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I strongly suggest that everyone check out johnkerry.com and read Kerry's concession speech.
This man has so much dignity and class.
I would have felt proud to have him as our president. I would have felt comfortable and confident--for the first time in four years--in the knowledge that our government wasn't going to screw up my life and make the rest of the world want to bomb my country into smithereens. Instead, I'm facing four more years of frustration in the government's incompetence, disappointment in the tight-ass conservative policies being passed, and apprehension for the world's retaliation against the continuation of our global head-stomping.
And you know what? This time we have no one to blame for it but ourselves.
Because he took the popular vote this time around. Not only did he take it, he owned it. Why? Why did this happen? What is it that I missed in the year of campaigning? What is it that I failed to observe that supposedly made Kerry so inferior to Bush in the eyes of the electorate? I watched pretty carefully, ladies and gentlemen, and maybe it's because I'm severely biased--but I saw Kerry speaking eloquently, passionately, and sensibly to legions and legions of adoring supporters, and I saw the polls rise every so often in Kerry's favor (though the polls indicated that Kerry and Bush were pretty equal most of the time), and I saw Kerry wipe the floor with Bush's face in the debates, and everywhere I looked I saw supporters for Kerry (and, more often than not, people who just wanted Bush to get the fuck out of the White House). Yet on Election Day...all I saw were the electoral votes piling up at Bush's feet.
I don't get it.
Wait, I take that back. I think I do get it. People voted with their hearts and not their minds, and apparently alot of people have their hearts stuck in a little square compartment somewhere in their buttcracks. The big "moral" questions, like abortion and gay marriage, took the forefront in deciding which candidate to vote for, because people allowed themselves to be governed by the way they felt on these highly divisive issues rather than think logically about which candidate could recover the state of the nation. Rather than consider the budget deficit, the possible reinstatement of the draft, and the social security "reforms" being implemented by the Bush administration, the Southern Baptist voters thought that they couldn't possibly allow two men who love each other to get married and live happily as a married couple, because that would be blasphemy.
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone who may be reading this and thinking that moral issues have a place in the government. To an extent, I believe they do. Moral issues dictate the things that protect our personal safety--don't kill, don't steal, don't eat someone's baby, etc. But in my eyes, when the church creeps into the White House the way it has been threatening to do for the past four years, it's time that we open our eyes and realize that a government that governs best is one that governs least.
Thank you. That was my angry liberal rant. I hope you will join me in quietly vomiting as we gear up for another four years of dipshittery.
This man has so much dignity and class.
I would have felt proud to have him as our president. I would have felt comfortable and confident--for the first time in four years--in the knowledge that our government wasn't going to screw up my life and make the rest of the world want to bomb my country into smithereens. Instead, I'm facing four more years of frustration in the government's incompetence, disappointment in the tight-ass conservative policies being passed, and apprehension for the world's retaliation against the continuation of our global head-stomping.
And you know what? This time we have no one to blame for it but ourselves.
Because he took the popular vote this time around. Not only did he take it, he owned it. Why? Why did this happen? What is it that I missed in the year of campaigning? What is it that I failed to observe that supposedly made Kerry so inferior to Bush in the eyes of the electorate? I watched pretty carefully, ladies and gentlemen, and maybe it's because I'm severely biased--but I saw Kerry speaking eloquently, passionately, and sensibly to legions and legions of adoring supporters, and I saw the polls rise every so often in Kerry's favor (though the polls indicated that Kerry and Bush were pretty equal most of the time), and I saw Kerry wipe the floor with Bush's face in the debates, and everywhere I looked I saw supporters for Kerry (and, more often than not, people who just wanted Bush to get the fuck out of the White House). Yet on Election Day...all I saw were the electoral votes piling up at Bush's feet.
I don't get it.
Wait, I take that back. I think I do get it. People voted with their hearts and not their minds, and apparently alot of people have their hearts stuck in a little square compartment somewhere in their buttcracks. The big "moral" questions, like abortion and gay marriage, took the forefront in deciding which candidate to vote for, because people allowed themselves to be governed by the way they felt on these highly divisive issues rather than think logically about which candidate could recover the state of the nation. Rather than consider the budget deficit, the possible reinstatement of the draft, and the social security "reforms" being implemented by the Bush administration, the Southern Baptist voters thought that they couldn't possibly allow two men who love each other to get married and live happily as a married couple, because that would be blasphemy.
I'm sorry if I've offended anyone who may be reading this and thinking that moral issues have a place in the government. To an extent, I believe they do. Moral issues dictate the things that protect our personal safety--don't kill, don't steal, don't eat someone's baby, etc. But in my eyes, when the church creeps into the White House the way it has been threatening to do for the past four years, it's time that we open our eyes and realize that a government that governs best is one that governs least.
Thank you. That was my angry liberal rant. I hope you will join me in quietly vomiting as we gear up for another four years of dipshittery.