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I understand that if Bush wins, Tony Blair has promised to undo another button on his shirt. If it's a landslide, he will breast-feed his infant on BBC. Just another reason to vote for Kerry.

 

I have no great illusions about a major change in US foreign policy when Kerry is elected -- too much damage has been done by Bush Jr. to force Kerry to stay in Iraq for a while ... be it only to counter the predictable republican lamenting not to "abandon Iraq".

I have no great illusions about Kerry being a dove. He simply isn't. His Vietnam service record suggests that he probably is more hawkish than Bush. But that doesn't concern me actually because Kerry has a major advantage over Bush:

He thinks, listens and decides based on thought and consultation rather than gut feeling or faith.

I found an interesting article from the New York Times Magazine by Ron Suskind:

... as if that wasn't creepy enough already -- it's getting outright scary with this quote from a whitehouse employee that seems to reflect the esprit de corps there:

Who needs reality when he has true faith and visions? In Iraq that approach didn't really work all THAT well ... and not even the faith of several million Americans was able to conjure up the desired WMD in Iraq (as for their minds, that's something else) ... and as for me, nothing bad about praying, but I have never passed an exam based on faith alone. Life doesn't work that way.

Kerry is simply the more rational choice and that alone will make me sleep calmer -- if he is elected.

 

you know, that hip hop poll above has been mentioned to me before, and ive found it strange that weeks ago when i looked at it the poll results were exactly the same

 

Nader. Unfortunately, he doesn't have a clue.

 

Ragusa, your post is stunning. I guess the trick is finding the right quotes. In a post to yet another election question I noted that Pat Robertson, the TV evangelist, said that he was a little frightened by Bush's total sense of rightness; then he endorsed him. They see, but they fear to draw the conclusion. At the risk of being called a fear-mongerer I'll mention another famous person who trusted his instincts totally and believed he could forge a new reality by force. That would be Adolph Hitler.

[ October 26, 2004, 05:25: Message edited by: Cernak ]

 

An interesting article from Le Monde Diplomatique, titled: What’s the matter with West Virginia?

 

I wonder how long it will take for the "Don't blame me, I voted for Bush" bumper stickers to to hit stores nation wide if Kerry gets elected. I'd buy one...Kerry is an idiot!

 

I wouldn't buy any bumper stickers yet. Realistically, it seems that Kerry needs to make a clean sweep of Ohio, PA and Florida to win the election. While it is in the realm of possibility it appears unlikely. So it would seem that YOUR idiot is safe to win.

 

If Kerry is an idiot, then I shudder to think what kinds of invective Dubya deserves. The man and his administration are a threat to the stability of the world. To turn the right's rhetoric back on itself, they need to be excised like the cancer they are.

Sure, the left is often completely out of touch with reality, but Bush seems to believe he's been touched by divine providence. A man who can justify anything in the name of a greater power is dangerous, all the more so if he runs the most powerful country on the planet.

 

I live in one of the most depressed areas in Ohio. Our county, Morgan, regularly leads the state in number of unemployed, and has done so for years. One of the few remaining factories just moved itself to the Philippines. Health care is a joke; they get sick and die. And still the Bush signs sprout like thistles on the hills. But this year there are a lot of Kerry signs too, quite a few really. Hope among the thistles; so hang in there and keep fighting.