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Post by ClarkGriswold on Oct 29, 2004 0:37:29 GMT -5
Hi everyone It’s been such a long time since I’ve posted here. I’ve thought of all you rooster often. My life has been busy and complicated (I’ve been looking for a hood adornment). Anyway, fact is I really haven’t had much to say until now. It’s getting closer to Election Day and it’s my sincere hope that we all get involved and vote. And it’s my deepest hope that you all will help me to accept the things I cannot change, have the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference and vote for John Kerry for president. May God bless and keep you always, may your wishes all come true, and may you always do for others and let others do for you. And if you’re reading this - thanks for taking the time!
Post by spacebunny on Oct 29, 2004 16:14:23 GMT -5
I second this!
Since September, I've registered over 300 people to vote. Surprisingly enough, most of them were over the age of 25. Now I know most of you are intelligent people (if not all) and you surely realize the current state of our nation. If you're been bitching about it, this is your chance to change it. This is a revolution, and the best kind. There's no bloodshed involved.
So here I beg you too, to PLEASE go out and vote November 2. If you have any questions about where your polling place is or what to do if you haven't received your voter reg card, there are plenty of people out there who can help you including myself.
Know your rights when you get to the polls. If they try to turn you away for any reason, request a provisional ballot.
I've signed up almost everyone I work with. I know some are voting bush but I just want people to vote. I told them unless they show me the sticker I'll harass them untill football season is over. Don't make me come to your house and harass you. I'll do it.
Go Vote. If you don't, then you got nothing to complain about for the next 4 years. Do your part, no matter what side of the isle you stand. The under 30 crowd isn't really expected to vote in large #'s. Here's hoping for a really large turnout, especially for newly registered voters. And here's hoping that we know who the winner is, without massive litigation lasting for months. I don't think our democracy can handle a 2000 repeat. Do what you can, and you can vote.
Well I tried. I did my part. Unfortunately the majority of the country seems to believe in Bush. I really can not figure for the life of me why. I'm feeling pretty depressed today about the whole thing. I thought there was some hope to holding our leaders acountable for thier gross negligence. I guess not. And the great thing is, there is now a greater majority of republicans in the house and senate. Should be even easier this time to invade some country needlessly. Sorry to rant, if there are any republicans on here, you got what you wanted. We'll see where it gets us 4 years from now. The only thing I take comfort in is that I live in a blue state. Why do we let fear determine our course as a country?
[glow=red,2,300]The Red Zone[/glow] by Maureen Dowd
With the Democratic Party splattered at his feet in little blue puddles, John Kerry told the crushed crowd at Faneuil Hall in Boston about his concession call to President Bush.
"We had a good conversation," the senator said. "And we talked about the danger of division in our country and the need, the desperate need, for unity, for finding the common ground, coming together. Today I hope that we can begin the healing."
Democrat: Heal thyself.
W. doesn't see division as a danger. He sees it as a wingman.
The president got re-elected by dividing the country along fault lines of fear, intolerance, ignorance and religious rule. He doesn't want to heal rifts; he wants to bring any riffraff who disagree to heel.
W. ran a jihad in America so he can fight one in Iraq - drawing a devoted flock of evangelicals, or "values voters," as they call themselves, to the polls by opposing abortion, suffocating stem cell research and supporting a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
Mr. Bush, whose administration drummed up fake evidence to trick us into war with Iraq, sticking our troops in an immoral position with no exit strategy, won on "moral issues."
The president says he's "humbled" and wants to reach out to the whole country. What humbug. The Bushes are always gracious until they don't get their way. If W. didn't reach out after the last election, which he barely grabbed, why would he reach out now that he has what thingy Cheney calls a "broad, nationwide victory"?
While Mr. Bush was making his little speech about reaching out, Republicans said they had "the green light" to pursue their conservative agenda, like drilling in Alaska's wilderness and rewriting the tax code.
"He'll be a lot more aggressive in Iraq now," one Bush insider predicts. "He'll raze Falluja if he has to. He feels that the election results endorsed his version of the war." Never mind that the more insurgents American troops kill, the more they create.
Just listen to thingy (Oh, lordy, is this cuckoo clock still vice president?) Cheney, introducing the Man for his victory speech: "This has been a consequential presidency which has revitalized our economy and reasserted a confident American role in the world." Well, it has revitalized the Halliburton segment of the economy, anyhow. And "confident" is not the first word that comes to mind for the foreign policy of a country that has alienated everyone except Fiji.
Vice continued, "Now we move forward to serve and to guard the country we love." Only thingy Cheney can make "to serve and to guard" sound like "to rape and to pillage."
He's creating the sort of "democracy" he likes. One party controls all power in the country. One network serves as state TV. One nation dominates the world as a hyperpower. One firm controls contracts in Iraq.
Just as Zell Miller was so over the top at the G.O.P. convention that he made Mr. Cheney seem reasonable, so several new members of Congress will make W. seem moderate.
Tom Coburn, the new senator from Oklahoma, has advocated the death penalty for doctors who perform abortions and warned that "the gay agenda" would undermine the country. He also characterized his race as a choice between "good and evil" and said he had heard there was "rampant lesbianism" in Oklahoma schools.
Jim DeMint, the new senator from South Carolina, said during his campaign that he supported a state G.O.P. platform plank banning gays from teaching in public schools. He explained, "I would have given the same answer when asked if a single woman who was pregnant and living with her boyfriend should be hired to teach my third-grade children."
John Thune, who toppled Tom Daschle, is an anti-abortion Christian conservative - or "servant leader," as he was hailed in a campaign ad - who supports constitutional amendments banning flag burning and gay marriage.
Seeing the exit polls, the Democrats immediately started talking about values and religion. Their sudden passion for wooing Southern white Christian soldiers may put a crimp in Hillary's 2008 campaign (nothing but a wooden stake would stop it). Meanwhile, the blue puddle is comforting itself with the expectation that this loony bunch will fatally overreach, just as Newt Gingrich did in the 90's.
But with this crowd, it's hard to imagine what would constitute overreaching.
Wow and Amen to that. How can we be unified by Bush when he's the one that divided us over Iraq(as well as many other issues). His agenda will just go further to the right, and he has the votes in congress to do, pretty much whatever he pleases. What's the old adage, United we stand, divided we fall. And what's the deal with the young people. All this effort to get young people registered, and it was still 17% just like every other election. Sure it was a higher turnout. Still when are we gonna wake up and realize that we can change things, if we'd all just vote. I have friends that are jumping for joy that Bush got back in, what do I do? It REALLY makes me feel sick for the future of our country. The words Freedom and Democracy have been twisted and perverted by the religious extreme to the point where it's getting hard to believe in it anymore. It's all rhetoric, and people eat it up like it's going out of style. We need to figure something out in the next 4 years, otherwise we just might fall as a divided nation. I really hope not. I guess hope is all we got now.
All we can do is hang in there and see which way the democratic party heads. They'll either retreat to the leftist base, ala Howard Dean, or become more centrist through the grooming of god fearing governors in the South. From what I've read it really sounds like those are the two biggest options at this point. One way or another they need to turn people back on. I think this revival of socioreligious drum pounding can only bring on a backlash. The big question is, how long will it take? I can't imagine it coming quick enough to prevent the appointment of three or four conservative Supreme Court Justices.
EDIT: It sounds like both parties are already putting the screws to Bush on making fair appointments. I'm hoping all this attention on these potential appointments holds up.
On a lighter note...
if you're looking for me I'll be drunk until 2008.
I was the one booing The Dead, quite loudly, as Bobby droned on about ACT (Artists Coming Together) and MoveOn.org; move on, I say, to another country. God Bless America, and God Bless Geoprge Bush!
Yes, I agree....god bless our arogance. god bless our ignorance. god bless our pride, in our arogance and ignorance. I hope god blesses it cause sure as hell no one else in this world will. AMERICA F*CK YEAH!!!