Greater Than Themselves Redux

The polls say, and I have heard actual people say, and I have said:

I am voting not for John Kerry but AGAINST George W. Bush and the whores he rode in on.

This is not about how (insert negative descriptor) Kerry is. It is about how truly gawdawful is this regime, not a presidency by any decent, American definition.

I happen to think John Kerry will be a very good president. He will reconnect us to the world community. He will restore teeth to the EPA, stop the looting of the national treasury. Those alone are worth the trip to the ballot box.

As good as John Kerry will be, George II is worse.

So when Republican talking heads do that gloat/snarl/ridicule thing they do and say "no one likes John Kerry. More Democrats say they are voting against George Bush than for their own candidate" the best answer is:

Exactly. That is how bad the Bush Administration is for this country.

And that is what Kerry/Edwards should campaign on. This is not the time to like John Kerry. This is the time to hate George Bush.

This Post Hath No Title

Why write when this man writes?

That Hamilton Woman

Masha Hamilton has a new story available online. And dont forget about her WONDERFUL Staircase of a Thousand Steps, and coming soon The Distance Between Us.

As Brooke says in Middlemarch, "I only mention it . . . "

Greater Than Themselves

What Democrats also forgot was that McCain is an ambitious, self-interested politician. His new relationship with Bush is simply a recalculation of that self-interest

Q. Does caving in to Karl Rove negate McCain's valiant resistance to his North Vietnamese captors?

Discuss.

Ockam's Swift Boat

blah blah blah ... blahdee blah-blah ... snerk . . . snark

Q o' the Day:

When you're on a swift boat in the Mekong Delta, who do you hope is its captain?

_____ A. John F. Kerry

_____ B. George W. Bush

(Correct answer saves your life?)

America Doesn't Know

In this artilcle in Salon, an Iraqi asks a journalist, "Why does America hate poor people so much?"

America doesn't know it hates poor people. After so many years -- since Reagan really -- of slurs against liberal government and open hatred for goverment itself, America has lost its memory. We forget why we wanted our own goverment in the first place. We forget the power of government to generally make the lives of common people better; what our Founders called the general welfare has lost its standing.

We are reverting, losing our democracy. Aristocracy has re-emerged. Sons and daughters of the powerful get the good jobs, the coveted positions. Hangers-on (Wolfowitz) and jesters (Rice) get the key appointments.

The government trough feeds not the common welfare but the connected few who can get their snouts in.

It translates to contempt for poor people, or for anyone who can't afford to have or be anything and everything. You always hate the one you are guilty of neglecting, even if it is yourself.

So why does America hate poor people? Because they are the testimony to our failure.

Political Mythology

Just a thought:

John Kerry is John O'Neil's Io.
Alan Keyes, on the other hand, will follow any cow.

In the Future, we will not know how many blogs we have.

So I signed up to post a comment on a friend's blog (ooh, that was easy!) and got this blog.  I still haven't got to the place where I post to MidlifeMama.

Back later.