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12-Feb-2008
For many months now I have been thinking about an article Ramin Tabib wrote more than three years ago, when George W. Bush was running for a second term. Ramin said he would vote for Bush only because he will create such a huge mess that the progressive forces will come and hand the conservatives a massive defeat 4 years later. Ramin was right on the right track. Today it seems likely that the next president will not only be a Democrat, but for the first time in US history, Black or female. That's huge. Thanks George!
Here's Ramin's piece:
Four more years
An endorsement of George W. Bush
by Ramin Tabib
October 26, 2004
iranian.com
Like Mr. Bakhtavar [see: "President Bush? Yes!"], I, too, will vote for GW Bush.
Four years ago, I said I opposed him, but now I stand corrected. I will vote for him this year, however, I am doing it as an investment in the future rather than an affirmation of his presidency.
I think George Bush is the wildest and most damaging political whirlwind of my lifetime. He has single-handedly, and within only 4 years, invaded and set devastation to two foreign countries, caused the death of countless unarmed people, insulted and lied to most of the world and alienated his allies in the NATO - and so far he has no tangible results to show for it but a smirk.
Domestically, he has presided over an ever-sagging economy, a declining job base, rising unemployment, rising poverty and a booming debt balance. He has overturned or sabotaged environmental advancements, opposed scientific progress, used religion as a dividing tool, propagated xenophobia as the new American ethos and opposed every progressive legislation in Congress.
But I need him there as president for 4 more years. Why? Because it makes sense!
If he stays in power another four years, the damage and desolation caused by his administration will reach levels that are undeniable even to the average conservative American voter. With a re-election victory in 2004, Bush will certainly feel more of a religious mandate than he currently does and be more of a zealot than ever before. He will be emboldened to unleash more of his seat-of-the-pant, gun-slinging, policies onto the economic, military and social arenas.
Defense companies will be fatter, weapons will proliferate even more, America will be leveraged with more borrowed money, Iraq will fester and become the world's sorest open wound, fear will dictate the cultural values in America even more than it does today, and optimism, openness and generosity that once set the American society apart will cease to reveal themselves.
I look four years down the road, and all I see is G.W. Bush having staggered and crushed every positive outcome of the secular, democratic values that this country has established since WWII.
It is only then - when all will seem lost and unbearable - that the conservatives will lose and concede power to the progressive forces, and with a huge difference: We will not see another conservative administration for probably a decade or so after that.
The devastation set in motion by the Bush presidency is so all-encompassing that it will take years to undo, and the voters will not forgive the travesty of these eight years. For years on, people will point to 2000-2008 as the years that preceded the awakening.
So bear with Bush for 4 more years and even help him get re-elected. Sometimes one has to hit the bottom to see the light, and we still have not seen the bottom.
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Only Bush
by Iva (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:44 AM PSTBush has been the only world leader who called occupiers of Iran (akhonds) by their true nature ... EVIL.
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Iranian revenues given out like candy by akhonds to leaders of the world in forms of stupid contracts, purchases, etc. has shut them up.
Too optimistic
by Anonymous-today (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 09:21 AM PSTJJ, I think you're being too optimistic. Unfortunately the Bay Area residents alone don’t elect the president of the US. I have a sinking feeling that if Obama becomes the Democratic nominee, he’d go down in history as another George McGovern. McGovern if you remember was trounced by Nixon in ’72 right in the middle of an allegedly unpopular war. Besides, I don’t think Obama is the real thing. McGovern at least was a true liberal. Obama, if you scratch the surface has showed himself too accommodating to special interests. Hillary, although an inside player no doubt, has much closer loyalties to core democratic values. As to the position vise a vise Iran, 8 years ago many people in the Middle East were weary of Gore because Liberman was on his ticket and because of the Democrats’ historical affinity for Isreal and the Jewish American vote, and they got W. I have no doubt Obama will be more reasonable than that war monger McCain but you got to win the White House first, and I think Hillary has a better chance. I also think Ramin was too wishful thinking. That position, the let people see the shit W is, was Nader’s position in 2000 and didn’t get anyone anywhere. The level of grass root activism has not matched the radical changes W and cronies have been forcing on the US and the world; even the anti-war movement has fizzled out.
Bravo Ramin
by -/\- (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 06:49 AM PSTLike many Iranians, you make us proud of your thought and analysis. Do more of this writing on iranian.com. May be you will convert some of the "shahis" and "anti-iranian parasites" to think real.
Obama,talkes like a clergy !!!
by Tahirih (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 06:27 AM PSTHe talks like a clergy and that makes me uneasy.His talks are good for church seremons as the other comentator said.
I really want Hillary to win .Obama needs to get more mature.
But over all it is fasinating that humanity is getting more mature to have a black man and a woman competing for the presidency of USA!
Hillary may spoil it
by Alborzi (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 05:54 AM PSTI think (and I hope not) that McCain + Liberman
will attract enough whites that Obama will not get get elected. The idea of a black Liberal boils the blood of rednecks.
Obama, yes but...
by Nassery (not verified) on Wed Feb 13, 2008 04:50 AM PSTI think he should tell us more about his plans. A discussion of hope is good enough for a Church sermon, but he has to have specifics. His record the Illinois Senate and the US Senate is a failure to vote. He was too busy to stand for any thing that might cause him to lose a vote in the Presidential election. That's ok, if you are into the return of Jesus or the 12th Iman. It's not ok, if you want the economy to come back, for education of all children to high standards, and a solution to the health care crisis.
I voted for Obama in the US Senate race in Illinois because of the two candidates, he was the better. I believe that you have to reflect before jumping on the band wagon. Gender and race play no role in my evaluation process.
There's a cult like love of Senator Obama, that I am uncomfortable with. It makes me think that he is encouraging citizens to vote with only their hearts. His wife admonished him for thinking too much and encouraged him to feel.
America has had enough of people walking around the Rose garden feeling or conversing with spirits.
Let's ask for specifics and try to decide based on promises. Any elected official must be held to account. Feet to the fire... if you get my drift....
Anyway... that's my two cents.
Mark my word
by Gheybgoo (not verified) on Tue Feb 12, 2008 09:52 PM PSTObama is the next president. The decision is already made by the "MIB". You mark my word.
Vote for Hillary
by Kafk (not verified) on Tue Feb 12, 2008 09:39 PM PSTObama should wait four more years. It's Hillar's turn. I predict that she will win anyway!
None of my favorite
by Anonymous. (not verified) on Tue Feb 12, 2008 08:12 PM PSTNone of my favorite candidates made it :(((
God forbid If McCain gets elected.....
by wait and see (not verified) on Tue Feb 12, 2008 08:01 PM PSTI am outta here!
America can do much better than McCain.
America deseves better than McCain or Hillary!
It may be the most damage conflicted by Ben Laden if US citizens give up their hopes and aspirations and surrender to fear.
Lets give Obama a chance. Lets give America and world chance.
His article was smart...
Obama is the future
by Joe L. on Tue Feb 12, 2008 07:36 PM PSTAll we have to do is hope and vote. Obama will make America better. We had enough of George and his gang. Vote Obama
Too optimistic..
by It depends (not verified) on Tue Feb 12, 2008 07:30 PM PSTPlease don’t keep your hope so high. There is a feeling here that if Obama moves up from left site unfortunately McCain will be in white house..!!