In one hand I have this article from The Australian, and in another one I have this video clip from www.crankydocs.blogspot.com . In the video clip, I was told that the Midterms elections are elections were my vote doesn’t count. The percentage of reelection is really high, and the same “representatives” would get an incredible amount of money from the lobbies for their campaign. They’re corrupt and do not mind to use calumny or else to get rid of potentials adversaries. The Australian writes about the Midterm Elections in the U.S. where, according to him, the Democratic Party will win the majority in both houses, and thus because of the unsuccessful war in Iraq, launched by the Republicans. Hold on, I thought people weren’t going to vote (according to that video clip, they don’t.) And even if they do… they don’t matter, because the same people are reelected anyway.
The author continues and warns us that it “would be wrong to suppose that Democratic success will bring an immediate change in US foreign policy, especially on Iraq. President George W. Bush will still be in the White House, and having firmly backed his Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, will keep US forces in Iraq until either the chaos is brought under control or an appropriate exit strategy is devised.” Already, we can see an effort from the author to understand the American Political System.
Finally the author concludes two things: the Democratic Party could withdraw the allocation of funds to Iraq, like it was made in Vietnam (but it wasn’t such a happy end). And that objectively, Bush’s Administration did a good job regarding the economy, but it won’t matter, because they’re judge on Iraq.
What was interesting in this article was to see how The Australian could simplify the Midterm Elections in twenty lines. The Democratic Party will win because of Iraq, but it won’t really change anything. It is a way of propaganda towards the Australians readers, who don’t know that much about American Politics and will find this argument suitable to whatever believe they hold.