Mood:
downNow Playing: dora the explorer in the background
it is now that we pretend that all the uncounted votes, by some fluke that denies the usefulness of sampling, will be for kerry, and despite his concession, he will win the office of the presidency
and, while we're at it, we must also pretend that upon actually taking office, he will reveal his greatest flip flop yet, pull all troops out of iraq, grant gays the right to marry, teens the right to abort, stem cells the right to be researched and whatever else might actually make him more than just a small degree different than his one and only opponent. they would have us believe that kerry and edwards were two of the most liberal senators around, like their liberalness was so horribly left that this country would have burned to the ground from the nightmare of their having been elected into executive positions. but, they weren't liberal enough. they weren't human enough (not that liberal and human are synonyms, of course). even cnn yesterday commented on how kerry seemed more like a real person in his concession speech than at any time in his campaign. i know, the democrats wanted a relatively middle-of-the-road candidate to have a chance, but if we still get a 50-50 (approximately) split, what's the point in conceding party principles? why not embrace the liberal ideals, get kerry out of the way and grab someone more liberal, like howard dean or... well, i'm sure there are plenty even more liberal than dean, far more liberal than kerry. if this nation is split, let's take advantage of it, and not try to win over the other side but actually enthuse our own side
and, rather than ignore the "third" parties, why not embrace them, use them to further our causes, even if they still can't feasibly win. maher and moore had the right idea in begging nader to get out of the race and support kerry. and, though i like the libertarian stance on a lot of things, they weren't even mentioned on news coverage, so, as far as american society goes (tv centric and all) they might as well not even exist, so why not morph into lobby organizations and back a major candidate?
insert a big sigh here
let's recount all the votes, let's reconsider all the voting systems, let's blame diebold and hanging chads and voter "challengers" and disenfranchising of minority (and criminal) voters, and let's pretend we didn't lose fairly. hell, we have no evidence that we didn't lose fairly. so, absent any evidence to the contrary, our assumptions must be correct. right? that's how the religious folk accept god, isn't it? we can't prove he doesn't exist so he must exist, cause how else can we have any purpose to our lives without god's plan to guide us? and, now, how else can this country move forward if we don't have emperor bush shoving us from behind?
watchlist for tonight:
- jeopardy. ken will, if the rumor is true, be losing sometime in the next couple weeks, maybe right before the upcoming college competition. but, still, though i've passed the test twice, they won't call me, the bastards
- somebody help me. having dropped survivor this season, i've actually considered giving the oc another try
- life as we know it... cause i'm a glutton for punishment. the narration bits are mostly redundant and unnecessary, the girls are still annoyingly given scenes on their own yet don't get narration bits, but there's still something oddly watchable here
- touching the void