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I Weep for this Country
Literally. I cried myself to sleep last night and my eyes are leaking again today. I don't know what people are thinking. I don't know how they can look at that idiot and see a "leader" of any kind. A draft-dodging drug using party boy who has alway cheated to win. Looks like we're in for four more years of tax breaks for the wealthy and young men dying in the name of...oil.
I just don't understand. All I know is I'm going to encourage my son to marry his fiance as soon as possible. I don't trust the idiot not to reinstate the draft and my child is not going. He has a baby to take care of. I won't give up my child to an unjust war.
Anyway, I'm still shell-shocked. I don't know how I'm going to concentrate at work today. Because I will look at the people around me and wonder--why?
I just don't understand. All I know is I'm going to encourage my son to marry his fiance as soon as possible. I don't trust the idiot not to reinstate the draft and my child is not going. He has a baby to take care of. I won't give up my child to an unjust war.
Anyway, I'm still shell-shocked. I don't know how I'm going to concentrate at work today. Because I will look at the people around me and wonder--why?
Re: grossly misled....
Then there's the talk about our troops mutinying and refusing to follow orders. I assume you're talking about the group that refused to run an unarmored convoy through a dangerous region - correct me if I'm wrong. That convoy would have had the proper armor, except that Senator John Kerry voted against the $87 Billion in funding that would have supplied the necessary armor to those vehicles and others, as well as to the individual troops. John Kerry supports giving our troops all of the funding they need to finish the job....except the $87,000,000,000 he voted against.
John Kerry's concession does not make him classy. He didn't stand a chance of winning the electoral vote at the time of his concession. He didn't even have a chance of stealing it, since the margin Bush led by in Ohio was greater than the number of provisional and absentee ballots anyway. Without Ohio, Kerry had no chance of winning. His concession was to keep the Democrat party from looking more foolish than they did in 2000 when their candidate couldn't win his home COUNTY. Was the concession wise? Yes. Classy? No.
A direct quote from you, if I may: "The only real effect the Homeland Security measures have had is to keep Aunt Bertha from bringing her knitting needles on a plane." Would you like to know the reason for this? No? Well, I'm going to tell you anyway. Bleeding heart Liberals will whine and cry and throw a fit over any attempt at profiling those who would wish you harm and call it "racial" profiling. Except in this case, they'd be right. The people we have to watch out for are primarily Muslims of Arab decent between the ages of 18 and 30. But since any attempt to go "Hrm...that Arab man with the bulky jacket in July...in Texas, with the wires hanging out of it and a sign around his neck saying 'Allahu Akbar! Death to the Infidels' looks suspicious" gets met with "RACIAL PROFILING, STOP!", it's really tough to do their job. So to be politically correct, they have to give Aunt Bertha crap about her knitting needles and let the Arab dude wearing a bulky jacket with wires hanging out of it the middle of July in El Paso go.
Here's a question for everyone playing at home: Would you rather have the radical Islamic fundamentalists shooting at and trying to blow up our military personnel, or would you rather have them blowing up shopping malls and school busses here in the States?
Kerry lost the election. Bush can't run again in 2008. If the Democrats want the White House back, they'll get a candidate that doesn't make Teddy Kennedy look conservative.
Re: grossly misled....