If people in this country valued the facts or truth then we would not have elected George Bush for a second time. People too often buy into oversimplified mantras such as "tax cuts" and "big government" without actually looking at what each politician stands for.
George W. Bush has in many ways been the biggest advocate of big government since F.D.R., and not the help-the-people big government, but the authoritarian and abusive kind of big government.
We should have something more akin to what France has. Politicians are only allowed to campaign for a set period of time and all of them are only allowed to spend the same amount of money. It would make politics so much more open and issue-based than it is now.
I will admit the campaign this election cycle is more honest and open than it was last election cycle, but that isn't saying very much.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
