[Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote

[Lloyd Crowther]

You Guys are something else.  Politics, Religion, even problems about 2-
vrs. 4-stroke engines.  Let's all agree that we disagree about the first two
items,  go back to the interesting discourse about Rhodes22 type items, and
bring a little civility about what we have in common and what we can do
something about, i.e., advancing our joint knowledge and abilities to enjoy
our great little yachts.

Lloyd

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nell" <nellwolfe at cox.net>
To: "'The Rhodes 22 mail list'" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: RE: [Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote


> Bush is the proverbial bully in the schoolyard.
> He picks a fight with one of the unpopular kids (Saddam), uses brute
> strength (the US' has the finest military armaments in the world),
justifies
> his behavior with "he threatened my Daddy" and "I know he has WMD" (b/c
Bush
> has X-ray vision or borrowed Nancy Reagan's crystal ball" and rallies the
> bored, the ignorant, the myopic, those nostalgic for the glory days
> associated with the truly heroic efforts our WWII troops made to bring a
> legitimate menace (Hitler) to his just desserts, and those "Military
minds"
> (I think that's an oxymoron) - both the wannabees and those in and out of
> uniform who feel that if the US is not in the limelight flexing it's
muscles
> then the world just "doesn't give us no respect".
> It helped that our economy was in the basement and war - under any
pretext -
> surely bolsters the economy.
> War is surely a distraction from a lackluster president who was ushered in
> under history-making suspicion of a manipulated election and vote-tally in
a
> state under the gun of Bush's "little bro'".
> It helped that the previous President had highly-public "extra-curricular
> activities", thus rendering him a hindrance when supporting the party's
> presidential nominee.
> It helped that the US' gluttony for oil has imperiled the world's supply
and
> our opportunity to consume the rest of the oil before any other countries
> might benefit from it.
> But none of these contributors can strengthen an inherently cowardly,
weak,
> blue-blood whose "successes" were the result of money and connections
rather
> than performance and achievement.
> He has employed paranoia (the Al-Qaeda are coming, the Al-Qaeda are
coming)
> and religious/cultural phobia (if you're not Judao-Christian and look like
> the rest of us then you are evil and preparing to do us harm) to
> re-institute McCarthyism and Salem witch hunts and the Holy Crusades.
> He has denied prisoners due process and detained them under conditions in
> violation of the Geneva Convention.
> He has distracted us from the largest deficit in history, the lowest level
> of world respect since our country's founding, the biggest financial
fiasco
> in history (Enron), the largest job loss in nearly a century, the widening
> chasm between the nation's rich and the worker, and the largest number of
> healthcare uninsured since health insurance was invented.
> The US has become like the German nation after WWI - the economy is in
> rubble, national morale in the toilet, and ANY action somehow makes us
think
> we can regain stature and respect.
> How much different are we than Hitler and his henchmen?
> They murdered 6 million Jews in the name of ethnic cleansing.
> We murder Arabs in the name of national and world security.
> The German nation turned a blind eye to the smoke stacks of the ovens of
> Auschwitz.
> We turn a blind eye to the torture and murder of Abu Gahrib.
> Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and the world hoped his hunger for
domination
> would be appeased.
> We invade Iraq and the world hopes our plunder-lust will be sated.
>
> This election is not about Kerry.
> It's about our own self-respect as a nation.
> We have talked the talk of human rights, national sovereignty, cultural
> independence.
> We now walk the walk of human rights violation on a world scale, national
> imperialism, and cultural ethnic cleansing.
> Whatever the US does, it does because it has the money and power to do it.
> We may go unchallenged for awhile but don't equate military superiority
with
> moral rightness.
> Lest we forget, the Redcoats with the might of the British Empire ruled
the
> world for quite sometime only to be dethroned by an upstart ragtag
> collection of American revolutionaries who didn't mind using hit and run
> tactics and any other method they could conceive to rid themselves of
their
> oppressors.
>
> History has a way of repeating itself.
> "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire", "The Sun Never Sets on the
British
> Empire", "United We Stand Divided We Fall" ...
> In November we have the chance to send a new message to the World - the
> question is: "4 More Years" or "Let's Set the Record Straight"?
>
> nellwolfe
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote
>
> Roger, I just can't read all the material you've written and not respond.
> You
> write beautifully, your thinking is top level, you are obviously an
> intelligent and sincere man, but you missed the correct conclusion. Anyone
> but Bush,
> anyone! I don't think Kerry is the perfect candidate, but I would vote for
> Atilla The Hun rather than put Bush back in office. We're in big trouble
and
> 4 more
> years of Bush will only make it worse. I know where Bush will take us but
I
> can only hope and pray that Kerry will do a better job. He can't do any
> worse.
> As you said to Rummy, we're all intitled to our own opinion.
> Jim Gifford
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