The Wily Filipino

Four More Years.

Maureen Farrell has a new column out on Buzzflash, and it's a scary one. She has written some slightly hysterical columns before -- and yes, I know fully the implications of using a term like "hysteria" to describe her writing -- but the message we should get from her writing is to never underestimate the Bush administration. (I've written a blog entry before on a possible October Surprise, i.e., Osama bin Laden is discovered in yet another hole, but this is worrisome.)

My good friend Jens and I were talking over the weekend about the likelihood of Bush winning the elections and how it may not be so terrible. Four more years, as he put it, may give the Republican Party enough rope to be hanged by the voters, or at least stave them off for a couple of terms.

I can see his point -- it's a kind of long-term optimism -- but I'm more hopeful for the short term. President Smirk arguably did more damage in his first 100 days of office -- reproductive rights, the environment, social welfare, not to mention everything post-9/11 -- than his dad did ever did in four whole years. Meanwhile more troops will die needlessly in Iraq (and will the war be brought to Southeast Asia this time?). Four more years of this nightmare will be hard to swallow.