I'm going crazy over the election. I just want to go to sleep and wake up on Wednesday when it's over (well, when it'll hopefully be over so long as Bush wins big enough and Kerry doesn't sue everybody). Anyway, here are some interesting poll results. The way I feel... I want to do the Howard Dean scream. Aaaaargh!!!
Update: While I'm fretting, Bush is having a bunch of fun. God bless him.
Jonah Goldberg: Is Kerry's foreign policy his undoing? You bet it might be (to read). But Lorie at PoliPundit highlighted John Hawkins' highlighting of this good passage:
If you live in a house infested by rats, you may think it's OK to tolerate them for a while. They're just a "nuisance," as John Kerry might say. You might, if you're Bill Clinton, tolerate a series of "minor" rat attacks. But when one of your children dies from a bite, you do everything you can to kill the rats and plug up all the rat holes to protect your family. You don't care which specific rat was responsible for the death. You simply do everything necessary to make sure nothing like that ever happens again. In the post-9/11 world George Bush faced a world with a lot of rat holes. The most obvious, urgent and "doable" rat hole was in Baghdad.
John says that if you understand this, "then at the most fundamental level, you understand the war on terrorism". I'd say it's about half of the war on terrorism. It lets you understand the stakes, and what needs to be done, but it doesn't tell you about how to keep the rats from coming back. I think Bush's support for democracy in Muslim countries is the only correct way forward.
It turns out the way I do dates and times for my weblog is broken when you're in the middle of a change for daylight savings time (although I still think it works for leap seconds). Check the times a few posts back for an example of what happens. Gotta fix that, and update my recommendations when I come up with a better way to do it.
Sunday, October 31, 2004
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