salmacis - that sucks. 40 something percent of voters did not vote for him, and that's just the feelings of the people that actually came to the polls. Dont judge all of us by that, its not fair. There is a lot of us that feel the way you do. Dont fucking forget that.Go fuck yourself, Yankee bastard.
"I'm going to come out strong after my swearing in," Bush said, "with fundamental tax reform, tort reform, privatizing of Social Security." The victories he expects in November, he said, will give us "two years, at least, until the next midterm. We have to move quickly, because after that, I'l be quacking like a duck."posted by muckster at 9:47 AM on November 3, 2004
don't despair too much...after all, if you guys are ever on the verge of being taken over by another country, we'll still jump in and save your asses.Unless, of course, we're on the verge of taking it over. If Bush can unjustly and unilaterally leverage the US military once, why stop with Afghanistan and Iraq? I hear Korea is nice this time of year...
What we're seeing, I think, is a huge fundamentalist Christian revival in this country, a religious movement that is now explicitly political as well. It is unsurprising, of course, given the uncertainty of today's world, the devastating attacks on our country, and the emergence of so many more liberal cultures in urban America. And it is completely legitimate in this country for such views to be represented in public policy, however much I disagree with them. But the intensity of the passion, and the inherently totalist nature of religiously motivated politics means deep social conflict if we are not careful.I don't think winning this election would have been a good thing for the Democratic party in the long term, but I think losing it would have the best thing for the Republicans and for the country in the long term. It would have given the old-school conservatives and moderates the ammunition to put the religious extremist genie back in the bottle. Instead, they have more power than ever.
posted by gambuzino at 12:20 PM on November 3, 2004
The observers said they had less access to polls than in Kazakhstan, that the electronic voting had fewer fail-safes than in Venezuela, that the ballots were not so simple as in the Republic of Georgia and that no other country had such a complex national election system.
The...presidential candidate should start a campaign to get the goddamn Federal government out of the marriage business. It has to be framed that way. Marriage should be a faith-based institution and we should turn it over to the churches. If someone doesn't want to be married in a church, then the Federal government can offer them a legal civil contract (this is a better name for it than civil union).posted by kirkaracha at 11:06 AM on November 4, 2004
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