Politics: sleeping w/ the enemy

I'm sitting here watching the O'Reilly Factor, since Nader will be on later.

I don't have much too much to say about the Bush AWOL thing. O'Reilly keeps spouting off "but why does it matter now?" To be fair, that's pretty much how he approached the Swift Boat scandal. For once I agree w/ O'Reilly. Viet Nam DOESNT matter now, not very much anyway. What these guys have been doing for the last 35 years matters.

And it looks like Bush has been lying for 35 years. That seems like it would be important to the American public. The voting American public. Maybe John Kerry was a young reactionary anti-war hippy activist, but Bush was a drunken frat kid who got to not die while somebody else might have because he had a rich daddy with political connections. And as Ralph Nader points out (and O'Reilly is completely permitting), it was one thing to be a CO, to have problems with the war and figure a way out of not going. But Bush supported the war politically (no reference here, but O'Reilly and Nader are saying so--if BOTH of them seem to think, it might actually have SOME credibility). He supported the war that his classmates at Yale were fighting for him while he missed physicals and wasn't even flight ready if his services became necessary.

The White House can deny documents that are surfacing, but that's hard to do. These aren't nut-jobs coming out of the wood work. These are (suppressed?) government documents. If the White House says one more time that Bush got an honorable discharge, and that means he fulfilled his duty, I'm going to throw up. Really. So that's why Kerry's medals were called into question? Since, if you get a medal, it doesn't necessarily mean you were a "hero" or whatever, but if you get honorably discharged, that DOES mean that you fulfilled your duty? Right.

And Dan Bartlett seriously sucks. I mean, I'm pretty sure I could tear this guy apart.

I love Ralph Nader. He makes me think that the world might not be screwed. But then he goes off the air, and Tony Snow comes on, and it reminds me that Bush might actually be elected president of the United States, which would be a first, since he wasn't last time. Or at least, we don't know if he was or was not, since the democratic process was ridiculously compromised.

I might need to turn this off, as Bill just said, "Does the government have a responsibility to pay your medical bills? Up next." Sorry, Bill. Not all of us can become millionaires BS'ing politics to pay for our bills. Now, it's not a ridiculous idea for someone to say "why do I have to pay for the health care of somebody who smokes, drinks, eats too much, curses, doesn't go to church, and kills babies." I'm by no means anti-accountability. But here's a news flash, Bill. Obesity, cigarette smoking, alcoholism--they're diseases. Like cancer, emphysema, and FoxNews. We don't have 'cures' for them yet, and our treatment of these diseases probably suffers because we spend so much time looking for 'cures' instead of 'care.'

I need to go find a diuretic and an ACE-inhibitor. My blood pressure is through the roof.

Go Nader! (But GO AWAY UNTIL NOVEMBERish!!!)

Courtney quote of the day: "My God, John Kerry is so UGLY!" This from the girl who still has her Nader/LaDuke sticker on the back of her Contour. Even in Ann Arbor, I haven't seen any Nader/Camejo stickers.