2008 Woodie Awards
The View From Here
I'm going to vote for Bush, and so are you...and so would George Washington.
Neill Herbert
Date created: 10/25/04 Section: OPINION
Ralph Nader lead a campaign four years ago that can be considered hugely successful because he managed to garner 2.74 percent of the popular vote by thinking outside the Republocrat box. Of course, half the country ended up hating him for it. Four years after he basically made George W. Bush president, Democrats have squeezed Nader out of the picture lest he repeat history. He's not even on the ballot this time.
Howard Dean was an individual who had amazing leadership abilities and at least a little bit of personality. He was not afraid to speak his mind or even scream it. But suddenly people got scared that he would not be able to hold his own if running against Bush, so his passionate grassroots fire was doused by two or three of those tiny fickle empires that determine the course of world history known as "swing states."
When was the last time you saw the news media covering the campaigns of candidates with names like Peroutka or Peltier or Badnarik? These candidates might very well be totally unfit for the job of President of the United States, but how are we supposed to decide that if we don't know anything about them? Maybe it's just that party politics have doomed them to unelectablitiy.
Now that the field has been narrowed down to two electable candidates (one who can beat Bush and one who is Bush) what do we know about them? We know Bush by what he has done the last four years. As for Kerry, we know that he is not Bush.
So, there are your choices for president. You can either cast your vote for President George W. Bush, or you can cast your vote for Senator Not Bush. Either way, it looks like Bush will be in office next year.
Actually, there is another option. Anyone can choose to write in their own candidate on the ballot. As of press time, I am winning the official poll on this newspaper's website, so, on Nov. 2, feel free to write in "Neill Herbert" for President of the United States. Apparently, around here I am more electable than anyone else.
Now that is disturbing.
Howard Dean was an individual who had amazing leadership abilities and at least a little bit of personality. He was not afraid to speak his mind or even scream it. But suddenly people got scared that he would not be able to hold his own if running against Bush, so his passionate grassroots fire was doused by two or three of those tiny fickle empires that determine the course of world history known as "swing states."
When was the last time you saw the news media covering the campaigns of candidates with names like Peroutka or Peltier or Badnarik? These candidates might very well be totally unfit for the job of President of the United States, but how are we supposed to decide that if we don't know anything about them? Maybe it's just that party politics have doomed them to unelectablitiy.
Now that the field has been narrowed down to two electable candidates (one who can beat Bush and one who is Bush) what do we know about them? We know Bush by what he has done the last four years. As for Kerry, we know that he is not Bush.
So, there are your choices for president. You can either cast your vote for President George W. Bush, or you can cast your vote for Senator Not Bush. Either way, it looks like Bush will be in office next year.
Actually, there is another option. Anyone can choose to write in their own candidate on the ballot. As of press time, I am winning the official poll on this newspaper's website, so, on Nov. 2, feel free to write in "Neill Herbert" for President of the United States. Apparently, around here I am more electable than anyone else.
Now that is disturbing.
