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A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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phinnia hooked me up with this guy, who is now one my two favorite online columnists, period.
Karl Rove is the demon god at calculation and redirection and removing all accountability from his candidate and making it appear as though some big media conspiracy is treating Dubya unfairly, even as Rove manipulates that very same media to smear the living hell out of bona fide war heroes, all while shrugging off more than 1,000 dead U.S. soldiers and ignoring the brutal fact that his boy Bush has almost singlehandedly made America the most disrespected and openly loathed major power on the planet.
Now... For all my nay-saying and anger, I actually -- call me naive -- don't believe that this nation will re-elect Bush. I occasionally despair about it when I'm pessimistic, but I don't really think that the American people are that stupid. Whatever spin he may put on Kerry, it's impossible to deny that our country is a mess and our president is (and has always been) an embarrassment and the entire world hates us right now.
And I believe that this nation won't re-elect Bush in spite of overwhelming media evidence otherwise. Every poll and every map and every news report is going on about Bush's approval rating going up and how he's got 320 electoral votes more or less in the bag and the huge success of his absurd flip-flopper campaign against Kerry... But I still naively cling to my faith in humanity. I genuinely don't believe we're going to re-elect Bush.
For the first time in a good long while, someone has given that naive I-believe-in-fairies mentality an actual boost:
Let us not discount the massive wave of unprecedented unrest in this nation, a dissonant and mutinous anger not seen since Vietnam, emerging like a flame from the sense that we are being -- and have been -- regularly, massively duped, and lied to, and misled, and brutalized, and this shall not stand.
After all, the way to defeat any screaming demon of Rove is simply to stop. Stop running and stop thinking he has all the angles, and turn and face the snarling pasty-faced demon, and rally your legion of thinking voters and scream your truth and hold your ground, and then watch the big monster phantasm of God and war and blood dissolve into a sticky miasma of screeching reeking gases and bloody hunks of polemical mud, signifying nothing. Are you ready?
I know I'm ready. I know this election is seeing a huge upswing of voter registration, way up from 2000. I know even states like Oklahoma, hardcore Republican, are seeing large numbers of Democrats registering. And I know I believe in fairies, damnit.
phinnia hooked me up with this guy, who is now one my two favorite online columnists, period.Karl Rove is the demon god at calculation and redirection and removing all accountability from his candidate and making it appear as though some big media conspiracy is treating Dubya unfairly, even as Rove manipulates that very same media to smear the living hell out of bona fide war heroes, all while shrugging off more than 1,000 dead U.S. soldiers and ignoring the brutal fact that his boy Bush has almost singlehandedly made America the most disrespected and openly loathed major power on the planet.
Now... For all my nay-saying and anger, I actually -- call me naive -- don't believe that this nation will re-elect Bush. I occasionally despair about it when I'm pessimistic, but I don't really think that the American people are that stupid. Whatever spin he may put on Kerry, it's impossible to deny that our country is a mess and our president is (and has always been) an embarrassment and the entire world hates us right now.
And I believe that this nation won't re-elect Bush in spite of overwhelming media evidence otherwise. Every poll and every map and every news report is going on about Bush's approval rating going up and how he's got 320 electoral votes more or less in the bag and the huge success of his absurd flip-flopper campaign against Kerry... But I still naively cling to my faith in humanity. I genuinely don't believe we're going to re-elect Bush.
For the first time in a good long while, someone has given that naive I-believe-in-fairies mentality an actual boost:
Let us not discount the massive wave of unprecedented unrest in this nation, a dissonant and mutinous anger not seen since Vietnam, emerging like a flame from the sense that we are being -- and have been -- regularly, massively duped, and lied to, and misled, and brutalized, and this shall not stand.
After all, the way to defeat any screaming demon of Rove is simply to stop. Stop running and stop thinking he has all the angles, and turn and face the snarling pasty-faced demon, and rally your legion of thinking voters and scream your truth and hold your ground, and then watch the big monster phantasm of God and war and blood dissolve into a sticky miasma of screeching reeking gases and bloody hunks of polemical mud, signifying nothing. Are you ready?
I know I'm ready. I know this election is seeing a huge upswing of voter registration, way up from 2000. I know even states like Oklahoma, hardcore Republican, are seeing large numbers of Democrats registering. And I know I believe in fairies, damnit.
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