It's 1:30 in the morning and I love Erin!

Whatever happens, I trust the President. With his infinite wisdom and access to the greatest minds of our generation, I know that he will deftly navigate the whitewater chasms of international diplomacy with dignity, grace, and pride.



Let's take a trip back . . .
Bush Sr., is head of the CIA (most powerful organisation on earth, bar none) under Carter. Bush Sr., makes a deal with the GOP, and there are American hostages taken in Iran.
There was a media frenzy at the time. Iran threw up it's hands and said, "But they're students. Oh, those crazy students . . . what is one to do?"

The hostage situation, loses Carter the election.

During Reagan's INNAGURATION speech, he announces that the hostages are now free, and over American airspace.

HUH?

He was president for a hot 30 seconds at the time.

Selling arms to Iran, and Afghanistan ended up not being such a great idea. Yes, that's how the Afghani's managed to repel our attacks so well. Ollie North, took the brunt of it, while the star of "Bedtime For Bonzo" claimed he didn't remember. Alzheimer's will do that to ya.

Next time out, GOP loses the election.

Clinton gets in. He, being a known pussy hound, accidently hires on a mole (Monica Lewinski) who engages in weird sex acts with him, does not wash her clothes, and makes sure that her conversations with alleged best friend Linda Tripp, are recorded.

When your best friend calls, do you make sure you record it, "just in case"?



Support for Gore is in the toilet. Clinton can't make a single speech, or promise in his favor.

If I live with another eight years of peace, and prosperity, I'd pay for the hookers my own damn self.

The election, is decidedly swawed, if not downright unfair, and here we are . . . senators did not vote "for the war", they voted that the president may have the power to go to war if all other means of negotiation failed.
Bush jumped the gun on them.
They also got cherry-picked info from the adminstration rather than the entire picture. Congress was not made aware that the CIA and the State Department believed that Mr. Bush's claim that Saddam Hussein had tried to obtain uranium from Niger was not credible.

----->GIS Joseph Wilson<-----



Well, in the end, Bush did do what most of his voters elected him to do which was cut taxes and remove Saddam . . . if he'd just kick out the illegals and seal the border he'd be Rushmore worthy.

Fifty years ago, the majority of the population grew up in small towns. In small towns, everyone is keenly aware of the effect of politics on their everyday life. You know how many police cars there are and how well they are outfitted. You know if the contractor screwed everyone on the library project. As we become more distant from the processes, it becomes very easy for us to assume it doesnt matter and our choices are irrelevant.

The answer?

I blame us honestly. OUR oversight is seriously lacking. Our politicians give us what we want. They tell us we can have everything and not pay for it. Everything is everyone else's priority.

Need a test? Put an aluminum can two feet from a trashcan in a public place. Watch how many walk on by and not throw it away because it's "someone else's job."

Do it in a small town. Usually someone picks it up. Why? Becasue it probably isn't anyone's job.

Small towns are not superior. Not at all. Just the level of community involvement tends to be higher. It's related to the phenomenon Malcolm Gladwell talks about when there is an emergency in a large crowd. No one does a thing. But when it's 1-2 people, they act and do something.

Modern politics? Everyone is in a crowd. Everyone expects someone else to do it.

Me? I vote often. I vote with my dollars. I send emails to politicians asking them to vote for or against something I like or don't like.

Kerry lost because he was speaking with nuanced intelligence while the 51% of the country was listening to "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth". Basically, he was too smart for 51% of the country. I don't know about you, but I actually like the idea of the 'Leader of the Free World' being smarter than myself. I think he should be, but it looks like 51% of the country didn't agree.
Attitude towards war would be much more cautious if people didn't treat it like a sporting event. In fact, I was reading a Washington Post article a while back about the republican convention, and one guy said he would vote for any republican, if the guy had good ideas for the country "that would be nice", but he was going to vote for whomever the party put up.

That's when I realized it's not about the good of the country anymore, its about the fucking team. People don't care what's good for the country as long as their team wins.

We are NOT Team America:World Police.

Reality: We are warring ourselves into debt.

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