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November 10, 2004
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I c tear l It's Bush Not again, America!
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Frank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
Il Michele Bluemmel
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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
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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
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