So much to write about, there is hardly mental space to digest it all.
For instance, there’s the FAIR website, which covers an issue that should be important to everyone worried about terrorism but which has received no attention in either major party Presidential campaign: immigration reform.
In particular, see FAIR’s excellent summary of House and Senate votes, by state delegation, on numerous recent pieces of legislation intended to prevent payment of taxpayer-funded benefits to illegals, strengthen border security, improve reporting between law enforcements agencies, etc.
If nothing else, this proves the hypocrisy of the majors’ claims that they are aggressively protecting the US from terrorist activity in the so-called “homeland” while refusing to reward illegals by closing the Federal trough.
Meanwhile, Bin Laden’s latest video provoked a minor flurry in the major media, and lukewarm responses from both major party camps.
Let’s face it: if Bin Laden, or any other terrorist leader, wanted to plant bombs in the Mall of America or anywhere else, they’d have done it by now.
One pundit theorized that al Qaeda raised the ante so high with the attack on the World Trade Center towers that any future “events” would have to be on a similar scale. That takes time, money and resources to organize.
More to the point, our own public officials are doing a fine job disrupting the elections without any help from al Qaeda.
Challenges to voters’ rights by Ashcroft and that loathesome toady of the Republican party J. Kenneth Blackwell, the Ohio Secretary of State; destruction of voter registration records in Nevada; the loss of 58,000 absentee ballots in Florida: who needs foreign intervention to muck up our election process?
Holding my nose and gagging, I’ve signed up to work with the Kerry campaign in NH next Tuesday. I won’t vote for John Kerry, I don’t like his record or his platform, and think his service to the citizens of Massachusetts has been lukewarm on the domestic front and possibly self-serving on the international side.
Still, he’s a man of integrity and great personal courage who is not propped up by a gang of Nixon-era thugs. He’s pledged to reverse the deficit. He’s not in the pocket of the big pharms, the oil industry or Halliburton. He’s been quasi- or fully endorsed by a couple of major Conservative print media organizations.
This year, that’ll just have to be “good enough”.