Republican Lies -er- Spin

This Week the Republicans released a new radio ad in Wisconsin:

RNC AD: “Censure”

Announcer: September 11th changed our country. And it changed how America responds to terrorists. President Bush is working to keep American families safe. Passing the PATRIOT Act which has disrupted over one hundred and fifty terrorist threats and cells making sure the US is monitoring terrorist communications. But some Democrats are working against these efforts to secure our country, opposing the PATRIOT Act and terrorist surveillance program. Their leader is Russ Feingold. Now Feingold and other Democrats want to censure the President. Publicly reprimanding President Bush for pursuing suspected members of al Qaeda. Some Democrats are even calling for President Bush’s impeachment.
Is this how Democrats plan to win the War on Terror? Call Russ Feingold and ask him why he’s more interested in censuring the President than protecting our freedom. Paid for by the Republican National Committee not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee www.gop.com. The Republican National Committee is responsible for the content of this advertising.

FactCheck.org does a nice analysis of the inaccuracies and mischaracterizations of Feingold’s Censure Resolution in the Repulican’s ad. I’d like to review some of that here, but I want to be fair and point out that these kinds of commercials are a personal pet peeve of mine as they come from both sides. They were particularly aggrevating during the 2004 election and after awhile they sound less like spin and more like lies and after awhile I’m just offended by both sides.

Now Feingold and other Democrats want to censure the President. Publicly reprimanding President Bush for pursuing suspected members of al Qaeda.

This must be more of that “if they aren’t with us, then they’re against us” mentality. Feingold nor any Democrat has ever reprimanded President Bush or anyone for pursuing suspected terrorists. In fact, Feingold has repeatedly, publically said that we should be wiretapping terrorists and suspected terrorists; that isn’t the issue — the issue is the wiretapping of Americans on American soil without obtaining court orders as well as a failure to disclose what he was doing to the appropriate Congressional committees.

Some Democrats are even calling for President Bush’s impeachment.

But not Russ Feingold. John Conyers in the House, yes, but he isn’t even calling really for an impeachment so much as an investigation that could lead to an impeachment. The implication is that the Democratic agenda is to impeach President Bush, which I find hilarious because if they were paying attention, they’d know that the Democrats are too scared to do any such thing.

It’s really all about the spin. Scare Americans into thinking that only Republicans can keep them safe. God knows that the terrorists are going to attack Wisconsin any day now. You aren’t a patriot if you vote Democrat.

Tags: Terrorists, Patriot Act, Russ Feingold, Republicans, Democrats, George W. Bush, factcheck.org, Censure, 2004 election, Impeach

Florida Voting Irregularities Revisited

Remember all those complaints about voting irregularities in Florida? Seems like there might have been something to it. Of course, no one in the government is doing anything about it still. I suspect neither party wants to clear up all the voting irregularities and calling attention to it will only call attention to their own participation here and there.

The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

Black Box Voting successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election.

After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting discovered that the voting machine logs contained approximately 100,000 errors. According to voting machine assignment logs, Palm Beach County used 4,313 machines in the Nov. 2004 election. During election day, 1,475 voting system calibrations were performed while the polls were open, providing documentation to substantiate reports from citizens indicating the wrong candidate was selected when they tried to vote.

Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did not contain any votes date-stamped on Nov. 2, 2004.

You can find the complete set of raw voting machine event logs for Palm Beach County here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/6628.html
Note that some items were not provided to us and are ommitted from the logs.

The logs rule out the possibility that these were Logic & Accuracy (L&A) test results, and verified that these results did appear in the final totals. In addition to the date discrepancies, most had incorrect polling times, with votes appearing throughout the wee hours of the night. These machines were L&A tested, and the L&A test activities appeared in the logs with the correct date and time.

According to the voting machine assignment log, these machines were not assigned to early voting locations. The number of votes on each machine also corresponds with the numbers typical of polling place machines rather than early voting.

Many of these machines showed unexplained log activity after the L&A test but before Election Day. In addition, many more machines without date anomalies showed this log activity, which revealed someone powering up the machine, opening the program, then powering it down again. In one instance, the date discrepancy appeared when someone accessed the machine two minutes after the L&A test was completed. [“Someone accessed 40 Palm Beach voting machines November 2004″]

Hat tip to Yellow Swordfish.

Tags: Black Box Voting, Voting Irregularities, Florida, 2004 election, politics

Happily In The Middle Politically And Tired Of The Lemmings

I must say that in recent weeks, following the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe, I have felt more and more proud of the fact that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican. I am an Independent and happy to be unaffiliated with any party and it’s followers that resorts to finger-pointing and name calling and brainwashing of the masses — and trust me, it’s clear to me that both parties are on those bandwagons with their lemmings.

I’m so tired of the websites and the people who think that all Democrats are evil and all Republicans are angels or vice versa.

Guess what? None of them are innocent. Guess what? There’s scandals on both sides.

And I’m tired of Republicans who think that nothing their politicians could do be worse than a former President having consensual sex in the White House and then lying about it in public like any red-blooded American male would. I’m tired of Democrats who keep whining about Bush stealing the election in 2000.

Guess what? The Republicans have had plenty of their own sex scandals and plenty of them denied and covered up. Guess what? There’s nothing we can do about the 2000 election. Bush finished those four years. They’ve gone. Past.

In fact, all of that is past.

I’m just plain tired of it all…and possibly it’s frustration about what’s going on in my childhood hometown. I’m tired of watching the mess get worse while politicians in both parties play games and try to blame each other for everything, including the Original Sin…and their lemmings are right there on the bandwagon, spouting what they are sure are truths and denying their party’s fault in anything. What I’d like to find is someone on either side who can admit that their party and their politicians are not perfect and in fact, give equal reporting to the bad things their party does as well as the bad things the other party does.

Tags: politics, Independent, Hurricane Katrina, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, 2004 election

Support Your President Does Not Mean Follow Blindly

O.K. So, yes, I’m disappointed in the election results.

Honestly? I thought I would be crushed but I’m not. I thought the election was very close though those “on the winning team” seem to think 3.5 million is a big difference though when you consider how many people voted, it’s a drop in the bucket.

So, the Republicans have the White House and Congress. Eleven states shamefully passed constitutional bans that allow a class of people to be discriminated in, which I admit surprised the hell out of me in this day and age.

I’m looking at the silver lining these days.

For the next four years, the Republicans will have no one to blame but themselves for the mess they’ve created in the last four years and as someone kindly pointed out to me recently, John Kerry would not have gotten anything done if he had won because the Republican Congress would have blocked him every which way and he would have been heavily criticized for every little thing. President Bush made the mess and now he gets to sit in it.

Am I worried?

Yes.

Am I bitter?

No.

Mostly I’m tired of the whining, the gloating, and the hateful name-calling between people on both sides of the party lines. I’m disgusted with how nasty the whole election became and how this administration is acting. Bush says he wants to be a uniter but his actions conflict with his words. He’s encouraging the petty, spiteful behavior between people who are now separating themselves based on the colors of the election map. It’s like a giant gang war is about to happen nationwide, the Reds vs. the Blues.

Who cares? Stop whining about what could have been. Figure out what went wrong. Figure out what things you want to do in the next four years to support the things you want to happen and protest those things you feel strongly are wrong. For me, I’m going to get more involved in getting people to register to vote, to care enough to be informed, to get out and vote. Really, I felt strongly about who I wanted in the White House and I voted that way but what I cared about was that people got out and voted and people did in record numbers. I heard last night that a record number of young people under 30 voted this year. Heck, more people voted for John Kerry than voted for Ronald Reagan and more people voted for George W. Bush than any other president in history. As nasty as it all got, people did feel passionate about voting. I’m sorry to see people not channelling that passion in positive ways now rather than dwelling on losing.

I will say that it was eery to be here in Maine the day after the election. It was sad. So many people were just walking around in shock and in mourning. My gay friends were the most affected though Maine was not one of the 11 states of shame. I must say that I feel for them because I wonder why anyone believes that this is the right thing to do. I can’t imagine that Jesus meant for us to love our neighbors and stomp on their legal rights at the same time.

One last comment. A pet peeve I’ve developed. People who voted for Bush keep angrily telling people who didn’t to just shut up and support our President and while I really want to point out that most liberals endured 8 years of Rush’s “White House Under Seige” rants and a witch hunt to find anything on Clinton to criticize and a ridiculous tempertantrum over the fact that he had an affair and lied about it when he should never have been asked about it in the first place, the truth is that no matter who is President, it is our American right to not follow our leaders blindly like sheep. They aren’t perfect and how will they know what we want and if we’re happy with their work if we keep our mouths shut? I support my country. I love my country but I will not follow blindly on a path I do not believe my country should be travelling down. I want my voice to be heard.

Tags: politics, 2004 election, Gay Rights, Republicans, Congress

Reflections On Last Night’s Debate & Related Things

• Why do Congressmen get $7700 per family health insurance packages? Obviously these people have far more money than the people they represent so why are the taxpayers forced to pay this enormous amount to ensure these people when something like 5 Million or is it more are unable to afford health insurance. John Kerry mentioned this number in his promise to give everyone this option. He said that obviously those who could afford health insurance would have to pay for their own, but that those those that didn’t would get the same deal Congressmen do. I think that Congressmen are obviously wealthy enough to afford their own health insurance, why are the taxpayers are not burdoned with it.
• In response to a question regarding job loss in the United States, President Bush said that it was important to re-educate people for jobs of the 21rst century. He suggested that there would be programs at community colleges for this to happen. Fifteen years ago, careers in computers were going to be the jobs of the 21rst century. Now, IT is one of the top industries hit with unemployment in the U.S. As we watch our 21 century jobs being shipped overseas, what jobs does President Bush suggest we re-educate ourselves to do and why is it that my 4-year Bachelor of Science degree is now worthless and needs to be replaced by a community college education?
• President Bush indicated that one of the ways to cut Healthcare costs is to bring the medical sector into the 21rst century with technology. I agree with this. However, as one of my IT co-workers at the hospital pointed out, most hospitals cannot afford to go all the way to electronic medical records. In fact, the very conversion would be a complete nightmare. It would take a decade per hospital probably. And I suppose that the best way to cut costs on this is to ship the IT conversion part overseas. Though likely the consultants would be astonished at the snail’s pace and red tape dealing with a hospital requires.
• Bush refused to answer the question on whether or not he supports overturning Roe V. Wade. He even accused Kerry of wanting to purposely appoint people who he knew would not do this rather than choosing the best person for the job. However, looking at the people Bush has chosen to nominate to key positions where Pro-choice and the option for birth control could be decided and/or taken away, I think that President Bush does in fact have a lithmus test for his appointees, despite his smoke and mirrors claim.
• Kerry correctly pointed out that while “No Child Left Behind” is a good program, it is severly underfunded and this is Bush’s fault. Bush’s reply was to claim that only a liberal would say that increasing education funding by 49% is not enough. The fact is that it wasn’t enough to fund the “No Child Left Behind” Act.
• Why, oh, why, can’t people laugh with their candidate’s opponents when they make a joke? At least recognize that not everything that comes out of Bush, Chenney, Edwards, and Kerry’s mouths are to be interpreted seriously. One of my co-workers was all pissed off at her literal interpretation of something Bush joked about. I didn’t like the joke myself when I heard it last night, but I at least recognized it was a joke not to be analyzed with the regular propoganda and rhetoric.
• Neither candidate is pefect and neither is the devil. While I don’t agree with either candidate 100%, I do agree more with Kerry. I’m tired of people suggesting that a vote for Kerry is just a vote against Bush. It’s not all about Bush, you know. Some of us actually do care about the environment, pro-choice, a better world reputation, a better funded border patrol, better healthcare, better benefits for those in poverty, better paying jobs, less tax breaks for the wealthy and companies sending jobs overseas, and a balanced budget. Yes, I am pissed off at Bush too. I don’t like that he’s taken us into a war that was unnecessary at the time and that he’s not caught Osama yet. I don’t like that N. Korea and Iran actually have moved forward with their nuclear progams and that the number of terrorists is on the rise. I really don’t care for the deficit. Everyone says that Clinton didn’t do anything he promised either but truth be told, one of the things I liked about him when he first ran was that he had a plan to balance the budget and get us out of debt and then once elected, he did it. We had a surplus when he left which was earmarked to help us with the social security issue but that money is gone and now we are in the largest debt ever.I fear for this country. I really do. I am terrified that no matter who wins we will remain divided and that some sort of rioting will occur. I imagine the worst. Obviously something isn’t working with our two party system. I don’t know how to fix it though.

Tags: politics, 2004 election, health insurance, Congress, jobs of the 21rst century, George W. Bush, John Kerry, Women's Rights, outsourcing

The Elections

Well, I know this might just flabberghast some people, but I didn’t see the debate on Friday. It’s the first one I’ve missed this election period. I meant to watch it. I had planned to watch it but between not feeling well and trying to learn how to use Photoshop, I just simply forgot until it was over.

However, I’m pretty sure there wasn’t anything said that would have surprised me or made me change my mind.

Also, I am very interested in the Afghanistan elections over the weekend. They seemed to have gone well, better than expected. Though there has been some allegations already of voter fraud. I did kind of hope the elected wouldn’t be the U.S.-backed canidate, but that’s just a little stubbornness and paranoia on my part. I would hate to think Afghanistan is going to have a puppet leader of our Bush Administration. Also, I’m slightly aware that we helped put Sadaam Hussein in office and perhaps we should know better by now that we shouldn’t be helping make these decisions because we apparently don’t make good choices for other countries.

***On a related side note, I heard Paul Harvey over the weekend and he was talking about how most governments collapse or fail by 200 years, even democracies. Apparently we’re living on borrowed time. I don’t know how true that is. I’d like to see the statistics. I find it hard to believe that we’d have a major re-vamp/re-org of our government, or rather I find it hard to imagine that in this day and age a society such as ours would allow ourselves to slip into such turmoil. Then again, I also fear that this year’s election is going to end up in some sort of rioting across the country no matter who wins.And if you think about it, bills like the Patriiot Act are the stepping stones to changing America forever from the country we loved for it’s freedom and progressivenes. Things like the Patritot Act make me think we are headed for a dictatorship of our own.

I’m probably just being paranoid.

Tags: 2004 election, politics, Afghanistan, paranoia

Is it Nov. 3rd yet?

Well, I have quickly learned that the tension is too thick and feelings are too strong for most people, Democrat or Republican, to be able to laugh at themselves or their candidates this election year. As much as I love Kerry, I can at least laugh at a good joke poking fun at either candidate. I admit, I do take some things about the election seriously, but I can still laugh. :rolleyes:

I will admit here so people understand that I’m not just one of those AntiBushBots running around claiming Bush is the anti-Christ. I do know he has done a few good things. I feel that his bad things outweigh the good. I don’t think he should have another 4 years to run up the debt, start more unnecessary wars, and try to take away our civil liberties, but I will admit to being pleased with his announcement on Monday to re-allign the troups stationed in Europe and Asia. Now, admittedly, I don’t know enough about the military and strategy to understand it all, but I think that any effort to make the military more mobile and bring as many Americans home as possible is a good thing. I know Kerry has criticized this decision and I don’t pretend to understand why. I do know that Bush’s announcement was 7 years in the making (which means it started with Clinton, which means it can’t be all bad. ) and it will take 10 years to implement.

Ironically, I encountered a bunch of Bushbots yesterday who claimed that Kerry says he’s going to bring home the troops in Iraq within the first 6 months of his presidency and that he is going to get Germany and France to replace those troops. That’s not what he said. He said he was going to start reducing the number of American troops in Iraq within 6 months and also has indicated that he will endevour to resecure tarnished relationships with traditional alliances like NATO, and countries like France and Germany in an effort to get their support in the Iraq endevour. Support does not necessarily mean military.

I’m becoming wary of anyone spouting negativity and using one candidate’s website as proof of conjecture and half-truths they are declaring in regards to other candidate. For example, don’t send me a like to the Bush/Chenney website that has an article about how horrible Kerry is or vice versa. I also don’t care to visit Fox News or any blantantly obvious right-wing or even left-wing website. I just want the truth. I want provable facts. I want people who can back up what they are saying in a political debate.

Someone told me that Kerry has never released his military records and refuses to release records of his senate voting after 1995. I did a quick google and found all of that information on non-partisan websites. I’ve even found Bush’s National Guard records. I wish I knew where people were getting their information from.

Someone even told me that with thinking like those of us who didn’t want to go into Iraq in the first place, Hitler would still be in power…this is another comparison I am tired of dealing with. I don’t even have the interest to discuss it here.

Tags: politics, mud-slinging, 2004 election

I Wish It Were Over Already!

I kind of wish the whole election thing was over already so we could go on with our lives. However, my experience with the last election tells me that it won’t be over on Nov. 3rd, but will drag on and on and on.

I saw a statistic in Newsweek last week, I think, about how in the 1992 election at this time 66% of people were still undecided, but polsters working for Bush (probably from India) say that this year only 17% are undecided. I wonder if they’re counting all the Amish people Republicans have been registering to vote lately — apparently the Amish traditionally vote Republican and the Republicans have been out in the fields signing them up to vote this year.

Still, I’m tired of all the debating going on between people who appear to be brainwashed on either side — though mostly it does seem to be the right-wing conservative Republicans that are acting like parrots, but I could be biased. I don’t really know anymore if I’m capable of not being biased.

I’ve heard complaints that some people are upset that Bush might not win because people are voting for Kerry because they don’t like Bush. To me that’s completely reasonable and logical. Why would they vote for Bush if they don’t like him?

I’ve heard outright lies and rumors, some of which have been perpetuated by the Republican Party and by popular right-wing talk show hosts (even the ones who claim to be fair and balanced). I’ve heard silliness even from the Democrats. Sometimes it’s hard to figure out who to believe. There are Vets for John Kerry and Vets against John Kerry. I tend to believe the ones who served under and with him more than those who didn’t even know him then — and those apparently are the ones for him. In fact, one of the really big mouthed ones against him has even recanted his claims, though I understand it’ll still be in the Kerry-bashing commercial.

Bush is crowing about Kerry saying that despite what he knows now he would have still voted to give Bush authorization to go to war. Bush seems to think that this proves Kerry is flip-flopping. However, Kerry did give authorization to Bush and he never denied it. What Kerry has stood by is that he would have done things differently than Bush, would have made sure of the intelligence being used (which has been proven faulty) and would have ensured that we didn’t go it alone but had the support of the world, or at least the allies we usually depend on. The Republicans keep touting about how Kerry voted against the $87 billion needed to continue the war in Iraq, but what they don’t tell you is that Kerry did support it as long as it had an amendment to increas taxes on the wealthy so that the money would be coming from somewhere. It bothers me that Bush seems to be spending a lot of money we don’t have. It makes sense to me that the money has to come from somewhere. If I were charging up that much debt, the creditors would be constantly calling my house.

People are also talking about Kerry’s money and they can’t seem to separate his finances from Teresa’s, but Teresa did make him sign a pre-nup which keeps him from all that wealth and last December he had to mortgage his Boston home to pay for the campaign. Teresa can only give him $2000 for his campaign because of campaign-finance laws. (He has repayed the debt, which is good, because I was actually worried for him.)

I’m tired of people complaining that Kerry will raise taxes. I don’t want to pay higher taxes either, but I do understand that our country is in debt; we are closing schools and cutting back on fire and police services nationwide, but we are financing a war and supposedly rebuilding two war-torn Middle Eastern countries, including providing new schools and fire houses. Where are we going to get that money? Kerry says he is only going to roll back Bush’s tax break on the very wealthy (those that make $200,000 per year). I don’t know anyone personally in that tax bracket, but since I’m living on less than $70K a year, I can imagine that they will survive.

Mostly I’m tired of the rhetoric and propoganda. I’m tired of the games and the debates. My mind is made up. Most people’s minds are made up. There’s little that can be said or done now that will change anyone’s minds. For the most part, either people love Bush, people love Kerry, or they hate Bush enough to vote for Kerry. I suppose there are other options, but on election day, those are the three that are going to matter.

I think the closer it gets to election day, the more outbreaks of bar room-like brawls will occur. And honestly, I’m very afraid for this country. I think no matter who wins, somewhere, some unhappy people are going to make a violent scene. I remember the L.A. riot. I’m afraid that could happen again.

Tags: 2004 election, politics, John Kerry, George W. Bush, mud-slinging, propaganda

No Such Thing As Friendly Politics

Normally, I try to avoid conversations about politics with Peter and BJ as a rule. They are both just a bit too intense regarding their political beliefs and I would sometimes say they seem a bit fanatical. When I was dating BJ, back during the last Presidential election, it was downright scary some of the things he said in his political ferver supporting Bush. Mind you, I did vote for Bush in the last election. I was a supporter, but I never outright said that anyone who voted against him was stupid or somesuch. He seemed to believe that the country would go to hell in a hand basket if Bush wasn’t President.

Ironically, in the last 2 years, I have felt that the country has gone to hell in a hand basket. But looking back over my voting history, I’ve never voted to keep a war president in power, though Iraq isn’t my only concern in this year’s campaign.

For some reason, the other night while talking to Peter I kind of initiated the political discussion though I did try to skirt the major issues. Some of the things that he said really bothered me. Not bothered me in the way that I wonder if my political views might be questioned but bothered me in the way that I’m afraid of some of the silliness that came out of his mouth. I honestly believed that despite the fact that he does seem to be one of those voters who picked up his parent’s political views by tradition and ran with them, he is an intelligent person who has found serious facts to declare his allegence to the Republican party for.

It scared me that he said that between 1988 and 2000, the colors representing the parties in the media (the red and the blue) have switched sides, meaning that when showing the map with the voting results, the republicans (he said) used to be represented by blue and the democrats were red, but now it’s reversed. Not only do I not know how true this statement is because I’ve not particularly researched it but I didn’t understand why the color itself was important. When I asked about the importance, he basically said that the Republicans can’t be red because they aren’t communists. When I asked if he really thought that the Democrats were communists, he said their doctrine read as if it was. I’m really offended by that and I’m not a die-hard democrat. If I were a republican, I think I’d be embarrassed.

I did ask around on a message board about this and was told that Reagan’s color was red. I wonder where I could look this up.

To me, all of that may be akin to someone saying they are voting for a candidate because he looks better. Would you pick your surgeon based on his good looks or his experience and reputation?

He also insisted to me that the media does not respect Bush, but did respect Clinton and Carter. Really I have to laugh at that and everyone I’ve questioned about this has thought it was ludicrous. The media certainly did not respect Clinton. After all, they crucified him over an affair that was no one’s business but his and the intern’s. They humiliated him in the eyes of the world. However, Peter insists that the media, particularly the liberal left-winged media, never calls him “President Bush,” only “Mr. Bush.” I’ve been very attentive to the news since this conversation, particularly when I listen to NPR, which Peter claims is very liberal (I don’t see it, but hey). I have only ever heard the news on any channel (including a right-wing fanaticist I heard last night on the radio) call him “President Bush” or “Bush”. I don’t know where he’s hearing this. *shrug*

Our conversation did make me wonder, however, does the media we listen to shape our politics or do we choose media that fits our politics? For example, he thinks Fox news is the least biased news source and thinks NPR is the most liberal-skewed (next to Air-America, I’m sure). I think Fox news is a right-wing sensationalist tabloid-style news source and NPR is less skewed than most news sources — I admit I don’t care for the fanatacism of Air America Radio.

I admit I trust Bush less than I trust Kerry. However, I don’t buy completely into everything Kerry says either. I do know that I don’t like the way Bush is running the country. Kerry is saying all the right things. I’d rather vote for someone who at least is recognizing that there’s something wrong going on and that something needs to be done than someone who mistakes stubbornness for strength. President Bush has alienated us in the world and made it a more dangerous place for us. We cannot fight the war on terror alone. The war on terror will only stop when presented a united front and President Bush seems to think that the world will either do it our way or we will do it on our own. This is too extreme. Not to mention that we are spending Billions to rebuild other countries when our own country cannot afford to keep open it’s own schools and fire houses and other necessities of civilization. Our jobs are going to other countries and the new jobs the Republicans say they’ve created don’t financially equal the ones lost. Cost of living is increasing while jobs are lost and people are having two jobs just to make enough money to put gas in the car and food on the table. And President Bush only seems interested in butting his nose into the affairs on this continent when it’s a so-called “morale” issue like discriminating against a class of people or a whole gender.

My conversation with Peter was like so many other conversations with fanatic political-types. Strange rhetoric and claims and nothing to do with the issues. Maybe if I’d spoken to him longer we would have discussed the real issues, but I think it’s best to draw the line at politics because I know he and I will never see eye-to-eye and it will just frustrate us both because we each know we are right and the other is wrong and why can’t the other see how illogical he/she is being.

I suspect this is going to be a close election again…and it scares me.

Tags: politics, dysfunctional drama, George W. Bush, stupidity, 2004 election, Democrats, Republicans

John Edwards

Am I the only one who thinks of the guy from “Crossing Over” every time the media discusses Kerry’s Democratic VP candidate? Will he be channelling dead presidents in the oval office?

Tags: John Edwards, 2004 election, humor, politics