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Date Posted: 12:12:28 11/03/04 Wed
In reply to:
Betty
's message, "from the local boards:" on 11:26:48 11/03/04 Wed
Wish I took that job offer in Australia in 1997... they have more sissies than NY state!
-Betty-
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I just wish I wasn't downwind from all the damn nuclear (errr..."nuke-u-lar", as W. would say!) fallout that's gonna get dropped on Ohio now! I'll be in Hawai'i for a couple of weeks at the end of the year, so if I'm really lucky, maybe Osama & his boys will wait until Christmas-time to hit them. I could hang out on the beach down there for a few months until everything clears up around here.
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I think this type of thinking is exactly what is wrong with the Dems. Remember Kerry buying his hunting license? [paraphrasing] "Can I get me a huntin' license?" People know that he is mocking them and their way of life. That's not inclusive.
Prez Clinton had a way of making everyone feel included and people felt that.
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I think that Kerry would have made a good president. Not an excellent president or a great president, but I think that he would have done a good job. The core issues that concerned me were lost funding for improtant social programs, education, healtcare, the war in Iraq, and stem cell research. I liked Kerry's views, and I think that he could lead the country in the war in Iraq.
I think that Bush has dropped the ball on healthcare, turned his back on the working class, fumbled the war, and his religious views frighten me. I come very close to equating him to a mad man at the wheel.
However, if the majority of the country (including Ohio) wants a mad man at the wheel, then that's what we get. All we can do is sit tight and hope for things to get better in 2008.
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However, if the majority of the country (including Ohio) wants a mad man at the wheel, then that's what we get. All we can do is sit tight and hope for things to get better in 2008.
Look, to me it's less about terrorism, less about Iraq, less about the economy. George Bush, in this term of office, will have the opportunity to radically reshape the makeup of the Supreme Court. It's the death of progressive social policy in this country and a return to the 1960s in terms of civil rights.
I'm disgusted. I'm disgusted in my fellow citizens who voted in fear. Jr. was a far, far worse president than Sr, and Sr was run right the fuck out of town.
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right,
but in the meantime the House and Senate are a Republican majority, and The States Governourships are now a republican majority....By the time these next 4 are done there will be new laws, new supreme court justices, & new rules for life learnign conservative, than before...
so...
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but maybe it wasnt fear.
maybe it was lack of confidance in the opposing parties candidate.
They should have picked someone other than Kerry - someone who had staying power. Instead they tried to make Kerry into a General & Dean clone, with sprinklings of sharpton on the hat.
The American people arent all stoopid. those who chose to vote actually worked hard to be a voting citizen, not laying their fate in the hands of move on dot org, and other voter registrant organizations that never turned in the voter sheets. And those thinking people maybe couldnt make the concious choice to back the "opposing candidate".
I'm disgusted too.
disgusted at the fact the Democratic national party tried to make kerry into something he wasnt to sell to America...
Sell the man on his strengths, not on what you think we should hear.
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get involved if you really give a shit and focus on change, and poltical reform, make sure the demnats select a qualified candidate next time, if you dont like a law, write letters, and get involved. but blogging aint gonna solve it.
To think and feel the way the majority of this board does is #1 great cuz you're in na democratically controlled state (aside from our Gov.) You will have the power to change local government over the next few years, and you will have the power as always to become as active in your political afiliations as you choose....
with 1 in 10 18-29yr old voters showing up to vote nationally - there is some work that needs to be done. Get your friends to vote, or register to vote, legally, and offically as a start...and go one election at a time...
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......Nader didn't win?
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And do we all remember why Sr. was run out of town?
Because he was hornswaggled into raising taxes to eliminate the deficit, that in fact, was hardly reduced. So, he went against a campaign promise of 'No new taxes' and was fired for it.
Good, bad or indifferent, it is critical that we have continuity of leadership in what will be close to the first decade of the war on terror. That sends a message to the world and terrorists that we, as a nation, are SERIOUS about this war on terror and that it is not just another flavor of the week. I hate to break it to you folks, but Iraq is hardly a quagmire. Three times as many people have died on motorcycles last year than have died in Iraq so far. 33,471 people have died in motor vehicle accidents last year. Why hasn't traffic safety been an issue this year? Hmmmmm? Seems far more dangerous than Iraq... About 33.4 times as dangerous...
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