Thanks go to John Kerry for inspiring the photo below:
Any former soldier knows loose lips sink ships and to never give ammo to his/her adversary. Kerry is a just a complete moron. I am just completely baffled by his idiocy this close to election day….I can say no more….
You just can’t beat these stats. However, I’m more than slightly dismayed to see that NJ has a higher IQ average than NY (albeit by 2 points but still, Jersey is Jersey and I would have thought for sure that the combined mullet weight would have brought down their average…)
Thanks again to Kevin Moeller
I read an interesting article from the BBC today about how if the world, and not the US, voted in the November elections, Kerry would win in a landslide. I’m sure plenty of right-wing republicans who want us out of the United Nations will use these numbers as proof of something, though I’m at a loss as to exactly what that something is right now. Anyway, check out the article from those golly good chaps:
World ‘Wants Kerry As President’
A new poll in 35 countries suggests that people around the world would prefer Democratic challenger John Kerry as US president over George W Bush.
Global research company GlobeScan Inc and the University of Maryland found clear leads for Mr Kerry among those polled in 30 of the countries.
Only Filipino, Polish and Nigerian respondents clearly backed Mr Bush.
Most said Mr Bush’s foreign policy had made them feel worse about the US since his election in 2000.
Meanwhile, a new survey of American and European public attitudes also suggested there had been a dramatic leap in the latter’s criticism of US foreign policy.
More than three-quarters of Europeans surveyed in 10 countries by the German Marshall Fund of the US said they disapproved of President Bush’s international actions, 20% more than two years ago.
The survey also showed sharp differences in how governments should respond to potential threats from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
More than 80% of Americans thought war could achieve justice – more than twice the proportion of Europeans.
The GlobeScan/Maryland poll, of 34,330 people, was conducted mainly in July and August.
POLL RESULTS (KERRY-BUSH)
Source: GlobeScan Inc/University of Maryland PIPA
Because of access difficulties, polling was restricted to metropolitan areas in 11 of the countries.
“Only one in five want to see Bush re-elected,” said Steven Kull, the director of Maryland’s Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA).
“Though he is not as well known, Kerry would win handily if the people of the world were to elect the US president.”
Mr Kerry scored best in traditional US allies, such as Canada and Western European countries.
The highest margin was in Norway, where 74% of respondents backed Mr Kerry compared with just 7% for Mr Bush. The strongest negative views about US foreign policy appeared to come from Germany, where 83% said their view of the US had got worse.
Respondents in all the Latin American countries polled, including neighbours Mexico, also went for the Democrat, with the biggest majority – 57% to 14% – in Brazil.
The picture was more mixed in Asia. Only respondents in the Philippines clearly backed Mr Bush, but there was an almost even divide in India and Thailand.
Organisers of the poll attributed the Philippine result to US aid to a military campaign against Islamist rebels in the south of the country.
From Neu:
In a three-way victory for bitter irony, John Edwards won not a single state on Super Tuesday, while John Kerry was robbed of his sweep by… Howard Dean?!?! I wonder which one is the most pissed? Actually, come to think of it, that probably goes in the decreasing order: Edwards, Kerry, Dean.
So I started thinking about the next big upcoming chapter… about how this brooding hero-character, whom some (mistakenly) see as the chosen one final turns truly dark.
He has shown, up till now, strong signs of willfulness, arrogance, stubbornness, selfishness, impulsiveness, refusal to admit when he is wrong… all shadowy aspects of his person. However, in the next chapter, which, if we are to believe the powers-that-be, would have to be the hero-character’s final chapter, he finally snaps, destroying everything in his path to now openly serve his truly dark and twisted master. By that point the ones he serves have solidified their powers through plying on security fears and amassing an enormous military-industrial complex, but in this last chapter they will toss away all vestiges of serving the state in favor of their own diabolical plans, but by then it will be too late to stop them and only a small minority will be left to fight… to eventually undo what they have done some 20 years later.
And there’s only one thing anyone can do to prevent it.
Vote Kerry.
I don’t have much time to blog right now but I must say…
Go Kerry! It’s your birthday! You gonna party like it’s your birthday!
I like Kerry, Clark, and Edwards, and I couldn’t ask for a better outcome out of Iowa. I’ve seen Kerry speak (college in Boston) and he is always thorough and intelligent in his answers; he has strong policy beliefs in line with my own, and articulates them in a thorough and not-just-promises way – this is a problem because he cannot speak in sound bytes, and it has always handicapped him. Maybe he won because he lost his voice on Sunday and so couldn’t really speak towards the end (he did).
I’d love to be home right now to see how the “liberal” media is covering this. News items like “How can such a loser as Kerry win Iowa? Democrats must really be screwed” on MSNBC and “A fair and balanced view on why we shouldn’t even bother to have the Democratic primaries” on Fox News. In Europe the coverage of the US primaries it’s so even-handed and thorough it’s almost sickening, because I wonder why can’t we be that way?
I think the way it may pan out is that Dean energizes the “war-Bush-lier-hate-Bush-kill-Bush” crowd enough to get out and vote for someone who in the end isn’t him. If he can get in the administration’s face loud enough and hard enough and then get out of the way for someone who wouldn’t be as easy as target for Karl Rove as himself, that would be perfect. Almost like a decoy. Let’s just hope that if he continues to show weakly once it comes to the voting booth that Dean has the good sense to pony up his money and support for Kerry, Edwards, or Clark, whomever the case is.