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mmentary I November 10, 2004 ^t^LACKAMA Print *5 F ace O ff : I c tear l It's Bush Not again, America! Jti II Frank Jordan The Clackamas Print Il Michele Bluemmel |[ The Clackamas Print STUDENT POLL: What is your reaction to last week's election? Î iion is over and the majority of voting Americans have spoken: s Bush has been re-elected president of the United States. e is writer did not vote for Mr. Bush, I can see the advantages of I commander-in-chief put back into the Oval Office for four and here is the main reason. ¡ited States is currently conducting military operations in a and Iraq, in an attempt to see that those countries stay on a :k towards democracy. Although our initial reasons for going ast thosefcountries remains a little vague, we are now in the Old will remain so for quite a while. Though it really remains what will happen in the end, changing the leadership of this 's time may have had disastrous results for our men and women \d John Kerry been given the keys to the White House. Í military;above anything else, needs consistency in leadership cd in operations against a stubborn enemy. A changing of foe | top would have thrown a large monkey wrench into that con- uncertajjllulitarv engaged in combat is a weak one. Look at trees in Vietnam. TheU.S. military won most of the major bat- konflict, bufultimately lost the war because the civilian leader- ' J n i ted States made too many of the decisions that should have the generáis on the battlefield. >ie principle could be applied to the current conflict in the it. A change in the presidency, and thus a change in wartime ■ could spell disaster for American and allied forces on the aq and Afghanistan. Although the reasons for going to war rystal clear, our continued involvement in this war is better president and an administration that have the inside scoop on [I its current operations. Fortunately, in this case and no other, .it is George W. Bush. : the passage of Ballot Measure 36, although a pretty bad idea, Oregonians are a truly fickle bunch of people. It redly is a uple of the two states that we live in. You have the Portland that is clearly anti-establishment in almost all of its collective icesses, and the rest of the state of Oregon, which is as conser véis anywhere in this great country of ours. 136 was pretty cut and dried in its explanation and its meaning, ted that, if passed, one man and one woman legally constitut- ;e in the eyes of the State of Oregon. Unfortunately, this state- pw be written into the Oregon Constitution, where it will be pssible tojfepeal, without another vote of the people of these |er, this state. f sponsor or this measure, the Defense of Marriage Coalition, H be focusing on the true opponent of marriage in this country bur astronomically high divorce rate. The slogan, “One man, J one time” came up more that once in this political season and it is what the Defense of Marriage Coalition should be focus- rgy toward, not whether two people who love each other, who to be of the same gender, should have the legal right to marry. After a disappointing victory, Bush has stolen another four years in which to give money to the rich, fight unjustified wars, take away civil rights, and in general, rape, pillage and destroy our homeland. Enter “Captain Bush,” his brother foe hacker, and his whole fleet of pirates. Democrats all across the country felt the same moment of fear as presidential candidate John Kerry conceded the race the morning fol lowing the election. With what is now appearing to be the smallest margin of victory, with only three million votes, and leaving many vot ers with the rumor that their vote was in vain anyways. Ohio being this election's Florida early on, has provided proof that there has been fraud in the computerized ballot casting in that state, and left only questions of why Kerry gave in so early before inquiring the truth. President Bush has promised many things before and during his vic tory, saying that he will give more support to families, increase health care benefits, reform the education system and among many other things, of course, defend American lives. But why should we believe him tins time around? While President Clinton was in office our nation had the best economy it had had in a long time, and President Bush has gone way further than just depleting that budget, but has created a huge debt in order to destroy and then rebuild a country that we should have never bothered in the first place. Being strongly supported by the rich and the religious, Bush has made it openly clear that he is not only against abortion, but also against same-sex marriage. Why does he, or anyone, have the right to make such decisions for a person? With the topic of pro-choice being such a controversy, you have to question and think what will happen if that option is taken away from women. The answer is simply that, yes it will still be done, only in another country, like Canada, or in much less sanitary and more dangerous situations, since it will be an illegal act With the decision long ago being made that church and state would be separate, why then does religion have so much influence in our gov ernment? Even if God and the Bible decree such things as marriage being a sacred union between a man and a woman, and that same-sex marriage is unholy, that shouldn't give it any weight when it comes to our constitution and what is legal. In thé midst of passing of Measure 36, not only are many Oregonians being discriminated against, but they are also losing many very basic, spmetimes life-saving rights. Now that same-sex marriage will no longer be honored in Oregon, partners have lost nearly all rights when it comes to making decisions for their loved ones in times of emergency. Their families are also affected in the sense that the may lose out on health care and other government support. So when the history books of our fixture generations are written, and the chapters of 9/11, our historic war waged on terrorism, and all the other chaos and destruction that will be blatantly apparent in the Bush years, the 2004 election will be in the section titled, "Come on America, AGAIN?” conservatism won George [W.] Bush an election that will hurt the very Americans who voted for him.” Michael Schott want to use but I can’t. He’s a liar. Kerry sucks too, though, don’t get me wrong.” Brandon Nickles that Bush won. I didn’t think that he had as much support as he did.” Travis Younkin defies definition inions vary L etters to the E ditor choice would be voting for the man who is “pro-fife.” For others it would mean voting for the man values” is the big post- who is “pro-family planning.” And izzword but it is mean- for still others, who simply notice his context, since every- that abortion rates went up signifi according to their moral cantly under Bush’s leadership, ways. Americans sim- morality would require voting for 10 unified definition of his opponent ■titutes the moral posi- The point is eveiyone votes according to their moral values, imple, for some, moral j Calling moral values the unexpect > killing innocent fetus- ed player, or saying their appear for others it means “no ance in the exit polls gives the ocent Iraqis.” For some, president a clear mandate, is discrimination is the bologna! e, for others it is defin- ge as heterosexual. For Erica Bollinger is a al means bringing God student at CCC bly into the political >r others moral means Cross country team ligious tolerance by not deserved better coverage for ir politics towards on amazing win aup. f we] were all to agree Yesterday morning something issues were the “moral strange happened to me. I was es—say, for theoretical overcome, overwhelmed almost, preventing | abortion— by the urge to protest. I felt the loral codes demand dif- desire to make a very obvious >ns. For some the moral statement. I wanted to make a KAMA^ S. Molalla Ave. i City, OR 97045 >7-6958 ex. 2309 amas Print is ?a ¡weekly t publication and is jvery Wednesday except finals week. E ditor - in -C hief : Isaiah Creel C opy E ditor : James Tombe N ews E ditor : Ben Maras O pinion E ditor : Hilliary Ferguson F eature E ditor : Karlin Johnson A&E E ditor : Cory Price S ports E ditor : N.P. Delzell P hoto E ditor : Joel Gaynor stand, stand up on something even, and voice my qualms with the world. It would be a hell of show: pyrotechnics, vicious haiku con tests, possibly even an interpretive dance troupe. Now you might think that the recent voter turnout had gotten this into me. It’s pretty phenomenal, you know. Or maybe it was the election itself. That’s something to whine about, really. Maybe, it was even the feet that my cross country team won Southern Regionals by 30 points. That’s a whole freaking lot of points. You would be mis taken, though, because in fact, it was this paper that did me in. Yesterday wasn’t a particularly happy day, not because of John Kerry’s concession, or the feet that now I can’t marry that gorgeous girl in my Bio lab, but because I turned anxiously to the sports sec tion hoping for maybe a headline, a full article, a celebratory team shot... And you had a picture of my friend John Butkey crossing the line. That was it. Just John’s face smeared across the bottom l/8th of the page. It’s a great shot. It’s a really great shot It’s full of action, sus pense and intrigue. But hey, a crapload of other people ran. And we didn’t have nearly as many articles of clothing on. And it was some kind of cold. And we won too. But instead of mentioning that, there were articles about how to get to Canada. And cartoons with out punchlines. And phonebooks for frustrated masturbators. Those are nice, and good, and maybe even funny, but really, kids. Furthermore, I offer a vicious haiku to the two entrepreneurs who made [those] clever [Measure 36.5] t-shirts: - Your vital proteins Are in serious danger, Run to Canada Thanks for taking the time to read my unjustly harsh criticisms. S taff W riters : Michele Bluemmel, Tony Cho, Ashley Cline, Brandon Delzell, Matt Hanrahan, Frank Jordan, Cassie Mathieson, Michael McCormack, Yasmine Najmabadi, Joe Piazzisi, Amanda Polopolus, Jacob Ray, Jeff Sorensen, Jadon Triplett, Becky Wiley, Katie Wilson P roduction A ssistants : Jesse Arguello, Joanne Bergstrom, Stephen Bostwick, Alyssa Buster, Monica Gizowski, Norma Martinez, Angela McDaniel, Myque Obiero, Gregg Radspinner, Diane Tierney P hotographers : Brie Daykin, Matt Hanrahan Samantha Cox is a student and cross country runner at CCC. “I was pretty pleased overall. I was disappointed with the protests in Portland afterwards.” Lisa Ludwig Personally, I was really disap pointed in the American peo ple. I was also disappointed that Measure 36 passed.” Naomi Marshall A d M anager : Ben Holm D esign E ditor : Michaele Cooper D epartment A dvisor : Linda Vogt D epartment A ssistant : Pat Lichen G oals : The C lackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, profession al manner. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the student body college administration, its faculty or The Print. E-mail comments to chiefed@dacka- mas.edu._____ - —........... —
