What will you do if Bush wins?

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Registered: 08-20-2004
What will you do if Bush wins?
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Fri, 08-20-2004 - 12:02pm
I would like to know what you all will do if Bush wins? I don't know if I can handle another 4 years. Any ideas of how to reclaim our country and restore democracy and freedom? I'm worried that another 4 years will increase the authoritariansm and absolute power that Bush has come to claim and further trample on our constitution and individual liberties. I'm truly frightened.

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Registered: 02-16-2004
Mon, 08-23-2004 - 8:36am
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Okay, the first part of your first sentence is incomprehensible, so I can't respond to it because I don't even understand what your trying to say. For the second part, where did I reinforce the validity of your question, and how did I put down your question? I was merely asking you to explain how you arrived at your conclusion that Bush has absolute power and what liberties he has taken away from you. Or are you referring to my advice to listen less to propoganda? How would that be a put-down?

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Mon, 08-23-2004 - 11:27am
Hope for a recount? Or maybe an investigation into the voting machines?

To be honest I'll probably have a good long cry. But I'm not going back into the box so I'll continue my activism and political awareness.

Fortunately, I don't think it's gonna happen. Kerry is looking good. Baiting his competition, waiting for their convention, and hopefully a platform of something will emerge rather than smear ads, but I think Kerry has enough substance to his campaign that he doesn't need to worry about BushCo. Everything BushCo tries fails, and he's basically backsliding. The Dem base is energized and motivated and we're working hard even in states that are strongly Blue, shipping talent and money to swing states and getting positive responses from Swing States and states such as Virginia that used to be strongly red (now has popular Dem Governor). In my little corner of the world, Blue state, strong blue county, the Board of Elections office is drowning in a sea of new registrations. When I dropped off the last batch of new registration forms I asked if this was typical for an election year and was told by two workers there that this was unlike any other time in their 30+ years working there. Article in the paper said that Dems had increased their lead another 8,000 registrants in the county (that's only ONE county) (and that's not counting the Independents, which personally I've registered about half as many as Dems, so figure about another 4,000) and registrations were up 25% from the prior Pres. Election cycle. The mood for those helping out is that we're just getting started. On the weekends we're headed to nearby swing states - PA, WV, VA and the poll numbers and response is very positive. The Kerry grassroots organizing groups regularly turn out volunteers of 100-150, even in Republican counties here.

In talking to friends around the country it's much the same. Kerry is regularly turning out 20,000 people willing to wait in 80'+ heat, standing in parking lots so it feels hotter, just to hear him speak.

The only way I have to worry about what I'm doing after Nov 2nd if Bush wins, is if there is a voting machine mishap.

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Registered: 05-12-2004
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 12:34am
no no no, it was not even my question in the first place. I was trying to point out that you stated to the previous poster that Bush was not so omnipotent as he or she was making him out to be, but then you said that if he were elected that you would be able to breathe a sigh of relief, and I was trying to say that if he was powerful enough to make a person feel safe or relieved then he actually WOULD have a high degree of power. I agree though that my firs sentence was completely incomprehensible. I fail to proofread. It sounds so much better when I am talking.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:07am
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I wasn't aware my freedoms have been taken away. I can vote, earn a living, raise a family in a free society. There is no KGB nor Saddam type police tracking my every move. Last I looked, I have no worries about human shredders being used against me for my opposing views.

Democracy is working perfectly. Roughly 1/2 of the population agree with what our president is doing.


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I don't know where you live, but if I were you, I'd get outta Dodge!

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Registered: 05-12-2004
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:09am
Sure, how about www.greenpeace.org

or

http://www.nrdc.org/bushrecord/

or http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2003/09/we_531_01.html

those are good for starters, and should have a fair amount of links for whatever you are looking for.

Have a great day!!!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:14am
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If one notes the Democrat donors (ie. Soros), most of them are BILLIONAIRES.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:16am
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have helped in liberating Europe, the Iraqis, have kept communism from spreading thereby guaranteeing freedom for the global population.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 1:25am
I think many people forget that our planet is a self-sustaining environment. A single volcanic eruption like Mt. Pinatubo spewed more pollutants in our atmosphere that us lowly humans couldn't even equal in multiple lifetimes. Humans have lived on this planet a mere fraction of a millenia. It is arrogant to believe that we have the power to destroy our environment to the point of extinction. I'd like to read REAL science as opposed to junk science whose data was gathered in a mere fraction of time. And lest one forgets, plants need CO2, a necessity in plant life.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 3:44am
Here's what I found on my search for some proportion after reading your links. What do you think?

Djie

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Registered: 02-16-2004
Tue, 08-24-2004 - 7:29am
Yes, but there's a big difference between having a high degree of power (all our presidents do) and having ABSOLUTE power.

As for the rest of your post - we all sound the best talking inside our own heads, don't we? LOL

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