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poliphiloI did think of staying up to see the results come in. I'm glad I didn't. It's turned 9 o'clock and we still don't have a result.
But it looks like four more years of Bush.
I'm not going to make a fuss. I'm going to be stoical about this. If Ohio goes for Bush (as looks likely) it'll be a convincing victory. Demos will have spoken.
Look, I'm a European; I don't get Bush at all. Apart from a certain folksiness and ease around people, I don't see anything about him that would make me want to vote for him. I think he's unintelligent. I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.
Alexander the Great and his gang come clattering up the street. Horsehair plumes and flashing bronze. And they come across Diogenes sitting in his barrel. The greatest living general meets the greatest living philosopher. It's the ancient Greek equivalent of a photo-op.
So Alexander says to Diogenes, "Anything you want I'll give it you. All you have to do is name it."
And Diogenes says, "OK. Please get out of my light."
But it looks like four more years of Bush.
I'm not going to make a fuss. I'm going to be stoical about this. If Ohio goes for Bush (as looks likely) it'll be a convincing victory. Demos will have spoken.
Look, I'm a European; I don't get Bush at all. Apart from a certain folksiness and ease around people, I don't see anything about him that would make me want to vote for him. I think he's unintelligent. I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.
Alexander the Great and his gang come clattering up the street. Horsehair plumes and flashing bronze. And they come across Diogenes sitting in his barrel. The greatest living general meets the greatest living philosopher. It's the ancient Greek equivalent of a photo-op.
So Alexander says to Diogenes, "Anything you want I'll give it you. All you have to do is name it."
And Diogenes says, "OK. Please get out of my light."
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Date: 2004-11-03 02:39 pm (UTC)I don't know how to answer your fears. I'm afraid they're justified. The weighting of the Supreme Court towards the right would be a disaster.
I've got Churchill booming in my ears- that speech about having nothing to promise but "blood, sweat, toil and tears."
No. We mustn't concede the moral issues to the right. The right is backward-looking. The right is unimaginative. The right is stupid. In the long term it will be defeated. I have to believe this.
And the immediate task for us Brits is to get rid of Tony Blair and deprive Bush of his number one European lapdog/ally.