Posted on 11/14/2004 2:46:10 PM PST by quidnunc
This, too, shall pass.
The United States will muddle through, as it's muddled through before, because the idea of America, and the system that sustains it, is bigger and braver and more enduring than any single subpar president or collective brain cramp of the populace.
But it's so damn sad anyway. Once again, as Franklin Roosevelt put it, the only thing to fear was fear itself, only this time fear won. Bombast won, the Big Lie won. And of course George W. Bush won, with his staunch certainties in a scary world and his skilled retailing of "moral values" to an increasingly conservative base. Because this is what happened in the U.S. election: with jobs disappearing, deficits running rampant, their kids being killed in Iraq saving the world from nonexistent weapons, Americans rushed to the polls to keep gays from marrying and women from having abortions. The culture war somehow trumped the Iraq war — evidence of an America not only fiercely divided but in deep denial.
The world, by the way, lost. So did reason, the poor, African-Americans, stem-cell research, the air and water, gun control, the cause of basic competence, the belief that the truth will out.
I thought John Kerry would win and I was wrong. I thought so because the majority of Americans told pollsters they didn't like where the nation was headed. The ship of state was steaming straight for an iceberg, the captain too stubborn to change course — but in the end the people were too frightened or too distracted to change captains.
This, too, shall pass. Eventually, with who-knows-what consequences.
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(Excerpt) Read more at macleans.ca ...
Ahem...don't you mean "embryonic stem cell research?"
A.K.A.: Clone & Kill?
Such stupidity.
And just like the Canada Goose, they make a lot of noise and spew crap - and nothing else.
maybe a six-pack of crullers would change his mood... but then it's "go to the dentist, eh?"
forgot the barf alert.... mixed with hysterical laughter.. wow.. that was quite a piece there...POS that is..
Ummmm The United States is bigger than a lot of things, pal.
...Canada for starts.
Just what do these Birkenstockers mean by "gun control"? Do they mean second amendment control? How about double jeopardy control? How about income tax control? I hear only about gun control, but it isn't guns in the hands of decent citizens that I fear. This is why the Stalinists have lost so much power. They are circuitous in their rhetoric, and the public instinctively feels that their agenda is depraved. Oh, by the way, Canada, I'll start buying your products again when...
"the majority of Americans told pollsters they didn't like where the nation was headed."
Nowhere does it state "the majority of Americans told pollsters they didn't like where President George Bush was leading the country."
The sophistry of our enemies is ongoing assurance that I am on the correct side in this battle.
"...the truth will out..."
These libs ran out of Truth a long time ago, and since then, they've been running on "fumes."
Watching them descend in their tail-biting death spiral is such fun!
Only though, first they "burn", then they crash.
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