Can John Kerry Cure Cancer?

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 10/15/4 | Mark Morford

[SmithL]

Miracle worker or no, after the tyranny of BushCo, a "normal" prez will be a blessed relief

There will not be a great parting of the clouds.

There will not be brighter flowers and happier puppies. There will not be massive choruses of angels singing and birds chirping and dolphins finally standing upright and speaking fluent Latin and saying we knew it all along.

Let's be real: Should Kerry win this election, we are most likely not in for a spectacular and unprecedented ride of shiny progressive glory that will astound the world and reignite the collective soul and float us all to the hereafter on golden wings of sparkly well-lubed bliss. OK?

I know, this is not a popular angle. After all, we desperately need this feeling. We need to be ignited by raw hope and urgent hyperbole and to feel that some massive, silly platitude is at work, some hollow line like Reagan's infamous "morning in America," supposedly heralding a huge transformational rebirth and not, as Reagan actually brought, massive deficits, and ignorance, and homophobia, and corporate welfare and deregulation and environmental destruction and class warfare and self-righteous conservative indignation, amen.

[joesnuffy]

Yep Fannie Mae is a harbinger...

[talleyman]

You forgot the "Fruitcake Alert"

[Area Freeper]

Look, I think we all know that there is another disease out there that Morford is much more interested seeing cured...

[madvlad]

I doubt it.

She, like John Edwards, couldn't cure a
dirty butthole w/ a brand new roll of
cha cha cha Charmin!

Wipe and be healed, my son!

MV

[dano1]

Yes, with gin and white raisins.

The government will provide the gin and white raisins for free.

This supplemental health care program will be funded by rolling back the tax cut for people earning between $195,000 to $200,00 per year.