From listening to all the political pundits talking heads , the lead issue that lost Kerry the election was something dubbed "Moral Issues".
What are the Moral issues you might ask? Same sex marriges, abortion rights, and stem-cell research. Apperantly all those states sandwiched between the two coasts are fillied with people who believe that their marriages are threatened by those of gay people. It would seem that they have never heard of, or understood, the concept of separating church and state.
These Moral Issues had a higher priority than skyrocketing health care, a $434 billion dollar deficit, and the war in Iraq/Terrorism.
Now the part that I find really ammusing is that 80% of Canadians would have voted for Kerry despite all those moral issues that the yankees had with him. But then again in our enlightened country we also try and keep the church out of our gay marriges, decriminalized marijuana and topless women in public laws. But then again we're wacky like that.
I can only hope that Bush leaves us alone, and that Paul Martin doesn't totally fuck us overy trying to bend over for him, a la missle defense et all.
Although, I should add that all this theorizing is based on the assumption that we are believeing the same exit polling people that were telling us that Kerry was winning for the better part of the day.
But I suppose the exit pollers could be right, and Kerry did have a lead over Bush. In which case you have to wonder what exactly happend to all the e-votes that mysteriously shifted over in Bush's favour.
I do belive we have a fresh conspiracy on our hands.
Here are some of the better comments I've seen around the blogspehre, some of which were stolen from random(foo):
What are the Moral issues you might ask? Same sex marriges, abortion rights, and stem-cell research. Apperantly all those states sandwiched between the two coasts are fillied with people who believe that their marriages are threatened by those of gay people. It would seem that they have never heard of, or understood, the concept of separating church and state.
These Moral Issues had a higher priority than skyrocketing health care, a $434 billion dollar deficit, and the war in Iraq/Terrorism.
Now the part that I find really ammusing is that 80% of Canadians would have voted for Kerry despite all those moral issues that the yankees had with him. But then again in our enlightened country we also try and keep the church out of our gay marriges, decriminalized marijuana and topless women in public laws. But then again we're wacky like that.
I can only hope that Bush leaves us alone, and that Paul Martin doesn't totally fuck us overy trying to bend over for him, a la missle defense et all.
Although, I should add that all this theorizing is based on the assumption that we are believeing the same exit polling people that were telling us that Kerry was winning for the better part of the day.
But I suppose the exit pollers could be right, and Kerry did have a lead over Bush. In which case you have to wonder what exactly happend to all the e-votes that mysteriously shifted over in Bush's favour.
I do belive we have a fresh conspiracy on our hands.
Here are some of the better comments I've seen around the blogspehre, some of which were stolen from random(foo):
"Good, Go Ahead, America, Choke on Your Own Vomit, You Deserve to Die."
"Get over it," he said, "The way you feel now is exactly how I felt when Nixon won a second term -- crushed. I just couldn't believe America was that stupid. But remember what happened to Nixon that term."
By the slimmest of margins, and it looks like, because of a completely irrelevant bigotry, we have validated the administration's actions abroad, and committed ourselves to a set of foreign, economic, civil rights and environmental policies that will probably take a lifetime to undo