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On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:46:27 -0500, HK wrote:

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On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 07:55:46 -0800 (PST), Tim
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John, it will still all be Bush's fault.


The unfortunate reality is that the next administrator will be
devoting most or all of it's energy to fixing what Bush has destroyed,
rather than moving the country forward very much. I wouldn't be at all
surprised if that is the task of the next 3 or 4 administrations.
Dropping a coffee mug on the floor and shattering it into a million
pieces is a lot easier and faster than trying to put it back together.




Yep, this fall's election is going to be fun.

I can't imagine any sane, intelligent, caring person thinking there is
anything gleeful to be had in this election.



A journalist I like managed to sum it up nicely:

After debacles in Iraq and New Orleans and mushrooming scandals that exposed
much of Congress and the Cabinet as a low-rent crime family hired to collect
protection money for the likes of Halliburton and Pfizer, people simply do
not trust the politicians they vote for to be anything less than an
embarrassment. You get the sense they approach the upcoming election with
the enthusiasm of a two-time loser offered a selection of plea deals.

People hate the mechanized speeches, they hate the negative ads, and they
especially hate venomous news creatures, myself included. It's now so bad
that a poll last month found that fifty-six percent of all likely voters
agreed with the phrase that the presidential race is "annoying and a waste
of time" - a shocking number, given that it excludes the forty to fifty
percent of Americans who already don't vote in presidential races.

People don't want to feel this way, but the attitude everywhere is the same:
What choice do these assholes give us? And it's that grim prejudice that has
pervaded this process for a generation, forcing the public to choose from an
endless succession of lesser evils and second- raters of the Kerry-Dole
genus, stuffed suits who offered nothing like a solution to the main problem
of feeling like **** about the American civic experiment.