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No, I Didn't
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.
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.
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