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Kerry Should Have Won and I’m Bitter

I’m dissapointed today that it has to come down to counting provisional ballots in Ohio for the Kerry Campaign. I do not think another Bush administration will serve the people of this country as well as I believe a Kerry (democratic) administration would have. I have strong convictions that guided me to vote for Kerry on Tuesday, and I pray that those who voted for Bush had strong convictions as well. The decissions 51% of the population made on Election Day instills a sense of uneasyness in me, that I don’t think will go away soon.

Despite the past four years of the current Bush administration, these people came out anyway and asked for another 4 years from this man. I can say that I’ve only been a cognizant, aware citizen since about 1994, however, in the last 4 years, I am sure in myself that George W. Bush has been the single most destructive power in American politics since I can remember (and History has shown me).

I have explained to a lot of my friends and anyone who will listen, why I believe GWB has been utterly destructive during his term in office. Starting with the botched election of 2000, which the Democratic party took it in the ass, royally without making any noise or sounding the alarms.

This year, however, it’s not clearlyy a Democrat failure or GOP victory (maybe except in the House and Senate) in my impression. I see it as a failure of the system as a whole. People talk every election year about election reform but nothing really happens. There should be NO disenfranchised voters, yet: Hundreds of thousands of absentee votes in most states have not been tallied, more voters turned away from polling locations or given misleading information causing them to walk out of polls without voting, and thousands of people were in line at 1:00AM EST in most states (like mine, Pennsylvania) where polls closed at 8:00PM EST. Why can’t the election span atleast two days to allow EVERYONE who wants to vote, the ability to do so? The current constraints of our countries election process has always disenfranchised low-income, single parent households who can’t take the time off from their job to vote, many of them working multiple jobs, and taking care of families. We had roughly 13 hours (nationwide) for 105 some odd million people to vote.

I won’t go into a long and boring tirade about my views on the political structure of this country and why I think confusion and lies from four years of the Bush administration led a lot of people to vote for GWB, again. However, I will leave you all with these final words. A quote that I got off IRC:

"This country is full of idiots who elected their favorite idiot."

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11/03/2004 | Current Events, General, Life, Rants | Comments

2 Responses to “Kerry Should Have Won and I’m Bitter”

Posted by: Christy - 11/05/2004

Scary, isn’t it, that 51% of the voting American public voted for Bush?

And just think about the tactics used–get the religious right all fired up about gay marriage to draw attention away from the war that some are calling our generation’s Vietnam.

It does make me wonder what can be done about election reform, though. This system clearly isn’t working.
Posted by: michaeltoe - 11/29/2004

What disgusts me is that people are calling George Bush a strong leader. Scaring the hell out of your supporters is not a way to control the situation, yet ‘terror’ was their number one campaign slogan. Appointing advisors on the basis that they agree with everything you say is a piss poor decision for anyone to make. You aren’t a good leader if your only objective is to stay in power. You’re a weak leader if you can’t respond to your detractors.

There’s this veneer of solidarity among the right, but it’s total bullshit. They couldn’t even pass their own legislation on 9/11. They’re all just terrified, and they certainly don’t have a coherent worldview. Yet liberals are allowing themselves to be cast as ‘out of touch’… it’s very pathetic.