4 more years. Please no.
I’m shocked and stunned. I couldn’t have imagined the election would have gone that way. I’m not an american citizen and can’t vote but just the feeling of the frenzy around Kerry and the amount of negativity there is towards Bush I thought for sure Kerry was going to pull off the win. I’ve never been so into US politics as I was for this election.
Now that there’s another 4 years of Bush, I’m really worried for the US. I’ve read so many articles about people wanting to flee the US and move up here to Canada. One of my good friends has dual Canada-US citizenship and he moved to Boston a few years back for work. He told me before the election he was seriously considering moving back if Bush won. Concerns over foreign issues, debt, etc have him and a lot of friends not wanting to be in America. Now with the Canadian dollar gaining so much ground on the US dollar, his savings are loosing value daily.
The failure of separation of church and state under Bush as well as his religious views on abortion and stem-cell research drive me crazy. At least California’s proposition 71 passed which gives $3-billion to stem cell research. I want the ball rolling on that for personal reasons.
The world is not happy with USA. I’d previously read an article before the election that only 3 countries in the world were in favour of the USA’s foreign policies.
Polls taken last month showed that if the world’s citizens were given a vote in the U.S. election, only Russians and Israelis would have chosen Mr. Bush. Most nations strongly opposed him.
Bush’s war on Iraq, defocusing on OBL, oil contracts to Haliburton, foreign policy, it’s all infuriating. Many predict a draft in the near future even though Bush said he wouldn’t. Let’s see who flip-flops now. What will the future hold? Hopefully it won’t be as bad as imagined.