I’m not sure how to feel this morning other than bad. The prospect of four more years of Bush makes me physically ill. I wish I could be more like my loser peers and bask in apathetic ignorance. I have yet to hear a single person give an ethical reason to vote for Bush. Some vote because of their pocketbook, they like tax cuts. That equals greed. Others vote because they feel they will be “safer.” That equals ignorance, how can you feel safer with someone that let the attacks happen in the first place. Look at it this way: if Lego makes a new product line and 3000 children die when they touch it….would anybody give the president of the Lego company a second chance (even if the president had nothing to do with the development of the new toy)? Even Osama Bin Ladin told the world that he didn’t care who was in the white house, they would attack us anyway. Some people vote for Bush because they don’t like the idea that Kerry “betrayed” his fellow servicemen in Vietnam. Kerry went to Vietnam…Bush didn’t. Which is worse, speaking your mind about something you were going to give your life for…or using your daddy’s connections to get out of it in the first place? I love how four years ago the republican mantra was “the past doesn’t mean a thing”….. If it didn’t matter that George got a DUI (when he was NOT still a young man) with his wife in the car why does it matter that Kerry was a war protester when he WAS a young man? And if you think Kerry had less than genuine reasons for protesting that is fine too…I suppose you are going to tell me Bush was drinking that night (of his arrest) “for a good cause,” and when he sold all his stock right before his oil company ran into the ground I suppose he was helping out the other investors somehow… Another reason to vote for Bush is because he represents the christian ideology (if we just overlook that arcane “thou shalt not kill” commandment…I guess these people think god was a little iffy when he decided that one…). This thinking is wrong too. True, Bush will represent that idea of morality (outlawing abortion, stem cell research, etc.), but the whole concept of saying that a whole country should be run with the laws of one specific religion is wrong. After all, wasn’t that another excuse for us invading Afganistan…the Taliban kept women out of school and out of sight in accordance with their religious beliefs. If we are behind giving people the freedom of religion, why are we willingly taking it away from ourselves in our own country? Oh right, I forgot, because OUR religion is the RIGHT one! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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