My ballot's in the mail, I'm done.
ENOUGH. You knew I didn't mean it, couldn't stand it. You were right.
If you're undecided at this point, I won't call you a moron as some might, but you're on your own, Pal. Short of an earth-shattering, mind-blowing, vote-changing event, you'll read no more of the race at Foolsblog until Election Eve.
What you will see for the next week is unrelenting good news from Iraq and the Stan.
Beginning with this excellent post from Arthur Chrenkoff:
There are two Iraqs.The one we more often get to see and read about is a dangerous place, full of exploding cars, kidnapped foreigners and deadly ambushes. The reconstruction is proceeding at a snail's pace, frustration boils over and tensions - political, ethnic, religious - crackle in the air like static electricity before a storm.
The other Iraq is a once prosperous and promising country of twenty-four million people, slowly recovering from physical and moral devastation of totalitarian rule. It's a country whose people are slowly beginning to stand on their own feet, grasp the opportunities undreamed of only two years ago, and dream of catching up on three decades of lost time. Recently, Annie Sweeney of the "Chicago Sun-Times" had a chance to travel off the beaten media track and visit this exotic country. Her impressions bear quoting at length:
Read it all, it's long because there is a lot of good news.
Posted by feste at October 25, 2004 06:32 AM | TrackBack