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After hearing the strangely, consistently fascinating Gore Vidal on NPR this morning describe "President" Bush as a yapping little dog, going so far as to imitate him as such (repeating "I'm a war president" in an exaggerated, high-pitched, mocking tone), I'm very curious to peruse this.
Aside from the humor, Vidal made some excellent points with regards to the new electronic voting machines made by companies like Diebold, which, naturally, receive gargantuan tax breaks and in turn, donate extensively to Bush's re-election campaign. It's all just a huge, neverending cycle of bullshit, isn't it? Democrats, liberals and other non-Republicans are certainly not exempt from the epidemic of lying under the umbrella of politics, but this administration takes the cake and every last bit of frosting atop it.
A recent Vanity Fair article on the subject forced me to acknowledge the sad reality that, even after the election fiasco of 2000, an election can still in many ways be bought (or fixed). Such news is truly disturbing and easily poses the most immediate threat to whatever's left of democracy that I can think of. Let's hope Kerry doesn't go as quietly as Gore did when faced with the seemingly inevitable prospect of election fraudery. Yes, I know fraudery isn't a word, but it (fittingly, I might add) sounds like something the Shrubster himself might utter, doesn't it?
Posted by ayelet at June 4, 2004 11:00 AM