The wrong president

As of this writing, it looks like George W. Bush is going to win. I think it's interesting when we have a president who most citizens don't want. It's not a secret that George W. was a frat boy at Yale. I wonder how he plans to spend the next four years hazing the country. I can picture George W., paddle in hand, standing behind the bent over United States.\n George W.: "Tax cuts for the rich." Whack! \n The United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\n George W.: "Tougher drug laws for people who don't have the good sense to be rich enough to avoid prosecution when they do drugs like I did." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nGeorge W.: "No foreign policy whatsoever." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nGeorge W.: "Death penalty for people who don't have the good sense to be born into rich families like me." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nGeorge W.: "A crazy sounding school voucher system that is guaranteed to further run down schools that educate the poor and middle class." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nGeorge W.: "No money for the middle class and poor to send their kids to college." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nGeorge W.: "A president who will bow to special interest groups and do anything that the party tells him to do." Whack! \nThe United States: "Thank you, sir, may we have another!"\nI could go on and on, but what's the point? I despise George W. Bush. He is the epitome of everything racist, elitist, class-structured and corporate-owned about the United States \nHe has never done a single thing on his own merit. His daddy got him into Yale. He scored a 566 on his verbal SAT while the rest of the incoming Yale class scored substantially higher. You tell me how he got in. His daddy got him into the National Guard so he wouldn't have to go to war like the poor kids. He got out of college and ran every business he was given into the ground. Luckily, he fell into some Texas Rangers' money and then used his daddy's name to become the governor of Texas. Let's face it, he ran Texas into the ground like he did every other thing he's ever touched. \nCan somebody explain to me why his drug use doesn't matter? Why is it that if a black kid in Houston's fifth ward gets caught with cocaine he goes to jail, while a white kid at Yale does cocaine, and he goes to the Oval Office? Is doing a couple of lines off the coffee table at the frat house substantially different from snorting coke in the hood? \nHow come George W. didn't have to go to Vietnam? When the draft, or as the people in my county liked to call it, "the white trash bus route," came for every other young man his age in the '60s who wasn't rich, why did he get to stay in the United States and wear blue blazers and haze freshmen pledges? \nWhy is a country that gets so up in arms over buying products produced in Third World sweatshops not concerned with the fact he supported an illegal industry that causes corruption and the most vicious kinds of murder? \nIf he wore tennis shoes made in some Third World country sweatshop, then we'd be mad because he would be supporting a despicable industry with his money. But when he did cocaine, he supported an industry that calls for not just the exploitation of women and children, but murder and intimidation.\nDon't get me wrong. I'm proud of the United States. What other country in the world can split itself politically down the middle and not fire a shot? \nI'm just saying that it's a terrible insult to the political system that a guy like Bush can get anywhere near the presidency. Whatever the case might be, he has to realize most of the people in this country, and perhaps even in Florida, didn't want him in office. He does not have a mandate from the people, regardless of whether he gets the presidency or not. \nThe people have level heads. We own the country's power, and we'll be watching for the next four years.