Posted by: Joe Marinelli November 10, 2004
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You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like
New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who
voted to kick him out.
These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a
gibbon when they see one.
As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us
outsiders can only feel pity.
Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them
returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us
all into the same category of moronic muppets.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin',
abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin'
red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so
it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and
strong".
You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican
Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute
any doctors who carried them out.
He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools
that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any
principal could be found to back him up.
These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to
child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting
officers.
Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's
Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden
need each other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own
fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever
assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.
Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the
bluff they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with
the devil they know.
VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not
credit the amateurism.
The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to
ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to
discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty
tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral
College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a
beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal
wrangles in announcing the victor.
Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the
world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W
Bush.
But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight
would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who
would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of
losing face.
Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more
thousands of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam?
And how many more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush
the mandate to go after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...?
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions
of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a
banal electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind
9/11.
Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead
they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and
re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of
The Freak.
God Help America.