The End

George W. Bush's last presidential opponent, John Kerry is under fire from the Republican Party over comments he delivered to university students recently. He warned them that if they didn't study hard they would end up in Iraq. Obviously this gaff has given the Republican Party a controversy to push during the dying days of the US mid-term elections. As if they weren't enough of a one-issue party already. Security, security, security are their only watchwords.

Kerry's comments are true. If you're poor and uneducated you stand a good chance of ending up in the military. Now that American manufacturing jobs have been exported to China, there isn't much choice for people with few skills or education. You have to be pretty thick to not realize this reality; yet Kerry is thick enough to make this comment during an election year, let alone a week away from one.

But John just because they're true doesn't mean you have to say them. I think I've said this before when Michael Ignatieff (a Kerry in the making) stated that Israel had committed war crimes in Lebanon and was surprised to hear that no one wanted to hear that. Again there's the truth and then there's the truth. You'd think politicians would understand this most of all.

I have no hope that the Democratic Party will take either Congress or the Senate on November 7. The Republicans will make short work of them because Americans know that the Democrats have no ideas; they have abandoned the ideas that should get them elected including universal health care and a living wage to campaign like Republicans. This is the end of the Democratic Party. For one thing the Democratic Party has become merely the Republican Party Lite so perhaps it deserves to die. What use is choice when there is no choice?