Category: politics

I live in an MOA (military operations area) and have witnessed many reckless maneuvers that endangered civilian property and lives. The National Guard is by far the most reckless and the least accountable, but this shocked me.

Going back to that Florida voting machine CNN reported about Tuesday morning, (and has been strangely quiet about since, strangely quiet especially given that exit polls were so out of whack with the actual vote count) as a computer programmer, it seems almost impossible that a random error could have caused that woman’s votes to be changed from Democrat to Republican. It would almost have to be written into the code. Hopefully, over the coming months, we’ll hear from people smarter than me about this because the ease with which electronic voting machines can be tampered is very scary. Oh yeah, and just in case you haven’t already heard, the CEO of Diebold said last year that he was committed to helping Ohio deliver its votes to Bush.

Not for Bush and Rove. They don’t care that much about gays one way or the other. They consciously fueled prejudice to divide the population and win reelection. Kerry could have thrown us to the dogs and supported gay bans. That is what former president Clinton advised. Kerry refused. Kerry could have gone the other way and made it an issue for his side by having more vocal support for gays. That may have helped him in the election, but it would have only increased the bitterness of those people whose background or religion has instilled in them intolerance. Instead, Kerry encouraged acceptance and understanding.

It’s clear that Bush Co., doesn’t care about this nation or its people only about winning power and promoting their extreme agenda. Kerry, on this issue at least, put his compassion and values above politics. And I can’t help believing that great leaders are uniters not dividers, peace makers not hate mongers.