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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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He could have done that last night. It was pretty obvious that there was no way he could win -- Bush was ome 140k votes ahead in Ohio and it would be entirely unresonable to think that all 140k provisional ballots would be both valid and for Kerry. Furthermore, Kerry did not even have the argument of being ahead in the popular vote.
So, yes, kerry did the honorable thing -- but late.
I would have been interested to hear all the comments about popular vote had Kerry won Ohio (and the presidency), sinche Bush's popular vote margin would have still been much higher than Gore's popular vote margin four years ago.
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
Civil War
Won't happen. It should, but it won't. As soon as rumblings start to appear in the press, there will be another "terrorist" attack designed to keep the sheeple properly frightened.
I don't respond to AC's.
Crap shit fuck damn it all to hell.
Now we have a Senate, House, and Presidency all in control by the GOP. 11 states have banned gay marriage. Alaska threw all reason out the window and didn't legalize marijuana (which includes hemp, an amazing industrial plant). I must say, these next four years (and definitely the next two) are going to suck... big time.
I apologize world, but my vote against W wasn't enough.
That's it. They lied. My vote didn't count. I had a mail-in ballot and they've declared the presidency before any of the mail-in ballots have been recieved. None of them counted. None of those votes matter. You don't matter.
And Kerry called in already to concede. Bullshit. You know what I want to see? I want to see someone dig up evidence that Kerry is in Bush's pocket. I want to see that he was the wrong bastard anyway. I want to see children screaming in the streets that they aren't going to have pencils or paper in school next year. I want to see a burst in the number of teenage girls getting pregnant, all because Bush is going to destroy Planned Parenthood's Take Charge program. I want to see those girls marching, chanting that their children aren't going to have a future. I want to see college students protesting that they won't recieve social-security ever. I want to see where the next bomb is going to be dropped. I want to see the faces of people who are waving Bush/Cheney '04 banners after their children don't have a place in America. Wait, those are all wealthy people holding those banners. They can do whatever they want--and your vote didn't count!
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You forgot work, MOST midwesterners have jobs and work hard 8-10 hours a day to feed themselves and their families and put food on your table, and the tables of half the world.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
There are more than two ideologies out there, you closed-minded fuck. You sit here and talk about being immature and pig-headed, then you assume every person in the country falls into either the "liberal" or the "conservative" camp. Isn't it pretty immature to think everyone is either a part of your little club, or an enemy? And isn't it a little immature to generalize with flamebait horseshit trying to lump everyone into a group based on one person's statement?
Not only that, but when the fuck did this become a THREAT? A threat is intended to intimidate or harm the person its directed at. Saying "this place is a shithole so I'm thinking about getting my ass to somewhere better" is an opinion on the state of affairs somewhere, not a threat, you pig-headed conservative jackass.
Am I a liberal? No. Am I a conservative? No. Am I a sheep? No. I find the candidate from whom I believe I will get the most benefit out of my vote and vote for him/her. I voted for kerry because I was praying my inbred redneck state wouldn't go pro-bush (which they did, by a landslide), but the rest of my ballot was primarily libertarian candidates, mainly because I wanted to support any disruption to the two-party, two-mentality, two-ways-of-getting-fucked-in-the-ass system that we have today.
This day makes me embarassed to be an american, and I wouldn't mind trying out another country for a while at this point. However, my family resides in america, and it's difficult enough already having to visit them flying from state to state. I'd rather not add a visa and higher chances of cavity checks to the equation.
Most successful eh? I guess all of those countries with lower unemployment rates, longer life expectancies, and shorter work weeks are just green with envy.
Yeah, especially since they're probably paying about 75% or more in taxes.
Also, according to this site,
and others I checked, the USA has lower unemployment than most European countries, so I'm not sure which countries you're talking about.