Clareified

NATIONAL LEAGUE SUCKS

Seven in a row. It’s like Boston doesn’t even remember how to lose.

GET OUT THE VOTE FOR KERRY

Polling of early voters reveals that Bush has a 51-47 lead over Kerry.

DINNER IN BED?

This might be where Bill O’Reilly starts holding interview lunches for his staffers.

via Intl News.

SO CUTE!

via Green Frog.

MEMO TO ST. LOUIS; BAMBINO, CURSE OF

Sincerely,

2004 World Series Champions The Boston Red Sox

via Party P*ker Blogs (Hat Tip: Ugarte* )

* Posting of the above picture does not indicate a move to an NC-17 rated blog.

A FRAUD, A PHONY, A FORGERY

I am indebted to a reader who sent me a quotation a few weeks back. It was an observation that one’s willingness to acknowledge that a painting is forged is usually inverse to the price one paid to buy it.

On Planet Bush, a thing is true because the president believes it to be true and any facts marshaled in opposition are irrelevant.

Want to utter more ‘F’ sounding words? Read more.

AND NOW WE HAVE A BLOG MOTTO

“Trash talk is not just easy, it’s free”

IN OTHER WORDS, A LINK WHORE

You Are a Link Blogger!

Your blog is more about cool links than thougtful posts. Better to be entertaining and brief than longwinded and boring!

via Gib.

QUOTE OF THE DAY

With a straight face, you’re going to tell me that President Bush didn’t kill a terrorist who he had in his crosshairs because he was worried about France?

HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Political Hackery indeed.

IT IS FINISHED

I completed and mailed my absentee ballot today.
I think Karol owes me a nickel for betting I would vote for Nader, but I’m not sure.
Putting my stamp where my mouth is, I voted for JFK and JE, Schumer, bunch of Judges who appear simultaneously on the Republican and Democrat line (what up wid dat?) and Congressman Owens. I competently filled in the proper ovals, checking the rules along the margin to avoid the dreaded overvote and in one of the less fine moments of my voting life, checked google to see if my assemblyman candidate Clarence Norman Jr. was the one who pleaded guilty to larceny charges and resigned earlier this year. (Turns out that was Roger Green, Clarence Norman is just under indictment for larceny. Sigh.)
I had been walking around with the ballot in my bag for days, each time remembering I needed to fill it out long after the post office was closed.
Luckily, today, I happened upon this post allowing me to “spasm with frustration” just in time to make it before closing.
I was going to leave a snarky comment on the post cleverly titled “Don’t Be Like Spain” (because you know, we were attacked three years ago and if you don’t re-elect George Bush the terrorists win), but instead decided casting my ballot for KE04 was much more important.
But then, because I am a narcissist who likes to see her thoughts in print, decided to post about my decision to vote instead of bitch.
The notion that:

“If we, in a spasm of frustration, turn out the current occupant of the White House, the message to the world and ourselves will be twofold. First, we will reject the notion that America can do big things. Once a nation that tamed a frontier, stood down the Nazis and stood upon the moon, we will announce to the world that bringing Democracy to the Middle East is too big of a task for us. But more significantly, we will signal to future presidents that as voters, we are unwilling to tackle difficult challenges, preferring caution to boldness, embracing the mediocrity that has characterized other Civilizations,” is sadly twisted.
America has been, is and always will be more than one man.

President Bushes come and go (two already, by my count) and time will tell how history records them, but I know for certain that America will be no less than she is for their having led her for what amounts to less than a blink of history’s eye. If George W. is done on January 20th, America will still be the great land of opportunity, diversity and charity that it was under Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, Clinton and would be under Kerry.
To claim otherwise is to cheapen the heavy price our forebears paid in blood during the Revolutionary war, the Civil War and the Civil Rights movement.
I get it. You like George W. and his policies, good for you, go cast your ballot that way — but don’t equate my great nation with him and insinuate that if he loses, America will swim in mediocrity.
My feelings about Bush’s presidency are no secret, it has sucked diddly-ucked from the first second to right now.
I don’t agree with his policies on gay rights, civil rights, progressive taxation, separation of powers, women’s right to medical care, human rights, etc.
But at no point have I ever thought, oh well, the United States sucks now.
The President is just one of our citizenry. Sure, he’s got really cool cars and his own plane, but he gets one vote, just like the rest of us.
This isn’t 17th Century France when the King could say “L’estat est moi” and so it was.
What if Bush chokes to death on a pretzel? Or is fatally wounded in a bicycle riding accident? So too goes the Republic?
Could there be a smaller thought than to shrink this country to the size of a five-ten, 170 pound man?
Could there be a thought more French?
Right now, George Bush may be the face of the nation, but he ain’t the nation.
Our fiber is crafted out of the threads of liberty by the hands of the enterprising and idealistic, America is infinitely more than George Bush’s Smirky McSwagger or John Kerry’s patrician good looks, nothing that happens on November 3rd is going to change that.
If the author of this piece (and those who cheer it) really believe that “America is at a once-in-a-generation crossroads, more than an election hangs in the balance,” they have missed the whole point of our grand experiment and forgotten what America is really about.
Of course, if it’s just partisan rhetoric to get your guy re-elected, well, then, that’s the spirit and I hope all the young people who don’t want to get drafted go out in droves and vote for John Kerry.