Those of you living in that great country may still have an open mind as to how you are going to vote. So it may be of interest to know what some of the people are saying in Britain, since it is America’s principal ally in Iraq.
I would like to point out that the main British financial paper, The Financial Times, and the main British financial magazine, the Economist, have both endorsed John Kerry.
In addition, in this morning’s London Times, Anatole Kaletsky writes “The primary function of democracy is not to elect good leaders, since nobody can predict in advance how a politician will perform. It is to eject leaders who have manifestly failed. The ability to remove leaders who turn out to be corrupt, dangerous, outrageously dishonest or manifestly incompetent is the primary privilege and duty of any democracy. And if any leader in our lifetime deserved to be ejected by voters, regardless of their ideology or political persuasion, it is surely President Bush….
(more at the link)
And I don’t put toooo much political stuff here, but he sums up a lot of how I feel at this point. I’ll try and restrain myself to jokes only for a bit.