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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 09:08 pm (UTC)I remember how the fundamentalists tried to get Pat Robertson of the 700 Club (God cable show) elected. I guess they are euphoric and smug today: God has heard their prayers. Now they can REALLY get their issues shoved down our throats: after all, God wants it. It's--like a miracle!
Talk was circulating this morning that, if the endtimes were indeed coming now that Bush has been elected, at least the annoying fundamentalists would leave with the Rapture and leave the rest of us (damned) Liberals alone.
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Date: 2004-11-03 10:49 pm (UTC)I saw a film about it once. There were all these people wandering around with 666 tattooed on their wrists.
I remember the title of a book an English theologian published back in the 60s or 70s. "Your God is Too Small."
Not only too small, but too silly.