"I'm put off by putting off." "They'll call you a new name George,

[Hoping4Change]

and it's not one you can pronounce: "Junta." "


"I'm put off by putting off."
Heather Mallick
Toronto Globe & Mail


Many things can be postponed, and we'll get to those, but not U.S.
elections. They'll call you a new name, George, and it's not one you can pronounce: "Junta."


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Even an innocent, as opposed to a paranoid like me, could only conclude that the Bushling thinks Kerry Edwards... is going to win. If he thought Bush Cheney (which, admit it, sounds more like a deep-woods serial killer who sews his pants using your bone splinters and sinews) was going to win, he'd hardly postpone the election, would he?


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Iron your flag! The United States will officially become the world's most powerful laughingstock. All that splendid history, that Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, Jackie's pink suit and F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Miranda decision and "I have a dream," Muddy Waters and Steinem, all those marble buildings in Washington, they were built on Lego. It's tragic, yet at some level, unspeakably funny. Americans don't like being laughed at, George.


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The last word on postponement goes to Lincoln. When it was suggested that he postpone the 1864 election because there was a civil war on, he responded. "We cannot have a free government without elections. If the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered us." Case closed.








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