Bush is, in my estimation, adequate as President, but not much more. I've thought that all along -- which is why you've never seen the kind of lyrical praise of Bush here that once appeared at Andrew Sullivan's place, or the kind of disappointment with Bush you see at Sullivan's place now. But in a world of goofy-looking yet pompous empty suits, the adequate man is . . . President. And the Democrats made sure that this was the choice we had in 2004.
Yep.
Just felt like a Rant. I’m in California on a business trip, and I’m in the worst part of California, the North Bay in San Francisco, so I’m surrounded by elitist-yuppie-scum who think they are so enlightened and liberal, when really they are the worst sort of snobs, Mercedes-driving-hippies. I got stuck behind this car on the freeway that was belching black smoke as it proudly proclaimed that it ran on “free used vegetable oil”. No doubt that was why it smelled like burnt french fries.
It’s only been 2 days of gritting my teeth while listening to this claptrap about how the US has killed 100,000 Iraqis (27,000, and that’s about 1/12th of what Saddam would have killed in a year), how our soldiers are nazis, how Iraq is Vietnam, how their free speech is being oppressed, all the same tired rhetoric I became a blogger to escape, and already I’m about to explode.
So here goes.
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Having a blog, I get some weird emails sometimes.
During the election campaign season, I got this comment (excerpted) on this posting:
I was framed in Texas during the year of 2001 by Bush and some of his thugs and later convicted for a crime that I did not commit. Although the case is presently at the appeallate level, I do consider myself living proof of the corrupt and incompetent policies of this man.
Just for fun, I emailed him, and asked him what that was about. Instead of telling me, he instead sent the documents from his appeal, which were full of wild allegations about conspiracies by various people. So I had to wade through quite a bit of nonsense to get at the facts (according to him). Turns out, it was actually 1983 that it all happened. As near as I could tell by reading between the lines what happened to this guy was something like this:
Basically, this Columbian gentleman is legally blind in one eye, and he gets doubled blurry vision. He can drive, but it causes him problems. He’s hanging around in some small town in Texas (Seguin). These 2 13 year old girls pick him up, telling him they’re quite a bit older (remember, he’s legally blind in one eye). While he’s having sex with one of them, the other one is busy stealing his wallet and car keys. He passes out, and wakes up, and his car is gone.
In other words, he got rolled. It happens. So he calls the police…
Except they’re underage. So when they get caught with the car, they accuse him of raping one of them. It turns out that one of the “girls” wasn’t a girl anyways, it was a boy dressed as a girl. He/she was the one stealing the car. I expect that by law, pretty much none of the stuff they did to him matters. By his own admission to the police, he had sex with them. (“I had sex with these girls and they stole my car.”) So he’s doomed, since by law in Texas, the police are required to prosecute him for statutory rape. They’re also probably not accountable for the car theft. Also, since the girls were underage, the press was barred from the proceedings…
He’s not a citizen. So he gets deported, and then convicted. For some reason, that takes until 2001 before it happens. All told, that’s probably the best possible outcome for him. It would be much worse for him if he’d been sent to jail. As it is, he’s at least a free man in Columbia. There’s a reason we call young girls who dress older and go around drunk “jailbait”…
Of course, he doesn’t see it that way.
To him, this is all a conspiracy by the Bush family to bankrupt him, not just bad luck and perhaps bad eyesight. From the last email I got from him:
Eight of my law suits were filed in Federal Courts in Missouri.
The first thing President George Bush did after taking office was to appoint the former governor of Missouri “Mr. Ashcroft” as the U.S Attorney General. What a coincidence since he is not quite known as a great legal mind.
My name is Jesus “Alberto”, and the closest town to my place of residence in Texas was the city of “Gonzales”.
Well guess what? President George Bush jr. did appoint as the WHite House counsel a Mexican with the name of “Alberto Gonzales”.
Is all of these just coincidence?? I assure you that it is not the case.
Er, ok dude. I’m sure you’re a legend in your own mind, but I really doubt that you’re important enough to warrant 5 minutes of Bush’s time.
Naturally, this guy was a Kerry supporter, or at least an “Anybody but Bush” guy. I suspect he would have been just as mad at Clinton if his trial had been held in 2000 though.
Just thought I’d share. I wonder what he thinks about Alberto replacing Ashcroft?
Once the Kerry campaign learns to do math in the morning
I don’t know why this morning would be any different. The Kerry campaign could never do budget math, what makes you think they could do electoral math?
And I’ve only been somewhat sympathetic to the Swift Vets. I read their book, and found that they were more angry at Kerry for his anti-war activities then anything else they talked about.
But I think the Swift Vets, if anything, showed that we really mistreated our Vietnam vets, that there was this huge underlying anger by them against the media image of Vietnam veterans. The Swift Vets tapped into that to transfer some of that anger to Kerry. How appropriately, I cannot say.
But I think that all of us, left or right, should watch this video. If you’re a Kerry supporter, ignore the anti-Kerry part of the message at the beginning and end, but watch the images of our soldiers in Vietnam doing good instead of evil. Its too bad we had to have an election to see those images.
I don’t know if this is true or not, but it should be…
Supposedly “Kerry” sounds like Kiri in Kurdish, which means “his penis”.
From Anticipatory Retaliation which had an interesting round up of Iraqi opinions on the candidates. (Only one was for Kerry.)
