I am SO sick of this election.....Arg! (long post need to rant)

Liberalboy

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Tue Oct-12-04 06:23 PM
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I am SO sick of this election.....Arg! (long post need to rant)

Edited on Tue Oct-12-04 06:24 PM by Liberalboy

So I was talking with my intern today and she told me that her, her boyfriend and his 10 year old daughter went to the Bronco�s game on Sunday. It was her first experience going to a football game and going to Invesco Field. She said she really enjoyed until they walked to their car.

Given the fact that Colorado is a battleground state there is an enormous push to get out the vote. She stated that there was a little old granny on the sidewalk outside the stadium waving a Kerry sign and offering people bumper stickers. The woman was in her 70's and wanted to make sure she countered some of the Shrub supporters there. Apparently, a large man went up to her, ripped the sign out of her hand and started hitting her hands to knock the stickers down. Her boyfriend seeing that this 30-something idiot was harassing an elderly woman for simply voicing her opinion rushed to her defense and told him to leave her alone. Not once did he say who he was voting for, not once did he bring up politics - he simply said that "it's her right to stand there, don't hurt her."

With that the man followed my intern her boyfriend and his 10-year old daughter to their car where he began to accuse him of being a left, pinko, commie liberal - all the while using very colorful language in front of the child. It ended with him punching my intern's boyfriend, cracking his rib and then running off.

That is the compassionate conservative that is out there today - hitting people for no reason. That is the Republican who holds family values so dear yet spouts profanities in front of children, that is the right-winger that is so closed minded that he cannot entertain two possibilities at once. This is what this election is about - us and them.

No one bothered the shrub protestors; no one punched them or vandalized them. I am so sick of this election, of these fucking right-wing neo-conservative douchebags that feel as though it has to be their way or the highway. Where the fuck is your moral compass you asshats? I watch in awe when the Canadians elected their officials - yeah it was heated and tight, but they all walked away with a smile and a kind word for their opponent. What happened to our civility?

Dick Cheney said it right during the Vice-Presidential debate (yeah....believe it or not you right-wing nut jobs I can listen to both sides and agree with the opposition sometimes: )

"It�s a disappointment, in a sense, that I remember from my earlier service when things worked much differently, when, in fact, some of my best friends in the Congress were people I worked with, like Tom Foley, who was a majority leader and later speaker of the House. One of my strongest allies in Congress when I was secretary of defense was Jack Murtha, a Democrat who is chairman of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.

We used to be able to do more together on a bipartisan basis than seems possible these days. I�m not sure exactly why..."

This isn�t about who is right or wrong. It�s not about your side winning. The people we elect have life-long impacts on people�s lives and it�s not fair to just play to win for one side. We all have to win.

Canada keeps looking better every day�