I'm moving to Canada



I'm crushed. After waiting on pins and needles last night and much of the morning, John Kerry conceded defeat in the 2004 Presidential Election . I guess he determined that the margin of victory for Bush in the key battleground state of Ohio was too much to overcome or contest, even with move than 130,000 provisional ballots yet to be included in the election totals of that state. I really thought that with the unjustified and increasingly deteriorating war in Iraq, the stagnate economy, tainted foreign relations, and pending threats in Iran and North Korea, the people of the United States of America would demand change. Instead the people--well really only 51% of the people--wanted to see four more years of the same poor choices and stubbornness of the Bush administration.

The victory is being referred to as a "mandate" by the Bush administration . A mandate? Are you kidding me? Yes, Mr. Bush, you won the electoral college and popular vote by some 3 million votes, but 48% of the country wanted the other guy. The bitter mud slinging throughout the election and emotional acts of discouraged citizens leading up to the election, if not the breakdown of the popular vote, are proof that this nation has not given you a mandate to attack more countries that MIGHT possess WMDs. No, I think this country has given into your fear tactics. Fears that we would be attacked again if John Kerry were elected. Fears that the family structure would deteriorate if the country started to adopt progressive ideas like gay rights and a women's right to choose. Fears that John Kerry would raise taxes to solve domestic issues you have ignored over the last four years. It's sad really.

An now, with the victory in the bag, you wish to join the nation together because "when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America." Well, Mr. Bush, you had four years to do that and failed miserably. You even said yourself before the election that politics in Washington are nothing like they were back in good old Texas; they're so patrician. I can see how they can become patrician when you win an election based off a court decision in a state where your brother is governor, take our country to war based on circumstantial evidence that would never pass in a court of law, and attempt to modify our country's constitution to please religious conservatives in an election year.

Good luck at bringing the nation together Mr. Bush. While you're working on that, I'm going to start working on my immigration papers in Canada . I only ask that you not attack Iran (or North Korea) and reinstate the draft before I leave the country.

Posted: Wed - November 3, 2004 at 08:50 PM        

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