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November 12, 2004
Greetings From Red America

It's 5:45 a.m. (Seattle time) and I'm being forced to spend several hours in George Bush Intercontinental Airport, which I'm totally psyched about. I have a "No Dubya" pin displayed rather prominently on my backpack (get your very own!), so I'm hoping people notice that. I'm anti this airport's namesake's son, and I want everybody to know it.

It's decidedly strange to be here. I feel like I landed in a different country, a place in which I could never imagine living. I'm sure there's a Democrat somewhere between here and Austin, but I bet he won't admit it.

When we were waiting in the Jetway™ to board the plane in Seattle, two guys behind us noticed my button and started talking to each other about Bush. The first said that he was, "a huge fan of George W" and had recently met a couple of people in Alaska who completely stopped talking to him when they found out he was a Bush supporter. He and his friend seemed pretty incredulous that people felt that strongly about Bush. The first guy said, "I guess I just like him 'cuz he's from Texas." His friend said, "I feel protected." They then both agreed that it really doesn't make any difference to them who the president is, one even going so far as to say that, "they don't have any real power anyway. Congress has to approve everything they do." His friend agreed.

The exchange really worked on my last nerve, as you can imagine. And for so many different reasons! First, they're mere status as Bush fans was enough to get my bile rising. Their surprise at people having strong feelings about the election fits perfectly with their complete ignorance of the importance and power of the office of president and how much direct influence that one man has on the lives of millions, even billions of people for years well beyond his time in office. It's hard to imagine how someone could seriously think that the direction the country is headed hasn't changed significantly over the past four years. I suppose if people look at only their own lives, it's possible that not much has changed for them, but what an unimaginably self-centered little world they must live in.

Off to Mexico.

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George W. Bush is so obviously evil, so obviously derranged, that no right thinking person could possibily find anything about him worth voting for. I don't know anyone who voted for Bush. It must all be a grand conspirary. Just look at him: he's so stupid and ape-like, and yet so crafty and tied into the grand Neocon intellectual conspiracy. His incompetance in the prosecution of the war is matched only by his fiendish cleverness in making money for Helliburton. His name isn't George W. Bush, it's Legion! And yet, that would be a Christian allusion, and we all know how full of crap those Jesus freaks are. I mean, don't even get me started on that God thing...

So you've finally decided to leave. I would have guessed Canada to be honest, with its proximity and all. But Mexico's cool. You know what they say in Mexico - "Donde esta el biblioteca?" Seriously. And "Tengo tres zapatos blancos." Just a heads up.

Fritz, what the hell are you talking about?

Very odd.

A rather clumsy attempt at parody. Criticism of George W. Bush can at times be very trying, mainly because it attempts to encompase everything and nothing.

Even meeting people who support Bush raises your Bile. You imagine that those people would have to be stupid, if not evil, to support bush. Your position is so privilidged that no one with an ounce of sense could deny its validity. And on and on...

My comment was just a rather clumsy, and apparently ineffective, attempt to show the ridiculousness of your rather knee jerk condemnation.

Fritz, you mischaracterize what I wrote.

It is true that Bush supporters raise my bile. This is because I have a deeply held belief that he is a terrible, awful president and that he (and others) have deceived millions of Americans into supporting a government that is becoming ever more dangerous, deceitful and oppressive, while providing ever less of the benefits and protections a just government should. This is my opinion. I do not believe that all Bush supporters are stupid, but I do believe that they are misguided. This is a natural consequence of feeling that the man they support is terribly misguided.

My strongest reaction to the two guy at the airport, and the one my post focused on (though you focused your response on an aside), was their contention that "it doesn't really matter anyway." This strikes me as an inexcusably self-centered viewpoint and I think this type of attitude is one of the major underlying causes of many of the ills I see in our country.

My condemnation of people who believe that who sits in the Oval Office isn't really all that important was not knee-jerk, but considered, and I stand by it.

nice work fritz, semi-coherent bombast in the place of critical thought. wow, that pretty much describes the right.

The correct term is "Incoherent," Rykyard.

The right is incoherent and incapable of critical thought. Those who disagree with me are stupid. Since the right disagrees with me, they must be stupid. If I say they are stupid enough times maybe my party, which is otherwise in disaray and incapable of coming to terms with Middle America, will win an election. I hate Middle America. Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid Stupid.