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Kerry Concedes Election To Bush
WilliamGeorge points to this MSNBC story "that presidential candidate John Kerry has called George W Bush to concede the election. So it is over, and without a lot of extra fuss and recounts."
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A big win for Republicans all around. NICE!!
Liberty and Freedom
1776-2004
R.I.P.
Al Gore did the same thing in 2000 - then called Bush again to take back his concession. We'll see if Kerry takes a similar route. Although, it seems pretty obvious that Ohio isn't going to go for Kerry so the result isn't heavily in doubt, except in the minds of Kerry supporters who aren't good at math.
THIS ACCOUNT IS OFFICIALLY RETIRED/RETARDED.
here's to 4 more years of continuous war,
and a greater divide between the rich and the poor.
Sees The Day
Congratulations to America on electing the morally bankrupt government it truly deserves!
The 49% who voted for Kerry, and the 51% who are morons.
paintball
The whole Baldwin family threatened to move to Europe in 2000 if Bush won. They didn't. Somehow I think you won't leave either.
The "I'm going to move" threats have gotten really stale.
If you do move, go to France. I hear they really like stupid people.
Yea! Glad the slashot poll wasn't reflective of the general population. So now we can get back to tech threads for another four years. ok, except for a ten minute hate every morning against: (pick one at random)
1. GWB
2. ASHCROFT! (boo hiss)
3. The PATRIOT Act (the horror!)
4. Iraq
Ok, so nothing has really changed.
Democrat delenda est
you won't need to, you'll be drafted....
Thank you democrats.
Yes it was a democrat who sponsored that bill.
You've gotten better at reading inane comments (300)!
The hatered of the middle American white working class caused you to lose the election.
You can't win on hate, and the presidential race, the senate races, the house races, the governor races prove it.
But hey keep up your "Stupid inbred Wal Mart shopping hicks are ruining this country" crap. It's very witty.
That's what they say, isn't it? Once this election thing is all over, we can all get back to being friends? If only that made sense.
Let's not forget what you all were fighting over: the "right" to initiate force as a means to an end. That's what government is. That's the objective of the political process: to determine who acquires the "right" to rule, and who becomes the tool to serve the objectives of the rulers.
So now that your friends -- the majority -- have acquired this power over you -- the minority -- and you have been branded a tool to serve the majority's grand plan for how "best" to use this "right" to initiate force, are we still one big happy family?
As I always say, people get the government that they deserve. We don't deserve any better than bush, in fact, he is too good for us. When all that matters to a nation is beer, jesus, and football, great leaders are neither earned nor expected. I just feel bad that the rest of the world will have to suffer from our mistake.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
"A tidal wave of blood coming down on us all from the next terrorist disaster? YOUR FAULT."
Strangely, I thought those were the fault of the terrorists. Silly me.
"Military draft stealing away the lives of an entire generation of young Americans (and then some)? YOUR FAULT."
Draft? Hate to tell you this, but the draft was the democrats idea, and now it's certainly not going to come to pass.
"Perpetual wars in the Middle East making Orwellian nightmares seem like tinkertoys in the sandbox? YOUR FAULT."
The middle east has been propetually in conflict. We've now established two democracies (well, probably 1.5 so far). The region used to only have death. Now it has both death and hope.
"A ruined economy and ecology, a Constitution left in tatters, a tyranny of wealthy white "Christians" who are anything but? YOUR FAULT."
Ummm.... it's the dems that like to play funny games with the constitution. They don't like the fact that conservative judges actually look to what the constitution says, and what the founders meant when they wrote it. The dems think it needs to be "interpretted dynamically" (i.e. mean whatever the judge says it means).
"The rest of the world abandoning us when we'll need it most (and don't say it won't happen)? YOUR FAULT."
I don't use the rest of the world as a judge for my actions. Sometimes the world is right, sometimes they are wrong.
"Drop me if you want. Hate me if you want. I don't give a shit. Fuck all 'yall."
Honestly, this makes me feel rather good about who I chose as president. I had a few doubts before, but it seems like GWB's opponents really are largely full of steaming hate. At least on slashdot.
Engineering and the Ultimate
Silly rabbit. Didn't you hear? Kerry *lost*! :-)
And I voted for Kerry.
But you whiny pussies and your hand-wringing histrionics are some of the most pathetic losers civilization has ever witnessed. I just wish one of you lot would really follow through on your "threats" to leave the country is Bush won. Those people would actually register an electron volt of respect from me.
Do you even realize that your post, while complaining about percieved bigotry, was bigoted itself? Can you see your own hypocrisy? The rest of your post was a homoerotic strawman. Fascinating.
Grow the hell up and get back to work. Sorry to break the bad news, but you will survive. The country will survive. The world will survive. I know such scenarios are anathema to ideologues, but that's the way it is. I know lots of you secterty dream of being opressed revolutionaries, but you're not. You really don't even understand the basic concepts.
You really are just little nothings with no power flaining out at a universe that doesn't care about you. Thinks about that next time you are wanking off to your Che poster. Sleep well. *kisses*
--- Ban humanity.
I've seen this thread grow into civil war threats, fleeing the country, burning courthouses, etc.
I am here to help you guys.
There are MANY places on the net where you can purchase plane tickets and look for jobs and real estate elsewhere.
May I advise, if you're fed up with your country, either try to help it the right way, or if it bugs you THAT much: LEAVE!
The majority has spoken. You knew that this was the setup before the election and Bush won. Even the minority leader (D) was ousted in place of a Republican!
Go ahead and mod me down.
Get paid to code OSS
Just shy of a threat? lol .. ok .. here .. DONT BRING YOUR MONKEY UP HERE OR WE WILL KILL HIM... sound good?
Ungratefull Canadians? Ya, ok kiddo.
Invade us, bring it on you fucking sheep.
I really do know KungFu
Ok, all you left wing wankers get over it. The country is a better place, now STFU!!
This is a test. This is a test of the emergency sig system. This has been only a test.
Well duuuh, that is because more people voted this time around than ever before. Or are we counting all the dead people that voted for him too? :-)
p.s. He still only got 51% of the total popular vote. So guess what, 49% of Americans who voted hate him. Which is a really sad thing IMHO.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
> that won because he openly advocated limiting
> civil rights of an etnic group, and used it to divide the country.
People want to have a president who shares their values in order to have the kind of a country they want to live in. In case you haven't noticed, people in 11 states decided that gay marriage was unacceptable. I suspect that majorities in other states hold similar views, and if the majority wants something, in a true democracy they would get it, since that is the definition of democracy.
> It sickens me to think that people who never voted
> before said "Whoa, nothing else has mattered to me in
> the last 20 years, but the QUEERS WANT TO GET MARRIED!
> Jarlene, find me my votin' hat!"
When you see the moral standards of your society being destroyed, what good man would not act, if the decline could be stopped, or at least slowed by simply showing up and voting NO? If he does not want homosexuality to become an accepted practice, surely it is the right thing to do.
To all of the people who voted for Kerry: Thank you, you've done your duty. To all who support Kerry but didn't vote: you're worse than Bush.
To the republican party: you're assholes. You twist the truth and push your falsities as truth. You control Fox News and other media outlets and use them to shove your agenda down the throats of their viewers as bipartisan news. You're despicable.
Fox News needs to be taken out. George Bush should be sent into the wilderness with only hits wits to survive.
Not only did George Bush win, the House and Senate are Republican controlled. Welcome to hell.
I am disappointed in the United States people on this day. When did we become a populace of morons?
Meanwhile hundreds of thousands of people across the world continue to immigrate to America annually, both legally and illegally. People are literally dying to get into America.
If you want to leave because you don't like the policies of the government, feel free, or just continue to voice your dissatisfaction.
Either of which, by the way, you would be prevented from doing, by force, in a religious police state...
Something I learned this election season is that liberals are always bleeding-heart pussies.
Except when it comes to abortion and stem cell research, in which case they are heartless cold-blooded murderers.
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
Sounds like someone is part of the Confederacy...
Allow me to help you to move. Perhaps you can convince some other liberals to go with you?
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
4 More Years!
4 more years of lucrative no-bid contracts;
4 more years of underfunded, biased, racist, corrupt educational systems that reward nice suburban schools and gut already strained urban schools, to the benefit of Bush's friends who run testing and test preperation companies;
4 more years of stop-loss in the military;
4 more years of american AND iraqi casualties;
4 more years of job loss;
4 more years of a mounting federal defecit;
4 more years of a shrinking middle class, thanks to upper-bracket tax cuts;
4 more years of the axis of evil;
4 more years of imperiling the country by breeding thousands of people all over the globe who are convinced the only way they can survive is through our death;
4 more years of convincing the world that "we know best";
4 more years of the PATRIOT ACT and John Ashcroft;
4 more years of appointing ultra-conservative Supreme Court judges, who while decrying "activist judges", change the whole country into the Bible Belt and force their way into women's wombs by overturning Roe V. Wade;
4 less years of stem cell research that could revolutionize medicine, because it's immoral to use embryos, even as thousands of embryos are thrown away all over the country as we speak at In Vitro Fertilization clinics.
4 More Years!
Many Americans are certainly ignorant and gullible. How else would they be able to sell the shit thats advertised on late night infomercials? Somebody must be buying it.
Actually, I think Kerry got more votes than Bush.
Bush just got more votes *counted*.
If you look at the discrepancies between exit polls and vote tallies, they correspond directly to the
use of voting machines that lack a paper trail.
In Nevada, for example, where the voting machines
produce an auditable paper trail, exit polls are
within 0.1% of the tallies. In every state where
voting machines do not produce paper audit trails
there is a 5% systematic bias in favor of Bush.
It's beginning to look like the 1998 election was
the last gasp of democracy in the U.S., and no one
noticed.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
They already know that their empire depends on petrol and weapons. So they vote accordingly.
They feel bad, so there's a lot of preachers telling them that they are behaving right by voting someone who finances them.
They just turn their backs to the world, ride their car with cheap gas to the next McDonalds and eat a supersized menu (a typical reaction to feeling guilty).
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!"
As a European, I welcome a Bush win. It will bring about, more than any other factor, an even tighter European integration, which means more euros for me.
:E
Well, the way I see it another fours years of Republican rule will probobly devestate the US, financially and socially, to such an extent that the republican party will be unelectable for years to come.
It's either that or even more Americans becoming intolerent, religious, tax free and/or just plain rude. Not that the French are more tactful mind.
"America Rules! Except the south." - Peter Griffin
May the Maths Be with you!
Wisecracks aside, though--GWB has made it amply clear over the past four years that he has no desire to represent, let alone consider, views that do not mesh with his own. How can I throw my support a guy who doesn't even care about my core principles?
Our president, at root, doesn't give a rat's ass about what I and millions of other Americans think. He won't even extend the courtesy of pretending to care. He is, at best, glibly dismissive of the tenets we truly believe in. How the hell can we be expected to abide by this?
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
How long until an amendment removing the term limit for president is floated?
a man, a plan, a canal, panama
Bush and religion...
I need not say any more...
N.
"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence." - Charles de Gaulle
* Note for Americans: Australia is not in Europe.
Yeah, so they have a skirt to hide under when Germany comes knocking again ... (ducks)
As a matter of fact, the only time the rest of the world doesn't hate us is when we are dragging your facist, socialist, communist asses out of another war. Do you understand now why we (the majority of Americans) don't give a rat's ass what you think of us? Do you understand that your superior attitude doesn't matter to us? Do you understand now that Europe's highly educated losers don't matter to us?
Do you get it now?
Most midwestern states receive more in federal funding then they pay in taxes. Without govt welfare for farmers, ranchers, miners and loggers the midwestern US would collapse into abject poverty.
The entire midwest is a giant tax sucking welfare state. Whether it's farm subsidies, crop insurance, flood insurance, maintaining endless highways or whatever. You all would be fucked if it wasn't for those hard working people in NY and CA whose tax dollars are subsidising your rural lifestyle.
Look it up, people in NY and CA get shafted and you benefit.
evil is as evil does
I agree with another poster that Kerry (or maybe rather the Democrats) put up a lame fight. I am shocked and depressed that more than 50 million people voted for the dumbest president in our history. He's done everything to appease the far right, led us into a war that is only festering the wounds of anti-Americanism, is plunging us into mind-boggling debt and uses emotional - and completely irrelevant - issues to weasel votes in his favor. Abortion? Gay marriage? You tell me how many of you are directly and negatively affected by either of these.
I only hope the next four years are different from the last four. This administration sickens me in more ways than I can think. We are lving in a more dangerous world that's only going to be come more dangerous under Bush's watch. God help us (although I don't really believe in "god.")
What does the "not understanding the strength of the U.S. consatution" have to do with it. You make it sound like people were just too afraid to to vote ofr Kerry.
If that is your opinion, then you are wrong. Of course there might be a few that wanted to vote for Kerry but choose bush instead because of the war in iraq. i would have to say they would be in the minority of people too. In this election we had a choice of the lessor of 2 evils. Bush was that man.
Kerry had 3 major problems with his campain that i have noticed. First was healthcare. People want cheap health care not government sponsored healthcare. It is generaly the low income people that want free healthcare and in most cases they already have it. This isn't a big turn out the vote issue for him. Some might even say that it was a turn out the vote for bush instead.
The nexted issue was the war on terror/iraq. It wasn't that people were afraid to switch presidents in the middle of the war, it is that Kerry came out and tryed to slam the president as well as the military for everythign that went wrong. Even after he publicaly said he would have done it the same way or that he thought we were doing everythign in our power at the time it happened. Then we had Terry McCullough and the likes telling is we were lying or not able to unnderstand Kerry's statment when someone played the interview were he said stuff like that. There were too many claims of everythign being said was out of context as if you had to listen to the speech or interview from the previous time to understand the context of the statments being made a couple days later. This sounds too much like a con artist to me and alot of other americans. It is as if they were constantly trying to cover up something and it left alot of americans with a sence of not knowing for sure were he stood.
Taxes was probably the third most issue i have seen that effected people's vote. (not that these are people i know, people that might have voted democrate if another man was running) Most people have moved past the tax the rich or tax cut for the rich BS. The problem isn't really that Kerry wanted to tax the so called rich, it is that all the remarks about the tax cuts being for the rich and not the poor. Many people recieved some of those tax cuts from extra money due to a child credit or the lower tax braket. One person i spoke to actually ended up with close to $3000 more in her tax refund because of the tax cuts. When democrates tryed to claim that tax cuts were only for the rich, it gave a confusing idea of who was going to be taxed when they started taxing the rich. Also most people i have talked to know that the people being considered as rich, are the same people that would be doing the highering for j0bs and services that actually makes them money.
Most of the People i talked with that said they were supporting Kerry, didn't muster the energy to go out and actually vote. Because the issues being discused by Kerry didn't effect them in a way the c ould esily relate to. If Kerry would have took a different stand on the war, maybe tryed to tax the rich while lowering taxes for the middle class and poor instead of just taxing the rich and maybe thought about his statments and how they would compair to previous statments made before saying something his supported would have to explain away, he might have won. I say might have won because i live in ohio and as we know, it was one of the last states called adn had enough electorial votes to give either canidate the presidency.
Why is a balance of power important to you? You almost sound disapointed that the conservative party (wich you try to say your suportive of) is being succesful and representing the will of the people. After all, it must be the will of the people or at least the majority of the people if they got elected in the first place right?
Now i know you are a leftist in hiding. you comment about Bush not folowing though or honoring any of his 2000 campain promises is just wrong. He achieved a tax cut that he ran on, he got the no child left behind act passed. Up intil the recent campaining, the public offices of the country were united. I'm sure there are other goals he achived too. I'm not sure why you would even think about saying he never achived any of his campain goals from 2000.
Next, I'm not sure why you think we have acted liek assholes to the rest of the world. We felt the need to do something and we did it. It is turning out that most of the other countries (namely france) that aposed us, did so because of thier finacial reasons and wrong doings with iraq rather then some moral high ground.
You mention mistakes? Well i don't think we did make any mistakes. Of course it should be mentioned that i thought taking saddom out was about 6 years too late but it happened.
Yes you are a "whiny left winger". There is little left to describe you once you statment is broke down. You even want to secede form the union because you couldn't get you liberal president elected. The country as a whoel even elected more repulican officers then we have had previously. I think we picked up at least 3 senate seats, a couple of congresional seats, and even a few more govenorships. This isn't a tinny piece of land rulling the worls. It isn't even a minority of people being represented. It is the will of the people. you can embrace it and use it to your advantage or just sit a cry about how bad life is now. In reality, the president doesn't have too much power anyways. I'm sure you can get through it and maybe even come out better in life because of it. Of course that would be of your own doings if it happened. not because of any president that failed to get elected or was relected.
OK Dems... get your spinless, gutless, indecisive butts on an airplane and fly off to Canada, France or some other hippy liberal enclave and play the part of the liberal, enlightened elitist while real Americans (such as me an dubya) kick some Towel Headed Terrorist ass.
Well, either we approve, or we disagree with your characterization of each of those issues.
One or the other.
Sore loser.
everything in moderation
Man, I'm gonna keep insisting that Diebold screwed America over until it's proven they didn't.
Of course you are, sore loser. Meanwhile, I'll be dancing and singing and enjoying my wonderful life full of reduced taxes and safe in the knowledge that I don't have to pay your healthcare bill.
Keep the pessimism alive, though -- we'll use it again in '80 to spank the Dems again.
everything in moderation
I dont think Rural america is stupid. I think they are uneducated, have little to no interaction with how america is perceived world over, has no idea how america's foreign policy impacts the rest of the world. They do however care about their jobs, their community and whether good or bad, they do look upon their government to be christian oriented. I dont know why they should values with the same regard as going to war on an error. I dont think Bush holds values dear and near because he cares about walking on the right side. Republicans deliberately choose to be on the right side of values, because they understood thats where majority of non-voting evangelical christians stood. By putting the "ban gay marriage" issue on the ballot on so many key states, they managed to get these people (who would probably not care to vote) to get their asses to the voting booths to vote for the ban, and while they are there, vote for the President since he is for the ban. How simple can it get.
The Republicans and Jerry Falwell and Rev. Moon (among the multitudes of other religious leaders/cardinals) are blatantly taking advantage of Rural america and these poor people are indeed voting with the rich, to give the rich more tax cuts, so that the rich can send poor young men and women in to battle to protect their fortunes.
If you think GOP suddenly woke up in 64 and decided to play nice, you are part of the dream. GOP is a rabid dog now more than ever, apparent from the manner in which they have played this election, played the masses, instigated a religious rebellion, brought the hordes out in masses to vote. And now we have 4 years ahead where GOP will try to appease both is corporate and religious masters, and roll back many a liberty which we had taken for granted.
4 years later, I suspect it might be Hillary Clinton who will win the ticket and GOP would be happy to throw McCain in to the fray or Bill Frist. I hope its Frist, it will be easy for us to hate him and what he stands for then.
Rapid Nirvana
Besides, do you honestly intend to leave just because our national leader for the next four years isn't the guy you like best?
I fucking hate the douchebag. He has done nothing right, and I have serious issues with my country if 51% of them chose to vote for him AGAIN after all the harm he has brought to the country. I know leaving - thus losing one sane individual capable of providing change - may not be the best way, but I can't stand to live with these fuckwits and honestly I don't feel like I belong here anymore.
Way to go America, you successfully alienated another person. Way to be free and welcome everyone! Dipshits.
I know more than you drink.
Go back and correct your grammar before I'll reply. I could barely make out much of what you said and I'm not going to make wild guesses at your true meaning.
I fucking hate the douchebag. He has done nothing right, and I have serious issues with my country if 51% of them chose to vote for him AGAIN after all the harm he has brought to the country. I know leaving - thus losing one sane individual capable of providing change - may not be the best way, but I can't stand to live with these fuckwits and honestly I don't feel like I belong here anymore.
Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
100% Insightful
How can it be that this country's "moral compass" is so screwed up that it's okay for the president to start a war in a country (which never attacked us or even threatened to attack) that leaves 100,000 civilians and 1,000 US soldiers (and rising) dead, while it's grounds for impeachment to have oral sex in the oval office? When did sexuality become so forbidden that the Statue of Justice was covered up solely because it had an exposed female breast? When was it that personal freedoms and the right for each person to follow their own beliefs and define their own sense of right and wrong fell to making sure that everyone followed the hard-core Christian rules of life (as opposed to the reasonable "help your neighbor and love them as yourselves" Christian rules of life), even if these rules are not compatible with their own beliefs? Since when did we go from "equal rights" to "equal rights to everybody but homosexuals?"
How can it be that people believe that Bush will do a better job of keeping America safe? This seems incredible, considering he already had his shot to protect this country in September of 2001 and he failed it. It is interesting that New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington DC, the three areas of the country that were directly affected by the attacks on September 11th, all voted for Kerry. Yet many people feel that Bush is the person to keep them safer. Why? What has he done to earn this reputation? Certainly, it's not that he went maverick and attacked a sovereign nation with no ties to our attackers. Maybe it's how we gave up on the search for Bin Laden, who was known to be our enemy to attack someone else who didn't attack us. Terrorists, by definition, exist to instill terror into the hearts of a populace, and they did it. Mission accomplished. Our country has been irrevocably scared, and that fear has been used, abused, and manipulated by our administration to keep us under control, and to convince us that it is necessary give up some of our vital, fundamental American freedoms (via the PATRIOT Act, for instance) to keep us "safe." No society should ever have to give up its freedoms. In fact, every republic and democracy in history that has fallen did so because they gave up their freedom for security.
How can it be that the people of this country believe that a man who reduced limitations on mercury emissions (which cause birth defects in surrounding areas), who opened up old-growth forests for clear-cutting, and who gives tax breaks to people who buy gas-guzzling SUVs is helping the environment? Perhaps it's that he called the bills by names which imply that they are good measures, when they are not.
How can it be that a person who changed his mind repeatedly on everything from education to stem cell research to whether Osama Bin Laden was really important, who kept reading a children's book for a photo opportunity even after learning that America was under attack, and who skipped out on the Vietnam war in a sneaky (but sadly legal) way could paint Kerry as being a flip-flopping weakling with a bad war record? And how are the people gullible enough to believe that Kerry did not rightly and justly deserve the three Purple Hearts, a Bronze Star, and various other ribbons that he won in that terrible war? With everyone from his swift boat giving first-hand reports of how heroic and noble he was during the war, how can people believe such things?
How can it be that people have become so resistant to ideas that are not their own? When did "Freedom of Speech" become "Freedom to say only good things about the US government?" Why do people immediately label dissenters as Un-American, when speaking out against the government is one of the greatest freedoms that our country allows us? Since when did "liberal" become an insult? If it weren't for liberals, minimum wage would be lower, blacks and women would still be unable to vote, and slavery would still exist. Liberals are the people who have fought for progress in this country (by sheer Webster Dictionary
Your photography is mediocre. If I were you I'd take your photography site down.
How The Election Was Stolen
From Roz Hill
roz_hill_2u@hotmail.com
11-3-4
I watched the election results all night and into this morning. There are some very important issues to share.
One is the surprise expressed by the pundits wherein they acknowledge that the massive voter drives were propelled by discontent. So how did the most hated occupant of the White House manage to exceed his 45% poll average to now claim he has a huge "popular" win.
We are told that 22% voted on "morality" and that Bush took 80% of that 22%, and that is how he won. However, that leaves 78% who were focused on Kerry issues. Why aren,t we told the percentages of the 78%???
The second surprise for the media was that the results didn,t match the exit polls AT ALL. The media has gracefully claimed they "just got it wrong." You remember we didn,t have exit pollsters in 2002. It saved any disagreement with THAT Republican "sweep." In fact, the pollsters have always been 100% accurate, with just 1 to 2% polling data, in legitimate elections. Bush took the Texas governorship from Ann Richards when she had a 70% approval rating. Is it magic?
My "I TOLD YOU SO" is that I have SCREAMED since 2000 that if we don,t get rid of touch-screen "voting" computers, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING else will matter.
So, here are the numbers (so far): 112,596,922 voters counted in the presidential race. Bush has been consistently polling at 45%, which SHOULD have given him 50,668,614 votes, instead of 58,073,612. This translates into 7,404,998 votes being siphoned off from Kerry votes. Now, how does that magic work???
Taxpayers get hit with a bill for $3600 (or more) for EACH of the touch-screen "voting" computers, which are nothing more than dedicated COUNTERS except that they are marketed by Republicans (who vowed to ensure Bush,s victory); and the American people have not been allowed to examine or certify the software in these units.
Here is how easy it is to "make magic"
-- we need COUNTERS - (B) = Bush; (K) = Kerry; (V) = Vote; (T) = Tally
1. If V = B, add 1 to B
2. If T = 8, add 1 to B; Clear T; Skip 3
3. If V = K, add 1 to K; Add 1 to T
This extremely simple bit of programming would shift 12% of the vote from Kerry to Bush, it would defy exit polls, and it would make it look like Bush had a huge popular win. It is time that the software in these SECRET Republican-owned computers be examined with a deliberate check for instructions that could modify the vote tally.
Al-Qaeda has previously regarded the American people as victims of a crooked election in 2000. Now they regard Americans as responsible for letting this man -- who is regarded as the worst terrorist on the planet continue his tyrannous regime. I doubt that the rest of the world will accept four more years of his lies and looting.
Roz Hill
The bible thumpers of southern and middle America reelected George Bush because they care more about oppressing women and gay people than they do about peace and prosperity.
they are now officially known world-round as the stupidist living creatures. Who the hell re-elects an asshat like Bush Jr. MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN AMERICA???!!!
Meh.
The Democratic Party: We've been pussies since 1968!
Very nice post. Thanks.
If you claim that you're going to move.. then move.
All these worthless threats. If you want to change the system then change it. But you're not going to do it running around saying that you want to the UN to be apart of everything, that you're not a fan of the Military, that guns should be banned, and that Gay's should have full rights....
Seriously. You just can't do it. Not here. In your city? San Fran.. New York.. maybe. But look at the electoral map by County. It's almost all Red.
http://www.hannity.com/img/election_map04.jpg
Only place I could find it real quick. Look how much red. If what I said is what you believe in, then you're just not going to be in power... you do NOT have the majority view.
This is why Nader doesn't win. This is why Kerry didn't win.
Either that, or start understanding how the real world works. Too many kiddies are sound bite sallys and never stop to fully understand the truth.
Four more years....
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What the hell are you talking about? Do you actually believe this nonsense? Whom, exactly, have the USA been protecting Europe from for the last 20 odd years? Certainly not Russia, they've been in no position to wage war against Europe for a long time. Who??
The only reason the States had to prop up Europe after WWII is because they sat back and PROFITEERED off the dead bodies of brave French, British, Canadian, Polish, Russian, etc soldiers and only entered the war when attacked, suffered almost zero infastructure losses and a small fraction of deaths.. no wonder they emerged ahead of everyone else.
Military spending (2003):
1 United States $ 370,700,000,000
2 China $ 60,000,000,000
3 France $ 45,238,100,000
4 United Kingdom$ 42,836,500,000
5 Japan $ 42,488,100,000
6 Germany $ 35,063,000,000
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The only people who need help defending themselves is the world from the USA. Americans don't realize that the rest of the world is not scared of Iraq, Iran or North Korea, they are scared of the States. That is not an exaggeration.
You need to separate history from propaganda. Don't think for a minute that that massive military budget is for anything but selfish American interests.
Dear Texas,
We have found your village idiot wandering around
Washington D.C. for the last 4 years. Please come and claim him before he does more damage to our
country.
Sincerely,
The United States of America
In Germany I know some people, they hate America. I hate such people. Did they forget, that we have to be thankfull against Americans? They set us free from the Nazis, they gave us freedom and democracy. We live in wealth, because Americans!
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I wonder, that Americans speaks well to us unthankful Germans. The Iraqi will be much moire thankfull to Americans than we are. No wonder, when Military Stations in Germany will be closed, because American soldiers prefer to be based in Iraq.
It is time, that we say "Thank you!" to America. It is time, that Eurpeans be thankfull to America and pay back, what they gave to us: democracy and freedom.
Well, when I read that the grandfather of the president, Prescott Bush, made business with Nazis like the actual president with Bin Ladens, I am glad that the Austrien did not choose Germany again. Two Austrians as "cancelor of Germany" is enough. So wait until Bush changed the law and than: 2008 -- vote for Schwarzenegger!
I say: Europeans, do everything to gave America the freedom back, which was killed by his president! It is much more easier than Afghanistan because we do not must care about the supply. Mc Donalds is everywhere
Please: Have a look to http://www.make-my-son-happy.us.tp/, thank you
Phil
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I have just seen a comparison of the average IQ by state, average household income and 2004 electoral. If this is correct, some very intersting conclusions are to be drawn.
Most Bush supporters have very little idea what he stands for. Polls show most of them believe he supports the Kyoto limits on greenhouse gases, is concerned about the deficit, would increase taxes on the wealthiest, wants healthcare coverage for all americans, etc. Most of them believe WMDs were FOUND in Iraq, and that Saddam had something to do with 9/11.
I'm not sure what particular brand of crack you're smoking, but it is clearly potent. This little rant of yours proves the point I've been making about this election for the last two days. The reason Democrats had their collective ass handed to them 2 November is that they have no idea who the Republicans are, let alone what they think or why they think it.
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