Well, I was wrong about Florida, so the rest of it hardly matters. Bush won Florida with 300,000. I was wrong about Iowa and New Mexico too, and Bush is ahead 100,000 in Ohio, pretty much an insurmountable lead with 93 percent of precincts reporting. It's over.
We're just waking up here in Copenhagen, and the commentators on the radio just sound shellshocked, horrified. They just don't understand. But this time, there was no ambiguity about the vote. The Americans have given Bush a national lead of three and a half million (so far).
Now the voters are going to get what they asked for. Bush will appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will change the basic nature of American society for the next thirty years. The tax breaks to the ultra-rich will continue, just as the national debt will continue to balloon. The system of internal surveillance and control will expand. And Bush must be joking if he thinks the international community will do much more to help him out in Iraq and Afghanistan. Or wherever he chooses to invade next.
The Americans chose more religion, more intolerance and more war. I don't recognize this country.
I feel nauseous. I think I'm just going to lie back down in bed.
Posted by case at November 3, 2004 08:58 AMYes, waking up today and getting the news was truly unpleasant. It's a worrying picture of the future you're painting, let's just hope that those future experiences will make the voters change their mind next time and vote for some tolerance instead.
When does the Hillary Clinton 2008 campaign begin?
Posted by: Magnus at November 3, 2004 06:49 PM