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OUT OF MY HEAD: Everything to Live For '04 (Bush Victory = Mass Suicide?)
The Carolinian ^ | 9/14/04 | Joe Killian

Posted on 09/14/2004 3:41:11 PM PDT by MikalM

I have friends who refused to watch, listen to or even read Bush's speech to the RNC last week -but I just had to see it. I was working that night, so I set my VCR and came home to the tape at around 1 a.m.

It's hard to describe the mixture of nausea and fear that gripped me as I watched this speech. I was offended at the use of the tragedy of 9/11 as political leverage - but, in a strange way, it was almost a relief. The Republicans have finally fully embraced the position they've been hinting at for months: "A vote for Kerry is a vote to dig up 9/11's victims, spit in their hearts and stomp on their brains."

This all turns my stomach - but what scares me is how effective this tact has been. Who would have dreamed that attacking the war record of a Vietnam hero who protested upon his return, trotting out the most moderate members of your party while adopting a right wing platform and all but ignoring the country's economic crisis would actually work? But - here we are, running neck and neck with a little less than two months left to go.

If I were Bill Clinton, I'd take to a hospital bed and recover for a month too.

Of course, the greatest strength of the Bush campaign is the weakness of the Kerry campaign. Yesterday I watched Kerry stumping on C-Span and noticed the dead silence when he came to an obvious laugh line. He can't seem to communicate to the audience when they're supposed to laugh, and though he's trying his damnedest to be charming his every smile looks exhausted, shy and desperate. The consequence: though he's making good arguments, calling the president on his record and presenting his own plan for the country, we're still made to feel as though he's not quite sure of himself, even not quite behind his own campaign.

Bush on the other hand is ignoring the economy, embracing his arrogance, spouting ideological catchphrases without anything to back it all up - but he does it in that charming, rakish frat boy sort of way. You almost want to pinch his cheeks and say, "You scamp! I want to boot your sorry ass out of office for dividing this country, costing us 1,000 lives in Iraq and trying to make us all march lockstep in your parade of Born Again Christians - but you're just so cute!"

I feel this way about our College Republicans sometimes. Even when they say things that disgust me, I can't quite believe they're serious. Recently one of them said to me, when I asked if he hated the moderates dominating the convention: "Well, they may not pass all the acid tests of being a republican, but they all agree on the most important thing: they don't mind the sight of dead Arabs."

This is the kind of awful, racist joke that you can imagine Bush sharing with Cheney as they watch Arnold and Rudy take the stage. But the awful truth is that it isn't a joke - it's the darkest and most awful part of this man reaching out to the darkest, most awful part of America. It's a campaign built on fear and hatred disguised as patriotism and piety - and I'm scared to death it's going to work.

I read recently that more than million people the world over take their lives every year - more than are murdered or killed in wars. The latest World Health Organization figures suggest a suicide takes place every forty seconds, somewhere in the world.

And so it's not hard to imagine that on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus from this sad planet should Bush pull this election out. My generation may be particularly vulnerable to the urge to lay back in a warm bath and open up their veins as chants of "Four More Years" echo horribly from every 24 hour cable news station.

I remember the awful, kee-capped feeling on the day Al Gore finally conceded in 2000. What else could he do? Still - there was a feeling that we'd all, as a generation, had our first turn at bat and struck out. Or, rather, that a bad call had sent us back to the bench for four long years. We couldn't have imagined, then, how badly the game would go - or how much would be at stake when we next stepped to the plate.

But, though I finally have my own bathroom this year, you won't find me dead in my tub on November 3rd, no matter what happens. I'm casting my vote for Kerry, whether or not he makes me go weak at the knees. I'm praying to God, Jesus, the Holy Mother and whoever and whatever else is out there that it goes our way this time. But, if it doesn't, I'm going to stick around until we finally oust these bastards. And I'm going to dance in the street, drink till I'm sick and sleep for three days afterward. The thought alone will be enough to keep me going.


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To: Lion Den Dan
Today, I terminated a friendship of 30 years for a lesser attack.Sure seems to be a lot of that going on in my circle this year also:(
41 posted on 09/14/2004 4:02:29 PM PDT by suzyq5558 (Sayyyyyy....isn't disingenuous dissembler just a fancy way of saying your a LIAR???)
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To: MikalM

Can't trust those Killians.


42 posted on 09/14/2004 4:03:11 PM PDT by DameAutour (It's not Bush, it's the Congress.)
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To: MikalM

Who in the world is this clod? I just wasted several minutes reading his asinine article.


43 posted on 09/14/2004 4:03:22 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: MikalM

Typical response by a mind sick liberal. Man are they warped.


44 posted on 09/14/2004 4:04:33 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: .cnI redruM

Screemin' like a little Beeeeeeyatch!


45 posted on 09/14/2004 4:06:02 PM PDT by TheGunny
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To: MikalM

<<
And so it's not hard to imagine that on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus from this sad planet should Bush pull this election out. My generation may be particularly vulnerable to the urge to lay back in a warm bath and open up their veins as chants of "Four More Years" echo horribly from every 24 hour cable news station.
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What a sad man that can find this "not hard to imagine".


46 posted on 09/14/2004 4:08:16 PM PDT by MagnumRancid (I need a new screen name - its left over from my Doom/Quake playing days.)
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To: MikalM
I remember the awful, kee-capped feeling on the day Al Gore finally conceded in 2000. What else could he do?

Well, he could bitch about it for four years...

47 posted on 09/14/2004 4:10:15 PM PDT by twhitak
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To: MikalM
And so it's not hard to imagine that on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus from this sad planet should Bush pull this election out.
Try to look on the bright side. All those jobs to be filled!
48 posted on 09/14/2004 4:11:14 PM PDT by KStorm (Democratic National Committee --- Forging on for America.)
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To: Petronski
Sheesh. What a pussy.

Daaaaaaaaaaammn straight.

49 posted on 09/14/2004 4:11:43 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: MikalM
Was this printed in Times New Roman, or Roman New Times, or New Roman Times?
50 posted on 09/14/2004 4:14:25 PM PDT by Malesherbes
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To: atomicpossum

Just noticed the last name of the article's author.
Killian.

Any relation? </g>

The only Killian I believe is Killian's Irish Red, i.e.
"Every man needs to believe in something
I believe I'll have another beer!"


51 posted on 09/14/2004 4:15:16 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: MikalM

Where's the BARF Alert? ;-)


52 posted on 09/14/2004 4:15:47 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Judith Anne

Whores and Dogs and there all barking


53 posted on 09/14/2004 4:19:41 PM PDT by LittleMoe
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To: All
"And so it's not hard to imagine that on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus from this sad planet should Bush pull this election out."

Hmmmm. "Right to choose" now includes retroactive abortion procedures. How interesting.....*yawn*

SO! Shall we open a bottle of Mumm's or one of the Bollingers?

NO BLOOD FOR KETCHUP!

54 posted on 09/14/2004 4:30:04 PM PDT by Stormcrow ("It's not that liberals are ignorant. It's just that they know so much that isn't so." - R. Reagan)
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To: MikalM
I'm praying to God, Jesus, the Holy Mother and whoever and whatever else is out there that it goes our way this time. But, if it doesn't, I'm going to stick around until we finally oust these bastards. And I'm going to dance in the street, drink till I'm sick and sleep for three days afterward. The thought alone will be enough to keep me going.

These Nihilist b*stards only pray to their liberal altar of self-indulgence.....

55 posted on 09/14/2004 4:30:17 PM PDT by blasater1960 ( Ishmaelites...Still a wild-ass of a people....)
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To: Petronski
I think he might have toxic shock syndrome. He had better change his tampon soon.

LOL! I'm sure there would be plenty of FReepers willing to help him with that.

56 posted on 09/14/2004 4:32:24 PM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: Petronski

Is he a girly-man or a metro-sexual?


57 posted on 09/14/2004 4:36:01 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter
Is he a girly-man or a metro-sexual?

Yes.

58 posted on 09/14/2004 4:38:57 PM PDT by Petronski (With what? Spitballs!?!)
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To: MagnumRancid
....on November 3rd, if the election can be called by then, there might be a sort of grim mass exodus...

I'd rather the libs just move to Europe.

They'd be at home there, plus it would increase the average IQ of both continents.

59 posted on 09/14/2004 4:40:56 PM PDT by Republic If You Can Keep It
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To: Petronski

hahahahahaha That's what I thought!


60 posted on 09/14/2004 4:41:36 PM PDT by Ditter
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