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In a shocking display of avarice and hypocrisy, Psychic Vera told her befuddled students and irate husband that she was planning to vote for Bush in the next election. That is, if he makes it to the next election with that Native American curse hanging over his head.

"The man has got my vote," the psychic said, in response to a student's question as to what she was going to do with her income tax refund. "It's not such a bad thing to give up your principles," Vera said. "The Republicans do it all the time and look what their hypocrisy has gotten them. They're in power, aren't they? Really, how hard is it to change your mind and support George Bush's priorities, when you know you're going to get money in the end? That's what this country is all about. 'Greed is good', said Michael Douglas in the movie, Wall Street."

When asked how she could vote for an individual who wanted to leave arsenic in the drinking water, refused to support a treaty to curb global warming, planned to drill for oil in pristine Alaskan wilderness areas, and nominated a man for UN ambassador who ignored human rights abuses by the Honduran military when he was ambassador to that country, Vera's terse response was, "So what?"

The psychic went on to say that none of those things directly affected her. Her water didn't have high arsenic levels, she lived on a hill so she wouldn't be subject to flood water in her living room due to global warming. The Honduran military tortured Indians in their own country not in hers and she had no plan to visit the Alaskan wilderness anytime soon.

Psychic Chuck was so appalled by Vera's political betrayal, he said he was thinking about divorcing her if she continued with her insane support for George W. Bush. "All your life," he told her, "you've stood up for policies that benefited the entire community and the common person. Now, suddenly, just because we received a petty income tax refund, you've switched your allegiance to the rich and selfish. I don't get it."

"You're right," Vera countered, "all my life I've supported the little guy, the underdog. I've wanted what is best for the community. What has it gotten me? What has it gotten us? Nada, Nothing. Do you really think that you'd like yourself any worse if you acted selfishly? If you were self-centered and spoiled like the Bush family, ugly and sadistic like Rush Limbaugh, filled with churlish hate and despair like Pat Robertson. Wouldn't life be more fun if you only thought about yourself?  Look at all you'd get in return. Money and fame. Wouldn't you like to spend $25.00 on a glass of orange juice in an upscale London hotel, or guzzle a $1000 dollar bottle of wine in the Alps? Or how about feasting on elephant haunch in a fancy grass hut in Africa while you convinced the friendly dictator sitting next to you that he should sell you his country's diamond mines?"

"Stop, please stop," Chuck said despondently, "I don't want any of those things. Why would you? What about your spiritual life.? Have you completely given up on that?

"Who needs God's love or Jesus when you can buy anything you want?"