From: craig duncan <duncan@...>
Date: 2004-11-03T01:41:13+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election

Lothar Scholz wrote:

>Hello Jan,
>
>
>J> I read something that +80% of Europeans would vote for Kerry. (I'm one
>J> of them :)). Mainly because of foreign policy (and economics i guess, a
>J> better economy in the US usually means a better economy in EU and vice
>J> versa).
>
>No. I doubt that.
>
>And it's why i hope Bush will win, because with his decisions the EU
>has a good chance to be the most important economy. In the long term
>the US will suffer from the huge deficit and there 3rd world like
>social, health and education system.
>
>But if i could vote i surely would vote for Ralph Nader. THis man would
>be the best president of the USA even if i'm sure he had no chance to
>physically survive the first week in his office.
>
>
>  
>
There was an interesting article by Gabriel Kolko on the Counterpunch 
website a while back taking more or less this point of view.  To whit, 
the Bush administration is doing the best thing for the future that any 
corporate puppet is likely to do: destroy America's system of alliances 
that holds the (ever increasingly falling-apart) global capitalist 
economy together.