Jim Hightower - Happy Days Are Here Again

[DinahMoeHum]

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/29/grassroots/print.html

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Prediction: I believe George W. is a one-term president, just like his daddy was.

I don't say this glibly, nor is it wishful thinking. My prediction is based on what I've seen at the grass-roots level all across the country. As many of you know, I've been travelling practically nonstop since mid-July, going to 50-something cities and towns as part of my "Show Bush the Door in '04 Tour." Using my new book ("Let's Stop Beating Around the Bush") as a focal point, I've been crisscrossing America, speaking with folks in salons and saloons, labor halls and cow barns, bookstores and art museums, churches and theaters, on country fairgrounds, in civic centers, on campuses, in parks, and even inside neon-lit dance halls.

I find that people are onto the Bushites -- and why wouldn't they be? Bush Inc. has spent nearly four years downsizing the middle class, offshoring our best jobs, ignoring the growing cries for healthcare, gutting worker rights, unleashing corporate polluters and plunderers, defunding public education programs, bashing gays and lesbians, sending hundreds of thousands of our loved ones into a deadly war of lies, empowering federal agents to stomp on our liberties, making wholesale arrests of peaceful dissenters ... (gosh, so much to list, so little space)...Bush's policies are all big fat ugly hogs, and while the White House has tried to pretty them up with a coat of bright glossy lipstick, who wants to kiss a hog? Even many of the people who voted for the "compassionate conservative" in 2000, have since found themselves up close and personal with the raw ugliness of the Bushite agenda, and they want no part of "four more years" -- a partisan chant that most Americans now view as a direct threat.
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OK, I'm out on a limb here, but I dare say that this will not be that close of an election: Kerry will win going away. This has little to do with our boy John -- and everything to do with an electorate that is fired up and on the move.
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much much more. . .

:kick::kick::kick:

[caledesi]

1. FZ - Thank you. Excellent article! nt

[Gregorian]

2. YAY!

It's starting to look like he's right. I sure as hell can't wait to delouse the HOUSE.

[Connie_Corleone]

8. And get rid of all those sweat stains Bush leaves behind!

[CitySky]

3. love Jim Hightower

serves populism straight up

[faithnotgreed]

4. i love jim but every time i hear someone suggest that its not for kerry

but its against bush, i want to make sure to pipe in. i fully understand and agree that bush is held in contempt far and wide. and im glad that many have seen the light.

but i just have to say, on the eve of this election, that we are lucky we have someone like kerry running for president. and were lucky someone like him even wants to be president after bush has decimated everything that matters.
bush has not just driven us into the ditch - he made sure the entire vehicle was stripped...

i am proudly voting FOR john kerry so that he (with all of us) can work to restore the democracy that the bush administration has trampled.

[GoSolar]

5. Agreed!

We are lucky to have Kerry as our candidate.

[faithnotgreed]

6. right on! and i agree with you too - i would love for u.s. to go solar!

assuming youre speaking of alternative energy and not solar system travel....!

[GoSolar]

9. Yep,

alternative energy. Wind power is good too!

Faith not greed sounds good to me. :D

[shadu]

7. Last time I checked, he thought bush would steal it.

This is a GREAT sea change.