The very milk of human kindness and the spirit of love compel me to write this note to you. I know that things have been a bit rough for you during the past few weeks. I thought it might be a nice gesture if I tried to say a few things to cheer you up, or at the very least let you know that I empathize with you.
Perhaps it would help if I started out here by telling you that I did not vote for George W. Bush in 2000. Feel better? Well, now that we find ourselves standing on some common ground, can we talk?
Is it safe to say that we’re all in this thing together? We do want the same things, don’t we? We want to be safe in our homes and protected from the actions of Islamic terrorists. We want to be free to pursue our life’s work and to use the results of our hard work for ourselves, our families and our future; and this we want to do with a minimum of government interference … right?
So, it is from our shared goals and dreams that I ask you to accept my sincere expression of condolences for the way this campaign is turning out for you.
We’ve connected now, so you can speak openly. I can see the pain in your eyes. I understand. You so-wanted to beat Bush in this election. Beating Bush was more important than almost anything else in your life. You don’t like his arrogance, you don’t like the way he talks, you don’t like the way he walks, and you constantly feel like he’s smirking at you. What’s not to hate? And on top of all this, he stole that election in Florida, right?
Yeah, sure he did.
I must tell you that I rather admire the way you’ve managed to ignore the fact that every single recount in Florida, even a recount handled by a media consortium unfriendly to Bush, showed Al Gore lost. This is all the more infuriating when you consider that Gore would have won if he had just managed to carry his home state! But then there’s that conveniently ignored fact that the networks’ call of Florida for Bush an hour before the polls closed in the heavily conservative Florida panhandle might have cost Bush as much as 12,0000 votes.
Now you’re beginning to learn the truth about this candidate you’ve bought. In short, you’ve discovered that you bought a lemon. I understand. You were so very anxious to get the primary circus over and done with, chose a champion, and ride off to battle against the forces of darkness. You were so anxious, so eager that you drove the wrong car off the showroom floor. You would like to return it now, but you’re too many miles down the campaign road, and there’s no lemon law in politics.
Look, I just have to ask: How is it that you selected this candidate without knowing that he had absolutely nothing to run on, and I do mean nothing, except four months in Vietnam? Didn’t it occur to you that you might want a candidate with at least some record of accomplishment over a twenty-year period of service in the Senate?
Back to this car analogy: Please tell me that you would at least take a look under the hood before you buy a car. Tell me that you would at least turn the key and start the engine to see how it sounds. Does it purr or cough its way to life? This car won’t cruise, my friend. It has an old motor that evidently couldn’t even pull its own weight 35 years ago! Just since you’re convention they’ve issued so many revisions to the operating manual that you are having trouble keeping up. All this, and the evil Bush yet to be officially nominated!
Now you’re finding out that the service records for your 2004 Kerry may have been altered! Questions are being asked about that four-month period of heavy-duty operation decades ago. Maybe your Kerry didn’t perform as well as you’ve been told!
We’re friends, right? So let’s cut to the chase. You know you really didn’t want a 2004 Kerry in the first place. You wanted a Hillary! Just think about those sleek, curvy lines, that flashy grille, the soft upholstery. What’s not to love? Come on and admit it. That’s your real goal. Hillary Clinton in the White House, a liberal nirvana. You panicked, though, and bought the first shiny thing you saw on the showroom floor.
Well, this isn’t the way to go about it, my friend. If your dream version of America is Hillary in the White House, then beating Bush in 2004 is not going to move you closer to your goal. It’s time for you to put the overpowering emotion of hatred aside and try to think a few years ahead. If this 2004 Kerry of yours takes this race you’re probably going to be stuck with him for eight years. During those eight years they’re going to be polishing up a 2012 Edwards to take his place. All the while your Hillary is going to be collecting rust in the Senate.
I’m going to suggest the unthinkable. Look ahead! Plan! Set aside your desire for instant gratification to pursue your true dream! Go ahead and let Bush have these next four years. Spend that time getting your Hillary into racing form. Who are the Republicans going to run in 2008, Cheney? You’ll have the pole locked up!
Hold on! Was that a wink? Am I missing something here? <\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"","numcomment":18,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/08\/116191.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":116194,"heading":" he stole that election in Florida, right?\r\n\r\nYeah, sure he did.","article":"Yes- yes, he did. \r\nSo what's he doing in the White House?","author":"ever more","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 03:43:40","modified":"2004-08-27 03:43:40","fileurl":""},{"id":116196,"heading":"Here's how","article":"...every single recount in Florida, even a recount handled by a media consortium unfriendly to Bush, showed Al Gore lost. This is all the more infuriating when you consider that Gore would have won if he had just managed to carry his home state!<\/B> \r\n
\r\nBut then there\u2019s that conveniently ignored fact that the networks\u2019 call of Florida for Bush an hour before the polls closed in the heavily conservative Florida panhandle might have cost Bush as much as 120,000 votes. \r\n
\r\nFlush Hanoi John.<\/B>\r\n","author":"Kerry Ketchup Toss","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-08-27 07:08:33","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:43","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/08\/alcap.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/08\/alcap.jpg"}},{"id":116199,"heading":"Hee hee hee hee","article":"This shit is hoot! November 2 is gonna be a sad day for the neocons. Talk about rude awakenings!","author":"Kerry Admirer","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 11:11:34","modified":"2004-08-27 11:11:34","fileurl":""},{"id":116207,"heading":"fresca","article":""But then there\u2019s that conveniently ignored fact that the networks\u2019 call of Florida for Bush an hour before the polls closed in the heavily conservative Florida panhandle might have cost Bush as much as 120,000 votes. "\r\n\r\nCan't repost this enough.\r\n\r\nClearly Gore tried and failed to steal the election...numerous times.\r\n\r\nFace it, Bush won fair and square in spite of Demeocratic efforts at stealing the election.\r\n\r\nAnd by the way, I don't really care who gets elected in Nov as long as my hugely inflated tax bill is at least going to fund a massive series of invasions into Syria, Iran and "palestine".","author":"absolutely","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 14:02:11","modified":"2013-11-11 00:30:43","fileurl":""},{"id":116209,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"...all you gotta do is put up a post mentioning the obvious, that da shrub stole the election...\r\n\r\n\r\n....and the waft of the shitpile will not be far behind....\r\n\r\n\r\nSo shitpile, prepping some whopper excuses for the inevitable? How PREDICTABLE....\r\n\r\n...and how is it that you can even wipe your ass without Iranians, Syrians and PALESTINIANS getting in the way, you poor paranoid little thing?","author":"KPC","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 14:46:55","modified":"2004-08-27 14:46:55","fileurl":""},{"id":116220,"heading":"See you at the polls, punkass","article":"and how is it that you can even wipe your ass without Iranians, Syrians and PALESTINIANS getting in the way, you poor paranoid little thing?<\/I>\r\n
\r\nSome people have quickly forgotten 9\/11. Thank the gods Bush didn't and the majority of Americans didn't.\r\n
\r\nLook for a Kerry ass-whipping this fall. \r\n\r\n","author":"Swift Boat Truth","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/html","created":"2004-08-27 17:19:04","modified":"2004-08-27 17:19:04","fileurl":""},{"id":116229,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"idiot: "Some people have quickly forgotten 9\/11"\r\n\r\n...what is it with you republicans and non-sequitors?\r\n\r\nI got news for ya, dingleberry; Syria, Iran and PALESTINE had nothing to do with 9\/11.\r\n\r\n...and I ain't too worried about you being at the polls, you couldn't find the first Tuesday in November if you had a calander tattooed on your dick.","author":"KPC","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 18:32:53","modified":"2004-08-27 18:32:53","fileurl":""},{"id":116232,"heading":"served like fries","article":""Some people have quickly forgotten 9\/11"\r\n\r\nhappy nutball: ...what is it with you republicans and non-sequitors?\r\n\r\n----I would think you one-worlder socialists would be a little more prescient about the interdependent nature of the world. \r\n\r\nhappy nutball: I got news for ya, dingleberry; Syria, Iran and PALESTINE had nothing to do with 9\/11.\r\n\r\n----Oh, but that's where you're wrong. They have EVERYTHING to do with it. The Arab world (minus Israel) is a collective of fatcat shieks and despots running tyrannical theocracies. Funny how the left rushes to defend these despots while accusing Bush of being the exact same thing. Such is life with the hate-America crowd. \r\n\r\n----This war and the many wars to come will end up being religious wars, in this case, civilized Christianity versus backwards, apeshit Islam. You think Syria, Iran and the Palestinian refugees (there is no "Palestine") and even our Saudi "allies" wouldn't like their very own nukes? Do you think the jyhad-holes aren't crazy enough to use them? \r\n\r\n----We had 8 years of head-in-the-sand democrap wimps apologizing every time some turbaned shitbag bombed us. Now things are a little different and the turbans are quite surprised they really __will__ be dying for Allah en masse.\r\n\r\n----I'd rather cut down and burn these pissant but dangerous wasp-nest nations long before they attack. "We can fight them over there a lot easier then we can in New York." \r\n\r\nhappy nutball: ...and I ain't too worried about you being at the polls, you couldn't find the first Tuesday in November if you had a calander tattooed on your dick.\r\n\r\n----Since, you're right, you might as well abstain from voting yourself and stay home that wonderful day when Kerry reverts from unworthy candidate back to spoiled french schoolboy. Did you know Kerry was in Viet Nam?","author":"Swift Boat Tooth","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","created":"2004-08-27 19:56:54","modified":"2005-08-15 03:01:41","fileurl":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/08\/owned.jpgqvkrw6.jpg","image":{"original":"\/usr\/local\/www-domains\/la.indymedia.org\/public\/uploads\/2004\/08\/owned.jpgqvkrw6.jpg"}},{"id":116233,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"toothless fuckknuckle: "You think...the Palestinian refugees (there is no "Palestine") ...wouldn't like their very own nukes?\r\n\r\n...can't even get fresh water and your worrying about refugees getting nukes? Launching them from intercontinental donkey carts?\r\n\r\n...yeah, whatever, ya fuckin nut. All I know is that there is only ONE country who has proven crazy enough to use nukes, and they weren't "jyhad-holes"...dickheads like you demonstrate that there is still an ample supply of such homegrown idiots laying around town....you don't have to go trawlin' around in far corners of the world.\r\n\r\nYou guys are fuckin' laughably nuts.....don't look now but I think there is an A-Rab (not an Israli, but Syrian, Iranian and PALESTINIAN mix) at your home drinking all your Bud Lite and fuckin your ugly wife (now who is terrorizing whom?)\r\n\r\n....better call Tom Ridge....DA BOOGYMAN IS COMING!\r\n\r\nwoooohooo, whadda fuckin' clown!\r\n\r\nnumbskull: "civilized Christianity versus backwards, apeshit Islam. "\r\n\r\n...that is after you "take care' of the Jews, right? Don't you fuckin' nazis know any other solutions?","author":"KPC","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 20:20:48","modified":"2004-08-27 20:20:48","fileurl":""},{"id":116234,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"idiot: "Since, you're right, you might as well abstain from voting yourself "\r\n\r\nSo I should not vote because you are too stupid to use a calendar?\r\n\r\n...um, I guess that does not classify as a non-sequitor, the best classification would be "republican logic" (ironic oxymoron fully intended).\r\n\r\n...I'll be votin' AND organizing, pobrecito...YOU, on the other hand, will have to wait until you are 18.","author":"KPC","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 20:25:44","modified":"2004-08-27 20:25:44","fileurl":""},{"id":116240,"heading":"reverse-midas asskicking","article":"doofus: ...can't even get fresh water and your worrying about refugees getting nukes? Launching them from intercontinental donkey carts? \r\n\r\n----the peace-loving, innocent paleshitstains still find time to strap bombs to their children and send them running at Israelis, when they're not "searching for water." \r\n\r\nAll I know is that there is only ONE country who has proven crazy enough to use nukes, and they weren't "jyhad-holes."\r\n\r\n----Oh, so you would've preferred the much higher death toll from invading Japan the old-fashioned way? Remember Pearl Harbor, dicknuts.\r\n\r\n...dickheads like you demonstrate that there is still an ample supply of such homegrown idiots laying around town....you don't have to go trawlin' around in far corners of the world. \r\n\r\n----the leftist is the cancer of the human race, a reverse- midas turning everything he touches to shit in the name of, "peace, love and utopia." Sorry, I don't have the luxury of being a head-in-the-sand (sand if you're lucky) utopian doofus. I live in the real world, where actions have consequences and Al Snore isn't be there to wipe your ass with taxpayer dollars.\r\n\r\nYou guys are fuckin' laughably nuts.....don't look now but I think there is an A-Rab (not an Israli, but Syrian, Iranian and PALESTINIAN mix) at your home drinking all your Bud Lite and fuckin your ugly wife (now who is terrorizing whom?) \r\n\r\n----Provided you still have the instructions on how to breathe tatooed on your arm, we'll see. Thanks for the pathetic childish insults, I use them to measure the algae in the pool. Your mental implosion is finally doing one of us some good.\r\n\r\n\r\ngenius: "civilized Christianity versus backwards, apeshit Islam. " \r\n\r\n...that is after you "take care' of the Jews, right? \r\n\r\n---Oy vey. The Jews are civilized contributors to the world. You're throwing monkey shit through the bars of your cage in the name of bomb-wearing paleshitstain stooges, the enemies of the Jews. so WTF, fool? \r\n\r\n----you are fascist fluff! nyah.\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Swift Boat Tooth","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 21:36:31","modified":"2004-08-27 21:36:31","fileurl":""},{"id":116241,"heading":"No sleep till kerry","article":"----I don't think you'll vote. Why needlessly subject yourself to the sting of losing after attempting to save the deathcart of the verykerrys?\r\n\r\n...um, I guess that does not classify as a non-sequitor, the best classification would be "republican logic" (ironic oxymoron fully intended).\r\n\r\n"Republican logic" is redundant, like "democrat bullshite." \r\n\r\n...I'll be votin' AND organizing, pobrecito...YOU, on the \r\nother hand, will have to wait until you are 18.\r\n\r\n---May the best non-socialist, non-maricon win. ","author":"Swift Boat Tooth","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 21:43:32","modified":"2004-08-27 21:43:32","fileurl":""},{"id":116245,"heading":"OneEyedMan","article":"pobrecito: "the peace-loving, innocent paleshitstains still find time to strap bombs to their children and send them running at Israelis, when they're not "searching for water." "\r\n\r\n...not only is he paranoid of every person a half shade lighter than his pastey ass...he is BUGGIN that children might be strappin' NUKES!!! WoooHOOOO wadda nut!\r\n\r\n\r\npinche puto: "the leftist is the cancer of the human race, a reverse- midas turning everything he touches to shit in the name of, "peace, love and utopia." Sorry, I don't have the luxury of being a head-in-the-sand (sand if you're lucky) utopian doofus. I live in the real world, where actions have consequences and Al Snore isn't be there to wipe your ass with taxpayer dollars. "\r\n\r\nGreat example your typical republican non-sequitor rant (pardon my redundancy)....a little winded, but it's got everything...sorta like Pee Wee's bicycle....\r\n\r\n\r\ncabron: "Provided you still have the instructions on how to breathe tatooed on your arm, we'll see."\r\n\r\nHey, think up you own insults you feebleminded fuck...it is "calendar" tattooed on your "dick"...remember? And "we'll" see what? Do YOU even know what the fuck you are writing for chrissakes?\r\n\r\nfegele: "You're throwing monkey shit through the bars of your cage in the name of bomb-wearing paleshitstain stooges, the enemies of the Jews. so WTF, fool? "\r\n\r\n...you can still jerk off over Jews and be a nazi...who do you think you are fooling ya wannabe goosestepper?\r\n\r\n\r\nlop sop fuck: "you are fascist fluff! nyah. "\r\n\r\nOooh, I am DEVASTATED...I am going home to bite my pillow!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\ndouche: "I don't think you'll vote."\r\n\r\n..that sentence in 40% too long...it should read "I don't think."\r\n\r\nbag: "May the best non-socialist, non-maricon win. "\r\n\r\n...just what I thought....junior ain't old enough to vote. So tell me JR...who do you think is gonna pat you on the head for being such a good republican cock sucker?\r\n","author":"KPC","parent_id":116191,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2004-08-27 22:27:58","modified":"2004-08-27 22:27:58","fileurl":""},{"id":116259,"heading":""one-eye"","article":"---Does the finnochio want to get multicultural with the insults? No problem, fafafini. I don't sweat culicagados. You're most likely a poor, ignorant peasant from a shithole country. Or the biggest loser of all: a poor failure in America who\u2019s had all the opportunities but failed anyway. \r\n\r\n---American morons only vote the donkey but down in Mexico the putas screw them.\r\n\r\n--(Now go cry to Jessie Jackson or Cesar Chavez right after your AIDS cocktail---which you wouldn't need if you didn't have so much cock in your tail). \r\n\r\n----First of all, you're not even the real KPC. The real KPC is **slightly** smarter. You're probably a fraud, but there's always the crack rock.\r\n\r\n---Do you know what's the greatest contribution of Mexico to the world, besides a losing soccer team? A rat-dog that says, "Yo quiero Taco Bell." \r\n\r\nGenius: "The leftist is the cancer of the human race, a reverse-Midas turning everything he touches to shit in the name of, \u2018peace, love and utopia.\u2019" \r\n\r\n---Ah, I have to wipe away the tears of pride at my own brilliance. And it's all so true. YOU couldn't forge a great sentence if you sat up all night with a thesaurus and an English book. BTW, DO you speak English? It's the other language of the conquerors of Mexico, you know. \r\n\r\nNon Gradus Anus Rodentum: Great example your typical republican non-sequitor rant (pardon my redundancy)....a little winded, but it's got everything...sorta like Pee Wee's bicycle... \r\n\r\n---The word you've tried to use and failed twice is spelled "non sequitur." Two posts of you spelling it wrong is quite enough. \r\n\r\n---And Jesus Christ, don't you bring PEE WEE into this. Your devastating debate skills don't need the magic of a pedophile with a talking chair.\r\n\r\n----Time for more diversity speech: Gaan kak in die mielies, trilkop. Hazaar lund teri gaand main, soover. \r\n\r\n---When Kerry loses, I'm only sorry I won't be there so see the crestfallen look on your face. \r\n\r\n---You\u2019re a nazi. You wear the swastika. You suck dick for joy on Hitler\u2019s birthday. You read Mein Kampf with one hand. You\u2019re a nazi. You\u2019re a heartless fascist who hates all people. You\u2019re not compassionate at all. You\u2019re a heartless drone who kick sleeping puppies. You\u2019re a nazi.\r\n\r\nRundi: Oooh, I am DEVASTATED...I am going home to bite my pillow! \r\n\r\n---In other words, you're back where ya started, bitch. HA HA HA HA! Post again whenever you want to be humiliated all over this site. \r\n\r\nWinner: "I don't think you'll vote." \r\n\r\nLoser: ..that sentence in 40% too long...it should read "I don't think." \r\n\r\n---Ho ho. You need to hit the bong again. You\u2019re flatlining, drugo.\r\n\r\nSuccess: "May the best non-socialist, non-maricon win. " \r\n\r\nFailure: ...just what I thought....junior ain't old enough to vote. So tell me JR...who do \r\n\r\n