Interesting metaphysical fuzzy interpretation of political realities, wil. I think your friend in Nigeria might be a bit off. I wonder why he believes that they deserve bloody coup after bloody coup? And if it is some kind of karmic thing, well then, why isn't the US getting bloody coup after bloody coup, or--and pardon me for saying this--but more things like the WTC tragedy? After all, we do export a lot of exploitation and death, don't we? Or is that just a bias on my part? I fail to see how we have collectively raised our "vibrations" to such a level as to "deserve" democracy. But then, I guess that was your point. Our collective dumb and bumbling "vibrations" gave us a dumb and bumbling man in charge. Are we going to impeach Cheney or not?
Muslimwoman, Bush cannot be re-elected. No U.S. president can serve more than two terms, or eight years. Those terms do not necessarily have to be consecutive. In Bush's case, he rode his tide of fear and got two in a row. Now he's all washed up, a lame duck. The only way he could keep executive power beyond
January 20th, 2009 would be if he were to seize it through the kind of bloody coup that wil and his friend in Nigeria have been talking about. Although I used to have nightmares and shadowy daytime terrors about such an event, I think it highly highly highly improbable. The last Presedential poll that I took (entirely in my imagination, yet shaped from the small bits of "news" I allow to filter into my life) showed that 62% of Americans have realized that Bush is a hypocrite, liar, and not really a Christian. The remaining 38% are divided:
16% of those polled believe that Bush is only a hypocrite and liar, although he is indeed a Christian one
6% think he is a decent guy with some misguided policies, and that he can be a little bit stubborn
2% think he is a good guy who gets a bad rap ("President Bush is a good man. He is just misunderstoodidated," his brother Jeb said in an interview)
and
14% claim to have never liked him anyway
As a side note, I heard about this latest US/Iran news yesterday as well, but had a surprisingly different reaction than MW, maybe because I am a resident of the US and not currently living in the Middle East. It seemed to me like Bush was being taken to task by the international community for his belligerence and bellicosity against Iran. That he continues to be an idiot should surprise no one. That the popular opinion of the people of the United States has finally turned on him can be surprising to some of us. After all, only a few short years ago it seemed like this nazi-ish nightmare period in US history would have no end. Now it seems like a bit of common moral decency is leaking into the American people. Either that, or they are just bored with the military campaigns and supremacist jargon. That the international community is beginning to have the decency, sense, and courage to call Bush out for being a jackass--even in an indirect way--is heartening.
My thoughts. I hope they make plenty of good sense and annoy at least some of the regular posters here.
Love,
Pathless
