This
year's first presidential debate was such a disaster for George Bush
that his handlers had to be crazy to let him get in the ring with John
Kerry again. Yet Karl Rove let it happen, and we can only wonder why.
But there is no doubt that the president has lost his nerve, and his
career in the White House is finished. NO MAS.
[...]
Kerry came into October as a five-point underdog with almost no
chance of winning three out of three rigged confrontations with a
treacherous little freak like George Bush. But the debates are over
now, and the victor was clearly John Kerry every time. He
steamrollered Bush and left him for roadkill.
[...]
Every
GOP administration since 1952 has let the Military-Industrial Complex
loot the Treasury and plunge the nation into debt on the excuse of a
wartime economic emergency. Richard Nixon comes quickly to mind, along
with Ronald Reagan and his ridiculous "trickle-down" theory of U.S.
economic policy. If the Rich get Richer, the theory goes, before long
their pots will overflow and somehow "trickle down" to the poor, who
would rather eat scraps off the Bush family plates than eat nothing at
all. Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will.
It goes back to preindustrial America, when only white male property
owners could vote.
Things haven't changed all that much where
George W. Bush comes from. Houston is a cruel and crazy town on a
filthy river in East Texas with no zoning laws and a culture of sex,
money and violence. It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen
women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the
code of the West -- which can mean just about anything you need it to
mean, in a pinch.
[...]
The question this year is not
whether President Bush is acting more and more like the head of a
fascist government but if the American people want it that way. That is
what this election is all about. We are down to nut-cutting time, and
millions of people are angry. They want a Regime Change.
[...]
Of
course I will vote for John Kerry. I have known him for thirty years as
a good man with a brave heart -- which is more than even the
president's friends will tell you about George W. Bush, who is also an
old acquaintance from the white-knuckle days of yesteryear. He is hated
all over the world, including large parts of Texas, and he is taking us
all down with him.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give
another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if
he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by
himself has a fool for a master.
