Wednesday, February 26, 2003

Over at LiberalOasis, there's always a good mix of information and humor...but they may have topped themselves with this one, from a list of side agreements in the US-Turkey deal on Iraq... 5. In order to facilitate Turkey’s admittance to the European Union, Bush will start campaigning against it. Which plays into something that's been on my mind lately. I can't dig up specific poll numbers right now, but it seems that your average West European LOATHES Bush. I mean, they positively despise the man. Not to say I disagree, but damn! It's not even like he's directly fucking up their countries, yet they're able to see what the majority of Americans are blind to: George W. Bush is just about as close to a worst-case-scenario of a president as could ever exist. He stole the presidency - I read a column at the Washington Post, I think it was, a week or two ago by a French academic living in the States who made the point that the French people aren't anti-American - they're anti-Bush, and were from the beginning. As a nation, they were offended by Bush's theft of the White House - and we, the citizens of the United States of America, sat on our asses. Like the rest of the world, the French displayed an outpouring of sympathy for the US following 9/11 - and Bush proceeded to burn that goodwill faster than I thought possible. I heard a British political commentator on NPR this evening, pointing out that the majority of the British populace hold Bush in contempt. Good GOD! This man is the platonic ideal of incomptent twit. Can't we fire him before everyone starts hating us rather than just the administration? Oh, that's great - a bit from an NBC news commercial of an SUV driver asserting his right to putter about in his gas guzzler: "I can afford the gas, so I'm gonna drive it." Uh, yeah, you can afford the gas thanks to the ludicrously low gas taxes in this country in comparison with the rest of the developed world. God DAMN. I spend a lot of time bitching about things, even without using the blog as much. A_____ and I were driving down to Waltham yesterday to see "The Guru" and I spent about half the drive ranting on the Bush Junta's latest travesties. DAMN. I hate this so much. I'm so tired of feeling like the end of everything great about America is just around the corner. This is why I'm supporting Dennis Kucinich for President - he's not likely to win, but he makes me feel like we can stop these bastards, like we can really fight back, like there's still hope - and we have to stop them, we have to stop them now.

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