Today I am ashamed to be an American

[MariaS]

and I wish to apologize to the citizens of the world for the extent of self-righteousness that prevails in this country. A segment of people in this country based their choices on the moral values that they claim to hold. Moral values that consider the union of same sex couples as more deplorable than the deaths of 50,000 Iraqi woman & children and 1,200 American soldiers. They consider the right of a woman to her own life choices more devastating than millions of American children living in poverty and lacking sufficient health care.

Those same moral values that these Americans hold so high dictate that the ownership of firearms is a more pressing problem in this country than insuring mercury free and safe water or air that will causes record numbers of Americans and future generations to suffer with respiratory and health problems. And these same moral high-grounders believe that empire building is our future and our way of life (which really is only an illusion) to be forcibly imposed upon other nations with no consideration of the consequences to civilians, culture, or beliefs and with no consideration to the destruction of our own American economy.

But the worst, the very ultimate worst, in my opinion, is the use of religion in this country and the hypocrisy of this moral crowd to force down our throat the ranting of this book written thousands of years ago by men with no for sight of the type of society we live in today. This moral majority likes to cherry pick the parts of the bible that they deem worthy to follow and they attempt to mandate that all must follow suit. Religion has always been a destructive force in this world. It has been the cause of misery and countless deaths since the beginning of recorded time. And now with the election of Bush we have sealed our fate. As a once great nation we must now resign ourselves to being a nation ruled by tyrants and religious fanatics standing on a moral high ground of their own making.

[Squatch]

1. Not me.

I voted for the morally superior candidate. I still think he was the better man for the job, and I cannot wait to do it again in 2 years.

[MariaS]

2. There was no morally superior candidate

and how can you or anyone but God deem who is morally superior. Get down from your pulpit and take a look at what we have done in this world.