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Nov. 3rd, 2004 01:03 am1) Today, I drove two hours to Nashua, NH to volunteer for Kerry. I stood around holding signs for a few hours. Then, I drove home. I'd like to think I made a difference. Probably only made myself feel better. Except for a few at the precinct 5 polling station, I saw no Bush activists, and I saw a lot more Kerry signs around town. (Most of the volunteers were from Massachusetts. :)
2) The Daily Show's election night special was amazingly cool. I officially like Bill Weld. I would much rather he were still governor than Romney. Favorite line: "Right now, in Iraq, people are asking: you invaded to bring us this?"
3) I suspect that Bush is winning. I am sad, depressed even, about this. I really don't understand how someone who has, over four years, so patently demonstrated his unsuitability for the office can command such loyalty from so many voters. With a turnout perhaps 10% higher than last time, which means that many are moved to act because of dissatisfaction with the state of the nation, how can so many still be rallying in support of Bush? I shan't bother to list his failures, which are numerous and should be obvious to all. How many more dead Americans will it take? (We're over 4,000 and counting.) How much of an economic collapse will it take? (We've had three years of heavy stimulus, and we're only eking by.) How many more international crises must be bungled? (What will Bush do when Iran or North Korea confront us?) I suspect that most Americans won't notice it for years, but Bush's re-election means, I think, the end of our status as a great nation and world power within the next four years. (Yes, we'll have the best weapons, but we'll be too broke to use them.)
4) M was just sharing with me that all of her GED students that support Bush do so because he is "strong". Apparently, the latest bin Laden video has convinced them that they need such a leader to protect them from al Qaeda, and they don't feel Kerry (the combat veteran) will do that as well as Bush (the draft dodger.) That bin Laden is still at large after three years does not, it seems, impress them as evidence that Bush is all hat and no cattle. Somewhere, Benito Mussolini is grinning smugly.
2) The Daily Show's election night special was amazingly cool. I officially like Bill Weld. I would much rather he were still governor than Romney. Favorite line: "Right now, in Iraq, people are asking: you invaded to bring us this?"
3) I suspect that Bush is winning. I am sad, depressed even, about this. I really don't understand how someone who has, over four years, so patently demonstrated his unsuitability for the office can command such loyalty from so many voters. With a turnout perhaps 10% higher than last time, which means that many are moved to act because of dissatisfaction with the state of the nation, how can so many still be rallying in support of Bush? I shan't bother to list his failures, which are numerous and should be obvious to all. How many more dead Americans will it take? (We're over 4,000 and counting.) How much of an economic collapse will it take? (We've had three years of heavy stimulus, and we're only eking by.) How many more international crises must be bungled? (What will Bush do when Iran or North Korea confront us?) I suspect that most Americans won't notice it for years, but Bush's re-election means, I think, the end of our status as a great nation and world power within the next four years. (Yes, we'll have the best weapons, but we'll be too broke to use them.)
4) M was just sharing with me that all of her GED students that support Bush do so because he is "strong". Apparently, the latest bin Laden video has convinced them that they need such a leader to protect them from al Qaeda, and they don't feel Kerry (the combat veteran) will do that as well as Bush (the draft dodger.) That bin Laden is still at large after three years does not, it seems, impress them as evidence that Bush is all hat and no cattle. Somewhere, Benito Mussolini is grinning smugly.
