This is the first Presidential race in my lifetime in which I feel totally pukified by all the candidates on both sides. I just can't imagine that, out of a population of around 300M folks, these turkeys are the best from which we have to choose. The really talented amongst us are too smart and too busy to fool around with political life. They're too busy making this country run by building businesses, saving lives, practicing law, etc., etc. I can't imagine a true icon of business wasting any moments of his/her time goofing around in Iowa.
I voted for Bush twice. Probably wouldn't change that, even if I owned a time machine and could go back and vote again. However, what's going on in the Middle East, mainly Iraq, is totally unacceptable to me. It's the height of ignorance and arrogance for Americans...any Americans...to honestly believe that we have the divine prowess to inflict any type of major political change on other peoples, particularly uncivilized tribal savages. There's nothing in the Middle East that's worth a single American life, in my estimation. I can't fathom having one of my kids in Iraq; would be a total hypocrite if I felt like that way and "supported" the senseless butchering of the lives of other Americans' children.
Here's my dramatic self-sacrificing statement of the year: "I'd (not cheerfully) give up the personal freedoms that I associate with my ownership of non-Klintonesque mags, etc., if I thought that my giving up my "hobby" would save the life of one American in Iraq." There. I said it.
As much as I despise Hillary, I'll probably just passively contribute to her election by my not voting this time.
Bah! Humbug!
But, a Happy New Year to one and all!
I voted for Bush twice. Probably wouldn't change that, even if I owned a time machine and could go back and vote again. However, what's going on in the Middle East, mainly Iraq, is totally unacceptable to me. It's the height of ignorance and arrogance for Americans...any Americans...to honestly believe that we have the divine prowess to inflict any type of major political change on other peoples, particularly uncivilized tribal savages. There's nothing in the Middle East that's worth a single American life, in my estimation. I can't fathom having one of my kids in Iraq; would be a total hypocrite if I felt like that way and "supported" the senseless butchering of the lives of other Americans' children.
Here's my dramatic self-sacrificing statement of the year: "I'd (not cheerfully) give up the personal freedoms that I associate with my ownership of non-Klintonesque mags, etc., if I thought that my giving up my "hobby" would save the life of one American in Iraq." There. I said it.
As much as I despise Hillary, I'll probably just passively contribute to her election by my not voting this time.
Bah! Humbug!
But, a Happy New Year to one and all!