Friday 15 October 2004 By Mark Morford - San Francisco Gate Columnist
Miracle worker or no, after the tyranny of BushCo,
a "normal" prez will be a blessed relief
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If Kerry wins, we will, perhaps more than anything else,
regain our absolutely decimated international respect, the
friend****p of our estranged allies, a shred of honor. The
appalled and disgusted mocking of this wrathful, hissy
United States will die down. The planet will not laugh
and then cringe at our inarticulate, simpleminded dolt
of a leader anymore. We will, in short, be able to hold
our heads up high again.
But Kerry, like any "normal" presidential candidate,
is not a miracle worker. After all, under Clinton we had
an unprecedented run of astounding prosperity and peace
and record budget surpluses and international respect and
even today, throughout the globe, Clinton is admired and
respected like no president in recent history, especially
among those very nations that think Bush is an imbecilic child.
Which is, of course, pretty much all of them.
But Clinton was also the most reviled and attacked
and hunted Democratic president in history, courtesy
of the furious and appalled Right, who simply could
not tolerate *** and intelligence and outstanding
environmental progress and not a single smack at gays
and not a single slap at women's rights and not a single
major multibillion-dollar war in all those years to boost
the ****tfolios of their cronies in the military industries.
So you know that even the best and brightest have obstacles
and roadblocks and vicious detractors aiming to take him
down, just for being wildly popular and successful and
coherent. All signs point to the fact that Kerry could be
absolutely excellent. But he will also still be just another
president, facing many of the same demons as any.
But here's the thing : Given how this is pretty much
the most im****tant election in your lifetime, given
how much is at stake and how deeply BushCo has
rammed us down the bleak hole of fear and war and
environmental gluttony and abuse, a "regular" president
is a blessing we can only dream of.
And the presidential debates have shown Kerry to be
a formidable intellect, forthright and fluent and the
absolute antithesis of Bush's fast-blinking aww-shucks
dumb-guy smarminess. You know, like a normal president
should. And the bottom line is this : never has normal
looked so good.
Because this is the point in history where we say,
oh my freaking God we never knew how good we had it.
Sure we all knew the Clinton era was something special
and even Bush 1.0 was tolerable and relatively benign and
gutless, but oh my God, we had to suffer the appalling,
warmongering neofascism of Bush 2.0 to really appreciate
what America was, and what we should try to be again.
As the song goes, you don't know what you .................
More :
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/10/15/notes101504.DTL&nl=f
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