A New Word for Today: “Bleh”

Feathers of Hope was born when the blogosphere was overwhelmed with political blogs: in the leadup to the war in Iraq we were both reading lots every day. For one reason or another, although our banner says this is a blog about nature and place, the design arts, politics, and baseball, we don’t write much about politics. I tried to articulate why in Where Are My Words?—my feelings of outrage were trumped by my feelings of helplessness.

We’re there again, but for other reasons. For the past few days I’ve been writing letters to single unregistered women in swing states through MMOB—not that I’m Mainstreet or a Mom, but they’ll take anyone.

Turns out even this might be the wrong target; soccer moms have become security moms, apparently, believing that Bush will keep their kids safer than Kerry will.

I can’t promise them that he won’t. But the world is certainly less safe because of this adminstration’s unforgivable excesses of power, greed, arrogance. It will take decades to restore our standing in the world, so forget about one presidential term.

Whoever wins this election—and of course I hope it’s not Bush—will have the biggest mess to fix since the Great Depression, or possibly ever at least in terms of foreign policy. It’s practically hopeless.

Numenius thought the security moms thing sounded like something cooked up by the Republicans as explored by George Lakoff in his latest book, Don’t Think of an Elephant, which we first read about on Daily Kos. Sounds like a must read, particularly with regard to the Republican hijacking of rhetoric about the family. One more for the list…