10:11am   At this point CNN is projecting that Bush will take Illinois, and that about wraps it up. Kerry is expected to concede the election within the hour. The thinking segment of the population is mourning the passing of our great nation into history. The sheep have given Bush four more years to continue destroying everything of worth about our country. Hopefully, when the political landscape has rotted so badly that the stink can no longer be denied (picture sheep saying, "Dang, what IS that smell?!") we'll be ready for a new President in 2008. Kerry was not the best the Democratic Party had to offer, just the most centrist and, to people desparate to depose our current dictator, the most electable. Not so much, I guess. In 2008, the door will be wide open for a woman President, and I think the nation will yearn for a return to a better time.

Hillary in 2008.

11/02/2004:  

9:37pm   At this point Bush has 237 electoral votes, Kerry has 188. Bush leads Kerry in the popular vote by 5%. It is becoming clear that the intelligent people of this country will be beaten down by the tyranny of the sheep. This is not the voice of a "sore loser," this is the lament of one who cannot understand how lying about an infidelity can be considered "high crimes and misdemeanors" but lying to Congress in order to wage a war is grounds for reelection. This country is just so fucked up. It's sad. I thought more highly of Americans, but it's clear the rest of the world is right about us. We're a nation of morons.

When did we lose respect for a man willing to examine his stand and change it if he realizes his original position was mistaken or misled by, say, a war-mad, power hungry man-child?
When did we lose the ability to feel moral outrage when lied to?
When did our memories become so short that we forgot that peace treaties protect our interests better than military occupations?
When did we decide that discrimination is good?
When did we choose to give up our Consitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech, legal representation, due process, and privacy?
When did this happen?
Has it always been this way?
Did my education, my open-minded, well-read upbringing insulate me from the fact that most Americans are bred to be sheep for the powerful to sway with cool sound bites and empty slogans?

I used to hate corporate America for taking advantage of people and hiding behind corporate legal structures when confronted with the outrage of the little guy. Now I think I understand. It's the natural order of things. It's the way it should be. The majority of American people deserve to be taken advantage of. To be lied to and abused. The polls bear out the truth of this statement. My upbringing was deficient in this one quality: arrogance. From now on, not only will I view the people around me as mere resources for me to use, I will teach my children to take the rightful place of all people who come to this final realization: as the upper crust, the careless and care-free, the down-trodding and up-beat. We will step on the heads of those whose station is less than ours, and I will devote my life to subjugating the morons that made Bush their leader. They deserve no less. And now my education is finally complete.

3:45pm   I always forget how long it takes me to sort through the election mailers, decide on local and state issues, and then go and actually vote. I just got back. I checked the CNN page and there're still no posted results. The score stands at zero to zero.

This day has been upsetting for me, because I know that nearly half the country has ignored George Bush's record, forgotten the lies and broken promises, accepted the needless loss of hundreds of thousands of lives in Iraq, and bought the sound bites and slurs about Kerry, and voted for Bush. It's a disturbing revelation that one's countrymen lack the critical thinking skills required to see that George Bush is a dire threat to our way of life.

Y'know, Bush and Bin Laden are two sides of one coin. It took Bin Laden to enact the 9/11 tragedy, but it took Bush to turn the United States' reaction into a conflagration that was so much worse than even Bin Laden could have prayed for. Can you imagine Bin Laden's disbelief when the Monkey Faced Frat Boy broke off any serious pursuit, turned his troops, and ran off to invade an entirely uninvolved country? It must have felt like he'd succeeded in frustrating Bush into a state of complete insanity. By not focusing on Bin Laden until he was caught, we now have Bin Laden not only as a newly empowered leader of a growing anti-American cause, we now have him as a widely broadcasted pundit of the American political process. How embarrassing is that? And all because Bush took the opportunity to invade Iraq, as in, "Hey, we were in the neighborhood and just thought we'd stop by!"

And yet, in spite of everything we now know, that Bush had no real evidence for a war, he just really, really wanted to kick Saddam's ass and didn't have the patience to locate Bin Laden (sort of a Presidential ADD), in spite of that and the lies he told to get us here, roughly half the nation wants him to remain in office.

This country needs a mental, cultural, and sociological enema.

1:56pm   Ok, I'm a work-a-holic, but I can't focus anymore on work. I've got to get this thing over with. I'm leaving now to go vote. And everything I'm going to vote on pales in comparison to my vote against Bush.

God Bless You, America, and keep you safe, and God Bless John Kerry, our only hope now to stop the murderous traitor, George W. Bush.

1:43pm I've been thinking about voting all day. I've been dreading, hoping and praying for this day for months. I've been sad yet upbeat about this day. Every single day leading up to this day I've watched people with no good excuse say on television that they will vote for George Bush. The can't usually quantify what it is exactly that they're voting for, only that Kerry seems "wishy washy." My guess is these same people still believe that there are WMDs, that Saddam helped with the 9/11 plot, and that the world is a safer place now than it was before Bush converted millions of Iraqis into potential terrorists.

To the person that thinks that changing your mind makes you wishy washy or a "flip-flopper", let me ask you this:

• What would have happened if Kruschev had decided to "stay the course" and arm Cuba with nukes?
• What would have happened if Kennedy had decided to "stay the course" and nuke Cuba?
• In all the times that this nation has scrambled nuke armed bombers, what would have happened if the sitting President at the time had "stayed the course" and dropped nukes on the Soviet Union?
• What if the U.S. had "stayed the course" and continued fighting the Vietnam War?
• What if the U.S. had "stayed the course" and continued fighting the Korean War?

Y'know, Hitler stayed the course, and look what happened to him. I don't think history will speak kindly of a President that is unable to change course when wrong. And you party-line toeing Republicans out there that can't see this are morons. Every last one of you. I respect a man that is capable of changing his position when the old position is shown to be wrong. I respect a man that takes responsibility for his mistakes, admits them, and moves on. Any man incapable of doing this doesn't deserve the title "Man," much less the title of "President."

10/26/2004:   Due to pressing concerns (you know: "Real Life"), I have been unable to press my case against George Bush in these pages. With a week left to go, I could hold back no longer. This may read as a ramble. I'll try to organize it as much as possible.

George Bush is a liar. He lied about the intelligence on Iraq to Congress. And if, by some completely unlikely fluke he didn't read any of the communiques from the CIA, didn't get any of the phone calls from his intelligence managers, didn't get a chance to review any of the memos alerting him to the fact that the data he was working with was bad, the moment he found out that some of the data was bad, such as fabricated report that Iraq was attempting to buy uranium from Nigeria, he should have honored his responsibility to the citizens and soldiers of the U.S. by having the remainder of the intelligence verified. He failed to do that. He knew the data was bad and told you, the American public, that it was good. He lied.

George Bush is a thief. He's stealing your money and giving to the richest in the nation. He gave Kerry a hard time for overestimating how much Bush intended to spend on the war in Iraq, when in fact yesterday the figures for how much Bush will ask Congress for following the election to continue the operation in Iraq came out, and it amounts to an additional $70 billion dollars. That's not money that's coming out of the pockets of the top 1% of the wealthiest people in this nation. That's money coming out of schools. That's money taken from teacher's salaries and materials budgets. That's money coming out of healthcare. That's money coming out of infrastructure projects. That's money taken from National Parks programs. That's money not spent to pay down the national debt, money that your kids will being struggling to pay back. That's money not going towards alternative fuel programs. That's money that's not being used to shore up the economy. That's money that's not going into college grants, training programs, small business loans and grants. That's money that is being pissed away on a war George lied to get us into in the first place. That's money we're going to need badly and we don't have. And if you think it's a fluke, review his record as a Texax governor when he took their $6 billion surplus and in four short years turned it into a $700 million deficit. And that was when the economy was *good*. And lest you still decide to give him the benefit of the doubt, his little brother read Big Brother's play book and robbed Florida, turning a $3 billion surplus into a $1 billion deficit. Imagine that.

George Bush is a murderer. He lied in order to put us in a war that's not just costing us hundreds of billions of dollars and will cost us billions more, with a final price tag in the hundreds of billions and even upwards of a trillion dollars by most estimates, this war is costing us in human life. Over a thousand soldiers dead. Tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers and police. Hundreds of thousands of civilians. And now that Saddam isn't there to keep a tight rein on extremist factions in his country, we have pulled the linch pin on the flood gates and we're trying to bat back the wall of terrorists surging into that country with a severely understaffed army and an insanely undertrained and underequipped Iraqi police force. George, through action and inaction, has not just put us in a war, he has trapped us in a police action we cannot be extracted from. To leave before we have an iron-fisted government in place is to open a land with the richest oil reserves to whomever in that region is strong enough to take and hold it. That may be the various terrorist organizations. It will likely be Iran. We are certainly in no shape to begin a protracted war against Iran. We are running out of munitions, soldiers, money, and frankly, the good will of the American people. If George pictured himself as the next Alexander the Great, he fooled himself badly. The American people are not cattle to be sent to the slaughter. His dreams of an empire will fall in flames, but not until after he has succeeded in sending thousands more of our young men and women to die.

George Bush is a traitor. George has done more to tear down your personal freedoms than any other president this country has ever had. The Patriot Act alone erases your right to privacy, your right to assemble peacably, your right to counsel and a speedy trial if you are arrested, and your right to free speech. It gives the President the power to declare someone an enemy combatant without cause, without verification, without precedent, without rebuttal, and once you're so labelled you can be thrown in jail indefinitely. That alone has me wondering who the hell George thinks he is. Hitler? Saddam? Stalin? Is he so power hungry that he has forgotten what country this is? And if we allow him to continue, are we still that same country? Can we hold our heads up with pride, or have we become partners with George in betraying the country our forefathers struggled to build?

George Bush is a rapist. George Bush is raping our natural resources. He has rolled back environmental protections to a pre-1940s level. National forests, coastlines, rivers, all are fodder served on a silver platter to those business interests that would utterly consume or spoil them for profit. Corporations have no morality, and the morality successfully imposed on them for decades has been torn aside by Mr. Bush. Thousand year old trees fall, levels of mercury, cadmium, and lead rise in our water resources, thousands of animal species are disrupted fatally, and all because George doesn't care about your childrens' future. He takes what he wants whether the public likes it or not, and he will not fail to continue to do so. He will stay the course of enriching himself and his richest 1% constituency for as long as we provide him a place of power in which to do so.

George Bush is a warmonger. Not only has he proudly labeled himself "The War President," he has reneged on every peace treaty signed since World War II -- even further back if you count his complete disregard for the authority of the United Nations. He has no problem sending your children into a war that he can't possibly win in short order and can't withdraw from for at least another year. Folks, June came and went, an interim government was picked, and we're still there. October came and is almost gone, they've had elections, the interim government is still in power, and we're still there. The insurgents grow more powerful, better equipped, better funded, and their ranks swell with each passing day, and we are still there. We will be there for a long time, and this war will continue to require hundreds of thousands of soldiers, billions of dollars, and when it's over, we will limp back home and lick our wounds, wishing we'd never elected a warmonger like George Bush. This is the Vietnam of our era, make no mistake.

George Bush thinks you're a moron. Otherwise why would he promise you one thing, do another, then say you're better off as he claims he did something entirely different? Because he thinks you have a memory and attention span that are no more than a week long. He thinks you don't remember about Bin Laden. He thinks you don't remember that he claimed the war was won. He thinks you don't remember about the WMDs, the pictures he showed on national television of the sites where WMDs were housed, and his bold assertions that the U.S. knew exactly where the WMDs were, what they were, how much there was, and how easily and readily Saddam would use them. He thinks you've forgotten about his "No Child Left Behind" initiative that still stands unfunded. He thinks you've forgotten about Halliburton, holding alternative energy research funds hostage until Congress agreed to pass a bill opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling, the Redwood Forest, Bill Pryor, his failure to serve in the National Guard, his energy bill that protected gas companies that used MTBE from lawsuits, his "Bring'Em On" comment, the Kyoto Accord, millions of jobs lost, the hidden records of Texas governorship, the World Court, that all minutes of meetings he attended as a corporate leader have been sealed, Social Security, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, North Korea, Iran, that he called three countries a "Coalition", that he compared the anti-Iraq-war protests to "polls", the Microsoft antitrust remedy, ...

George Bush is a fraud. His brother Jeb, along with Kathleen Harris, defrauded Florida voters by having thousands of them rejected from the voter rolls by using a list of felons from Texas and matching or somewhat matching the names from that list with voters in various pro-Democrat counties. They lost or locked up the ballots of several counties that were very pro-Democrat but whose election day returns came up mysteriously favoring Bush. All attempts to investigate the election process, the government offices and the private companies involved, have been hampered (although not entirely halted) at every turn.

George Bush thinks you're stupid. He thinks you don't understand why the deficit is bad. If you're in debt and making payments to a bunch of credit card companies, your money isn't your own. You have to make payments each month on that debt, and if your situation is really bad, you may only have enough to cover the interest each month, leaving you in the same amount of debt next month. It's the same with the eonomy, and right now we're up to our eyeballs in debt to China, Japan, and South Korea. Pretty soon, at the rate we're spending money on the Iraq war, we won't be able to make the interest payments. And when we default, the credit we enjoy will dry up, and our government won't have anywhere to turn for it's supplies and resources. Even if we don't default, our kids will have less disposable tax dollars to work with in running the various programs that will be needed because they'll still be making payments on our debt, the debt we could have paid way down if George had paid attention to our economy rather than putting us in a needless war.

I've heard many people speculate that if Kerry isn't elected, the time will be ripe for a woman President, specifically for Hillary Clinton. I've heard that many Democrats have decided that that is such a desirable end that they are willing to vote for Bush to make sure it comes to pass. After all, after another four years of Bush's crap, the Repubs wouldn't stand a flying chance in 2008, or so goes the reasoning.

I think this is dangerous.

I think George Bush is such a deep and definite threat to our lives and our way of life that he cannot be tolerated for one more month, much less four more years. He is a proven threat to our Constitution and to the world as a whole. He is a murderer with no historical American peer.

But what may be even worse than what we do directly to ourselves by reelecting him is the message we send to the world and to our children if we reelect him, and it's this:

That America is OK with invading and destroying countries, killing men, women and children, and waging ill-advised, poorly informed preemptive wars based on rumors.

That the American people agree that the U.N. serves no valid purpose.

That the average U.S. citizen approves of ignoring the pleas of nations around the world for sane and diplomatic methods of resolving international tensions.

That U.S. citizens don't care about the future of not only its own children but the children of the world.

That we will stay the course, even if that course turns out to be taking us straight through the gates of Hell itself and costs us every last life, every last shred of respect and honor we have left.

That the average American feels that might makes right.

That we really are the stupid bullies that we've been made out to be.

It stuns me that there are people out there that see this election as just another extension of our regular sporting events. This isn't the fucking Superbowl, people. This time it's your life on the line. It's the lives of your kids. It's the way of life you grew up with. It's the American Dream. It's all the cookies in one bowl.

Don't vote Democrat.
Don't vote Republican.
Don't vote Green Party.

Vote sanity. Vote America. Vote Kerry.

And John Kerry, if you get elected and let us down, I'm going to personally lead the crusade to get your ass impeached.