Puppet no more?
Seems as if Prime Minister Allawi is betting on a Kerry win. Either that or he's finding that local political reality favors distancing himself from his erstwhile handlers in D.C. Blaming the execution of nearly 50 Iraqi National Guard recruits on "gross incompetence" of the U.S. military, Allawi seems a bit less enamored of the liberators than he did when Bush was parading him around Washington this summer.
Of course, a Kerry win still could be thwarted by zealous GOP thugs hired at $100 a pop to disrupt polling in minority neighborhoods in the battleground states. New Donkey has the dirt. To Ambrose, the parallels to the youthful, zealous, nationalistic party enthusiasts in a certain Western European country circa 1930's are obvious--so obvious, in fact, that he really wonders if there's a large part of the U.S. population who missed watching old movies on TV, or just never "got" what was going in The Sound of Music, and generally somehow by-passed the cultural allusions that seem so clear. Memo to America: those straight-backed young men with the uniforms and shiny boots who were intimidating people--they were supposed to be the BAD GUYS, ok? Got it now?
Ambrose wonders how we might protest or interfere with these GOP voter intimidation tactics. Should we volunteer to accompany people to the polls, in the same way that we have volunteered to accompany people to abortion clinics, to help them withstand the verbal abuse from those who would deny them the simple right to vote? Should we start buddy-voting teams? I'll vote if you vote, man.
Those of us who love our country and our Constitution and the American way of life must believe, and Ambrose believes, that the cause of freedom and justice will prevail. Their tactics simply must backfire, because Americans are determined to be free to vote. We recently have sent our young men and women to die for the rights of Afghanis and Iraqis to vote; do the Republicans seriously think we are going to let them stop us from voting here? Do they really think that the American people are so stupid as to elect the party that is actively trying to prevent them from voting? We will not be intimidated, we will vote, and these people will be defeated on Nov. 2.
Of course, a Kerry win still could be thwarted by zealous GOP thugs hired at $100 a pop to disrupt polling in minority neighborhoods in the battleground states. New Donkey has the dirt. To Ambrose, the parallels to the youthful, zealous, nationalistic party enthusiasts in a certain Western European country circa 1930's are obvious--so obvious, in fact, that he really wonders if there's a large part of the U.S. population who missed watching old movies on TV, or just never "got" what was going in The Sound of Music, and generally somehow by-passed the cultural allusions that seem so clear. Memo to America: those straight-backed young men with the uniforms and shiny boots who were intimidating people--they were supposed to be the BAD GUYS, ok? Got it now?
Ambrose wonders how we might protest or interfere with these GOP voter intimidation tactics. Should we volunteer to accompany people to the polls, in the same way that we have volunteered to accompany people to abortion clinics, to help them withstand the verbal abuse from those who would deny them the simple right to vote? Should we start buddy-voting teams? I'll vote if you vote, man.
Those of us who love our country and our Constitution and the American way of life must believe, and Ambrose believes, that the cause of freedom and justice will prevail. Their tactics simply must backfire, because Americans are determined to be free to vote. We recently have sent our young men and women to die for the rights of Afghanis and Iraqis to vote; do the Republicans seriously think we are going to let them stop us from voting here? Do they really think that the American people are so stupid as to elect the party that is actively trying to prevent them from voting? We will not be intimidated, we will vote, and these people will be defeated on Nov. 2.
posted by Ambrose at 7:22 PM
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