No, I Didn't

[arisbe]

Vote for Bush. Even though I pulled his lever.

I was voting against the other clown. The one who invented the Internet. The one whose wife wants the government in charge of popular music.

I was wrong.

When the Democrats left office they left behind them at least one strong and effective policy against terrorism. Hijacked aircraft were to be intercepted and forced down. Immediately. No discretion. No exceptions. No excuses. And the world knew it.

On June 1, 2001, Rumsfeld's Pentagon trashed it. Now there would be no interceptions. Except on the order of Donald Rumsfeld. And on September 11 there was no such order. None that we know of. And nobody cares.

So one bright Tuesday morning I stood behind the glass walls of a Manhattan office tower and watched a neighboring tower burn. And then another one.

I don't like Kerry any more than I liked what's his name. But I don't think I'll make the same mistake twice.

Comments

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

All I've been hearing this year is that we're really not happy with either of the two major candidates and so we have to [hold our noses and vote for Bush/hold our noses and vote for Kerry/vote third party in protest/stay home in protest].

What the heck is going on here? Somebody must like these insipid company men or else they wouldn't be on the ballot. Who is really steering the boat? Is it some sort of oligarchic conspiracy or is it really just brainless democracy at work?

I repeat: what the heck is going on here?

[daoistraver.livejournal.com]

"What the heck is going on here? Somebody must like these insipid company men or else they wouldn't be on the ballot. Who is really steering the boat? Is it some sort of oligarchic conspiracy or is it really just brainless democracy at work?"

I think it's quite a bit of both. They facilitate each other quite well. The media "horserace" technique of preempting the primaries, etc etc...

(personally, I don't even think Reagan could get on the ballot these days. He would be considered too radical/"unelectable".)

[prester-scott.livejournal.com]

Yes, and that's sad, because Reagan wasn't very radical at all, in the bigger picture.