VOTE2004: What are you thinking?!
So...just like that *snaps*, it's settled.
Bush declares victory. Kerry concedes. Just as backwards as that sounds, so is this entire election and its outcome. No dispute, no argument, just lie down and take it.
Not a chance.
From BoingBoing:
"Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when Nixon won a second term -- crushed. I just couldn't believe America was that stupid. But remember what happened to Nixon that term."
Maybe Osama bin Laden got just want he wanted with that last tape, scaring folks into thinking that Bush was indeed their protector. I think he just guaranteed that he'll live for another four years, because we all know that Bush, being a self-proclaimed war president, can't wage a war without an enemy.
Maybe Kerry shot himself in the foot by parading his military experience too much, to the point that the Bush campaign was able to cast doubt and even discredit a decorated veteran. Or maybe he just wasn't arrogant enough for most people's liking, considering that we're now becoming a nation of gas-guzzling, SUV-driving, super-size-eating, money-grubbing pigs.
Either way, if you voted for Bush, you are undoubtedly a fool. Not in the childish, Mr. T sense of the word, but in the most miserable, tragic sense. The saying that Bush once so horribly attempted, "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." was never more fitting than now in regards to 51% of the American people. Not only have you been lied to, you've been led to believe that those lies are in fact acceptable. As the president would most likely have you believe--the ends justify the means.
Shame on you for not considering that there is another truth other than what your government tells you. For not putting forth a check and forcing this administration to provide a balance. For being complacent and settling for just good enough. Shame on you all.
