- The Yale Alumni Club had a Reunion last night, and no
matta what the TV says, John Kerry kicked The Idiots ass.
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- We knew what would happen- we knew that there would be
no emergency last minute 512mb upgrade for Bushs Brain. We saw two Yalies
with lovely suits and overprivileged lives stand and deliver two versions
of the same bilateral horseshit we have been hearing for years, differing
here and there only in their syllabic locution and varying level of what
passes for erudition in a CNN world.
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- We watched two neatly coiffed rich white guys in makeup,
Faces- fronting for the two party sham, for the giant corporations that
really run this country and increasingly the Planet, as they split hairs
over meaningless merest details in a global dick swinging contest.
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- These are men bought and paid for by the same bosses,
brains washed in the same soap, who follow orders and know full well which
side of their low carb croissants are lavishly buttered, reading from two
sides of the same teleprompter, dancing to the same sickening tune without
the slightest sense of rhythm-- Siamese twins, joined at their self-interest
and in perfect zygotic congruence regarding just about everything, differing
only over the degree of politesse one employs when aodomizing some defenseless
ragheads or choosing which brown or yellow dudes are next in line to be
detonated in the name of Freedom, Democracy and our Lord Jesus Christ.
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- The real debate is neither Bush nor Kerry, but the system
they exemplify; it is the decline of true democracy and the rise of the
American "national security statein which people are sent to prison
and the key thrown away and whose leaders commit capital crimes in faraway
places, unhindered these days, terrorism having replaced the red menace,
another fake debate is under way. This is lesser evilism (John Pilger)
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- This is where the killing starts -- when debate is emptied
of reason so that the public is subject to a kind of mass media lobotomy
and fundamentally disenfranchised. What is the difference between not being
able to vote and not having anything meaningful to vote for? (Robert Fisk)
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- It's true that if John Kerry becomes president, some
of the oil tycoons and Christian fundamentalists in the White House will
changethe real concern is that in the new administration their policies
will continue. That we will have Bushism without Bush.
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- Those positions of real power - the bankers, the CEOs
- are not vulnerable to the vote (and in any case, they fund both sides).
The U.S. political system has been carefully crafted to ensure that no
one who questions the natural goodness of the military-industrial-corporate
power structure will be allowed through the portals of power (Arundhati
Roy)
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- While the 2004 ballot is setting up to be one of the
most divisive elections in history, campaign contributors to the candidates
are looking more similar than ever. Presidential Candidate John Kerry has
received increasingly more donations from employees of companies that have
historically made large donations to President George W. Bush's campaign
( http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/candidate.a
- spx?cid=1 ). In fact, Bush and Kerry now share four of
the same 10 largest donors this election cycle, all of whom are financial
corporations, according to a study by the Center for Public Integrity (
http://www.publicintegrity.org/bop2004/report.aspx?aid=374&sid=200
).
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- Regardless of who you plan to vote for in November (if
anyone at all), the assumptions behind ABB stand in the way of building
movements that can bring about political change.
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- We need to chart a course that looks beyond the election
to long-term efforts that will necessarily have to be independent of --
and oppositional to -- the Democrats, as well as the Republicans.We can't
do that while shilling for the Democrats, and letting them off the hook
- ABB -- Anybody But Bush -- is one of the most harmful
slogans progressives have put forward in decades.The slogan tells John
Kerry and the Democrats that they don't need to do anything to win our
vote. (Anthony Arnove)
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- With John Kerry on the ticket, the Democrats have ensured
a victory in November for the small but powerful pro-war special interests.
Kerry is their sleeper, their private Manchurian candidate. They face a
win-win scenario. Even if Kerry wins, the initial euphoria sparked by a
Bush-free White House will eventually be replaced by this reality: no matter
what Kerry and Edwards may have said from the podium in Boston, for most
of the world neither help nor hope is really on the way (Jeremy Scahill)
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- So where the hell does that leave We (the Group formerly
known as) The People? Hey, do I have to splain every little thing Lucy
?
- It leaves us walking into the voting booth with no real
choice, robbed of our ability to acquit our most fundamental obligation
as co-signatories to the Social Contract- With our BALLotS cut off.
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- Countertenors trying to sing Don Giovanni. One thing
we know is - They want it this way. They want the status exactly this quo,
because this is the way they make a living, and baby needs shoes.
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- The Vietnam War proves that John Kerry cant be President.
- The issue is not whether or not he was a hero in Vietnam,
or got shot in the ass, or deserved his medals.
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- The issue is- what did he do AFTER that, and whether
anyone would want a man who has done what Kerry did, to be handed the keys
to the car.
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- Once a War Criminal, then a fearless truth teller, deeply
aware and courageously vocal about his and Americas War Crimes, he has
made some of the most cowardly decisions in recent political history, by
becoming a stooge for the Democratic National Committee, ignoring his own
convictions, and pimping himself for his own gain.
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- When The Idiot George went All In on the flop, and bluffed
Kerry- (would Kerry have voted for the War had he known what he knows now-)
Kerry had the world in his hands.
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- He coulda been Ali finally coming off the ropes, and
throwing the perfect right to the mush, and DOWN GOES BUSH.
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- But no. Kerry stayed stuck in his muddled graceless version
of the Hope-a-Dope.
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- YES ! He said. I woulda voted for the war, even knowing
that you lied to me and everyone else, even knowing that we are murdering
our children and theirs for no reason, even knowing that we have now fulfilled
Osamas wildest wet dreams, and even knowing that it would mean squandering
our desperately earned money on war and killing, thereby destroying our
schools, hospitals, rivers and streams, and giving away any spare dollars
to the bastards who need it the least.
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- But hey, he was only following orders.
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- The Democratic Leadership Council and the Party Bigs
told him what to say, and thats what he did.
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- So friends, which of the Two Evils will be Lesser in
the long run ?
- We know one thing, it wont make a damn bitta difference
to the Iraqis, The Afghanis, The Cubans, The Venezuelans, The Palestinians,
The Sudanese, The Haitians, The Poor, The Sick, The Old, or anybody vaguely
brown, black, yellow, gay, lesbian, disadvantaged or anyone not Rich, White,
Straight and more or less Judeo Christian, anybody who prefers clean water,
breathable air, food not made from petro chemicals, or anyone who likes
fish that dont glow in the dark.
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- Those guys are all gonna get screwed either way. I hear
ya, all you Pragmatists. You dont have to yell. We gots ta get ridda Bush,
and then we go after Kerry. Thats a load of garbage. You elect Evil, you
get Evil. Kerry dissed every Democrat who even smelled anti war in Boston,
and he gets big bucks from MONSANTO, for shits sake. But OK- OK OK.
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- I'll make you a deal.
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- If we vote for Kerry, if we do like you say and live
in the (give me a break Groucho) Real World, and we hold our noses, and
vote for the worlds most famous Anyone-
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- We take off our pants and do it-
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- You guys have to promise not to fall back asleep on Nov
3. If you swear on Harry Truman's grave to kick some ass, and not heave
a sigh of relief that you got Anyone elected and devolve into terminal
snooze, and if you promise that you won't let The Democratic Party think
that we support their indictable incompetence and corrupt cooption, and
if you put it in writing that you know that its the whole system that has
to change, and that Kerry and Bush are irrelevant
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- Then I promise not to trash Kerry any more, and not to
tell everybody what a spineless putz he is, and give you four weeks of
grace.
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- Deal ?
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