MISSION STATEMENT
LARGEREGO is devoted to the defeat of George W. Bush in the November presidential election by any means necessary.
To this end, every Tuesday between now and Election Day, I will write a column articulating one reason to vote for Senator John Kerry instead of our incumbent president (or anyone else, for that matter).
Why do I bother? The 2004 election is the most important we've had in the U.S. since 1948, and maybe since 1860. That much is riding on the outcome.
My wife and I are expecting our first child this December. Four more years of the Bush Administration, as my columns will show, would herald the ineluctable decline of the United States as a political, military and financial force in the world. As a parent, I want a better America for my son, not a weaker, more scared, fractured country.
A victory for the Bush-Cheney ticket is a victory for evil corporate empires over the common weal; for censorship and repression over First Amendment rights; for cheap white-collar labor in other countries over the educated American workforce; for the wealthiest one percent of the country over the shrinking middle class; and, most importantly, for terror over liberty.
As a resident of New York City, I witnessed first-hand the impact of the events of September 11, 2001. I saw a city and a nation galvanized by a common cause, and a sympathetic community of nations eager to help us destroy the authors of the attacks.
Over the next three years, I watched helplessly as our Chief Executive used the swell of popular support—support he did not generate, I might add, in the 2000 election—to push through a religious-right-wing agenda, to act unilaterally against a sovereign nation with no ties to 9/11, to allow Osama Bin Laden to escape from Afghanistan, and to poison international goodwill.
This, to paraphrase his father, will not stand.
George W. Bush ran in 2000 as a uniter, one who would bring people together. He has brought people together—half of the United States and most of the rest of the world are against him. In the coming weeks, I will address how Bush has done this, and why John Kerry has the intelligence, vision, and experience to make the best of the mess Bush has wrought.
A bit about my politics. I am not a Democrat, as such. I favor liberal policies domestically—more fair taxation, universal health care, more regulation of corporations and media, gay marriage, drug law reform, and so forth. Unlike many liberals, who oversimplify foreign policy issues, I understand the role of the military in U.S. world dominance. I support, hawkishly, military intervention where and when it is needed—indeed, one of my biggest gripes with Bush is that he did not send Marines to Tora Bora to kill Bin Laden in 2002.
My columns will not be of the Michael Moore blatant propaganda variety; I will stick to the facts, presenting explosive truths which the Bush team has, with an alarming degree of success, managed to defuse through its canny manipulation of the U.S. media.
I ask only one thing: that whatever your political affiliations, you read these columns with an open mind. As the wise man once said, the truth shall set you free.
Thank you for reading.
—Greg Olear
Editor, LARGEREGO
Editor, LARGEREGO
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