Thoughts and Observations... Then on With Life
Election season has come to an end, in Hollywood-ish dramatic fashion. I'll be the millionth to say thank God the political advertisements are over... maybe we can all stop our teenage bickering (which I'm sure I contributed to) and go back to just being Americans.
While I did vote for Kerry part of me is very intrigued by a second Bush administration. My first thought is that his political career now has a shelf life. I know what you're all thinking, that I'm now counting down until November, 2008. That's not what I mean at all. I mean as a second team president he will no longer worry about getting re-elected. Maybe some real risks can be taken. Maybe some real progress can be made. Maybe he can finally be that uniter instead of the divider that he claimed to be. Per some things I've read Bush will be worried about his place in history during this presidency. History is sure to judge him harshly unless he finishes what he has started and is able to pull the wedge out from the middle of America. Time shall tell. So I say good luck Mr. President in your next four years. I am hopeful that progress can be made. America needs a moderate leader to bring us together. America needs hope.
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2004 Ballot: Ohio Issue 1
And coming soon to a ballot near you: Ohio Issue 2: Anyone with skin darker than the KKK's sheets will hereby be the property of ignorant, hateful, bigoted, white people.
Hell lets just get out the Confederate flag and start marching up and down the streets, rounding up anyone who is different than this "moral majority." Clearly the slave trade would help our strained economy. And it's a surefire way to bring jobs back to America. They're leaving for cheaper labor in the first place.
I honestly don't even know how to react to this passing in a landslide. Our constitution has been soiled. What is wrong with people that they can hate and fear so much? I am angry and terrified. Angry at the ignorance and hate that is apparently alive and well in our state and terrified at what it would breed in the coming years. Who are we to decide that how another person is made is wrong? Who the fuck do we think we are? This is self-righteous bullshit. It goes against the basic foundations of this nation. FUCK I'm mad.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Maybe I missed the day at school when they added the astrix with the "unless you are different in any way shape or form from those in power." I guess I'm just an idealist to actually believe in these principles and think that we can carry them out. But why should we start now, we never have in the past.
And oh, when we waste millions upon millions of dollars in litigation trying to figure out just what the fuck this ambiguous law means these fuckers who voted for it will whine and bitch about the courts being bogged down with baseless lawsuits and wonder why our taxes need to be raised. I'll tell you what it means right now. This applies to EVERYONE now. So good job you moral-majority-bible-thumping-evangelical-my-religion-is-the-only-right-one-so-you-are-all-going-to-hell bastards. When unmarried couples are denied the right to visit their partner while they lie on their deathbed in a hospital I hope everyone is happy. When potential loving and deserving parents and denied the right to adopt because they don't meet your I'm-too-ignorant-to-realize-that-the-bible-shouldn't-be-taken-literally-all-the-time views and deserving children who need nothing more than someone to love and encourage them are left behind in underfunded state programs and overcrowded foster homes I hope you're happy. And when those hateful bitter and tired foster parents beat their children and deprive them of basic human rights including meeting their physical and emotional needs I hope you're happy. But at least they will be one man and one woman right? Because that is CLEARLY what God intended.
Ok so maybe I took that a little overboard... but I am pissed and I'm venting... so deal.
< /rant >
I may have to post on this again when I'm not so pissed off...
damnit.
While I did vote for Kerry part of me is very intrigued by a second Bush administration. My first thought is that his political career now has a shelf life. I know what you're all thinking, that I'm now counting down until November, 2008. That's not what I mean at all. I mean as a second team president he will no longer worry about getting re-elected. Maybe some real risks can be taken. Maybe some real progress can be made. Maybe he can finally be that uniter instead of the divider that he claimed to be. Per some things I've read Bush will be worried about his place in history during this presidency. History is sure to judge him harshly unless he finishes what he has started and is able to pull the wedge out from the middle of America. Time shall tell. So I say good luck Mr. President in your next four years. I am hopeful that progress can be made. America needs a moderate leader to bring us together. America needs hope.
< rant >
2004 Ballot: Ohio Issue 1
And coming soon to a ballot near you: Ohio Issue 2: Anyone with skin darker than the KKK's sheets will hereby be the property of ignorant, hateful, bigoted, white people.
Hell lets just get out the Confederate flag and start marching up and down the streets, rounding up anyone who is different than this "moral majority." Clearly the slave trade would help our strained economy. And it's a surefire way to bring jobs back to America. They're leaving for cheaper labor in the first place.
I honestly don't even know how to react to this passing in a landslide. Our constitution has been soiled. What is wrong with people that they can hate and fear so much? I am angry and terrified. Angry at the ignorance and hate that is apparently alive and well in our state and terrified at what it would breed in the coming years. Who are we to decide that how another person is made is wrong? Who the fuck do we think we are? This is self-righteous bullshit. It goes against the basic foundations of this nation. FUCK I'm mad.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
Maybe I missed the day at school when they added the astrix with the "unless you are different in any way shape or form from those in power." I guess I'm just an idealist to actually believe in these principles and think that we can carry them out. But why should we start now, we never have in the past.
And oh, when we waste millions upon millions of dollars in litigation trying to figure out just what the fuck this ambiguous law means these fuckers who voted for it will whine and bitch about the courts being bogged down with baseless lawsuits and wonder why our taxes need to be raised. I'll tell you what it means right now. This applies to EVERYONE now. So good job you moral-majority-bible-thumping-evangelical-my-religion-is-the-only-right-one-so-you-are-all-going-to-hell bastards. When unmarried couples are denied the right to visit their partner while they lie on their deathbed in a hospital I hope everyone is happy. When potential loving and deserving parents and denied the right to adopt because they don't meet your I'm-too-ignorant-to-realize-that-the-bible-shouldn't-be-taken-literally-all-the-time views and deserving children who need nothing more than someone to love and encourage them are left behind in underfunded state programs and overcrowded foster homes I hope you're happy. And when those hateful bitter and tired foster parents beat their children and deprive them of basic human rights including meeting their physical and emotional needs I hope you're happy. But at least they will be one man and one woman right? Because that is CLEARLY what God intended.
Ok so maybe I took that a little overboard... but I am pissed and I'm venting... so deal.
< /rant >
I may have to post on this again when I'm not so pissed off...
damnit.