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Kerry Edwards.
That was my best friend’s second wife.
She had those doey-eyes and that flouncey raven hair of the
cheerleader she once was in high school.
What a babe. He
should have stayed with her. Of
course, even when he was with her he wasn’t with her, which is why, of
course, he isn’t with her today.
What a dingbat. She was a keeper. Kerry-Edwards.
That’s also the ticket. Also
a keeper. These guys have so scared the Republicans that we may see
Republican dirty tricks on a scale to make Richard Nixon, Reagan’s
Iran-Contra or earlier Bush maneuvers seem like child’s play. First
out from under his desk was Tom Ridge, our Homeland Security Director.
He announced almost at the same time as Senator Kerry was
introducing Senator Edwards as his running mate that there was new
terrorism information. He
held a news conference which made it onto the national news.
He said there were new terrorist plans to commit a major attack
inside the United States, but he didn’t know where, or when, or how
they would bring this about. Hey
Tom- -Didn’t we already know this?
Tommy did not raise the color alert from chartreuse to magenta,
or whatever it is presently, and said he basically knew nothing new,
except to say he suspected that something was up, or would be up soon.
Then Tom sank behind his Ridge to let the rest of us contemplate
exactly what he meant. And
basically it is this: Be
afraid. Be very, very
afraid. Be afraid enough to
vote for G W Bush because he knows how to handle terrorists and these
Democrats do not. But
don’t be afraid to not vote at all. Secondly
comes one of the major points I’ve been making off and on for months.
Rather than steal this election as they did the last, the
Republicans would like to just call it off, declare some form of martial
law saying it’s too dangerous to go to the polls, and indefinitely
postpone the election the way tin-horn dictators do in third world
countries. Oh, you don’t
think so? Remember
Mussolini and Hitler were elected and then suspended their parliaments
and took full dictatorial powers. Ferdinand
Marcos did the same. The
videotaped murder of his only challenger Benito Aquino exiting an
airplane from the United States is what caused him to finally take his
wife’s shoes and flee. Don’t
think it can’t happen here? We’ve
had one shooting uncivil war in this country already and if this
terrorism threat, even if there is some sort of attack, keeps the
election from going forward we might likely have another one.
Shoot out on The Potomac. It
could happen- -the hills of Virginia crackling with gunfire once again
in an effort to retake Washington, D C, or at least Georgetown. One
of the things that the Republicans have already said about Kerry is that
he is too rich. Now
that’s just funny. Republicans
love the rich. Bushie was
videotaped recently as saying to a tuxedoed dinner full of fat-cat
donors that he was glad to address “the haves and the have-mores.”
He said basically that some people may call you wealthy, but “I
call you my base”. Yes,
he was trying to be funny, but he was as funny as former New York
Republican Senator Alphonse D’Amato doing his Judge Ito impression-
-it cost him his Senate seat- -or former Oregon Republican Senator Bob
Packwood losing his Senate seat while thinking he was God’s gift to
women. Actually I believe
that’s Bill Clinton. Another
thing held up by the Republicans as a stumbling block to Senator Edwards
is that he is “a friend to trial lawyers”, which is pretty funny
too, because the best Republican President ever, and overall perhaps one
of the greatest Presidents ever of any party, was a one-term congressman
who had been a trial lawyer by profession. So
if you want to think about skipping going to the polls and avoiding
those new Diebold very riggable voting machines, vote absentee.
That way you have a paper record of what you did and no threats
can keep you away from the polls because you don’t need to go anyway. Of
course, elections are run locally by towns, cities and counties.
Having a national mandate to postpone or cancel them could not
easily be brought about. After
the debacle that was Florida in 2000 that put the election into the
courts and guaranteed a Republican victory, no matter what happens,
unless Jimmy Carter and Official United Nations Election Observers from
neutral countries are admitted to monitor the process, if there is even
an ounce of any possible shenanigans there will be hell to pay,
regardless of any terrorists. G
W Shrub keeps telling us “The American people are safer” with him as
President, but the way he’s made the entire world turn against us, I
doubt it. I expect we’d
be safer with him gone. He
and his cohorts are a national embarrassment and a national disgrace.
He makes one recall the chant at anti-war rallies of days gone
by: “Hey, hey! LBJ. How
many kids did you kill today?” Perhaps
something along those lines would be appropriate: “Georgie Porgie,
pudding and pie- -How many kids have you sent to die?” Okay,
I gotta go fill out the form for my mail-away ballot. Oh,
by the way- -who was that Republican trial lawyer who became president?
Abraham
Lincoln.
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