Posted on 10/26/2004 9:06:37 AM PDT by dead
Kampala, Uganda:
HOW good it is to be back home, and writing the column; I hope after a lapse of three issues the regular readers have not "done a runner", disappeared. No, more than that, to be candid, I hope they will be so excited by the column's return that their breakfast eggs and sausages will all but choke them!
On my SN Brussels return flight, when I looked out of the window and saw "the toe of Italy" below us, I asked the ballerina-looking stewardess to notify me when we flew into Africa. I never fail to do this when awake, and soon enough she told me we had entered Libyan air space. My childlike excitement, which always follows, is because at that moment Africa is all mine. I bet few Europeans feel this yet, or perhaps ever will, when they enter European space!
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Be that as it may, all attention is now directed to the US to see how the presidential elections turn out. This column prides itself on spitting out the truth as it sees it: John Kerry will be the next President of the United States of America! He should morally win "by a distance", as we say of the horses; win by a big margin. And God knows America deserves it, and by inference the world at large: a thinking, thoughtful, leader with an idea of what our universe is and should be; a sober human being of whom the most powerful nation on earth should be openly proud. Forget this current public relations rubbish that the current president is the one to stand up for the War on Terror. Where was he when boys and girls of his age were enlisting to go to war for what his country stood? Behind his daddy's back? Was he perhaps a conscientious objector and proud to be counted as such? You got to be kidding! Reading a startling editorial on this election by the New York Times, one of the leading newspapers of the world, I was struck by how sickened it was at having Mr Bush as the US leader. It concluded: "We look look back on the past four years with hearts nearly breaking, both for the lives unnecessarily lost and for the opportunities so casually wasted." The world over, polls showed a huge majority hostile to Bush's leadership, including neighbour Canada's four out of five!
Maybe it was the ballerina stewardess, the leading newspaper of the world, his childlike excitement over entering Libyan airspace, his sincere hope that his readers choke, Kerry's idea of what the universe is, or the Canadian confirmation of his American election prediction.
It's short, but just chock-full of fun.
Fun, in that sad, frustrating, hair-pulling kind of way.
I hope it does too, if they read him regularly.
I love that Kerry will "morally win"...
You don't need morals, you need votes... Well maybe a Ugandans doesn't know that!
He was in the National Guard, a$$hole.
Africa is all his with all the AIDS, famine, genocide, arm hackings, head choppings, stonings, you name it. And just imagine his main problem being the US election. If he just cleaned the crap from his own front porch maybe that would be a good start. He thinks Kerry will divert the large portion of the US budget to line the pockets of the Third World corrupt dictators. He sure will, IF he was to be elected. Too bad he will not.
The last person to have that was probably a USAF F-111 pilot.
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