If Kerry wins the election and doesn't

[Dookus]

end poverty, cure AIDS and give me one helluva foot massage, I'm leaving the party.

I'm done with realism. I expect my President to do everything *I* want regardless of all political realities.

I expect my President to dissolve congress and rule by fiat. I expect my President to spend every day appeasing ME, dammit!

[mountainvue]

1. hehe

Oh the ignorance of idealism is a bliss.

[Blue_State_Elitist]

2. Idealism

There need to be some idealists out there. Otherwise nothing would ever improve.

[punpirate]

3. I'll settle for...

... an end to war, economic and social justice, and turning this country back toward its original idealistic aims. If that happens, I'll massage my own feet. :P

[Dookus]

5. and no president

will end war or ensure economic and social justice. Not even a President Kucinich.

[punpirate]

7. Maybe not...

... but it's spring, time for renewal, and time to dream of possibilities, yes?

Cheers.

[strategery blunder]

13. The president might not be able to enact world peace,

but he sure has the power as commander-in-chief to keep the United States out of war.

It would be a start.

[oasis]

4. Clinton was the best prez ever and he pissed me off more than a few times.

Disappointed Dems are welcome to organize a Messiah Party to run against Kerry in 2008.

[danbee46]

6. If Kerry Wins the Election

Oh, President Kerry, I'll have fries with that order.

[ParanoidPat]

8. You mean US damn it.....

....I love your agenda and need a foot massage too! :evilgrin:

[FDRrocks]

9. He isn't

His recent record is glaringly obvious. He's the typical. George Bush is the atypical, just a general asshole. Kerry will be a return to the regular asshols. Vote him in, and the Democratic leadership won't change one bit, I guarantee it. Welcome to the discontented world of people who hate the two-party archaic system, friend.

I realize the obvious irony but after this whole crap if the Democrats don't move thier stupid asses from the weak kneed moderate view to a general leftist party... then fuck them, seriously. Fuck them sideways for postponing the worst that this nation might need to turn around.

[greendog]

10. That foot massage is damned important......

..... but personally, I'd settle for the end of executive support for the corporate trade scams and the refusal to support U.S. corporate imperialism with conscripted soldiers (ours or our allies).

I won't hold my breath.

[pnorman]

11. Stripping the IRONY from the above,

you don't really seem to expect too much from a triumphant Kerry. ABB is a comforting slogan, but it'll take a basic overhaul to undo all the DAMAGE BushCo has done ... not only to the entire world but to this Nation. Remember: shortly after 9-11, the USA had more Moral Capital throughout the world than it's ever had since the end of WW2. But NOW???

From the discredited carcass of our one_point_three party system, a NEW political configuration will have to arise ... OR ELSE. That's why we need to keep listening to Dennis (and Ralph too).

pnorman

[Dookus]

18. Don't make presumptions about what I expect...

But since you raise the issue, I'll tell you: I expect him to do his best given the realities he faces, and be an immense improvement over the squatter we have now.

[salib]

12. Silly

Still, it goes back to "holding your nose and voting." Not to say Kerry is that, I do not think many people know enough about him to say that. However, it still is back to the frustration of "settling." Of course, that is what we do every day or our lives, I guess.

[seabeyond]

14. gosh, i just read a handful of iraqi blogs

with what is up and listening to the people talk, 8 months from now, who knows hwere the war will be. a long time away in the mess it is now

[G_j]

15. I'll be happy

with escalating slaughter and war, rising poverty and AIDS, & might as well throw in some catastrophic climate change to go with that. <sarcasm> (I mean err.. realism)

[Dookus]

16. *shrug*

either one understands what Presidents are really capable of doing, or one does not.

None of the greatest presidents our country ever had was able to end war. None of them ended poverty. There are realities in the world, and pretending they don't exist isn't really conducive to moving toward improvement.

[greendog]

19. So true.......

....but the "realities of the world" show us that there are countries that have eliminated poverty and avoided unnecessary war...

[FDRrocks]

20. And limited the power of corporations...

The influence of a single corporations outweights the influence of a voter by thousands of times, in this country.

It doesn't jive with a democracy, to me.

[TexasMexican]

17. spinoff

[AgadorSparticus]

21. ROFLMAO!! i know what you mean. i'm sick of the childish temper tantrums

it attempts to deflate any momentum we achieve. let them live in their disgruntled, fantasy world. vote nader. vote bush. go green. i don't even give a shit anymore.

quite frankly, i hope we lose them to the republican party. cuz i know they'd bitch there too and go off about their idealism and right to express their "concern" how bush is not doing enough to protect us from the iraqi insurgents, rebellions, or whatever is the preferred buzzword of the week.

[In Sha Allah]

22. Here is a political reality:

The Democrats are losing members. So are the Repuds.

Why?

[KittyWampus]

23. If Kerry Wins, I Want A Pony

:)

[JohnLocke]

25. LMAO (nt).

[bvar22]

24. Those damned idealists!

Imagine....expecting the president to represent the needs of the vast majority of American citizens over the wants of the mega-corporations and billionaires.

[Cleita]

26. Gee, I expected that from Bush.

He was going to give money to his rich buddies so that it would trickle down to the poor and end poverty. He was supposed to give money for research on aids, which has disappeared into some Republican black hole think tank somewhere. Couldn't one of Neil Bush's whores could do the foot massage? He has already made Congress impotent by loading it with is neo-con friends through, er, honest elections.

You don't need Kerry for these things. You have Bush.