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Bush and Kerry Supporters Have Separate Realities
corngrower writes "A report by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland correlates voters' perceptions of world attitudes and events with their choice in candidates. It's an interesting read, and shows voters supporting Kerry as being more in tune with the events and world attitudes surrounding the war in Iraq."
voters who choose Bush are wackos. Voters who choose Kerry and less so.
Kerry supporters have got more going on in the brain-use department than Bush supporters
Bzzt. Sorry, you lose. Democrats are generally supported more by the less affluent blue-collar minimum wage earners, and Republicans are supported more more by the affluent, white collar, high wage earners. These traits correlates positively (though somewhat weakly) with "brain-use": education and intelligence.
Though your statement is objectively false, it is amazingly typical of the democratic faux elitist mind set. You define being smart in terms with agreeing with your own views and ignore objective measures in favor of your own self-affirming circular reasoning.
> If the world is looking out for the world, then it's looking out for the US too
Bullshit!
If a murderous rapist serial killer is banging down your front door, immediately threatening you, and you've got the gun to take care of him are you going to be very appreciative of the fact that you next door neighbors are "against such behavior".
I doubt it. You're gonna go it alone and take care of the threat to your family and yourself.
Most likely the best your neighbor could do for you is call the cops, but they most likely will not even know anything is happening because they are sitting in front of the TV watching CSI.
Same thing with the rest of the world. They aren't even looking. They are too busy scamming the oil-for-food programs to give a damn about the US.
And when they are forced to look, i.e., a bunch of dead innocent people, they see what it's gonna cost in terms of dollars and lives and they chicken out.
Just like they have chickened out in the Sudan. They are looking the other way. There are people dying in the Sudan today at the hands of Islamic facists and the world is looking the other way.
And if the US went into the Sudan to straighten things out the US would undoubtly recieve the scorn of those who choose to look the other way.
Just like they are looking the other way for North Korea and Iran, and Afghanistan.
Losers, every single one of them!
Here's a GREAT BIG BIRD TO ALL OF YOU LOOKING THE OTHER WAY!
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As,
Far as I'm concerned, someone who:
- obviously doesn't like me
- has murdered thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands
- has had desires for WMD his entire life
- flaunts UN inspections
- is Islamic
- waves a gun in the air berating western countries
- pretends he has what he doesn't for show purposes
- you name it, he did it
is a immediate threat. Especially after 911.
And I think the same thing about North Korea's Kim, Iran's leaders, and anyone else who would like to stick there head up and threaten my country.
Just because the "murderous rapist serial killer" has a toy gun doesn't make him any less of an immediate threat....
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I'm not complaining about anything- my favored strategy in the war on terror would have Iran, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Israel, Jordan, and parts of Egypt glowing in the dark WITHIN 72 HOURS OF THE TOWERS FALLING.
Kill em all, let God sort em out!
I love it.
Let me guess, in your Bizarro world, up is down and down is up. Am I on the right track?
So in otherwords, you'd prefer that American's die where it's in your interests and if it happens to be in our interests too, the great?
I'm less than sympathetic to that viewpoint.
YEAH! I mean, you can like, download all the MP3's you want, like TOTALLY FOR FREE, and like, there's NO WAY the record companies can get after you! It must be fucking great to live there! I'm gonna MOVE RIGHT NOW! I mean, I suppose you could download a lot of MP3's if the POWER worked consistently.
On a serious note, how in the hell can the media report the good news, if it's not safe to leave the Green Zone to go report on aforementioned "good news"? And delivering Iraq from the terror of a megalomaniac dictator is great... but now they have to worry about kidnappings (not just Americans- Iraqis are frequently kidnapped and held for ransom), assassinations (not just government officials, but doctors, professors, anyone educated), crime, suicide bombings by the insurgents, "collateral damage" done by precision bombs and flying artillery platforms... if things are going so well, why do they all want us to get the hell out? If it's such a paradise, you move there. Meanwhile, if they can, the Iraqis are trying to get out.
The problem is the uneducated electorate, not the policy. The policy is "Western civilization depends on oil. Cut the oil, and you kill western civilization. Make the savage world over there more civilized, by introducting Western Ideals."
Terrorists had the money, the training, and the reason because of the enormous power associated with the oil in that region of the world and because of Western knowhow. Remove the oil, remove that value, and *poof*, the problem goes away. There is nothing to fight for. Don't believe for a second that its about "a way of life going away," what arrogance.
Women in afghanistan are voting given the freedom to because they prefer wearing burkas? "I want to wear a burka, they told me if I go to the polls they will kill me: better go to the polls." Maybe the crazies believe that, much the same way they look at a turtle and watch it die, flipped on its back. "Oh, it's natural." What dreck.
Try to explain that Oil gives the Santa Cruz Eco Facists the power to even have a voice, and they will go ballistic, along with the brain dead media. "Biomass, Solar Power, Corn, anything but nuclear (ironically) and evil oil". You simply can't tell the truth about the interdependency, because somehow it has become evil.
Let's see a similar poll. Kerry wants a bunch of new programs, harping in the meantime about the deficit. Until Kerry can show, really show, how all of these new government programs, including sending more troops to iraq, can be done by rolling back 89 Billin in taxes on those who make > 200K, I'm going to say this is simply partisan sniping.
Politics has become nothing more than a football game, and slashdot readers have been recruited as its fans, thinking, arrogantly, they have the slightest clue, when they are merely parrots admiring the vomit they've reguritaged on their feathers.
Ed Barbar, President and General Manager, Furnit USA
As a native Utahn who has voted for Orrin Hatch in the past and will be voting (along with liberal Democrat Ed Koch) for President Bush in November, and as one who is currently working on a second graduate degree, may I cordially invite you to fuck off?
I'm sorry your party can't win the White House, or the House, or the Senate. Maybe you should cast your disparaging glance at the idiotic Democrat party leadership rather than demonizing the other side (50+% of your countrymen/women) as a bunch of cretins. What a hilarious fuckwit you are.
Wow. That was great.
In a nutshell, Bush supporters exist in reality and Kerry supporters exist in a world filled with fluffy marshmallows.
:)
Stay tuned for the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man's attack on NYC should Kerry get elected