The World Hates Bush; I Don't.
One of the biggest reasons I am a staunch Bush supporter is because of the heavily illogical hateful vitriol that is slung at Bush on a daily basis. Granted, it is our American duty to keep the President in check. I, for one, would never unconditionally support a president because of a blind loyalty to a party. There are different kinds of leaders for different times. But, oh how I wish we all could come to a compromise, vote Bush to office for two more years, then have a whole new election without an incumbent to bash relentlessly.
It does not create a conductive atmosphere to exchange political views and possibly carrying some sway if you are confronted with a constant barrage of "IT'S THE OIL! HALLIBURTON!" whenever you try to have a productive debate on the merits of our presidential candidates. I want to hear WHY John Forbes Kerry would make a BETTER choice than George Walker Bush. To this day, I have never heard more than one convincing argument at a time. I do not want to be grabbing at hopeful "plans", blind of Kerry's "big picture." It seems like only Kerry knows the details for his multitudes of "plans."
I really want to debate why or why not we should drill for oil in Alaska, so we can cut off our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. I do not support the drilling of oil in the ANWR, but what other choice do we have, save for a revolutionary discovery of free energy tomorrow? I do not want to see "HALLIBURTON!" screamed into my eyes. Debating the role of Halliburton in our government is completely legitimate, but a one-way argument about "CHEATNEY AND HALLIBURTON!" without considering my input does not convert any voter knowledgeable of all kinds of issues to the Kerry side.
Now, with Kerry not being able to show WHY and HOW he will be a better president than Bush, and the constant excrement that is flung at Bush just makes me defend my position more vigorously. The constant attacks without letting us get our 2-cents worth in just makes us more deeply entrenched in our positions. How do you expect to have an "unity" if Kerry wins? It was not us that started the dividing. It was a doctor, Dr. Dean, who created the first incision of the American Great Divide.
Take this article as an example. How do you expect an American to feel if the world says they hate America? It does not make me want to be their friends. It is just like being bullied in elementary school, but it is funny, the roles are reversed. The one, big bully giant is surrounded by hundreds of tiny, scrawny little children, and the bullies' few smaller, but still big allies, are surrounded by the same nippy crowd. But what to do if the big bullies are good and the small bullies are bad?
I do not consider the world's hatred of Bush a great thing. Consider the article I just linked to- the author says in the article:
"Throughout the debate, John Kerry, for his part, looks and sounds a bit like a haunted tree. But at least he's not a lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat. And besides, in a fight between a tree and a bush, I know who I'd favour.
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
When reading the article, I was digging my trench even deeper, but when I got to that point where he openly called for an assassin, my blood instantly chilled. I really hope that the Secret Service follows up on Charlie Booker. We do not need people in foreign countries openly calling for the assassination of President Bush. That only emboldens those who would actually do it, with the idea that the world would be supportive of the murderer of our President.
Friends and allies do not openly call for the murder of other friends. Enemies do. That is NOT the way to get me to discard my vote for President Bush.
By the way, it would be VERY easy for me to do just that. Please just give me a better candidate than John F. Kerry. In all truth, there is not very much in President Bush's favor on the scales, but Kerry has barely any counterweight. Saying that a Bush victory will disprove the existence of God is not very helpful for the feather- like weight Kerry is holding.
It does not create a conductive atmosphere to exchange political views and possibly carrying some sway if you are confronted with a constant barrage of "IT'S THE OIL! HALLIBURTON!" whenever you try to have a productive debate on the merits of our presidential candidates. I want to hear WHY John Forbes Kerry would make a BETTER choice than George Walker Bush. To this day, I have never heard more than one convincing argument at a time. I do not want to be grabbing at hopeful "plans", blind of Kerry's "big picture." It seems like only Kerry knows the details for his multitudes of "plans."
I really want to debate why or why not we should drill for oil in Alaska, so we can cut off our dependence on Middle Eastern oil. I do not support the drilling of oil in the ANWR, but what other choice do we have, save for a revolutionary discovery of free energy tomorrow? I do not want to see "HALLIBURTON!" screamed into my eyes. Debating the role of Halliburton in our government is completely legitimate, but a one-way argument about "CHEATNEY AND HALLIBURTON!" without considering my input does not convert any voter knowledgeable of all kinds of issues to the Kerry side.
Now, with Kerry not being able to show WHY and HOW he will be a better president than Bush, and the constant excrement that is flung at Bush just makes me defend my position more vigorously. The constant attacks without letting us get our 2-cents worth in just makes us more deeply entrenched in our positions. How do you expect to have an "unity" if Kerry wins? It was not us that started the dividing. It was a doctor, Dr. Dean, who created the first incision of the American Great Divide.
Take this article as an example. How do you expect an American to feel if the world says they hate America? It does not make me want to be their friends. It is just like being bullied in elementary school, but it is funny, the roles are reversed. The one, big bully giant is surrounded by hundreds of tiny, scrawny little children, and the bullies' few smaller, but still big allies, are surrounded by the same nippy crowd. But what to do if the big bullies are good and the small bullies are bad?
I do not consider the world's hatred of Bush a great thing. Consider the article I just linked to- the author says in the article:
"Throughout the debate, John Kerry, for his part, looks and sounds a bit like a haunted tree. But at least he's not a lying, sniggering, drink-driving, selfish, reckless, ignorant, dangerous, backward, drooling, twitching, blinking, mouse-faced little cheat. And besides, in a fight between a tree and a bush, I know who I'd favour.
On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
When reading the article, I was digging my trench even deeper, but when I got to that point where he openly called for an assassin, my blood instantly chilled. I really hope that the Secret Service follows up on Charlie Booker. We do not need people in foreign countries openly calling for the assassination of President Bush. That only emboldens those who would actually do it, with the idea that the world would be supportive of the murderer of our President.
Friends and allies do not openly call for the murder of other friends. Enemies do. That is NOT the way to get me to discard my vote for President Bush.
By the way, it would be VERY easy for me to do just that. Please just give me a better candidate than John F. Kerry. In all truth, there is not very much in President Bush's favor on the scales, but Kerry has barely any counterweight. Saying that a Bush victory will disprove the existence of God is not very helpful for the feather- like weight Kerry is holding.
2 Comments:
Mr. Lamberton,
You made a valid point about how we should present ourselves into what there should be: A constructive debate on which candidates will lead this country best.
I agree with you that neither "Hallibuton Oil" or, my own addition, the continous labeling of "Flip-Flop" tactics are helping us to address the question properly.
I believe the bottom of the problem is our unhealthy dependence toward oil. Both team offer very limiting optiions. For Bush/Cheney, there are more hole that need to be drilled at place like you have mentioned, Alaska. Kerry/Edward, I am not very sure what they plan for that is. however I do know that they are much less attached to the whole business of oil.
I want to see more long term solution than Bush Administration would have offer us. I mean, opening up a new oil reservation will only delay or even distract us from addressing the situation for time being. I believe time is luxury here. I was looking for much more outlined plan or road blueprint of how will this nation walk out of this excessive dependence on the oil. The same nation consumed 60 percent of world oil supply annually.
Only for this discussion, I am pulling the Hillburton card. Not to paint Cheney as cheater or something like that. But this is to illustrate how much unlikehood that Bush/Cheney Adminstration would be aggressively led this necessary intiative. Cheney is not being short-sighted or stupid, he just being practical with common sense who have his own interest.
For me, reducing the oil dependence is very important issues as it be become more of political priority as i believe it will increasingly becoming most common source of future global struggle/conflict. As for now, I am not at all satisfied by either parties' attention on the issues but the fact that the adminstration now have a stake on the business kind did tilted me over to the other side. I mean, would you entrust lawyers tasks of solving all of this country's crime problem? I believe if you are as practical with common sense as Cheney are, you would have say "No"
But again.. It's all depend on how you answer to the question of how does the issue of our depdence on oil rate at your priority..
the main reason why i'm voting for kerry: he's pro-choice even though he's against abortion (as I am, also). why should you legislate women's choices? why worry about what decisions the others make with their lives? - kaybee
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