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Wednesday, Nov 25, 2009
Comedian and blogger Margaret Cho
If Bush wins -- certainly a scary thought, more frightening because it is an absolute possibility -- people will be really angry. I mean, more angry than they are now, which seems impossible. Bush winning would probably cause a civil war. It would be impossible for him to do anything because half the country would hate him, and the other half would start to turn on him.
At least right now, America is split down the middle, but it is likely that Bush has quite a few idiot antics left in him to embarrass away all the supporters he has left. Who knows what another four years will bring? It would be exciting if it weren't so terrifying. Democrats will wait in the wings, doing push-ups, taunting Republicans and starting more arguments, because Bush's winning will force liberals to become nastier and meaner than conservatives.
Another term for Bush will prove to the rest of the nation that they were completely wrong in voting him in not once, but twice (if we even voted him into office in the first place), and might silence social conservatives with their own shame for at least a little while, but that isn't worth jeopardizing everything, is it?
Randy Hayes, founder of Rainforest Action Network and director of sustainability for the city of Oakland, Calif.
I've been repeating the mantra, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. Eight years of defensive victories for the environment will not save the biosphere from collapsing. I'll be personally advising the social change movement of the United States that works on international issues to redirect the bulk of their activity to the domestic situation.
Because the U.S. footprint on the planet as a whole is of such great consequence that if we don't have a White House with responsible foreign policy -- and I include the global environment as part of foreign policy -- we're all going to have to face the fact that our No. 1 objective is going to be to stop the White House's meltdown of environmental legislation.
And going back to the mantra, we have got to recognize it's not a pretty world, and we're going to have to fight these anti-ecological ignoramuses with everything we've got. Climate change is scary life-and-death stuff. With Russia ratifying Kyoto it puts more pressure on the Bush administration, and if he wins or cheats his way into another term, we've got to come on just that much harder.
He's weak internationally. He's so disliked in Europe and other parts of the planet that we have some allies to intensify the pressures on him here at home. If we have to fight him out for four more years, we'll fight it out for four more years.
