i'm naked inside my fear

October 13, 2004 | 10:32 pm
i watched the presidential debate tonight. don't get me wrong -- it's not that i think kerry is this wonderful candidate or anything, but i didn't sense that george bush had any idea what he was talking about half of the time he spoke. sen. john kerry seemed much better spoken than his opponent, as usual. sure some of kerry's ideas may seem bogus. maybe they are. maybe he can't provide health care for all of us like he says he can (at an affordable price). maybe he can't just mend social security in a heartbeat. i still think he would be a better person for the job. this election matters so much -- and not just to the government, to me! i don't necessarily believe in abortion, but who the hell can tell me what i can and cannot do with my own body? that's like someone telling me not to procreate. how can someone make that decision for you? i have also extensively researched pre-abortion times when women were dying in the masses from illegal abortions performed in the back of their homes with COAT HANGERS. if we are so concerned with every being and it's rights, what about the women who have a right to live but do not want to have a child? what makes the president think that if things change, and abortion is so limited (or even illegal) the coat-hanger-times might come back to haunt us? or black market abortions? which would be better, to pass laws against it for it to happen and have it happen anyway or to allow each couple that gets pregnant to choose?
all this pro-kerry being said, i did not like that neither candidate said much about gays being allowed to marry. bush went on this rampant about how gays should have rights and we as americans should recognize diversity, but we shouldn't have to change our values for them. ooohh. okay. so we should recognize gays as human but not give them all of the OTHER human rights. i get it.
kerry didn't have much different to add to that.
i was also not so impressed how george bush said that laura bush stood by him politically and was on the campaign trail with him. sure, she might be along for the ride, but just to be his stepford-wife. i don't think that woman has much intelligence (and who says the first lady has to be a leader? i don't necessarily think she has to be -- she didn't run for president) and the fact that he gave her credit disgusted me. i have heard laura bush openly state on national television that she did not read her husband's speech because she was standing by him and it did not concern her. so why would he so blatently act as if he listened to her opinion?
whatever. i'm just rambling.

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