"Election Letter from Ohio"
> >
> > It would be difficult to fully communicate my
> > disappointment in a simple e-mail. On the other hand,
> > slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the
> > mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to
> > feed my dog.
> >
> > Kerry has not yet conceded defeat (he has now), but I have.
> > Even if someone finds that crate full of votes for Kerry
> > bobbing down the Cuyahoga River, the American people
> > have spoken, and they have sent the world a message:
> > "We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."
> >
> > Incompetence, incoherence, inarticulateness, pettiness,
> > random savagery, and ecological destruction apparently
> >do not deter the majority of Americans. Americans voted
> > overwhelmingly in favor of bigotry, amending state constitutions
> around the country to prevent same-sex couples from having any
> rights beyond the right to live on the margins of society. We
> > clearly have far more to fear from The International
> > Homosexual Conspiracy than we do from North Korean nukes
> > or the collapse of the American health care system.
> >
> > Apparently, we are truly a nation of slackjawed yokels, awed
> > only by grotesque displays of wealth and violence, beholden
> > not even to our children, since we seem content to mortgage
> > their future in favor of a $300 tax refund that we have traded for
> decent jobs, healthcare, and a just society.
> >
> > We make pious noises about worshipping a Just and
> > Merciful God, while doling out destruction and horror
> > upon the innocent, pausing only to pat ourselves on
> > the back for waging a "just" war to rid the world of
> > tyrants that audaciously aspire to exist after they lose
> > their utility to us in endless low-level conflicts to control the
> world's oil supply.
> >
> > We seem to have become cheap, venal, vulgar and petty
> > while we apparently don't have the ability to reason
> > our way out of the dilemma of taking care of the sick,
> > watching out for the elderly, and teaching our
> > children not to be credulous, callow dupes.
> >
> > To my friends in the UK, France, Germany, and anyone
> > to whom they choose to forward this, I feel that I owe you
> > an apology. It is as if I have brought an orangutan to your
> > High Tea. While he flings dung at you and tries to snatch
> > pastries from your plate, I am left wondering how I might
> > make it up to you.
> >
> > The world's richest and most powerful nation seems to
> > have lost its moral compass. We have lost interest in
> > leading by example in favor of taking by force. I
> > would like to say that I believe that one day in the
> > future America might regain its senses. Unfortunately,
> > I am not terribly optimistic.
> >
> > Only time will tell.....
> >
> > It would be difficult to fully communicate my
> > disappointment in a simple e-mail. On the other hand,
> > slipping out into the hall and drowning myself in the
> > mop bucket would mean that someone else would have to
> > feed my dog.
> >
> > Kerry has not yet conceded defeat (he has now), but I have.
> > Even if someone finds that crate full of votes for Kerry
> > bobbing down the Cuyahoga River, the American people
> > have spoken, and they have sent the world a message:
> > "We're barely bright enough to chew our own food."
> >
> > Incompetence, incoherence, inarticulateness, pettiness,
> > random savagery, and ecological destruction apparently
> >do not deter the majority of Americans. Americans voted
> > overwhelmingly in favor of bigotry, amending state constitutions
> around the country to prevent same-sex couples from having any
> rights beyond the right to live on the margins of society. We
> > clearly have far more to fear from The International
> > Homosexual Conspiracy than we do from North Korean nukes
> > or the collapse of the American health care system.
> >
> > Apparently, we are truly a nation of slackjawed yokels, awed
> > only by grotesque displays of wealth and violence, beholden
> > not even to our children, since we seem content to mortgage
> > their future in favor of a $300 tax refund that we have traded for
> decent jobs, healthcare, and a just society.
> >
> > We make pious noises about worshipping a Just and
> > Merciful God, while doling out destruction and horror
> > upon the innocent, pausing only to pat ourselves on
> > the back for waging a "just" war to rid the world of
> > tyrants that audaciously aspire to exist after they lose
> > their utility to us in endless low-level conflicts to control the
> world's oil supply.
> >
> > We seem to have become cheap, venal, vulgar and petty
> > while we apparently don't have the ability to reason
> > our way out of the dilemma of taking care of the sick,
> > watching out for the elderly, and teaching our
> > children not to be credulous, callow dupes.
> >
> > To my friends in the UK, France, Germany, and anyone
> > to whom they choose to forward this, I feel that I owe you
> > an apology. It is as if I have brought an orangutan to your
> > High Tea. While he flings dung at you and tries to snatch
> > pastries from your plate, I am left wondering how I might
> > make it up to you.
> >
> > The world's richest and most powerful nation seems to
> > have lost its moral compass. We have lost interest in
> > leading by example in favor of taking by force. I
> > would like to say that I believe that one day in the
> > future America might regain its senses. Unfortunately,
> > I am not terribly optimistic.
> >
> > Only time will tell.....
