(EDITED BY AUTHOR: 11/1/2004 - 8:00 p.m.)"He is a man no one should worry about, because he has no beliefs at all. He is not going to introduce some manic radical plan, because he is poll-driven, and it is therefore impossible to know where or for what he stands."
...if the economy and domestic concerns are your defining criteria for the Presidency. No matter who wins tomorrow, a week from today, I will have to show up at my job. And so will you. I'm proficient enough at my job to know that unless the economy really goes in the tank, my job will be waiting for me a year from tomorrow.
However, if my employer should choose to "outsource" my job, it is because I ain't getting the job done or I have let technology outpace my ability to get the job done. I hold no illusions: my job belongs to my boss and he can do with it as he sees fit. But in a very broad sense, if economic concerns or Social Security are your primary concerns, Kerry's election will have little or no effect on the working-day habits of most Americans (and the same holds true if Bush is elected.)
But that ain't what I'm voting on: we are fighting an enemy with no compunctions or concern for the opinion of the man on the streets (excepting the opinion of the man in the street of the Gaza strip.) Let's step back in time to, oh.... say the May of 1942? A month when the Germans were driving toward the oil fields of the Caucasus Mountains and Corrigedor had fallen to the Japanese.
A time in history when most Americans thought the Japanese where a physically inferior race who couldn't shoot straight because they were cross-eyed and the Germans were a bunch of simple-minded goose-stepping thugs who had no imagination (basically, Dan Rather's opinion of the Republican Party.) And both were whipping the Allies's @ss.
I wonder what the results of WWII would have been like if FDR lived and died by the polls of a mass-media which was decidely anti-war and decidely anti-Roosevelt? Wanna find out what would've happened? Elect Kerry president. The threat we face is no graver than 1942.
