A BILLBOARD WOULD'VE BEEN CHEAPER
How much money was spent on the elections? I know it was hundreds of millions during the campaigning, and more millions to actually conduct the voting. That seems like an awful lot of money spent just to tell the rest of the world that over half the voters in the United States have absolutely no clue about much of anything at all.
A billboard would've been cheaper, and a billboard big enough to display a message to the rest of the world would've provided a lot of jobs for a lot of unemployed Americans. It's not like the message was unknown before the voting started. Poll after poll showed how ignorant so many Americans are - the voting only served to prove it.
The group that flew the biggest flag for ignorance was the religious community. If they're really saying that George W. Bush personifies the traits their religion finds holy, they'd be wise to keep their religion away from me and my front door. If Jesus himself had been on the ballot, he'd have been Passionized right out of town for being a flaming liberal. Apparently the religious community is more easily impressed with the talk, rather than with the walk. What else would you expect from folks who believe that a slap from Benny Hinn is more productive than stem cell research?
If Bush had spent the past four years running a donut shop anywhere in the United States, he'd have been fired for incompetence. After four years in the White House, four years of deception, unemployment, astronomical federal debt, unjustified war, pandering to the rich, exposing a covert CIA operative, secret Energy Commission meetings, letting PNAC run the country, protecting the Saudis, stonewalling the 9-11 investigation, and just plain incompetence, what do over half of the American voters do? They wear a t-shirt that says "I'm with stupid", with the arrow pointing up at themselves, and give Bush four more years.
It cost hundreds of millions of dollars just to officially prove what the smarter half of American voters have known all along. We're in serious trouble, folks. One part of the trouble is that Bush now knows that he's only got four more years to do whatever he wants to do. An equal part of the trouble is that now we know just exactly how low the intelligence quotient has sunk in this country. With a Republican House and Senate gladly leaving Bush unchecked for at least two more years, over half of the American voters have told Bush that they don't care what he does. Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave.
A billboard would've been so much cheaper.
Steven A. Hass
Newzmaniac.com
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