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This piece over at the Waterglass echoes my feelings on the election:

The point is that influential people like Moore, Kennedy, Carter, and Kerry are playing games with my family's personal safety in order to score political points. It's an old saw by now that "reasonable men can differ on how to fight the War on Terror," but show me a reasonable man in this bunch. I don't hate them, but I am worried at the prospect of their regaining power in this time of trouble.

We can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of ignorance when it comes to the threat of Islamic fundamentalism. Anti-semitism, anti-Americanism, anti-civilization is open and unconcealed among them. Their stated purpose is to destroy us all. We know that they don't fear death or injury, and that they contemn us for the very laws that make us civilized and moral. All they fear is failure. With that in mind, how can we ignore that we're still laboring under a Problem A situation? How can the biggest fear be four more years of President Bush?

I don't like Bush's stance on immigration or health care. I don't agree with many other domestic policies he's in favor of. But those issues are Problem B issues, and while they can't be ignored, they occupy a lesser area of concern in my mind. Call me simplistic, but I'm a Problem A voter, and because President Bush takes Problem A as seriously as I do, he's getting my vote this November.

I'm actually to the left regarding some of my disagreements with Bush ...

* Abortion
* Faith-based initiatives masquerading as effective domestic policy
* Stem-cell research

... but these are indeed 'B Problems.' None of it matters a whit if we can't head off the terrible intersection of terrorism and destructive technology.

Read the whole thing.

Posted by Bill at July 29, 2004 09:18 AM | TrackBack (0)

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Posted by: Rtfm at July 29, 2004 12:29 PM