Bush supporters give me a break!

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Registered: 08-02-2004
Bush supporters give me a break!
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Wed, 08-04-2004 - 2:17pm
I have just read through some of the info on the GOP thread and this will be my first time posting a discussion, so here it goes:

I truly feel like whenever I hear a Bush supporter speak, it is like listening to someone with Stolkholm syndrome, THEY ARE COMPLETELY BRAINWASHED!!! I mean, honestly, unless you are living in a cave (without internet, mind you) there is no way that the Bush supporters do not intake the same news that I do.

HE LIED!!! HE LIED!!! Let this serve as a newsflash to anyone who did not know. THERE ARE NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. IF THERE ARE, HIS DAD SUPPLIED THEM. This is something that they were aware of befor the sent us into Iraq. That is unethical manipulation of your position of power.

For those of you who were just about to argue that we went in for "humanitarian" reasons to collapse the tyranical reign of Saddam, let me just halt you in your tracks. Why are we not in any country in Africa, in which there are civil wars, AIDs epidemics, and feminist repression running rampant due to governmental proceedings? Why are we not in China? Why are we not in Palestine (oh wait, I forgot, we are, sponsering their killing by the Israelis)? Becaus they do not benefit us? So what's the deal, we fight for humanity contigent on how much money we gain from it? Give me a break!

I read another posting about how Republicans are frustrated with the Democrats focus on how George Bush cannot speak. A couple interesting points: It worries us that he cannot speak because you'd think that after a couple years at Yale, the University rated number one on the recently released Princenton Review, that he would be able to process a few words. I guess the fact that he graduated with like a D average just does not count. Additionally, I would just like to call to attention the fact that over and over again science has come to the conclusion that the major difference between humans and the animal kingdom is our ability to speak, and our advanced methods of communication which in turn lead to organization and technology, thus the advancement of the human race. If he cannot speak, then he is getting closer and closer to the animal, right?

Finally, on the GOP thread several posters commented on how although Dems were calling them nervous, they were actually unwaveringly confident. Yeah, I would be too if my party had just rigged the last election!!

People, women, get to the polls!!

Let's make it like father, like son, one term!

Lani

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iVillage Member
Registered: 08-02-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:09pm
The fact that DEMS let the Patriot Act go through.
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:10pm
"I thought Gore lost in all recounts and not as a result of the Electoral College?"

The recounts confirmed that the E.C. number for Florida went to Bush. Individual votes determined the state result, and the Florida state result (it's E.C. number) in this case determined the winner of the presidential race. It was the state which everything ended up hinging on.

"So in lay-men's terms: Even though there was a candidate that received a majority of the vote from a majority of the Americans, it is right that that candidate loses?"

Correct, as the Electoral College is the *only* measure by which the winner of the presidential race is determined. The use of the popular vote to determine this involved the danger of more heavily populated, larger states dictating to the rest of the country who the president would be. The E.C. avoids this problem. It may not seem fair in some cases, but that is the way it works.

~mark~

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Registered: 04-08-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:11pm
Encarta says the attacks were the result of Iranians occupying those sections of Iraq as a result of the 8 year long war. Says they were entrenched in that part of Iraq for over 2 years and weren't being moved out from conventional arms.

Of course, there could have been more than one incident too. Im not in a googling mood today to hunt it down.

Cheers

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-02-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:11pm
Okay everyone listen:

I understand the purpose and function of the electoral college. I do not agree with it. Just so you all know . . .

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-05-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:12pm
lani1130 wrote - "I mean that he is filthy rich."

Well no, not really, not when compared to Kerry or Edwards... :-)

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-08-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:12pm
So he changed his vote reg? I know he was a green voter in 2000. So now he's lying about being a democrat AFTER he changed his registration?

Hell, it's friday and I'll have some of what he's using!

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:13pm
"Of course, that doesn't matter because he gave us his version of what America looks like post 9/11."

Actually, what matters to me is his earlier dishonesty, not F-9/11 in particular. Although it also appears to have some problems, it's garbage like BfC which ended up with me having a distinct dislike for the man, his personal and professional code of ethics.

~mark~

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Registered: 08-02-2004
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:16pm
Then why don't we attack them? Read through previous postings, someone said we did not attack based on WMD per se, but on the fact that there were piles of cash in Iraq, and we assumed them to be from WMD.

So if we are attacking based on assumptions, then why do we not attack rich Americans who have truckloads of cash?

Furthermore, John Edwards, was poorer than dirt growing up with his father and mother who worked in the textile miles and worked his way to success. A plight I respect much more than the silver spoon success of Georgy Porgy.

iVillage Member
Registered: 04-03-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:17pm
That region had seen occupation by Iranian forces, and those troops in some places were attacked with mustard gas and other agents. But there were none in the vicinity of (can't remember the name of the village) at the time of the attack on it.

"Im not in a googling mood today to hunt it down."

It is that kind of day, isn't it? Just not worth that much effort for a change.

~mark~

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Registered: 04-03-2003
Fri, 08-06-2004 - 3:18pm
Okay. nt

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