A few days ago, I emailed the usual culprits an editorial cartoon that showed Cheney and Bush standing by the coffins of American soldiers being conveyed out of airplanes. With a sad look in his eyes, Bush says, “It’s too bad their dads couldn’t get them out of military duty.” The cartoon nails my feelings on the decision of the “commander in chief” to send young men and women to their deaths when the man hasn’t seen ANY combat himself. If Kerry were to question Bush’s moral authority in sending people to their deaths and fought this president with conviction, his campaign would start to look great. This was a question I got:
“What do you mean by “useless” campaign (useless because Bushithead is going to win regardless or useless because of the way Kerry is running his campaign)? Just curious.”
My response: Both. Bush will win again because of his aides’ deviant tactics and the complete ineptitude of Kerry’s campaign. In my opinion, both prez. candidates are, as Isaac Asimov would say, consummate donkeys. I really can’t stomach this go-around of vote-mongering and its related immaturity.
Why, why, why can’t Kerry KICK Bush where it hurts and when he can? It’s because his prior complacence in and acquiscience to the War on Iraq and the Clamping Down of our freedoms caused much of the mess we are in today at home and abroad. Consequently, he doesn’t have the ability to hold his head up high and fight from a pedestal of conviction. I don’t intend to imply that people can’t recant in remorse of prior decisions, but this seems to be the M.O. of the Dem party: Stand idly by as the conservatives royally fuck the country over and then stare at the fallout and wonder how it happened. You know the old adage: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men stand by and do nothing.”
The subtext of this rant is that we need new blood in the presidential bidding war. Both parties are tired and equally liable when it comes to the state we’re in. I don’t want some washed-up old has-beens regurgitating the same old shit and pretending to lead my country.
Grandma Crusty out.
