Have you thought about what America will be like two years into the next administration?
Here are four scenarios:
First scenario - McCain:
We're in proxy wars with Russia and in a bomb, bomb, bomb war with Iran.
Out-of-work parents say goodbye to their enlisted sons and daughters.
President McCain adds more cars to the thirteen(?) he currently owns.
Ditto on the houses.
A safe education is available only for the home-schooled or vouchered.
Health care becomes more out of reach to those who can't afford it.
Drilling is everywhere but ANWR and, yet, oil is over $200 a barrel.
Alternative fuels legislation receives lip-service but little effective support.
There are no salmon.
Tucker Bounds becomes Press Secretary. Doug Holtz-Eakin is the new CEO of Blackberry.
Questions about policies are met with blame and obfuscation.
Sound far-fetched? Perhaps.
But what if it's not?
Second scenario - McCain:
See above for the rest.
Sound far-fetched? Perhaps.
But what if it's not?
Third scenario - Palin:
Social Security and Medicare are discontinued. Health care is unattainable.
Tent cities spring up in city parks. National parks are buzzed by aerial hunters.
Hurricanes wipe out the Gulf coast, the oceans have become one big dead zone with only lionfish and jellyfish, America's beaches are covered with garbage; the Midwest is a permanent flood zone (between tornadoes), cities, chokingly polluted, are filled with paranoid citizens with gun permits, new prisons are the only new home construction, twenty-five percent of endangered species have passed the tipping point to extinction, though not on any government list, and Saudi Arabia and Dubai (where Dick Cheney is living out his retirement) have matched China, India and Iraq in owning our over thirty-three trillion dollar national debt.
Sound far-fetched? Perhaps.
But what if it's not?
Fouth scenario - Obama:

A worldwide coalition has formed to combat the root causes of terrorism and shore up failing states.
Bipartisan government programs, pushed through by a Democratic majority in both houses, are instituted to forestall foreclosures while forcing corporate responsibility. Wall Street and Main Street (slowly) recover.
The homeless, rather than being beaten up by unattended teens, are ushered into community programs, as are unattended teens. Continued...
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