Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Congratulations to America's Heartland

Congratulations to the Heartland! You really did a great job on the election. Let’s see:

You elected a known war criminal to be President.
You voted for a “war” without end.
You thumbed your nose at the entire world and made us look ridiculous.
You insured that your children and children’s children will be in debt.
You endorsed a pair of known pathological liars.
You doomed the Palestinians to virtual oblivion.
You sanctioned fiscal irresponsibility.
You probably helped destroy Social Security and Medicare.
You agreed that war profiteering was okay.
You helped fulfill Osama bin Laden’s most cherished dream.

Not bad for a day’s work. And, according to the Pundits, you did it because of your overriding concern with “moral values.” Somehow you seem to have confused moral values with Christian fundamentalism. That is, the only moral values that seem to be involved have to do with abortion and homosexuality. Aside from the fact that the morality of either of these could be debated for a very long time, you seem to have little or no concern with other more obviously moral questions. For example, how moral is it to blow up frogs just for fun? Or how about mocking a woman pleading for her life? Better yet, how about causing the deaths of 100,000 civilians, including women and children, for no reason other than greed for power and oil? How about encouraging torture? Denying people basic civil rights? Outing a CIA operative? Stealing elections? Attacking decorated war veterans? Drunken comportment? Sniffing coke?

It seems to me it could easily be argued that George W. Bush may well be the least moral President we have had for a very long time. But as he presumably communicates directly with God I guess he must be pretty moral after all. You better hope the Rapture is coming soon because the alternative is not going to be pleasant.



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