wanders by, glad that the country he votes in only has 6-week campaigns that never happen on a fixed date
*War is an option whose time has passed. Peace is the only option for the future. At present we occupy a treacherous no-man’s-land between peace and war, a time of growing fear that our military might has expanded beyond our capacity to control it and our political differences widened beyond our ability to bridge them. . . .
Short of changing human nature, therefore, the only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.*
–RICHARD M. NIXON, “REAL PEACE” (1983)
Richard Nixon looks like a flaming liberal today, compared to a golem like George Bush. Indeed. Where is Richard Nixon now that we finally need him?
If Nixon were running for president today, he would be seen as a “liberal” candidate, and he would probably win. He was a crook and a bungler, but what the hell? Nixon was a barrel of laughs compared to this gang of thugs from the Halliburton petroleum organization who are running the White House today – and who will be running it this time next year, if we (the once-proud, once-loved and widely respected “American people”) don’t rise up like wounded warriors and whack those lying petroleum pimps out of the White House on November 2nd.
Nixon hated running for president during football season, but he did it anyway. Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for – but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
You bet. Richard Nixon would be my Man. He was a crook and a creep and a gin-sot, but on some nights, when he would get hammered and wander around in the streets, he was fun to hang out with. He would wear a silk sweat suit and pull a stocking down over his face so nobody could recognize him. Then we would get in a cab and cruise down to the Watergate Hotel, just for laughs.
–HST
Consider also that Kissinger held the invasion of Iraq as ill-advised. Worse than a crime, a blunder.
You guys think it’ll be over and done with on Nov. 3rd?
Hah.
It the election is anywhere near a tie, you guys will be up to your jockstraps in a legal brouhaha till after Christmas. And all the talking heads on tv will speculate about what’s to come:
“Full of sound and fury,
signifying nothing”
Do you think Tim Russert will break out his whiteboard again?
Reminds me of Pogo…the grumpy porcupine is musing on the intelligent life in the Universe (Pogo was always kinda deep…) and says “Either we’re the most intelligent life in the Universe, or we ain’t. Either way, a mighty sobering thought.”
I go Pogo 2004
Pogo is an opossum
GO POGO
Littler Less, Not More in 2004
Hey, I’m you in Michigan!
Except my focus group only paid $65. 
Viewing the wasteland of political threads over the last month or so, Pogo is appropriately quoted:
We have met the enemy, and he is us.