Stoical

[poliphilo]

I 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."

Comments

[aftertorless.livejournal.com]

I think he's a front man for the corporations. And I think his foreign policy is wrong in every particular.

And that, my friend, is why I am going to sleep enraged this evening.

[missedith01.livejournal.com]

I also think there's fairly convincing evidence that he's an inveterate liar. And I'm not just saying that because I can't stand the guy, and I'm not just meaning the was the case for the attack on Iraq was presented. I've been reading Graydon Carter's What We've Lost in the run up, and it convinced me by a comfortable margin that this is a very dangerous man, for the US and the world.

Four More Years??

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Not for me. I'm done. I am determined to move out of this hellhole as soon as possible. I'm not sure how yet, but I'm going to set a date for the end of next year to be out of here. I don't know where I'm going or what I'll be doing, but I have not wanted to live in this country for longer than I can remember, and now that feeling is even stronger than ever.

[morrison-maiden.livejournal.com]

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.

Exactly how I feel. I voted in my first presidential election yesterday, and I voted for Kerry. I don't so much love Kerry, as I hate Bush. Mostly for rights issues; I don't want there to be a ban on gay marriage, and I don't want a woman's right to choose to be thrown out the window either. I don't see Bush as having any concern for the rights of women, gays, minorities or those who aren't Christian...And, I'm Jewish. Most, if not all of the born-again Christians seem to want Bush, but they also seem to think that members of my faith are going to hell unless they convert :\

[queen-in-autumn.livejournal.com]

I don't have much to add to what's already been said. This is another American who is appalled by the fact that so many of my fellow-citizens support someone who has lied to us, who blatantly favors his fellow plutocrats, who is not very intelligent, who is arrogant, and -- most of all -- who continues to insist that the bloody debacle in Iraq is somehow good for our country -- or anyone.

I think he wins because he exploits fear. Somehow the fact that our soldiers are "over there" holding guns and sheddig blood translates into some peoples' minds that we are safer here. (Never mind the fact that the guy behind 9/11 is still at large.) Then there is the fear of homosexuals and the whole "defense of marriage" campaign. People listen to Bush's rhetoric and choose to believe that he will protect them from the bogeymen.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

i too am heartsick this morning. i am disappointed in, frustrated with, and ashamed of my country. somehow the democratic party, which better serves the interests of the majority of americans, is feared and distrusted by the very people it seeks to protect. i don't know how this can possibly be fixed. i am frustrated with kerry for lacking the backbone, when labelled a "massachusetts liberal" to stand up and say "what's so terrible about being a liberal? what's so terrible about being from massachusetts?" and to confront and challenge the labels put upon him with truth: that massachusetts has one of the lowest tax rates in the country, the lowest divorce rate, one of the lowest rates of teen births, in addition to world-renowned hospitals and schools. there are so many things that kerry did not say that he should have-- when bush said kerry was going to make people rely on the government for their healthcare, kerry should have reminded him that bush and every congressman is on a government healthcare plan, and that aren't the american people (who pay for the politician's health care through taxes) deserving of the same level of service? there are so many more examples of this. so i am frustrated with the close-mindedness of americans, the fearmongering and lies of the republicans, and the weakness of the democrats. as someone one said, "give the people a choice between a republican and a democrat who acts like a republican, and they will choose the republican every time". i thought the democrats had learned that lesson in 2000.

god, it makes me sick. i want to cry.

the only bright side i can possibly see in this is that our country will be pushed so far into debt, unemployment, poverty, and war that we will learn the error of our ways. that is, if we can survive until the next election-- seeing as nukes are proliferating and nothing's really been done about the terrorists. of course, even if we do, the supreme court will be lopsidedly hardline conservative for the next forty or so years, so i guess we can kiss roe v wade and gay rights good bye.

either that, or all the states north and east of pennsylvania should secede and form our own country, since we're evidently the only ones (except for the west coast) with any sense.