the outcome of the election

[[wcip]Angel]

There was a survey here a couple of weeks back. Evidently, about 90% of our population would have voted for Bush, had they been given a chance.

Still there is a lot of anti-American "racism" festering in several European countries with a varying degree of logic behind it. When asking a Norwegian Kerry-supporter what's so bad about Bush, you'd be lucky to get any answer that's not superficial and clearly ignorant.

I am one of the ignorant. I am no American, so I can't know what it's like to be in the position of having to choose between these two candidates. That being said, based on what I've read, heard and seen of the campaigning candidates, Kerry strikes me as the one I feel I have more in common with.

I keep hearing these horror stories that Bush is against abortion, gay marriages and euthanasia. One of these is enough to make me cringe. All three are more than enough to convince me that *anyone* besides Bush deserves the seat in the White House for the next four years. Then there's the Iraq-thing. Whether or not he's lying his ass off, Kerry admits to being more open to international collaboration, which I'm all for.

Even though I had hoped Kerry would become your next president, I had my sincere doubts of it ever happening. Additionally, by giving Bush another four years, he gets the chance to continue and hopefully end his work in Iraq. History books will not be given the chance of describing him as a man of vision who was cut of in the middle of cleaning up the Middle East, by being replaced by his opponent. I sincerely hope Bush will do what his advertisements claim he will: Make the world a more peaceful place.