First let me admit--yesterday it was not 10 but 19 days to election.   I read it wrong.



Doug--



They say where you stand depends on where you sit. And it sounds like you sit in the lap of luxury--and can't identify with anybody who doesn't.

"What's to be disenchanted about?"

How has Bush--and this election is largely turning into a referendum on him--blown it? Let me count the ways.


Well, for starters, let's try:

Pre-emptive war by choice in Iraq based on false pretenses--and continuing sabre-rattling elsewhere.

Trying to both fight said horrendously expensive war and deliver huge tax cuts which lopsidedly benefit the wealthy. Tell me the recent decline in the deficit is likely to continue.


Refusal to do anything about rampant corruption and pork-barrel spending--exactly how many spending bills has he vetoed?

Refusal to do anything about increasing fuel standards other than jawboning--and in fact opting rather to pillage irreplaceable national environmental treasures--e.g. the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

Blatant anti-scientific bias--in favor of some imagined religious strictures against such things as stem-cell research.

Making anti-trust enforcement a joke.

Strong opposition to anything that might ameliorate the condition of those at the bottom of the economic pile--such as a rise in the minimum wage.




Somehow, I suspect others can add to this list.




And for giant intellects who believe in the meaningless glib term "the duopoly"--exactly how much of the above list would be the same under, to pick a theoretical example, a President Kerry?   I suspect there would have been some drastic change.