United States of Canada

well it seems the electorate has spoken but that is not good enough for susan sarandon et al. now there are countless sore losers and piss-ants who declare that since things did not go their way, things must not be legit.
screw that noise. what these oxygen thieves are doing is what ill-mannered children do on a playground. they whine. they cry. and in one instance at the world trade center site, somebody offed himself. if only alec baldwin and the clan had the courage of their convictions. redford would be in ireland. p. diddy would be somewhere else.
now these titans of intellect want the "blue states" to secede from the union and become a "united states of canada." the rest of america would become "Jesusland." first off, if they truly wanted to do this right, they should go by county, not by state. if this were to be the case, then "jesusland" would lose something about the size of kansas to the "usc."
what has happened to the elites and their notions of tolerance. a-ha. they want intolerance banned. there is to be no dissent to the agenda of tolerance. i get it. the so-called "oklahoma redneck states" would be cut off from the enlightened states' beneficence.
allright then. i guess this election was this year's model of the attack on fort sumter. well i declare...states' rights y'all. if they want to break up the union, then they should be called the UDSH - the united in disloyalty states of hypocricy. or perhaps they could be called the USEAWBTFH - the union of stupid elitist assholes without a brain in their fucking heads.
at this point, i almost gotta give up. these people are virtually lost in their own little world.
in the end, i guess most people just thought of voting for kerry BEFORE they voted against him.

Election Over? Roll Over and Have a Smoke

when john edwards came out and gave some comments in the wee hours wednesday morning, i wondered who this guy was. oh yeah. kerry's guy. i had wondered what had happenned to him. he all but disappeared (or so it seemed to me).
later in the day, kerry came out and said it was over. everybody gushed and said he was so gracious. well, you have to admit, gore had lowered the bar so far that just saying that he was not the president yet would have been an improvement. kerry did what he should have done. he is not suppossed to get extra credit for doing what is right in the first place. i did not rob a bank, swindle an old lady or kill a dog. do i get extra credit? aren't i a grand individual that should be considered wonderful because i did not drive drunk with an young girl (not my wife) and leave her in the water after a crash and not tell anybody? wait...that was the other senator from mass. yeah, he is wonderful too.
kerry did the right thing and i'm glad, but hey, this is the presidential race. leave the parasitical lawyers at home. thank you.
chirac and the piano player from peanuts called the prez just to say "hey." isn't that swell? can't we all just get along? "i know we screwed you over george, but what the hey."
after the early exit returns came in, i'll admit to feeling pretty numb. i could not believe that things were going so badly. then, some time later in the day, i heard james carville say "it doesn't look too good for our side." i sat up and paid close attention because there had been some drama that i missed. "lucy...'splain."
well, the point of all of this is that bush had to win. that is all. i will, no doubt, go into all of the reasons that make feel this way, but suffice to say that for the future safety and security of me and mine - americans and the US itself - bush is the guy for the job.
i'm sure that i'll go into plenty of polemic in the future. i'm sure that i'll get all jersey and slip in some expletives and so on. it is part of my makeup. however, i'll also strive to make salient points to back my positions as well.

Election Day 2004

i cast my vote for (the) president about 3 hours ago. the lines were a bit larger than i remember seeing in past elections. i'll take that to be a good thing. i suppose that apathy is not as bad as purposeful ignorance, but it is pretty bad when you consider what is at stake.
i just heard a john kerry spokesman compare his candidate to winston churchill. had to sit down for that one. more like chamberlain. i remember an expression that a friend of mine, a retired ambassador, once used - "whiffs of chamberlain's umbrella."
early projections are coming in and i'm feeling rather anxious. i really should not fear the result, regardless of how it comes out. however, i am rather hawkish when it comes to the actual safety of the nation (which is the primary duty of the chief executive).
i remember watching an episode of "the west wing" where there was an issue dealing with international terrorism and anti americanism abroad. being a decidely left of center program, i was surprised by a little golden nugget put forth by one of the main characters. when asked how we make anti-american radicals like us more, he replied "we win." with brilliant brevity, a brilliant clarity.
however the election comes out, we'll have to deal with it. i have a strong preference and i voted that way. one big downside of a kerry win would be for those with bin laden sympathies to see it as another spain - a concession to terror. this, i fear, would embolden them and their ilk. the question that is begged by this would be "what will they do then?"
we'll hopefully know the answer to part of this scenario by morning.