Slashdot Mirror
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."
← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)
Congratulations to America on electing the morally bankrupt government it truly deserves!
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
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
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!
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
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.
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
Very nice post. Thanks.