Touring poet thinks Bush will win

[Comadreja]

Richard Peabody wrote:

> Kerry's doomed. I drove across WV, OH, PA, WI, MI, IN, MD, and VA on
my
> mini reading tour of rust belt. (Bashing Bush and company in poetry
> readings to groups of the liberal choir.) My "Bush is a Punk Ass
Chump"
> bumpersticker notwithstanding I got very few laughs or thumbs up on
the
> highways. Bush is gonna win. (If they don't steal it again with
computer
> voting machines). I haven't felt this sick at heart since Reagan was
> re-elected and I had driven to Seattle and back that year and knew it
was
> coming. I feel the exact same way right now. This country feels just
as
> doomed.
>
> A DC economist who has predicted every election right, says,
according to
> his weird numerical template, that Bush will win with 57%.
>
> That feels about right.
>
> The Dems have lost the majority of white males and believe me, drive
through
> the great middle of the country, and it shows. When a 6-year-old boy
gave me
> the finger in PA I knew it was all over.
>
> I also had a guy who teaches in Montana tell me that college students
were
> apalled by his "Poetry of War" class. They really assumed he'd
written all
> the poems attributed to Wilfred Owen, Sassoon, Cummings, and Rupert
Brooke,
> in order to make their prez look bad. They were literally walking out
of his
> class and enlisting.
>
> We on the coasts live in Liberal bubbles. I mean I'll be honest I was
for
> Howard Dean and look what happened. I don't even like Kerry or
Edwards,
> don't trust them myself and I'm of the Bush must be taken out somehow
> mentality. But I just don't see it. I'd hoped that Kerry would run
with
> Richardson, an Hispanic. Ahh me.
>
> Add to all of this the fact that only 2 Senators have ever been
elected
> Prez--Kennedy and Harding is it? And this bodes really really badly.
>
> I don't want it to happen mind you. But I don't see a way around it.
What
> the majority of this country wants is about to happen. And they
deserve it.
>
> I'll be moving to Chile.

Anyone else in these states feel these kinda toxic vibes?

[Fovea]

1. watching the demonstrations on CSPAN

I was of better cheer than I had been in a long time.

[aquart]

2. Seems only to have talked with white males.

Just like a Republican.

[aquart]

4. Oh, and any prof who doesn't teach the background of a poem first

deserves to have his class walk out on him. (Although I find this the phoniest part of the whole silly story, btw.)

Also, it's an ivy league, not a DC, economist and his model is fatally flawed because it doesn't include jobs. This didn't matter when growth reflected jobs because they stayed in the nation. Now it does matter and the fool hasn't adjusted.

Where did he meet all these white males btw? The local tavern?

[smirkymonkey]

7. And white males are a minority in this country

just like the republicans.

[homerthompson]

3. it's devios how the rethugs can poison and steal

from Americans, and then direct the resulting frustration and anger onto scapegoats... corporate greed is India's fault, lack of slots in colleges is the Asians fault, lack of jobs is the immigrant's fault, lack of national security is the democrat's fault, etc etc.
lately it feels like we're living in the matrix, where the dem's have escaped and are trying to save the people inside. but instead, those inside the matrix don't understand the truth, and believe everything spoon fed to them by the newspapers and cable news, and they fiercely defend matrix. little do they realize that the matrix is slowly sucking the life out of them.
just like what thomas frank talks about in his book, "what's the matter with kansas". the kansans defend and support the very people that are destroying them. how sad for humanity.

[ScrewyRabbit]

5. Not the first time a poet was wrong about something

[buff2]

6. What a doom and gloom person

I can't see how in the world that idiot can win with all the people suffering under his rule. I saw on our local news here in Ohio the mile long line of people waiting to get food from a food pantry......something most of them have never done in their life. People who lost their jobs and ran out of un-employment benefits,and a lot of families who have jobs but don't make enough to make ends meet. What really grabbed my heart almost out of my chest was seeing a teen-age girl with tears streaming down her face because she was so embarrassed to be in a food line.We don't hear half of what is going on because of the bu$h loving whore media who keep protecting that idiot and his failures. People need help and the only way they will get it is to get rid of bu$h. It's a matter of life and death for a lot of people. If the ones who are having it so rough would all get their butts out and vote for Kerry,he would win this thing in a landslide.

[pretzel4gore]

8. the majority has never been truly represented...

the nazipoos are like a thief with a one ton goldpiece, the owner giant strolling home and visible on the horizon, not enough strength to carry it, no one around to help and safety of the trees a mile away....
poor idiot fukker lol

[LSK]

9. he needs to go somewhere that Kerry is speaking

And see a crowd of 20000 people show up to see Kerry speaking at some town with a population of 50000 people.

Who is this guy anyways? He doesnt sound too bright.

[fujiyama]

10. Waaaaahhhh!

I think we should take a look at the turn out in FL. The D:R turnout ratio was 2:1. Now granted this was a primary, but their's was a lot closer, while our's was almost a given (Castor was very favored to win). They'll come out on Nov 2, no doubt about it, but I think dems are very motivated.

[Stephanie]

11. Who cares what he thinks?

Why should we?

p.s. - Who is he? And, any reason why I should care? Somehow I doubt this post would pass the Snopes test. But it's already taken too much of my time.

[DemBones DemBones]

12. Oh, c'mon -- "literally walking out of his class and enlisting"??????

That really stretches belief.

I'm in a very conservative area and I am NOT seeing Bush* stickers or signs. I'm wondering if a lot of conservative folks are gonna sit this one out?

[krkaufman]

13. You don't know nuttin. n/t