Okay… I've been silent on this for a bit, so let me chime in as we get closer to the election.
Personally, I cannot understand why anyone would vote for the incumbent president of the United States of America. He hasn't done ANYTHING to make this nation safer since 9/11/2001. In fact, he seems to have made us weaker by dividing us, rather than uniting us - and I think that was the #1 campaign promise that he made when he didn't win the election in 2000: “I'm a uniter, not a divider.” Right. This country hasn't been as polarized since a rather small uprising called the Civil War or The War of Northern Aggression, depending on whose side you were then.
I walk around daily at my workplace, Florida International University, and see bumper stickers, placards, signs, buttons, and other paraphernalia, for both sides in this 8-sided race for president (here in Florida, there are actually 8 parties on the ballot for president). In many cases, I understand, and, to a greater or lesser extent, wholly agree with some peoples' reasoning behind voting for Bush. What I cannot abide are the people who say: “I just like him,” or “He's a hell of a guy,” or “He's a good man,” or “He's got the best credibility.”
When you can't name why you like the guy, why you think he's a “hell of a guy,” or “a good man,” you have a serious problem, and should not be voting. And if you think Bush is credible, I'll give that to you. He does what he says he's going to do. In many cases, he's like that bad boss that everyone works for at one time in their life… you know the one - the guy who doesn't know shit about what needs to get done, but everyone likes anyhow? He appears credible because of his unique ability to follow through on everything he says he's going to do, regardless of the potential outcome. “Hey, I'ma drive this car right down that there road.” “Oh wow, Clem is in the road… but I promised my voters I'ma drive this car right down this road. Fuck Clem… Fuck Clem hard. Oh Clem, get out of the way. Bye bye clem. It were nice knowin ya.”
See, Bush may be credible insofar as he delivers what he says he's going to deliver. But when you are consistently delivering the WRONG THING, then it's time for you to look for work in a new line of work.
This guy has run several businesses into the ground, skipped most of his duty as an Air National Guard reservist, got money funneled to him from the Saudis through his good friend who, ironically, was AWOL from the Air National Guard at the same time, to start his first failure at a business attempt. Yet people still see him as credible.
If Bush wins, this country deserves what it gets. Four more years of Asscroft the Assmunch telling us what we can and can't do in our private lives. Four more years of “trickle down” economics, where the only thing that trickles down to us in the middle class is the shit of the people higher up.
But if you're a Bush supporter, you better be ready to get into more wars, because that's the real direction we're headed in. Iran is next. North Korea may even be in the sights… So, if you punch Bush on the ballot, you better be headed to the nearest Armed Forces Recruiting Center and volunteering your own damned self, because I sure as hell ain't putting my life, or that of my sons, on the line for someone's oil, or for someone's Weapons of Mass Destruction Intent.
It's not worth it.
I'm not sending my sons to war to fight for a reduction in our rights here at home…
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