At some point in my life, I am going to have to accept that I am not part of the mainstream. It is clear to me that a majority of my countrymen are completely blind and deaf. They gave legitimacy to the worst president, the vilest mindset, and the party of reactionary, knee-jerk politics.<\/p>\n
I felt the winds of change, and it turned out to be smog from an oil refinery.<\/p>\n
My days of a prognosticator are over, for sure. My logic is so flawed that I predicted that this administration would reap what it had sown, but time and time again, these udder incompetents squeak through, and no justice is served. How does a reelection help the chances of prosecuting those that leaked a CIA operatives name? How does a reelection show the world that the Iraq war was an aberration? Four more years of anti flag-burning amendments! Four more years of anti gay-marriage amendments! Four more years of idiocy from the top down.<\/p>\n
There are some who think that maybe Bush will be a bit more restrained in his second term. For those that do, I offer this quote, from CNN on Wednesday, 03 Nov 04:<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident Bush\u2019s decisive margin of victory makes this the first presidential election since 1988 in which the winner received a majority of the popular vote,\u201d said Card, referring to the White House victory by Bush\u2019s father, President George H.W. Bush. \u201cAnd in this election, President Bush received more votes than any presidential candidate in our country\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
We’ve given them a mandate. What was once just ugly has turned malignant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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