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Sep. 20th, 2004
The conclusion
Sep. 20th, 2004 02:54 pmI've come to the conclusion (what, just now? No, a while back) that both candidates for President are equally inept, but in their own special ways.
Bush. What can be said about Bush that hasn't already been said badly by thousands of comedians, and said greatly by dozens? Hell, Jon Stewart skewers El Shrubbo and the "Shrub Council on replacing logic with pseudo-religion and idiocy" (aka the Presidential Staff) better then I ever could. The man has the intelligence of a bruised store melon, and the military competance of a pack mule. About the only thing that can't be said about him is that he doesn't actively masturbate into the American flag.
Kerry. He reminds me so much of the Smiler from Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan (even though Edwards resembles the Smiler to a much greater degree.) That he will do or say anything to win the office of the President. Except, of course, that the Smiler actually wins, and Kerry seems to be in a slow death spiral. The man can't win for losing. He was actually in Vietnam, as opposed to National Guard crybaby GWB, but amazingly, that's been used against him (successfully) by special interest groups. Kerry is trying to appeal to to many of the wrong groups, and not enough of the right groups. (Although one could actually hope someone could be elected to the Presidency on the basis of his beliefs that didn't change with the latest exit polls, I don't see that happening this century. Didn't happen in the last half of the last one either.)
So, Bush, who is actually incompetent at anything resembling foreign policy, or any domestic fiscal policy that doesn't line the pockets of his big business friends, or Kerry, who might make a decent President if he could get his thumb out of his ass long enough to do something that would get him positive numbers over Bush.
*sigh*
Mickey Mouse is looking better and better as a write-in candidate.
Bush. What can be said about Bush that hasn't already been said badly by thousands of comedians, and said greatly by dozens? Hell, Jon Stewart skewers El Shrubbo and the "Shrub Council on replacing logic with pseudo-religion and idiocy" (aka the Presidential Staff) better then I ever could. The man has the intelligence of a bruised store melon, and the military competance of a pack mule. About the only thing that can't be said about him is that he doesn't actively masturbate into the American flag.
Kerry. He reminds me so much of the Smiler from Warren Ellis' Transmetropolitan (even though Edwards resembles the Smiler to a much greater degree.) That he will do or say anything to win the office of the President. Except, of course, that the Smiler actually wins, and Kerry seems to be in a slow death spiral. The man can't win for losing. He was actually in Vietnam, as opposed to National Guard crybaby GWB, but amazingly, that's been used against him (successfully) by special interest groups. Kerry is trying to appeal to to many of the wrong groups, and not enough of the right groups. (Although one could actually hope someone could be elected to the Presidency on the basis of his beliefs that didn't change with the latest exit polls, I don't see that happening this century. Didn't happen in the last half of the last one either.)
So, Bush, who is actually incompetent at anything resembling foreign policy, or any domestic fiscal policy that doesn't line the pockets of his big business friends, or Kerry, who might make a decent President if he could get his thumb out of his ass long enough to do something that would get him positive numbers over Bush.
*sigh*
Mickey Mouse is looking better and better as a write-in candidate.