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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (47258)	11/5/2004 7:06:14 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

On the elections... I saw this as a staid election because the outcome was predetermined. It is the natural cycle of politics that the Rep. are now enjoying their stay in power. To me it was intuitive that Bush would win (but I started to doubt toward the end after reading the media and intellectual elites, way too skewed against Bush and extremely out of touch with the pulse of the nation), since there's just too much for him to do as his work is unfinished... He needs another term for there to be a finality to his policies (esp. foreign policies), which in the long run will hold out. I support Bush as a Pakistani because I know that Islamic civilisation will be immensely strengthened by his astuteness and courage. Islam has a cancer festering within it's borders and the Afghanistan & Iraq liberation campaigns were the phases of chemotherapy needed to excise it. Hopefully there will be more doses to make sure of no remission, a strengthened Bush with an united America will tame Iran, Syria and and Saudi Arabia! What I don't understand is that if Bush won no states (and lost N.Hampshire) and still won the election then what was everyone going on about the swing states? Anyway moving on I think the next decade is going to be extremely interesting in US politics, unlike now. The personalities that are going to storm the scene are going to make for riveting vieweing, the high voter turnout is going to be the new trend of the millenium. The Rep. are moving right (they'll become soft from power) and the Dem will have to move centre. America may be conservative but it's not that conservative and in four years time, after 14yrs (?) of a Republican Congress and 8yrs of the Presidency there will be a change... I think in twelve years time we will see the first black presidential candidate, Barrack Obama. He's 42 now but in twelve years, with two senate terms under his belt, he'll be a seasoned senator but still young at 54... Sen. Hillary doesn't seem an unlikely prospect in four years and her popularity isn't all that low as suggested. In four years she'll be an eight year senator and that's a solid record on top of being the first lady of Arkansas and United States as well. Hey it could be hilarious from 1988 to 2012; Bush-Clinton-Clinton-Bush-Bush-Clinton all in the family (bit like Kuwait where power is shared btwn two families). And they say America is meritocratic; nepotism is the natural order of things people. We need a billionaire's husband Kerry preaching to us the social reform of the poor; politics is indeed a rich man's game. Finally Arnie... Could he be the next Reagan? A matched campaign would be Hillary vs Arnie; equally handicapped by being pioneers (ma'am vs. immigrant). I'm pretty sure they would pass a constitutional amendment for him, but he's a libertarian republican (a true conservative is a liberal at heart) and Hillary will now have to position herself on the far right spectrum of the democrat party, pose as a centrist to regain the heart of middle America. America's a conservative nation and it's interesting that 23% of voters considered moral issues (religion, abortion, homosexuality) important enough to guide their voting patterns. For instance I would say that I'm conservative morally however what is critical to me is the federal process and the strength of local and state institutions. I'm not a fan of gay marriage, I believe it undermines traditional marriage, however I am deeply against a constitutional ban that takes away the right of states to make this decision on their own. States should not be emasculated socially or emasculated otherwise America's faith will be unprecedented centralisation. Even in abortion and ten commandments the federal government has no business interfering in these matter, leave it to the states to decide. I believe America remains preeminent because it is the union of 50 states and as such is a nation that can go through the deepest of division but emerge united and stronger. Yes there will be schisms between blue states and red states, it is natural that there will be cultural blocs. Far more preferable for a few truck drivers to have confederate flags on their bumpers and preserve cultural diversity than the frightening trend of a tv homogeneised culturally uniform population that seems the fate of a globalised world. Zachary Latif 08:49 latif.blogspot.com