In Other Words

Flip Flop

So apparently number 10 (that basically England’s white house, for those of you that have head your heads in the ground for the last fifty odd years) is for Kerry. Understandable, considering Labour in England generally supports the Democrats, but interesting for the fact that Blaire was such a staunch supporter of Bush.

I wonder if it would help if countries actually spoke up against Bush? It might and it might not. For one thing, the American people are worried about the repercussions of Bush’s policies abroad, so they might care. On the other hand they might also feel that foreigners are getting involved in their politics and, after all, it’s their politics, so everybody else should piss off.

I imagine it would work well if everybody did it (Europe, asia, south America, Canada, etc.) but if only a few countries did it (especially France and Germany) it would probably be counter productive. Of course that’s all wishful thinking, because I severely doubt anybody would commit potential political suicide by supporting Kerry. Bush’s allies would still be very capable of ruining somebody’s career regardless of who wins.

I seriously hope the Kerry campaign can pull some killer ace out of its sleeve, because right now they are behind and struggling. The current focus on Bush at the GOP is probably a godsend for them. At least they can now go back on the offensive. They already got one good one, where they caught Bush flip flopping on the war on terror. Which was nice, especially the bit where they turned Bush’s own line against him:

"Bush: Against Winning the War on Terror Before He Was for It."

(Bush originally had ads broadcasted that had Kerry saying ‘I voted for the war in Iraq, before I voted against it’ which he used as the main argument to say Kerry was flip flopper.)

But I seriously wonder if that will be enough. The race is close, but it’s probably going to be a little less close after the GOP convention. Let’s hope that Kerry can score some points in the debates. He should, he’s smarter. The only problem is that the American people aren’t necessarily smart enough to grasp that.

Oh well.

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.

Interesting fact (I forgot these this week): Cockroaches can survive for two weeks without their head, after that they die from starvation.

posted by Symbol @ 1.9.04