The Lesser of Two Evils Still Ain't That Great

Well, kiddies, it's the day before the great elections in the US. The two primary candidates, as if we haven't been inundated by merciless anti-campaigns, are George W. Bush and John Kerry. I don't think I could tell you the names of their running mates if my life depended on it, and, with the state of political affairs worldwide, it might very well be.

Neither one of them are that great, to be honest with you. George likes to bomb the hell out of anyone who's got what he wants, and John is pretty damned hard to understand if you start trying to make sense of what he's saying. You think you got it, and then all of a sudden he's double-back like some kind of political Gordian knot. Brutal.

Many people think that the choice is obvious, that Kerry will be a better leader than Bush, if for no reason than he's not Bush. Ordinarily, I'd agree, especially since we've already had two of the Bushes in office. I know what my choice would be if I cared enough to exert my right to vote (EvilMister has, through a quirk of fate and a mother who went to Woodstock, dual citizenship), but let's consider something.

John Kerry went to Vietnam and did that thing. Who's to say that it didn't fuck him right up? Lots of people came back from that police action with a noodle full of nightmares. Didn't we cover this kind of thing in The Manchurian Candidate? I mean, we know Bush is a nutcase, and if you watch his debates and speeches, it really looks like he'd rather be at Yuk-Yuk's doing stand-up. So what if Kerry doesn't have the stones to get the troops out of Iraq and that situation falters. Or worse, what if his head is buzzing like a bonnet full of bees, and we don't find out until he goes apeshit one night ... Other than that one concern, Kerry's my man, 'cuz his daughters are sexy. Plus, EvilMister has a lie detector built into his brain, and once you sift past all the rhetorical bullshit and obligatory grandstanding, Kerry seems like a guy genuinely interested in helping his country out of the deep hole they dug.

Bush is a man driven by non-political desires, and has allegiances to people and ideals that, even in a political system as desperately in need of an overhaul as the US adhere to, simply should not be there. Any intelligent thinking person (I know I just lost at least 3/4 of the population) has seen Farenheit 9/11. And if you haven't, and you think you're entitled to an opinion about this electoral race, do yourself a favor and check it out. Download it, rent it, do what the fuck ever. It doesn't take a genius to realize that Michael Moore slanted his take on the Bush Administration, but that was poetic licence, in order to make his point that much more apparent. Bush is not a president for the people. He isn't. He is a mouthpiece, a puppet for his Poppa and guys who're on an entirely different wavelength. He has, as far as I can tell, no real concerns about his own backyard, looking instead to turn the U.S. of A into the superpower it once was.

I got news for you, Bush, the superpowers don't exist the way they once did, and if you get back into office, sooner or later, someone is gonna get tired of having the spastic kid on the block kicking sand into everyone's faces.