"Unity" Plea? BULLSHIT!!

[friesianrider]

> YESTERDAY in his victory speech, George W. Bush asked the support of
> those who voted for John Kerry. And he fatuously promised to "serve all
> Americans."
>
> Well, that smug liar can kiss my liberal, Democrat-voting behind.
>
> I'm one of the pissed-off, 55.2 million Americans who, these past four
> years, has found Bush's leadership so repugnant that I tried
> desperately to vote him out of office on Tuesday.
>
> How cynical, how blatantly hypocritical, is it for this president to
> ask for unity, while ignoring the fact that, during his presidency, we
> have ceased being the United States?
>
> Instead, we've become the Divided Ones - separated into the reds and
> the blues, so radically different in our belief about what it is to be
> an American that neither side can be expected to support the other's
> chosen leader.
>
> In the red states, being an American now means being the swaggering,
> bloated bully who sees what he wants and takes it, stomping over the
> little guy and sharing the spoils with his rich friends. He's the
> biggest guy on the block, the sun is always shining and he's always
> right.
>
> Because the Bible tells him so.
>
> In the blue states, being an American is now pretty much defined as the
> opposite of all that. With a patina of snobbery.
>
> And sure, in Bush's America you can be a red-stater in blue territory,
> but you always know where you really belong.
>
> You tell me: How can both sides find common ground under this guy's
> leadership?
>
> This president operates under a with-me-or-against-the-USA credo, and
> trust me, his "unity" actually means buy into his view of America.
>
> He and his handlers fanned our divisiveness, and then pronounced Bush
> the savior who can heal us. Well, as Teresa would say, shove it.
>
> If I didn't support the president's definition of America on Election
> Day, there's no way I'll support it now.
>
> Instead, I'm going to make myself a lapel pin, a big bright-blue one,
> with the number 55.2 on it - to symbolize the 55.2 million voters whose
> identity as Americans is very different from the one the president is
> promoting.
>
> It'll tell the world in shorthand that, while Bush is my president, he
> doesn't define me.
>
> And I'm going to wear it for four years. And whenever a Bush voter
> complains that he got pink-slipped, his son is still in Iraq and he
> can't afford gas to get to his gay-shunning evangelical church, I'll
> point to it.
>
> Because 55.2 million voters can't all be wrong.