Written by: Goemagog

In Miami, Kerry goes into uberpandering mode.

As he often does before black audiences, Kerry said he has a legal team that will aggressively respond to any allegations of disenfranchisement.

Aggressively defending the disenfranchisement of all Nader voters, he means to say. Can't have blacks voting for greens, we have to keep our color-coordination. "Vote for me or your vote won't count!" is hardly a good endorsement for public participation.

November 2, the power is in your hands, hands that once picked cotton," Jackson said.

I could be wrong about this, but somehow I think that the congregation Jesse Jackson is talking to has spent more collective time shooing alligators from their yards than picking cotton. Miami Vice never mentioned cotton fields around the city, and Dave Barry never complained about cotton weevils.

"We have to get back to the place we were, where terrorists are not the focus of our lives, but they're a nuisance."

If terrorists are treated like they were, then we'll just play along, like the passengers of the three planes that hit buildings. It was policy on planes to treat such things as a nuisance. Play along, go along, and nobody gets hurt. Everybody on those three planes died.

On the fourth plane, they didn't treat it as a nuisance, but as a threat to be focused on. They fought back, and everyone on that plane died.

The differences? The passengers on the fourth plane had a fighting chance at seeing the next day, the others didn't. That's the real choice in this war. To sit calmly and get killed without protest, or fight and have a chance of living through it.

Unfortunately, between John "It's just a temporary nuisance and we'll all be dead soon" Kerry and George "Please go on vacation and enjoy yourself while you can" Bush aren't giving us much of a choice.

Goe, won't stand in the sheep line to be slaughtered.