Our leadership.

Since this is such an important election coming up, and the movie situation is a little more under control now, I'm going to devote most of my blogging over the next two months to political ranting. Not that I know Anything, but lack of knowledge doesn't stop anyone on the Fox News Channel from talking, I've noticed, and if the left is to win I think we should take on a similar enthusiasm for trumpeting our cause without worrying about the burden of backing it up. Fox News has been kind of an inspiration to me that way. I usually fear launching into debate because of worry that I won't be able to rattle off some relevant factoid at a key moment, but they really don't care about that stuff. They just rant, and occasionally quote from websites. When you think about it, it's truly freeing.
....So the problem seems to be, George Bush has a guy who is good at exploiting a political opponent's greatest strength until it becomes a liability. (I learned this from the alternative newspaper.) So now we can't even think about John Kerry's war record without associating it with fabrications. And the democrats don't have a strong counter, possibly because George Bush doesn't really have a strength to attack, he just has a lot of horrible crimes against humanity which are so well-established it's kind of boring hearing about them now. But let's not forget that all George Bush does is Help His Rich Buddies and Kill People, and just because he's consistent in that, doesn't mean he's a leader.
....OK let's just say for a second that Bush actually had leadership skills, how would we then attack this ostensible strength to make it a weakness, since I'm pretty sure it's the only thing he's riding on? We could point out that like many of the leading figures in our country he's basically a whiny rich boy, and, duh, not really too in touch with normal people. We could somehow seed into the public consciousness the awareness that the president doesn't actually do anything without first consulting eighty people, just like those scenes in the West Wing, and Bush has in fact been led around by corporate interests (who actually do know something about leadership for better of for worse). Or we could just toss the rational and come to the sudden revelation that George Bush is responsible for hurricanes. His Leadership, while a conceded factor in his presidency, is in fact SO awesome it has challenged God. God looks at this guy like, "Here's a bloke whose natural charisma could unseat me as Primordial Ruler of the Universe." So what does He do? Hurricanes. Plagues. Bad cell phone reception. Divine punishments that will assail us until George Bush's Leadership/Hubris is removed from the White House. Because God blesses America, and also fears it.
....Okay that probably would not go over well, but you know what I'm saying?