A bigger issue is how Bush is strong on the economy. How. How has he achieved his modest success. You may not like tax-and-spend, but in the long run, you must admit it has at least one particular advantage over don't tax and spend anyway. Whatever happened to fiscally responsible conservatives--are they all dead now? Is this what we are? Can we all rally together after our country has been attacked, but only as long as we don't have to pay taxes? Can we be bribed so easily? Are we afraid the upper middle class might have to tighten its belt, and actually live in their vestigial "good living rooms?" Is this how Bush is a regular guy, because he's running up all our credit cards and hoping to win the lottery?

Kerry may be an arrogant asshole--maybe it's a characteristic of guys who went to the same college. But he has a long way to go to catch up with Bush, who has been the free world's leading arrogant asshole for awhile now. He had no diplomacy, a half-assed plan for war, none for peace. His big claim is that he's lead us to victory against a little piece of shit 4rth-rate military power, well, ALMOST. Is this what we are, now? Well hot damn. Let's go kick some little fourth grader's ass--for as long as it takes--and celebrate.

Whoever wins the election, we can all hope for the best for each other, and none of us can actually predict the future. But still. Good lord.

They say we get the government we deserve. But I don't remember when we killed and ate all those schoolchildren. The fact that Bush has so many supporters now has changed me, whether he wins or not. I feel less an American. It tells me something I already knew, but have tried my whole life not to believe. I feel the way I would in the audience of a pro-wrestling match--alienated, afraid, not enjoying the show, unable to root for anything, wanting out. I don't know if I want my kids to grow up as part of this cynical put-on bad-ass moron farce.