Vermont Towns Vote to Arrest Bush and Cheney;

Here’s a productive use of town meetings, culled from Reuters:
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0454699420080305

I tried being a Democrat. I did. Nobody opposed the war in Iraq more than me, especially before it began. I thought it was a mistake then, and still do. I knew Bush was lying when he talked about weapons of mass destruction and insinuated a 9/11 link. I knew he didn’t believe it himself.
I suppose Karl Rove recently let the real reason for Iraq slip when he suggested that without our presence in Iraq, we would pay $200 a gallon for gas. Whether or not you believe that, his point is well made.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/02/rove-oil-iraq/
If the administration had been honest about invading Iraq for oil, I would have had an easier time swallowing it. Hear me out: wars are fought for self-preservation. Rove is right in a sense. Resources, especially food, water and, in our case oil, are self preservation.
But, gas prices have skyrocketed anyway, and why the bull about WMD?

Iraq, along with some other Bush disasters, turned me into a Democrat. I voted for Bill Richardson in the primary.

But, I have no home in the Democratic party, either it seems. Apparently, being a Democrat means condemning your president for supposed war crimes while ignoring true evil that exists in other countries. This is self-hatred.
Do these people really think George Bush is worse than Ahmadinejad, or even Chavez? My God, they do, don’t they?

Apparently, being a Democrat means whining about how awful your life is (and mine is a struggle, too) and demanding the government come along and fix everything.
It’s been tried, folks. It didn’t work out too good in the USSR. It hasn’t worked too well in Cuba. China only started to see growth when they eased economic restrictions.
So why are we going to do this to ourselves? Why don’t we take action to fix our own lives? Government isn’t going to make all your problems go away.

So I can’t be a Democrat, not really a mainstream one.

How about the Republicans? I seem to be finding some common ground there…that is, until I talk to one. I was talking to a dyed in the wool conservative yesterday, and he told me something I didn’t know.
Apparently, Barrack Obama is an Al-Qaeda spy. I didn’t know that.
I was skeptical at first, so I asked for evidence. I was told that Obama doesn’t like America, and that he’s a wimp who’s said he won’t invade other countries.
I didn’t realize that was all that was required to be an Al-Qaeda spy. I’m quite naïve, at least according to my conservative acquaintance.

And I thought some of my ideas were edgy. Apparently I’m not far out enough to be a Republican, either.

The only good that will come out of voting to pass a symbolic war crime measure against the president is that it will destroy the credibility of leftist loons.
The only good that will come out of loony, unfounded conspiracy theories is that the McCain wing of the GOP will gain sway.

My only hope after 8 years of Bush is that when Obama or Hillary become president, they screw things up even worse, and that we’re left with no choice but to have a viable third party.
God knows partisanship has made people in both parties temporarily insane.