*Icarus fills out naturalisation papers. Quickly. Before we get that idiot elected again.*
Ahem. Excuse me while I rant.
He was so damned sneaky about the last election. He aimed his campaign at all the little states with 10 elderly grandmas, knowing he couldn't get the majority so he went for the electoral college votes (which are intended to give little states equal representation with the big ones).
The counting of those Florida ballots was really fishy and under the jurisdiction of his brother.
Then since his daddy appointed many of the Supreme Court judges, their decision not to examine the Florida vote provoked an outrage among the lawyers and justices of this country. It's unheard of, and their reason "not to undermine the credibility of the new President" was paper thin.
And he's so much worse than I thought he would be.
We had a budget surplus in 2000. Within one year, he ran the country into debt with a giant cash giveaway to the wealthy. Now we have the worst deficit in 50 years.
He's pillaged the wilderness. We're drilling for oil in a rich Alaska Wilderness, the oil reserves we've always held in trust in case something happened in the Middle East. For no reason, just to satisfy the greed of these oil companies.
He let oil companies set government policy - Enron set our energy policy. Enron, renowed for its corruption and collapse in accounting scandals. That's what we're doing in Iraq. We're acting like a giant oil company with its private military.
He's leveled allegiances and allies that have stood since the second world war. Undermined the United Nations. Hell, I expected the rape of the wilderness, and one look at the vice president's oil-drenched resume tells you his interests. But I never imagined he would be so arrogant as to ignore the entire world. This aggressive action undermines the founding principles of this country: we are not colonizers.
Every day, US soldiers die in Iraq.
We went from a booming economy to the worst economy since the great stock market crash of 1929. People aren't even looking for work, lawyers are washing dishes, it's horrible. And he's done absolutely nothing. Not even a symbolic gesture. He keeps giving money to the rich.
Sigh. I don't care if the democratic candidate is named Adolf Hitler. We would be hard pressed to find someone worse than Bush.
where, because of the "Patriot Act," someone can ask a librarian for a list of user records, and not only do they have to comply, they can't even tell anyone that the FBI asked.
Big Brother's watching you, kiddos, and he wears a cowboy hat.
And that's another thing! The assault on human rights and US rights -- don't get me started on Guantanimo Bay (oh hell, I think I've spelled that wrong).
There's something definitely wrong when the only good thing you can say - and I'm a fair person - is that it was a nice gesture to spend Thanksgiving with the troops. Even if it was grandstanding for election.
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branchandroot
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Date: 2004-01-18 05:56 am (UTC)I wouldn't vote for one who didn't...
...but I'm Icelandic, so I'm afraid that I don't get a say.
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Date: 2004-01-18 10:36 am (UTC)Ahem. Excuse me while I rant.
He was so damned sneaky about the last election. He aimed his campaign at all the little states with 10 elderly grandmas, knowing he couldn't get the majority so he went for the electoral college votes (which are intended to give little states equal representation with the big ones).
The counting of those Florida ballots was really fishy and under the jurisdiction of his brother.
Then since his daddy appointed many of the Supreme Court judges, their decision not to examine the Florida vote provoked an outrage among the lawyers and justices of this country. It's unheard of, and their reason "not to undermine the credibility of the new President" was paper thin.
And he's so much worse than I thought he would be.
We had a budget surplus in 2000. Within one year, he ran the country into debt with a giant cash giveaway to the wealthy. Now we have the worst deficit in 50 years.
He's pillaged the wilderness. We're drilling for oil in a rich Alaska Wilderness, the oil reserves we've always held in trust in case something happened in the Middle East. For no reason, just to satisfy the greed of these oil companies.
He let oil companies set government policy - Enron set our energy policy. Enron, renowed for its corruption and collapse in accounting scandals. That's what we're doing in Iraq. We're acting like a giant oil company with its private military.
He's leveled allegiances and allies that have stood since the second world war. Undermined the United Nations. Hell, I expected the rape of the wilderness, and one look at the vice president's oil-drenched resume tells you his interests. But I never imagined he would be so arrogant as to ignore the entire world. This aggressive action undermines the founding principles of this country: we are not colonizers.
Every day, US soldiers die in Iraq.
We went from a booming economy to the worst economy since the great stock market crash of 1929. People aren't even looking for work, lawyers are washing dishes, it's horrible. And he's done absolutely nothing. Not even a symbolic gesture. He keeps giving money to the rich.
Sigh. I don't care if the democratic candidate is named Adolf Hitler. We would be hard pressed to find someone worse than Bush.
/rant
Icarus
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Date: 2004-01-18 10:49 am (UTC)http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0352/hentoff.php
where, because of the "Patriot Act," someone can ask a librarian for a list of user records, and not only do they have to comply, they can't even tell anyone that the FBI asked.
Big Brother's watching you, kiddos, and he wears a cowboy hat.
no subject
Date: 2004-01-18 11:00 am (UTC)There's something definitely wrong when the only good thing you can say - and I'm a fair person - is that it was a nice gesture to spend Thanksgiving with the troops. Even if it was grandstanding for election.
Icarus