Gonzales cause of war?

It looks as though George W. Bush will win the presidency, though it's not in the bag yet. Part of the blame falls on parts of the Cuban community in Florida. They mobilized to vote en masse against Bill Clinton, according to CNN.

The Cubans were not happy with how the Elian Gonzales situation was played out by the current White House administration, and thus there was an Elian Gonzales factor in America's election of a president.

That bears repeating: There was an Elian Gonzales factor in an American national election.

How does Elian connect with the potential outbreak of World War III?

Consider the current situation in the Middle East. Consider Bush in the White House. Viola! There's your recipe for the next major war.

Maybe that's a bit of a stretch, but what other image does Bush portray? This is a man who is all for drilling for oil in the unspoiled Alaskan wilderness. What will his "strategery" be in the Middle East?

On the home front, Bush will load up the Supreme Court with reactionary justices who will work diligently to erode our civil rights. Bush, with a water-thin resume in governorship, will flush our economy down the toilet. (Cue Ross Perot making "that great big sucking sound").

Al Gore would not have been such a threat to fragile gains made by nonwhites and the poor in the realm of civil rights. Now we can say sayonara to that narrow window of opportunity.

People get all riled up like a Jerry Springer audience over matters that don't concern them, interfamily matters that probably shouldn't leave the living room, with a media that fuels the fire.

This time, with the election of a president as a manifestation of the basest, most ignorant political attitude, it's all gone too far. What happened to qualified candidates? What happened to looking at the issues?

For the next four years Americans will be getting what they asked for – an uninformed president elected by an uninformed vote.

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