I love America.


And I love Americans. You know what else I love? Democracy. I have been disenchanted with the current administration’s foreign policy for quite some time — especially the cataclysmic Iraq war policy. But as it turns out, I’m not alone. On Tuesday, millions upon millions of my fellow Americans showed that they share my sentiments with a beautiful, textbook display of Democracy.

You see, in many (if not most) countries around the world, when the population is fed up with their leaders to the point where they demand change, the only option they have is to take to the streets in protest — usually to no avail. Typically protests turn violent and the controlling factions are forced to ratchet-up their oppression to squelch the resistance, if only to maintain order. The problem only compounds.

In this country, it doesn’t work that way. The majority of the citizens of this great nation are overwhelmingly unsatisfied with the Grand Chancellor’s behavior and his mishandling of the Iraq war. They are also not pleased with the corrupted, rubber stamp congress that has given him six long and painful years to drive the country into an unbelievable state of disrepair. Time for protest, right? Yes, only not in the streets but at the ballot box. On Tuesday, Americans took a major step toward reclaiming their country and their country’s honor by voting for a congressional overhaul. Thanks to peaceful and organized elections the corrupt Republican majority has been kicked to the curb and replaced with a Democratic party with an agenda for reform.

It’s great to live within a system that is self-correcting. A system that can fix it's self when it’s broken. The framers of this great democracy of ours were nothing short of brilliant.

Goddammit, I love America.

Emperor Bush paid a visit Pensacola yesterday to shore up votes for Republican Charlie Crist as he tries to defeat Democrat Jim Davis for the soon-to-be-vacated Governor's office. Much to Bush’s dismay, however, Crist declined to make an appearance. The White House just can’t understand why Crist would pass up the chance to align himself with a President that commands the approval of a whopping 38% of Americans. Hmm, go figure.

Anyway, Gee-dub wasn’t going to let the absence of the candidate he was there to support stop him from dispensing his daily dose of irresponsible mud-slinging. Seeing as though he really has nothing with any substance to say against the Democrats, he defaulted to his current favorite tactic — mind reading! (Or maybe it’s seeing into the future, I’m not sure which.) Anyway, to a packed house of hootin’ and hollerin’ supporters, Bush declared that the Democrats are going to raise taxes if they take control of congress. That’s some wicked-awesome fortune tellin’.

He went on to spout this one: "The Democrat philosophy is this: If it breathes, tax it, and if it stops breathing, find its children and tax them." Better to tax than to bomb, I say. Besides, how else are we going to pay to clean up his messes? Did he think he could drive the U.S. national debt up to $8.6 trillion and wage two wars and all would be forgiven? Defies logic, huh? It should come as no surprise though since he also claims that the Democrats are weaker than the Republicans when it comes to protecting America from terrorists — even though it’s under the Republican's watch that we’ve actually been at our weakest.

Well, anywho, it’s election day so if you haven’t voted, do so. If you’re a Republican, you need to vote tomorrow.

Reminiscent of the 2004 presidential race, Sen. John Kerry has stepped in it again. Speaking to a crowd of college students, he said that if they didn’t study hard, they would “get stuck in Iraq.” Open mouth, insert foot. To say that he made a bad choice of words would be an understatement — and with mid-term elections a week away. Ouch.

And as you could guess, the GOP and the “President” had a field day with his blunder. Did he just botch the Democrats chances at the polls next week? I wouldn’t put it past the American populace to punish the entire Democratic party — and in turn, themselves — by reelecting the Republicans.

Don’t get me wrong, these were insensitive words and he should apologize but you’d have to be pretty stupid to believe what the White House is saying he actually meant. To think that Kerry — a war veteran himself and a leading Washington advocate for veteran’s right’s — would be any less than sympathetic to American troops would be ludicrous. This is a classic Republican diversion tactic of changing the subject to avoid accountability. Suddenly the debate has shifted from a meandering and disastrous military policy to the insensitive words of a Massachusetts senator.

Think back a few weeks when the Democrats pounced on Foley for his antics. It took less than a week for Republican leaders to criticize the Democrats for being insensitive and accuse them of “gay bashing” and being against gay people in general. Huh? (By the way, let’s not forget that it’s the Republican party that’s pushing for a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Oh, and while we’re off on a tangent let’s mention how the “right to life” party opposes a stem cell research bill that would extend and save lives. Sorry, that one still pisses me off.)

And let’s go back a little farther to the classic gem from the 2000 presidential race. You know the one, right? That’s when Al Gore garnered 540,000 more votes than Bush. Anyway, Carl Rove and the Bush campaign machine took a Gore quote, twisted the words around, concocted a lie, and used it against him. Remember? Gore was speaking to the fact that he sponsored a senate bill that eventually became the High Performance Computing Act of 1991. This Act allocated $600 million for the creation of the National Research and Education Network and arrange a multi-industry consortium to accelerate the development and deployment of networking that would eventually become the world-wide web. After his words were tossed into the Republicrat’s Lie-O-Matic machine, out came the result: ‘Haha, Al Gore said he invented the Internet. What a dummy.’

Anyway, back to Emperor Bush’s insistence that Kerry apologize for his comment. He did, which is good. So now, since we are all in full-on apology mode, how about some bigger apologies that’s long overdue. It’s time for Bush to apologize to the American people for lying to them and taking our country to war. It’s time for him to apologize to the American people for spying on them and lying to them about it. It’s time for him to apologize to the American troops for sending them to an unjustifiable war. It’s time for him to apologize to the mothers of the fallen soldiers for sending their sons and daughters to their deaths. And it’s time for him to apologize to the American people for wiping his ass with the Constitution.