Wednesday, October 20

Politics  

This is a long entry. You have been warned.

The most bizarre news of the day? The Columbus Dispatch has been named by Time Magazine as the most coveted newspaper endorsement in the US. That's my home town for you. Never thought it would be raised to this point however.

I was chatting with a friend that's mentoring me in starting my own consulting business. We got onto politics, and I was up to 1:30AM. He was doing his damnedest to kill my enthusiasm for Kerry, talking all about the issues with Kerry's war record and if he truly was a War Hero. He really didn't understand that I did not give a fuck. That was 35 years ago. Kerry's been a politician for 20 years now, and it's only now that he's running for president that this has become this great big issue? Meanwhile, we've got Georgie pooh arguing with one of his own people that it's Sweden that's neutral, not Switzerland. My friend still didn't get my point. I was talking about intellectual dishonesty. Was Bush dishonest? Obviously he truly thought that Sweden was neutral. But the people he surrounds himself with decided it was best to leave him in this confused state than to actually try to correct the president. To compare that with "On Christmas in 1968 I was listening to Nixon in the Mekong delta" that my friend stated has been repeated 9 times or more, is silly. Especially when it has been reported factually that it's only been repeated 3 times by Kerry. I wish I still had that link, but that's been over a month ago, and I'm not digging. The fact of the matter is, was he in the Mekong delta (or whereever the hell he was said he was), and did he hear Nixon on the radio? Probably yes. The fact that it couldn't have happened on Christmas 1968 is a very small detail. Maybe it was LBJ he heard instead, but got confused. This is an error of detail, it doesn't make what he said a total lie, and doesn't make what he's said since all lies. So Kerry decided to go to Vietnam, get some medals and come home and be a politician. Sounds much better than the sub C average that Bush managed to carry at Yale.

I also do not understand my friend's contention that the 70's and 80's were so bad because we lost the will to fight the Vietnam war. I'll agree, that people at home were tired with the war, and wanted their sons back home. That is why Nixon got elected, not Humphrey. Of course, my contention that we lost the war because we had a president that micromanaged the war at the worst possible time, that we were fighting a guerilla war with conventional means, something I fear that we are still doing with Iraq. We did both agree that the US has to win the Iraqi war. I have serious doubts that it will actually happen. Especially when we are eating our seed corn. I forsee a draft, regardless of who gets elected into office.

George Bush is obviously not the conservative that most people believe that he is. A record deficit for 2004. Unilaterally invading a country that has turned up zero evidence for the reasons that were stated for going to war. Bush has shown himself as a person that cannot own up to any mistake that he has made, and he has made plenty. This administration has shown a total lack of respect for rights and liberty in pushing it's agenda of security at all costs for the War Against Terror. And the War Against Terror will probably enjoy just as much success as the War Against (some) Drugs.

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