Let's face it: today's politics are not my thing. One of the biggest mistakes I made last year was signing up for Advanced Placement Problems of Democracy (honors government). In that class, as can be assumed, we talked about the current issues of the day: the war in Iraq, the Democratic nomination, how much of a bonehead Bush was, etc. The moment I walked in the door for that class, I knew it was a mistake. 

While growing up, I was supportive of the Clinton adminstration. Everything they did fit my eccentric yet logical pattern of thinking. I could see the sense in nearly every move made. Based upon this, I figured the AP class would be a breeze.

Yeah...with the Bush administration in office? Sure thing, Jimmy...

This class revealed to me what a mess the Bush administration is. Since I completed my study of Bush's idiocy (D average), I have been hard-core anti-Bush. I'm not particularly enthusiastic of Kerry the warhorse either, but I'll take anything to get that, forgive me, gun-slinging Texan out of office. Wil Wheaton summed up the situation quite nicely in his latest blog entry.

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Salon.com invited Wil to respond to the following question: What will you do if President Bush is re-elected?

What I came up with, in the editing and soul-searching, and the worrying, is this: I believe that we much reject George W. Bush and the direction he's taken our country. Even if we (hopefully) end up with a new president tomorrow, it will take decades to repair the damage George Bush has done in just four years: damage to our civil rights, damage to our economy, damage to our national standing with the rest of the world (doesn't it bother anyone that the vast majority of the world viscerally hates America because of George W. Bush? I'm not talking about "The Terrorists." I'm talking about our traditional allies in France, Spain, Germany, Britan, and pretty much all of Europe. On September 12, 2001, the entire world stood shoulder-to-shoulder with us . . . but look at how our country is viewed now.) If he gets another four years to wreak havoc on America and the world, we may never recover from it.

Here's what I ended up sending them:

I'm Wil Wheaton, and I approved this message:

There are so many reasons that George W. Bush doesn't deserve four more years, it is staggering to me that the question "What will you do if George W. Bush is re-elected?" can even be asked. This shouldn't be a horse race. This should be a Kerry blow-out.

This election is a referendum on the policies and leadership of President Bush. On November 2nd, we will take a simple test: will Americans succumb to terror? Or will we stand up and take our country back?

Our hopefully soon to be ex-president once struggled to say, "fool me once, shame on—shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again." Of course, that phrase actually goes: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."

I hope that, on election day, the American people will emphatically say, "Shame on you, Mr. Bush. Shame on you for four years of incompetent, dishonest, arrogant leadership. You may have fooled us once, but you won't get a chance to fool us again."

For four years, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have lied to the American people about everything from the cost of Medicare "reform" to their ever-changing justifications for invading Iraq. Throughout this campaign, they have tried to terrorize us into giving them four more years to mislead the country and further enrage the world. A Bush victory would mean much, much more than just the defeat of John Kerry. It would endanger the values that the vast majority of Americans -- the majority of Americans who voted for Al Gore or Ralph Nader in 2000 -- hold dear. It would be a victory for terror.

So if George W. Bush wins, I will sit down, and I will cry. I will cry for my children, who will most certainly face a military draft, and I will cry for my country, because I believe that America can, and must, do better than George W. Bush.

Now, watch this drive.

A friend of mine just e-mailed me, and asked me if I felt like it was the night before Christmas, or if I felt like it was the night before I go to the dentist.

I don't know.

(Note from tripehound: The bolded selection is what Salon.com chose to use in their article.)

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Here's to hoping I won't have to listen to Bush's speech impediment ever again. Also, to anyone who has political banners posted in their lawn: they had best be gone by tomorrow, lest a curse be brought upon your home.

Now I'm off to "study" Calc...

You really should get to know a southerner to understand the gun-slinging, anti-welfare, all-for-war, hell bent on christianity way of life. I don't particularly like Kerry either, but I think Bush has done a damn good job for the options he has. PS - I'm a southerner, republican, student, and a woman... chickenbait.bravejournal.como:)