above candidates !!!