The Good Guy Won

What a nice, happy ending huh? I happened to watch parts of Kerry's concession speech, and I just felt so sorry for the guy. He was actually 'gracious' and essentially decent. If only he seemed that way during the campaign.... he would've probably won.

Anyways, I've refused, for the most part to "gloat", because a) I never won anything, someone else did, b) It really doesn't matter THAT much, c) There's not much to gloat about; I believed that Kerry's appeasement-like attitude would've noticeablely shook global stability; things will remain essentially the same from now on, d) Living in Canada, I know what its like to be on the losing side, e) Almost everyone I know supported Kerry; why alienate everyone you know?

Anyways, I wanted to address something else:

Why do Sikhs find it so shocking and wrong that religious people vote for Bush more than they vote for Kerry? Apparently that taints the results for almost everyone I know. Wouldn't this be a good thing??

"Yeah, so what, he was mainly supported by the evangelicals anyway..."

What the?? What's so bad about a) having religious people holding office, b) having religious people supporting you??

What's better? I'm sure Kerry scored huge with the Atheist vote, and I'm sure that's re-assuring to most atheists, but why in the world do most "Sikhs" feel threatened that religious people supported Bush? What totally irrational, illogical hypocrisy. "Yeah, I'm religious... I go to Gurdvara once a week, but ummm, Bush totally got all his votes for church-going Christians.... what a sham!"

What total idiots. I wanted Bush to win because I sensed (rightly or wrongly, who knows) that Bush had a certain sense of authenticity in his faith. I gathered that belief from both hearing him speak and reading and hearing of stories and events that took place away from the cameras.

Why do other Sikhs find that so wrong?