Hail to the Chief

I'll confess myself surprised that Bush won again. I'd expected it to be close, but a Kerry victory in the end. In a way I'm disappointed (I voted for Kerry, primarily from disgust at Bush's courting of the Evangelicals and that whole Marriage Amendment thing) and in a way I'm relieved. I suspect I'd have felt the same mixed emotions had Kerry won. It's not an election that I would have been able to feel ecstatic about, either way.

I've been less than enchanted with Bush this past year. He seems to have run out of ambition after conquering Iraq. Oliver Otter and a couple others have tried to convince me that this is a temporary thing, and that after the elections are over he'll turn his attention to Iran. I've got my doubts. I'm hoping that they're right and I'm wrong, though.

Time will tell.