Shadow Dancing
Nov. 4th, 2004 11:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misscamFunny, I thought I'd feel angrier knowing at last Bush would serve four more years. Instead, I just feel vaguely blank. This is apparently what America wanted. I will not pretend to understand it because I really, really do not, but the choice was theirs, not mine. And so it is made.
May the consequences be better than I fear.
You won, Bush. Congratulations. Now what? Going to continue piss us of here in the rest of the world? You have a divided country at your hands too. Will you do better by them this time around or continue to please only your supporters?
I read some of the reactions from world leaders, and most were fairly polite and all, but this statement caught my eye.
Jesus Perez, Venezuelan Foreign Minister:
"We will hope that in this second mandate we can improve our relations.
We are dancing the tango. When you are dancing the tango and your toe is stepped on, hurting your toe, you complain. If it is stepped on harder, you complain again. There's a whole game, but we are prepared to continue dancing the tango."
Not many other choices, are there? It takes a lot of energy to keep up the level of dislike I feel for you and I would rather not. But I will not be silent and I will not be apathetic. What is at stake is far too important. As Mr. Perez said - we'll continue dancing the tango with the shadow of Bush.
Try not to step on my whole foot though, would you Bush? I would hate to have to kick you in your privates.
(And 11 states banned gay marriage? Good grief.)
May the consequences be better than I fear.
You won, Bush. Congratulations. Now what? Going to continue piss us of here in the rest of the world? You have a divided country at your hands too. Will you do better by them this time around or continue to please only your supporters?
I read some of the reactions from world leaders, and most were fairly polite and all, but this statement caught my eye.
Jesus Perez, Venezuelan Foreign Minister:
"We will hope that in this second mandate we can improve our relations.
We are dancing the tango. When you are dancing the tango and your toe is stepped on, hurting your toe, you complain. If it is stepped on harder, you complain again. There's a whole game, but we are prepared to continue dancing the tango."
Not many other choices, are there? It takes a lot of energy to keep up the level of dislike I feel for you and I would rather not. But I will not be silent and I will not be apathetic. What is at stake is far too important. As Mr. Perez said - we'll continue dancing the tango with the shadow of Bush.
Try not to step on my whole foot though, would you Bush? I would hate to have to kick you in your privates.
(And 11 states banned gay marriage? Good grief.)
