On Fri, 5 Nov 2004 16:00:38 -0500, Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:25:00PM -0700, Collins Richey took 26 lines to write:
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> > On Fri, 05 Nov 2004 08:48:59 -0600, Michael Hipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > > I have big (REALLY BIG!) problems with G.W. Bush. But whatever
> > > complaints can be levied against him, John Kerry would be 3x worse.
> > >
> > > This election was by far the worst in my 44-year-old memory of having to
> > > pick between not-so-lesser evils.
> > >
> >
> > I disagree and agree. I find Mr. Bush to be neither the worst nor the
> > best of presidents. Mr. Kerry, on the other hand - there is a special
> > place in hell reserved for a soldier who turns his back on his fellow
> > soldiers and consorts with the enemy in far off Paris while a hot war
> > is still being waged and while fellow soliders in captivity must
> > listen to his drivel during torture by their captors.
>
> I heartily recommend moving the political discussion to the general
> list before we all start slandering each other's parentage...
>
Yeah, I apologize for getting "Kerry'd away," so to speak.
An interesting little tidbit I heard on the radio today: Apparently
millions of Iranis were dancing in the streets celebrating GWB's
reelection. Now that would be a real coup if Iran were to shake off
its radicalist government.
Many people pooh pooh the map, but I find the map of county voting
across the US to be quite informative. The 2000 results showed the
trend, and the 2004 results showed an increased split. The country as
seen from a county by county perspective is 90+% red with occasional
patches of blue near the coasts. That probably helps account for the
fact that the Michael Moore nonsense didn't sell quite as well as the
Kerry campaign hoped. There is a vast middle (geographically,
economically, religiously, and culturally) of the country where the
hot buttons of the urban leftist elite just leave people cold. As one
of our number implied in 2000, I guess these people are "just too dumb
to see the light." <g> And, of course, many of them talk like our
President, so they couldn't have too much in the way of smarts. <g>
<g>
Another interesting post election quirk. When a Democrat is elected to
the Presidency, there is seldom an outcry for healing and
consideration of the other party and seldom a discussion of "mandate",
but just let a Republican get in office and there is an immediate
demand for the President to reach out to heal the divide and a
question about his "mandate." As far as I'm concerned, the President
(Democrat or Republican) has only one mandate: to implement his
campaign pledges, and it looks like that's exactly what GWB intends to
do.
Much as I would like to see the bitter vitriolic die down, I doubt
that it will happen.
It will be interesting to see what becomes of the Democratic Party in
the next four years. We have witnessed two attempts in a row to sell
an Eastern, ultra-liberal (bordering on European socialist), elitist
product to the electorate, and in both cases the product failed to
sell (leaving aside the Florida situation where no rational discussion
is possible). In both cases, the people in the middle have sent
increasing numbers of Republicans to the Legislature. When will the
Democrats come up with candidates that have any consideration for the
people in the middle? We have just witnessed the fact that billions of
dollars and questionable support by major news media cannot sell "I
hate GWB" to the people in the middle. The tired old Democratic
rhetoric: GWB will ruin Grandma's social security, enslave the blacks,
etc., etc. is just that: tired old rhetoric.
I commend Zell Miller for his contributions to the campaign. He didn't
support GWB because he is a Republican, but because he sincerely
believes that the Democratic Party has abandoned the principles that
once made it a great party.
Beginning in the 2000 election and continuing much stronger in the
2004 election, the internet has altered the political spectrum in
favor of better and more instantaneous access to the news. Prior to
the appearance of the political blogs, Dan Rather would have been able
to sell his forged document to an unsuspecting public, and the
distorted view of the problem of missing explosives at the weapons
cache would have been taken at face value.
Ahh, that felt good. End of ramblings.
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(CR) Collins Richey
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Spouse 1.0, but the maintenance ... was too much for my OS."
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