but then again getting Bush
out was a prime motivator. Previous to casting my ballot I was a Dean
supporter
and agreed with the Good Doctor’s views at the time.
Then
the scream, the merciless media edit that they pummeled everyone with
for days
till he was relegated to the sidelines.
The shift of support was then put
behind Kerry, but he got caught in all the wrong photo ops.
Kerry
claimed that he had a plan to balance the budget and not tax those who
made
less than two hundred
thousand a year. At face that sounded good, but physics
teaches us that shit rolls downhill. If higher taxes
were placed on the rich,
the working Class would inevitably suffer. There was also the fact that
campaign
promises are also forgotten like so much pillow talk at dawn. On
November fourth we all awoke cotton mouthed
and disoriented with no money on
the dresser.
Then
there were the voting machines
with no paper record. Jeezus pleezus, we receive receipts for
everything but
for this important decision there would be no trail. Bush won and
no one is
sure why. Many point to an electoral
process that has been the heart of our
political system. The problem lies not in the system per say, but in
the method
of vote counting. This was the first election where touch screen
machines were
used. The company that makes this
is Diebold; you may know them from their work
in infrastructure and privacy fracture.
If
the smell wasn’t so palpable, it could be ignored, but something is
amiss. The BFEE apparently are greedheads
with no conscious. Rumor has it that
Thompson died as a result.
The
validity of that is questionable, but at the same time not impossible.
The
story is that he was working on a story
connecting the current administration
to the events of 9/11. Hunter wrote that four more years of Bush would
be like
four years of syphilis.
Penicillin, anyone?