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When I first read about this (on Germany’s News Magazine Spiegel Online), I thought it was a joke, but after looking at it in more detail this turned out to be shockingly real.

Imagine for a moment that you want to support Bush/Cheney in the 2004 election. You want to spread the word that the Dynamic Duo did a fantastic job over the last few years and that another four years is the best thing that can happen to the US. Now the problem is, that you can’t come up with anything positive by yourself. That’s where the campaign’s website at www.georgewbush.com comes to the rescue. That is - it comes to the rescue if you’re not among those 35.9 Million people the American Census Bureau considers poor (see http://www.census.gov/hhes/poverty/poverty03/pov03hi.html), because that most likely means you don’t have access to a computer and/or the web.

Anyway: Going to the website above, clicking on the “Economy” tab and then selecting “Write News Editors”, will present you with an easy-to-navigate form that allows you to voice your opinion to a newspaper editor in the country (the form is available at this page). Just select your ZIP code, find newspapers close to your location, enter some personal details and use the precanned blocks of text on the right to create your own individual opinion as in:

“New job figures and other recent economic data show that America’s economy is strong and getting stronger – and that the President’s jobs and growth plan is working. …”

“The President’s jobs and growth policies have put the economy on the road to recovery, but there is more work to be done. …”

Wow! Finally hit OK and your opinion is automatically making it’s way to the news editor(s) you selected and will in turn influence millions of people out there to make the right choice in November ‘04.

Thanks to Bush/Cheney even the greatest moron can have an opinion