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Lest anyone think I'm a Republican...

a few stupid Bush quotes

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

It must be pretty depressing to have your term as president defined by slips of the tongue. But I guess it's better than having your presidency, a la Bill Clinton, defined by slips of the... well you know. It also must be depressing to declare a war on terror that can't ever be won. That's like declaring a war on stupidity, which is also dangerous to the people it's being perpetrated upon. Why didn't he declare a war on Al Queda? Or Hamas? Something with a definition. Something with an end. Something that could've been won.

*rudeness warning for any Mormon mamas reading this*

I think one of the biggest reasons I don't identify with Republicans, besides the fact that they ALSO tax the hell out us - they're just nicer about it, is that they don't have any guts. Or balls. Or whatever it is that Dems have that keeps people from confronting them. Republicans just bend over and take it. Over and over and over. I'll bet you $20 Franken takes that race. Because the Republicans will give up. Just a bunch of yaller-bellies. That's a generalization of course, but it applies to most of the political moves I've observed in my adult life.

So my suggestion is to be as informed as possible. Vote for whatever reason you want, but be able to defend your decision. And don't back down.

Anyway, I'm just feeling a little irritable. Can you tell?