I am going to have real issues this November. I think the administration has really fucked up this entire Iraq thing. The fact that Rumsfeld still has a job amazes me. He should be gone -- and he will need to be gone in order for me to cast a vote for Mr. Bush.
Don't mistake me, I won't vote for Kerry -- no way could I ever do that; I simply will not vote for Bush. I will do a non-vote as a point of protest.
Having said all of that, I have one comment for the media: you spend way more of your time showing what Americans do to others and not enough time showing what others do to Americans. Some lady smiles and points at the naked crotch of an Iraqi? On TV 24/7. Some terrorist cuts off an American's head? Nope, can't show that. Etc. Yes, what happened in that prison sucks -- but it's not even NEARLY as sucky as what is happening around the world to people who stand in the way of Islamists. We all need to keep our focus on that. Doesn't excuse the behavior of bad Americans in any way.
It will be very sad for me to have to live under a Kerry nation, mainly because I really believe he has no center, no real core value system. I am also bothered by his insistance that "the rich" (as defined by him as anyone over $200K a year) pay more while at the time his mega-rich wife won't show her tax returns. I imagine we are going to find she pays less than I do in federal taxes every year.
Dammit.
re: observations about Kerry
Yes, you're absolutely correct and sadly that applies for nearly all career Pols. A few exceptions come to mind specifically John McCain, Warren Rudman and others but they are few and far between and aren't political enough to achieve the highest office.
re: Taxes
Yep, Kerry will make it worse but the effin elephant in the room is the A.M.T. which neither party is doing ANYTHING about 'cause it brings in so much revenue.
re: Bush
I think he'll go down in history as one of the worst presidents ever. Here's a fun read: http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4636.shtml sounds like the second Nixon administration. He had every opportunity to focus the country in a way we haven't seen since WWII and instead goes off on quixotic crusade in Iraq all the while spending like a drunken democrat. How the hell did we end up with a freakin' silver spoon fed, underachieving, god-stomper in the white house?
Oh wait, I remember - Karl Rove and hanging chads.
'course I didn't vote for Gore either (no, not Nader either) and won't vote for either dem or rep this time... maybe I'll write in McCain.
Posted by: Dan | June 07, 2004 at 09:54 PM