bush vs kerry

I love Bill Gates. I had this whole speech saved by him until my harddrive died. It was quite inspirational

.....and I apologize for my democrat remark....all those anti Bush slams in this thread were getting the best of my emotions.

Apart from the tragic loss of life and trauma to the world, one of the worst concequences of 9/11 was the fact that it gave the neocons the chance to take a full grasp of their puppet's strings and make him dance like a headless chicken (apols. for mixed metafor). They have used the window of panic-stricken opportunity to bring in all sorts of kneejerk foreign policies. They use, and even fan the flames of fear and paranoia to try and create the USA they always wanted. A bunch islamaphobic, gun toting, isolationist, white protestant males calling all the shots. This is not good for America or the rest of the world. It is good for the neocons and their ultra right cronies.

"Oh yeah, and supposedly Iran is now looming in the sights of a disappointed US war machine. What can you imagine happening (or being made happen) before election day?"

I shudder to think James.

"Iran would be dangerous if they have a nuclear weapon."
George Bush- Washington, D.C., June 18, 2003

Glad you cleared that up Georgie boy.

Exactly my point James. Personally, (and as a non-yank it's arguably none of my business, although it must be said, my own dear country catches a cold every time America sneezes) I could have stood Clinton for another term, despite his personality problems.

The US has a real problem with its uptight public morallity. Had Clinton been president of France the Lewinski affair would have guaranteed  him another term, where male weakness in the face of young female availability is seen as one of the inevitable facts of life. French women would have fancied him more (girls can't help loving a rogue), French men would have admired and envied him. 

What would the so-called moral majority have said at the time, of the antics of your most popular president of all time, JFK, had the CIA not been following him around cleaning up after him? Whether or not the job got too messy for them in the end is a matter for the grassy knoll conspiracy theorists.

James;

Thanks for your informative post. The situation you describe reminds me of the UK in the 80's. An entire decade spent crippled under the tiranical reign of the Thatcherite junta controlled police state. And why? Because all opposition was too tied up with its own dogmatic pedantry to proffer an electable alternative. Although I can't really see the sense in the USA's "2 terms and you're out" rule, we could have certainly done with it in '87.

threefates wrote: I'm voting for the first one who wears a Pink Floyd tee shirt...

I'm voting for the first female candidate wearing a see-through Pink Floyd shirt.

And no bra

Velvetclown wrote: The only Bush I trust is my own

Yuck!