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 ...
How,pray tell,did the African Americans lose? I really would like to hear the explanation for that assumption.
None of the rest make sense either, but we nasty,racist,bigotted Americans are always picking on the African Americans according to some.
The phrase he was looking for was, "Women and minorities hardest hit." What a maroon!
Some articles make me want to go out and buy another gun just to be contrary. This is one of them.
Thinking.
This may take a while.
Any chance this writer is the guy seen waving the Red and White Maple Leaf Flag over Arafats new place of lodging the other day???
Bush won, so did the unborn, stem cell research (the only President to ever publicly fund ANY stem cell research, adult or otherwise), so did morality, decency, the rule of law, the voters, and vietnam-vets (for a change).
The losers: Sadaam, Uday, Qusay, the terrorists, Osama, liberals, and one of the biggest losers: the lawyers....
These Canadians are getting on my last nerve.
Don't even want to talk to any of my relatives up there.
Let's see, are people jumping on rickety, leaking boats and fleeing to Canada to taste freedom?
How many people are flooding their borders for a chance to work and make a decent living?
Maybe this writer will become relevant when they do!
What an absolute sphincter.
That's about it I guess.
Here is stark evidence of this writer's vapidity. In his shallow analysis he failed to recognize that the dis-satisfaction cuts both ways.
If you asked me I would certainly say I am not happy with the direction our nation is headed. But that dis-satisfaction has much less to do with the Republicans than it does with the democrats.
I think it should read; Until then, STFU, A!
:-)
Couldn't resist, worked with a bunch of Canadians last week, some OK with GWB, most fear the end of socialism.
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