Topic: Politics
Politics is completely interesting. Important issues are in the balance, the direction that the country will take is at stake and to highlight how important it all is you can see the election machines gear up and scream and fight over a nonexistent insult to the troops by John Kerry. Incredible, and so many folks fall for it so close to such an important election. Over a hundred American soldiers die in the month of October in Iraq, there is no strategy to win the fight, there aren't enough troops there to do the task at hand, the fat bastard in Sadar City who is responsible for killing US soldiers is allowed to continue his fight against the US. All that and the President gets up and hits the Kerry Pinata over a deliberately misinterpreted statement to try to rile up the conservative base. Despicable.
The hope of actually getting some insight into the closeness or direction of the various races is now impossible. Thanks to the smoke machines and coordinated misinformation being spread out there the races will 'seem' to get closer as the election comes closer, more surprises will emerge as both sides try to distract and smear each other. Heck, the Republicans and their minions in the professional pundit corps will even make it seem like Santorum is closing the gap in Pennsylvania. Bush will scream that without a Republican majority in both houses the terrorists will win and horrible things will happen. Activist judges will spontaneously arise and make all god fearing people have abortions and they'll allow gay marriage. The world will come to an end. Everyone conveniently forgets that President Reagan managed to get legislation and cooperation with a Democratically controlled House and Senate. Of course that would mean an end to the rule by dictate, compromise and consensus would be needed to get things advanced. The American people are out there right now with the knowledge that President Bush has no real plan to win in Iraq and indeed has completely lost control of the situation. They realize that Iraq was not the enemy that needed to be harnessed, indeed Saddam was no threat whatsoever, he had a vested interest in keeping the Muslim fundamentalists at bay because like Tito in Yugoslavia, he was holding a bunch of disparate groups together and without him they would implode. And without him it has imploded into civil war. Bush's foreign policy team is ineffective and inept, they are thankful that North Korea has decided to come back to talks, after having tested their nukes and missiles and having to face no consequences despite warnings and threats that they would pay for playing with nukes. Nothing happened because the foreign policy team has no earthly idea what they are doing or even how to do anything at all. Rumsfeld has failed as Secretary of Defense, he has presided over the rape and destruction of the armed forces and despite pressures and needs in all aspects of the various branches of the armed services he has cut personel and troop levels across the board. With a smaller and decimated force he has stretched that force to breaking and there is no end in sight to his wrongheaded and inept work to destroy the armed forces.
It's all a giant horrible mess. If it was you or I who failed so completely in any job or position that we've held we would have been fired or asked to leave a long time ago. On Tuesday it's our chance to ask as many of them to leave as is possible. Hopefully it will happen but who can say, the one thing that the Republican Party has become good at is winning elections with fear and trickery, it isn't over yet I'm afraid.
