[Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote

[stan]

Wow,

as a capitalist I think I will have to begin handing out the Rhodes Prize 
for Political Analysis for those who get it

stan/gbi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Crowther" <lcrowther at cox.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] I Wish To Change My Vote


> 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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> LafingBear at aol.com
>> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 2:51 PM
>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> 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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