Roger Waters on the upcoming election

[Demolition Man]

Former Pink Floyd front man/song writer Roger Waters did an interview to promote two new songs he released exclusively online.

http://www.rogerwatersonline.com/press_q104point3.htm

This in particular really nails it home on how I feel about the upcoming election.


CALLER: Excellent. Thank you so much for all your work that you've done and as far as the political scene, it is a very important time in history. I just want your take on Kerry's, um, how he will do as far as the war and terrorism. Is he strong enough to combat what needs to be combated and ease-off where there should be less pressure?

Roger Waters: I think he will make all kinds of correct decisions about how to deal with the problem of terrorism around the world and I think the incumbent President is making all the wrong decisions about it. That's my view. I think that George Bush makes a great show of strength but is actually weakness. That's my view and I hope desperately that everybody goes out and gets motivated and votes for Kerry in this Presidential election because my belief is that America has an opportunity to reclaim the high moral ground in it's standing in the world and the rest of the world needs leadership from this country. There is a humanity in the heart of the USA that was always admired greatly by the other countries in the world and it's been diverted and the American people need to reclaim that essence of goodness and I think John Kerry's a good man to make the first moves in that journey back towards America being the great country that it has been in the past and should be in the future.

Interested in hearing what others think of what he said.

[Bryan 'KidHype' Smith]

Its not looking too good for Kerry right now. I can't belive Bush got the needed poll bounce from the Republican National Convention. Please PLEASE PLEASE someone tell me when they do these polls they are just asking republicans who they will vote for in november because the numbers really don't make any sense.

Bush is beating us upside the head with the war on terrorism like terrorism is a trigger word that makes smart americans dumb as bricks. We just lost over 1000 of our soliders in a war we shouldn't even be fighting (aka, we were fighting to get rid of WMD's...there are none...why aren't we leaving?) Someone needs to explain to me why this race is even close at this point.

Kerry has been fuck-ing up. The stupid ass Swift Boat issue should have been addressed. His daily flip flopping on the war on Iraq needs to be cleaned up. He needs to sell to the American public one simple statement, "He can't do any worse than Bush".

I am not a die hard democrat or republican, i am all about common sense. Bush scares me. He scares a lot of people I know. But I also know a lot of people who think Bush is doing a great job. If acting like there are no problems here at home in the US and dumping 200 billion dollars into Iraq because they, "want their freedom from that evil dictator scum" instead of going after the REAL group of people who took out the WTC Towers (i still think its Saudi Arabia which of course we can't attack because they'll destroy our economy) then I guess we all need to vote for Bush.

Please everyone, no matter who you think is the right man for the job (not like Kerry is a rocket scientist whos going to save the planet, he's pretty much as dumb as a brick too) get out and vote. Our lives depend on it!

[WorknMan]

Kerry has been f**k-ing up. The stupid ass Swift Boat issue should have been addressed. His daily flip flopping on the war on Iraq needs to be cleaned up. He needs to sell to the American public one simple statement, "He can't do any worse than Bush".

It seems to me that the only thing Kerry has going for him is the fact that he's not Bush, and anything is better than Bush, which is the only reason why a lot of people will be voting for Kerry this election instead of Nader.


Someone needs to explain to me why this race is even close at this point.

That's farily easy to explain, I think. Bush primarily has three kinds of people in his corner:

1. The fat cats in corporations who are hellbent on owning everything, and entrepreneurs who want to someday become one of the fat cats. There was a survey that revealed that 67% of Americans felt that Bush cares more about corporations than he does the American people, so this is a perfect match.
2. Conservative Christians who are just happy that Bush opposes same-sex marriages, since that obviously is the greatest threat that this country faces *cough*
3. Those people who really don't like Bush but are going to vote for him because they think he's doing a good job on the war on terror. Seems that he's got a lot of people duped into believing that the war in Iraq actually had something to do with 9/11. I guess the old saying is true - if you just keep repeating a lie long enough, people will eventually start to believe it.

Between those three groups and all the people that won't vote at all, that unfortunately might be all the votes Bush needs.

[Demolition Man]

You know what scares me is what Bush will do in order to stay in power. :x