If it's any consolation, Hal, I think we will win in November, though it won't be pretty, and I have very little faith that it will actually make things any better (though on the other hand I'm sure that the relative airspeed of our nation's decline will be slower under Kerry than under Bush):

Since the defining moment of the Bush presidency, the preposterous flight-suit, Fox News-produced photo-op on the Abraham Lincoln in front of the banner that read "Mission Accomplished," the shaming truth is that everything has gone wrong. Just as it was bound to go wrong, as many of us predicted it would go wrong--if anything more hopelessly wrong than any of us would have dared to prophesy. Iraq is an epic train wreck, and there's not a single American citizen who's going to walk away unscathed.
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I don't think it's accurate to describe America as polarized between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives. It's polarized between the people who believe George Bush and the people who do not. Thanks to some contested ballots in a state governed by the president's brother, a once-proud country has been delivered into the hands of liars, thugs, bullies, fanatics and thieves. The world pities or despises us, even as it fears us. What this election will test is the power of money and media to fool us, to obscure the truth and alter the obvious, to hide a great crime against the public trust under a blood-soaked flag.

Have I mentioned lately that I can't believe I once supported this war, at this time, in this way, with these idiots at the helm? God, I'm an idiot. Gullible, too. Vote Kodos Vote Keeler Vote Kerry.

UPDATE: I'd just like to add that one thing about Hal's column that I don't support is his none-too-subtle suggestion that a sizable number of Americans would welcome the assassination of a reelected George Bush. ("If our presidential election fails to dislodge the crazy bastards who annexed Baghdad, many of us in this country would welcome regime change by any intervention, human or divine.") I don't think that's something that anyone should be saying, ever, and I also don't think that it's true. I'm not even sure that that's what Hal meant, exactly, but it's what he said.