"With one week left in this campaign, the choice facing Americans is stark..."Damn straight it's stark. Which makes it all the more mind-boggling that Obama isnt sweeping the polls.
John McCain
Choice 1: New guy from the party that brought you the Clinton Years, eight years of falling national deficits, rising prosperity for the middle class, one blow job and zero convictions for Clinton officials after the Bush Administration took office.
Choice 2: A new guy from the same party that's brought you massive government deficits, sinking middle class fortunes (and ballooning top-one-percenters' fortunes), deregulation, "privatization" (company profits at taxpayer expense), secrecy, power-grabbing, politicization of the bureaucracy, warrantless spying on citizens, torture, the loss of habeus corpus, and historic levels of government intrusion. But no sex scandals, or at least not from the President. Care to take a guess how many people will investigated and convicted should the Democrats take the White? Care to imagine how many will even be glanced at should the Republicans retain power instead?
These two choices dont even take into account the Supreme Court, who's two oldest members are also its most liberal, and who's Authoritarian Chief Justice is only 63 years old (and sorry folks, but we're stuck with Clarence Thomas for years.) I think the Supreme Court ought to be more conservative than the other two branches, but it's also supposed to be the bastion of last resort for the People, and I simply dont see any sign of that coming from the Roberts Court - a court which will have to be endured for another generation.
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Good compare and contrast, over at Saur's I get a terrible insight into the mind of a GOP voter and it makes me shudder.
How do you cope?
Lots of self-delusion going on over there, no doubt brought on by the kool-aid (and, in the case of the current incarnation of the Republican Party, I mean "kool-aid" in total Jonestown mode).
How do I cope? Generally things are fairly reasonable over at Saur's, with arguements on both sides of the rift. Saur herself is usually pretty level-headed, though lately she's been hitting the sauce kind of hard (I attribute this to desperation at the apparent collapse of the "conservative" party).
Mostly I tell myself that this is election time, and things everywhere are a bit theatrical, and that afterwards people will mostly go back to just being people.
I hope.
Dave,
Are those cyanide capsules?
Unhappy pills.
Actually, Pooby, did you not read the underwriting on the image? Rest your mouse upon it and see.
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