Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, November 02, 2004
ABKB: Anybody But Kerry or Bush
Oh, come on man. How smug and self satisfied can you be? A Whitehouse without Wolfowitz, Cheney, Ashcroft, and Rumsfield is a better house. That’s our choice today. 4 more years with these guys or 4 years without them. It makes this country a better place if they’re gone. It does. It really does.
Go sell a t-shirt. Or a book. Sell some product, man. It seems to be what you’re all about.
Posted by Joe Keller on from USA 11/02 at 05:53 PMSmug?
Do you even know who will make up a Kerry Cabinet...or who is advising him now? Do the names Beers, Rubin, Holbrooke, Buffet mean anything to you? What about his first choice for running mate, McCain?
Explain to me--to everyone--how this will be a better country. And what about the rest of the world? Do they count?
You can attempt to reduce this to (smug) personal attacks on me...but that doesn’t change the reality that four more years is four more years.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/02 at 05:58 PMHow might it be better?
We might not launch any pre-emptive wars.
We might not further #### with pristine artic wilderness.
We might not bury radioactive waste in impossibly beautiful desert stone.
We might make public a discourse on alternative sources of energy.
And I’d absolutely love to see Robert Rubin back on board; we might actually get our financial house in order so less of my taxes go to pay the interest on the egregious fiscal mistakes of the last 4 years.If there is no change in the White House, the chance for any of those things happening is nil.
Will a whole lot of bullshit keep on happening? Absolutely. But I’ll take the changes I enumerate above over no change at all. And I will continue to believe that until Washington finally recognizes my own 40 acres and a mule as a sovereign nation. Haha.
Posted by joe keller on from usa 11/02 at 06:49 PMKey word in your reply: MIGHT. See below for some reality:
Kerry on pre-emptive strikes:
“Am I prepared as president to go get ‘em before they get us, if we locate them and have the sufficient intelligence? You bet I am, you bet I am.”Kerry on the environment:
Teamster’s president Jimmy Hoffa reported after meeting with JFK2: “Kerry says, look, I am against drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but I am going to put that pipeline in, and we’re going to drill like never before. They are going to drill all over, according to him. And he says, we’re going to be drilling all over the United States.”Where would that drilling take place? Try the coastal plain of Alaska, offshore waters of Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico, the Rocky Mountain Front, the red rock country of Utah, the deserts of New Mexico, the Powder River Basin of Wyoming.
Also, Enron’s Ken Lay was recruited by Teresa Heinz Kerry for a seat on the board of her environmental foundation, where he was assigned the task of heading the foundation’s global warming task force.
As for Rubin, I go on for pages about the man responsible for all the rip-offs in Mexico, etc. However, here’s something he recently said: “I think that outsourcing is part of a much larger issue. It’s part of trade liberalization, and trade liberation, as Senator Kerry has said and President Clinton used to say, is very much beneficial to our economic well being.”
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/02 at 09:01 PMDude, you must have failed geometry.
Of course, they’re all evil republicrats. We know that.
But if I say that it makes a difference to me that Rubin works his magic on the debt, that has NOTHING to do with his stance on outsourcing. If the only difference for the next 4 years is that I never have to hear John Ashcroft’s voice again, that has nothing to do with what one liar (Kerry) whispered to another liar (Hoffa) in order to get some union votes. Nothing. There are qualitative, quanitative differences--they may be tiny and personal and insignificant in the grand scheme of things--but they matter to me in some small, pathetic way.
But, it’s all a moot point. And we’ll never know if there were any differences at all.
Posted by joe keller on from usa 11/03 at 05:31 AMWe may never know but it’s not a moot point as long as most Americans agree with you and choose “small pathetic” differences over global impact.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 11/03 at 05:40 AMYou’re right. What was I thinking? In a nation where 68% of its citizens believe in Creationism and think Evolution equals communism; in a nation where a MAJORITY of its citizens are evangelical or born again Christians; in a nation where citizens complain about the death of downtown and the outsourcing of jobs, yet shop at Walmart and Costco; in this nation, we can reasonably expect to witness these citizens make a political stand that would have a global impact.
Ok. I buy it. Incremental change obviously stems from my unreasonable expectations of this democracy and this electorate as we know it.Posted by joe keller on from usa 11/03 at 12:15 PM
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