The Day After... Tomorrow

[Zim]

The Day After... Tomorrow

... But what happened to the Kerry/Edwards ticket? After a polarizing election year that saw Michael Moore’s damning agit-prop documentary Fahrenheit 911 rake in over $100 million, disappointing Bush performances at the presidential debates, negative economic growth and a worsening situation in Iraq, the Democrats should have closed the door months ago. The fact is that this was an election driven by fear. Half of the country voting out of fear of another Bush administration, the other, in reaction a Kerry-led War on Terror. And in between the two sides, millions of Americans who simply could not get up the drive to vote. Despite all early indications, the youth did not turn out to vote in large numbers. One MSNBC exit poll showed the 18-29 bracket voted the same this year as in 2000, while the 30-44 group was down. Maybe the three-story tall billboards of Vote Or Die founder and erstwhile rap star P-Diddy weren’t tall enough after all. Or maybe the youth just don’t see enough of a difference between the two parties to feel inspired enough to vote for them. And who can blame them?

Much has been made of the neo-conservative influence on the Bush administration. And the legacy of the Project for the New American Century has been a subject often discussed on GNN. But what about the Progressive Policy Institute, PNAC’s alter-ego on the Democratic side of the aisle? How many of us have spent any time reading their own manifesto, which calls for “the bold exercise of American power” at the heart of “a new Democratic strategy, grounded in the party’s tradition of muscular internationalism.” Championed by the new tier of leaders now taking power in the party, John Kerry included, this strategy would “keep Americans safer than the Republicans’ go-it-alone policy, which has alienated our natural allies and overstretched our resources. We aim to rebuild the moral foundation of U.S. global leadership …”

Feels like neo-con lite to me.

http://www.gnn.tv/articles/article.php?id=806

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