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To those folks out there furious at President Bush, be patient, the election is only 19 months away. Cut this silly "Impeach Bush Now" shit out.

The impeachment of Bill Clinton was utter bullshit. And I don't want to see that happen again for a long time, outside of definitive on-the-job malfeasance. I just don't think President Bush has committed any "high crimes and misdemeanors." Outside of something concrete, if we started trying to impeach every President we didn't agree with, we'd be no better than some third-world nation as far as being a constitutional republic.

Democrats and others on the left need to get over: 1) the 2000 election, 2) the impeachment of Bill Clinton, and 3) antiwar arguments now that the war has started. On the last point, I mean seriously, do you want us to simply withdraw from Iraq and send the inspectors back in? We have already done the harm to our international stature. Now that we started this moronic war, if we simply pull out, we'll look like we have no follow through (which we don't, see Afghanistan). No other nation would pay attention to anything we have to say.

We're in a shitty situation. This war should never have been. But now that it's started, we have to finish it.

And George W. Bush should never have become President. In a Republican move to remove felons from the voter registration rolls, the removal of thousands of non-felons alone pushed the result to what it was, a statistical tie. With those non-felons still able to vote, many of them black, Gore would have won without a recount at all.

But we need to move on. That fight is over. We must put all our efforts into uniting the entire left, Gore voters, Nader voters, antiwar folks, civil libertarians...and get behind the Democratic nominee. And we'll knock George W. Bush the fuck out!

Posted by Brian Adams at 18:26 | Permalink | |

 
"Everything changed on September 11th."

The next person who says that within earshot of me is getting a punch in the fucking mouth! I don't care if it's the guy at the end of the bar, the old lady down the street, or even my Congressman, they'd better duck!

Posted by Brian Adams at 00:11 | Permalink | |

 
We've really split into two polarized camps in this country. On one side you have the middle-right to conservative crowd, most of whom support the president, are in favor of the war, and think this country's doing just fine. On the other side you have the middle-left to liberal bunch, most of whom oppose the president, are against the war in Iraq, and think we're headed way off the tracks in America.

Open-mindedness is in short supply on both sides of the aisle. The left sees anything the government says as propaganda and/or an outright lie. The right paints any opposition to the Bush administration on the war as un-American. The left says that all those in support of the president's position on Iraq are brainless dolts who have given up on critical thinking. The right says the antiwar movement is being led by far-left communist forces who have the overthrow of the government as their true objective. There is no thoughtful communication between these opposing camps, and even if there were no on would listen.

Americans on both sides need to learn to think for themselves. It would suck ass, but I think a catastrophic war might help that along. There's a selfish part of me that wants us to go to war in Iraq, and for it to go horribly for us with lots of American casualties. It's not so much so that Bush will get booted from office in 2004, as for Americans to get more involved in politics and in advocating policies our government should take. And of course, they might stop and think who should be bringing forth these policies in government, and actually vote in elections. A good ol' cockpunch to Uncle Sam in the desert could serve as a nice wakeup call. Like I said, that's a small selfish part of me.

Posted by Brian Adams at 23:48 | Permalink | |