The bunnies are back with their 30 second presentation of Aliens.

I haven’t complained about Nader in a while, but this quote, from a Michigan GOP guy explaining why they’re gathering signatures for Nader’s ballot petition, is just too pure and honest to pass up:

“Unlike the Democratic Party, where ‘D’ stands for disenfranchisement, we want voters to have choices.”

Meanwhile, Arizona Democrats’ attempts to keep him off the ballot have Nader invoking Watergate.

I still maintain that Nader needs a good smack upside the head, but I’d get his name tattooed on my arm if he were to wait until October and then drop out of the race, strongly urging all his supporters to vote Kerry.

Today’s reason: Louis Black speaks for me.

Page Two in the Austin Chronicle is the editor’s weekly opportunity to speak his mind. I was struck by the commonality of Louis Black’s experience in being ABB and my own.

I do not find those expressing opinions I disagree with laughable or pathetic. I don’t feel sorry for them, though I may feel troubled, upset, or disturbed by their ideas. Any idea I disagree with is not traitorous. There are many positions I think are in the worst interests of the United States, but I am not so wrapped up in the purity of my vision as to be smug beyond all questioning. Any historic development, even those I most vehemently oppose, is likely to yield positive as well as negative consequences (though quantifying any of them is usually more a philosophical than academic exercise).

I do not hate George W. Bush and deeply resent the charge that I do. He is a pathetic president; his domestic and international policies are devastating; his championing of restricting rights (judicial, health, reproductive), coupled with an assault on separation of church and state, show a deep disrespect for the Constitution. I disagree with much of what he stands for as a politician and have no respect for how he makes these decisions. Rather than exhibiting the overt corruption charged by some, our president is completely uninterested in ideas or deep thinking. Surrounding himself with those who tell him exactly what he wants to hear, Bush achieves his decisions intuitively. Once he has, because of his distaste for thinking, he rarely re-examines his positions. But I don’t hate the man – though I do despise his ideas. I hate very few politicians and/or leaders. My dissent is not personal. Ironically, those who scream the most about the irrational Bush-haters who despise everything this president does, regardless of value, are, as often as not, Clinton-haters.