george dubya: old skool

My parents received mail from George Dubya today in the form of three heavy-bond paper cards. Each was filled with quotes and facts followed up, as usual, with the source and date. The thing that struck me, however, was that almost all of those dates were from the year 2002. Two years ago. Before John Kerry was officially running, before the war in Iraq even started -- let alone served to be a fraud and failure -- before Supreme Court decisions that have proven Dubya's policies unconstitutional, before gas was consistently $2 a gallon.

It brings to mind the fact that much of Bush's campaign, most of it in fact, is based on assaulting Kerry with numbers and votes that are not in the world that has come after September 11 (as Republicans love to point out it is so much different) but from the world before. His campaign has all along badgered this idea that Kerry voted for a gas tax increase and how ridiculous an idea that is with prices the way they are...never minding the push for the increase was ten years ago when a gallon of the stuff was under a buck most of the time. They pound on this idea that Kerry has voted against military systems but fail to mention that many of those were also ten years ago or more (and many, as Edwards pointed out in his debate, Dick Cheney also opposed as Secretary of Defense).

The thing is, the Republicans would like to run on a platform of how the world is so different after 9/11 but would rather run against a guy as he was pre-9/11. That's fucking retarded. It's right there for people to see, right their on the commercials and mailings, and easy enough to figure out on the internet"s" with sites like factcheck.org if they'd take the effort to become educated voters (ehehe...yeah right), but they don't.

Ugh. I better stop. I feel my blood pressure rising again.