Fuck Florida and Ohio
God, I feel nauseous. John Kerry just conceded to Bush less than 20 minutes ago. I was actually doing a pretty good job building up a bunch of false hope, thinking that maybe Ohio would pull through in the end. I am just left speechless as to what the fuck this country (and a record number of them both by majority vote and by general voter turnout) thinks it is doing exactly. I never knew so many people could be motivated by fear tactics, religious smoke screens, and obligated gifts. And with so many bans to gay marriage all within the same 24 hour period... jesus, I don't think I can even fully comprehend all the conservative closed-mindedness that festers in this country.
I'm sorry the rest of the world; I tried to give you a reason not to hate me based solely on my nationality. It didn't work.
Sigh.
November 6th, 2004 - 18:44
Those “fear tactics” was actually performed way more by Kerry. He was always talking about the black people and there was another scare tactic that you could *see* the right through the huge fat lie. i think that could be one reason why people voted for Bush. Bush never soaked that low to start with scare tactics to get the blacks or whoever to vote for him. At least not this election, I don’t remember the other one in 2000.
November 7th, 2004 - 02:47
I guess I would need to see quotes of Kerry saying such things, because I do not remember them ever having been said. From your post I’m not even really clear exactly *what* Kerry said that you considered a fear tactic. Was it not Bush and Co. that released warnings that there would be a terrorist attack on the day of the elections that ended up being completely unfounded? Bush uses 9/11 and national security as a reason for almost everything he thinks and does… and he uses the fear generated by both of those to get support for his “instinctive” ideas. He’ll continue to do it for the next 4 years, just like he’s done it for the previous 3. I haven’t felt unsafe in this country for the past 2 years, and seeing Bush prance around in a flight suite didn’t make me feel anymore secure. Nothing Bush has done has aided in that… only the passing of time has. He can play “Sim City – The Iraq” version as much as he wants… but no emotion in the world, whether it be fear or otherwise, will ever make me feel he is a good leader and that his actions have the best intentions for America at heart. He’s successfully made this country the laughing stock of the world. If you voted for him, maybe you’re proud of that… but I can be ashamed for you. He was never and never will be my president.