Posted on 11/03/2004 8:25:39 PM PST by ambrose
Sandpiper (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-04-04 03:13 AM Original message To all the Seniors who voted for Bush
Social Security benefits getting cut so that we can dump it into the stock market?
Can't afford to buy your medicine and buy food?
Too bad grandma! Enjoy your Alpo.
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liberalpragmatist (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-04-04 02:45 AM Original message I Trust JOHN KERRY
Edited on Thu Nov-04-04 02:49 AM by liberalpragmatist Look, guys. I realize that people's emotions are running pretty high right now. Of course people are upset. I am too. I expect to get flamed, but I don't care.
John Kerry is an honorable, decent, and great man. I had so much hope in him and all day today I've been thinking about what we've lost - I honestly believe John Kerry is one of the best Presidents the United States will never have. It's horribly disheartening.
Now I see half of DU slandering the guy and turning their back on him? Slandering him so viciously? Attacking him as spineless? You guys, the writing was on the wall. There was mathematically no way for him to reach victory. That was obvious. Now, there may have been some irregularities, but there's no way to prove that.
Do you really think John Kerry gave up lightly? The guy is truly a fighter. He has wanted to be President his whole life! WHY the hell would he give up his lifelong dream unless he absolutely had to?! This man was born to be President. Some sympathy for him please. He's obviously personally devastated. Could you not see the sadness in his demeanor during his concession speech? What would he give up unless he had to?
Some of you guys say he caved in for his own personal gain. Uh - WHAT personal gain? Don't you realize that this was everything Kerry wanted? He's lost the dream of his life. What favors could he possibly be doing to himself?
The man is obviously sad. I'm sure he feels 100 times sadder and more heartbroken then any of us! He did not make this decision lightly, and he's a patriot first and foremost. If there was no mathematical possibility of him winning, why drag this out into endless legal battles over votes that aren't going to affect the outcome?
I for one will always remember John Kerry. Obviously in hindsight some mistakes were made. But the campaign was made in utter good faith. He gave it his all and he did us proud. We made clear progress on important issues like national security - the unfortunate thing was we lost despite that because we didn't foresee the composition of the electorate. That's not Kerry's fault - that's a fault of the left as a whole. Kerry did the best he could. He very nearly beat a sitting president with high personal approval ratings in wartime.
And I'm not going to let my personal heartbreak with this loss turn my back and betray someone who fought so hard and so sincerely for us.
TroubleMan (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-04-04 03:26 AM Response to Reply #12
17. Kerry was the "rat who jumped the ship". Not us
I thought the Captain of the ship was supposed to go down with the ship.
Hell....I was still in the galley rowing the motherfucker, when I looked up because the drums stopped. To my suprise the Captain, First Mate, and half the crew were gone.
Fuck it...I'm gonna keep on rowing. Kerry can get back in the boat if he wants to, but I won't trust him as my Captain again.
goodboy (1000+ posts) Thu Nov-04-04 03:27 AM Original message Could Kerry still become President? Say he wins Ohio after votes from
absentee ballots/provisional ballots are counted. As long as it's before Jan 20th, right?
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I'll take b), with a side of d) - I'm sure that Hillary twisted his arm somehow (or his arm was twisted on her behalf) since she didn't want him excreting where she plans to eat. Also, he may be delusional enough to be thinking of trying again in 2008 himself.
The looney-bins around the country will be filling vacancies in about 5-minutes. OMG
I feel like Alice through the looking glass when I visit DU. A party this out of touch with reality is ready for the Big Heap. Ive seen several threads of people calling to form a "real third party" which as crazy as it sounds, might in the long run be the best way for lefties to get back in the game. But if its run by these kinda yahoos then no dice. SAd Sad Sad
I feel like Alice through the looking glass when I visit DU. A party this out of touch with reality is ready for the Big Heap. Ive seen several threads of people calling to form a "real third party" which as crazy as it sounds, might in the long run be the best way for lefties to get back in the game. But if its run by these kinda yahoos then no dice. SAd Sad Sad
I totally agree. Many of the DU'ers are simply out of touch with reality. I hesitated for about five years in joining FreeRepublic.com to be honest with you. Mostly because I was 14 when I first found the site, and I had once been banned from Lucianne.com...
Frankly, I hesitate to associate myself with partisans, as I am an ideologue, not a partisan. I am a non-authoritarian Federalist, not really a Republican. By that, I mean I accept the constitution and the idea of a large republic, but most of my other ideas are based on anti-federalist concepts.
But it seems that the prominent FReepers these days are starting to become much more mature and less partisan, more attached to conservativism and less to the Republican party. I can only hope there is a move away from authoritarianism as well.
Unlike DU'ers though, I refuse to be a lunatic and demand a third party for like minded folks. I recognize the fact that the best way to get what I want is to change the GOP, and not be insane like the far lefties on that board.
By the way, did anyone sit and watch the board as the results starting breaking for Bush? It was unbelievably classic.
Paul Atreides wrote:
Can they ever say one sentence without the F-word in it?
I mean, how the hell can someone afford to purchase some primo, top of the line dog food...AND NOT BE ABLE TO BUY A COUPLE OF POUNDS OF CHEAP COLD CUTS???
(Confused smiley.)
It's Bush's fault!
[That's the wonderful thing about paranoid schizophrenia - every question has the same answer.]
Always funny to hear 'rats outraged about lack of funds for Social Security, since they're the ones who put SS on budget a half-century ago and spent the funds from all its contributors on their favorite government pork projects as they rolled in over the years......
"John Kerry is an honorable, decent, and great man."
Anyone who says this either did not see Kerry's 1971 testimony or is brain dead. There is no third possibility.
I like the bit in teh post about sKerry being a fighter..
All along we'd been mentioning that he cut and run whenever the odds looked to be against him.
*chuckle*
No, I don't get that alpo scenario thing either..
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