I am not voting against Bush. I am voting for Kerry. There are plenty of reasons to vote against Bush, of course, and my opposition to him started early, before I had an inkling of who would run against him. It is no secret that I generally favor Democratic or Green positions over Republican or [...]
Archive for November 1st, 2004
Not Anyone But Bush
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 5 Comments »
You Have the Wrong God
Posted in Church & State, Culture, Politics, Religion on November 1, 2004 | 6 Comments »
George Bush, luckily, has the right one. At a recent Bush rally, his fans were told not only to support Bush, but, by implication, to convert to his religion: Before he went on stage, the country singer Lee Greenwood pumped up the crowd by saying Mr. Bush had “the right God.” Bush is a Methodist [...]
Buffoon-in-Chief
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 2 Comments »
Bush has a preternatural way of looking like a doofus. Some of it he can’t help – his chimpanzee smile and squinty eyes are genetic, and he seems to have some sort of hardwired melange of ticcy mannerisms and speech pathologies that he himself is hardly aware of. His apparent stupidity, after 4 years in [...]
Anti-Woman Women: Unwitting Self-Parody At Its Finest
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 5 Comments »
And on the flip side of the coin . . . while women in Afghanistan are struggling against back-breaking oppression, even to the point of murder, to claim their independence (see below), some American women are doing all they can to deny it to themselves and their sisters. The only good thing about right-wing self-oppressors [...]
Afghanistan: Its Women Are Its Future
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 3 Comments »
Hamida Ghafour is a brave and insightful Canadian-Afghani journalist who has spent over a year reporting on Afghanistan’s struggles and the continuing repression of women there. She has a brilliant article in the UK Arts Telegraph about her experience of hostility and repression in a country where every man thinks he owns every woman, and [...]
One More Day
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 1 Comment »
Watch the video.
A Simple Question
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 3 Comments »
After the latest OBL video came out, there was the usual talk of it benefiting Bush — apparently because scared people panic and vote for Bush. That conventional wisdom, like a lot of conventional wisdom, was quickly shown to be nonsense. The video had a negligible effect on the race. If anything, it help Kerry [...]
No Intimidation at Ohio Polls
Posted in Politics on November 1, 2004 | 6 Comments »
Republican voter supression operativs told to stay home.
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