hedrewthis
December 29th, 2007
Metaphorically speaking, anyway. Rhetorically speaking, however, we’ve lost none of that. But like some old dude, that some guy I know on the internet once knew, said, “Don’t judge a man by his words, judge a man by the way he treats his animals,” or in this case, one’s presidential duty. All we’ve got is people beating their chests about how tough they’re going to be on some vague ‘threats’ to our once-proud nation, and some also beating their chests at how much more diplomatic they will be than the other motherfucker is. The are much more polite about it, to be sure, but the message is there all the same. I personally don’t read more than one or two stories a week because they are all bullshit, posturing, manipulating their data in a subtle spin of edited truth and carefully selected nonmeaning.
George Bush is a war-hungry president, was a death-penalty hungry governor, was an incompetent businessman. I’m sure just about anybody could be a better president than him, and I’m sure there are some very good candidates out there. I’m equally sure that a very good candidate wont get elected, because they’re too good to have popular appeal and they are probably not a democrat or a republican. Unfortunately nowdays we have media whores and no third party chances at all. The old black and white dichotomy of US politics and foreign policy. But the general populace doesn’t wake the fuck up, ever it seems. Everyone loves the good vs. bad fairytail, the Christian and Islamic dichotomy of good vs. evil. We spend more time trashing the other guy than building our own selves up. Which would be better for all?
If I’m terrified of what George Bush might get to do this last year of his presidency, does that make George Bush a terrorist? No matter what, the Democratic opposition will not stand up for the voices roaring out of American polls. They are so afraid.