CNN.com - Officials discuss how to delay Election Day - Jul 12, 2004

There is a scary headline. It feeds the emotional notions sparked by a President who "guarantees" he will be re-elected. A man who does not concede or acknowledge error. This is not a singular emotion. I'm not the only one to have this emotion.

The President claims we are safer today. This statement itself illustrates the limited vision of the administration. The world is indeed a dangerous place. But it always will be. Nature abhores a vacuum. Human nature abhores a vacuum. Evil people and things must exist or there cannot be Good.

It is balance and harmony that should be keywords to U.S. Policy.
Policies of preemption and being on the offensive decidedly tip the balance of power too quickly and too far.

The President may even be right in his assertion that when America was changed on 9/11, America changed the world. But the question is are we changing it for the better? Is it our place to take the world in a direction it may not be ready, willing and able to go?

With power must come discipline and common sense. There are additional capabilities that our powers place in front of America. America should not feel entitled to grab these capabilities, because we can.

Has everybody forgotten Oklahoma City? How about the anthrax mailer? These are American's who are upset with the government. Does it truly matter? Will American terrorists kill fewer?

The administration within a very short period have said "Ridge: Terrorists' aim is to influence presidential vote" and then "No one is thinking of postponing the elections." If we are talking about how to postpone (while knowing the "when" and "if" are different questions) an election, then have not the terrorist already succeeded in "influencing" the vote?

The truly offensive part of the notion of this issue is that it consolidates power in Washington and not the states. It ignores the reality that a federal election is actually secured by the damned thing that cursed the last election. It is the Electoral College that elects the President.

Nothing could stop the process because it is decentralized in terms of time and space.
Nothing needs to stop the process because it is decentralized in terms of time and space.

Will President Bush leave office quietly the election is close, contested and has been influenced? How badly does he want re-election? Does he want it more than Nixon did? I've yet to see a side of the President or folks in his administration that indicates the kind of internal self-confidence that suggests they would feel that fighting the good fight is enough. They still are selling WMD - and folks "that dog won't hunt".

I'm against voting for Republicans because what they define as "fair and balanced" sounds an awful lot like "offensive". Their "fair and balanced" does not stand up to socratic debate and the search for truth.