-Eric
Posted on 11/04/2004 9:32:38 PM PST by Validus
Friday, November 5th, 2004 17 Reasons Not to Slit Your Wrists...by Michael Moore
Dear Friends,
Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, “always look on the bright side of life!” There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.
4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of the Americans still think the country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), thinks the war is a mistake (51%), and doesn’t approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)
5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.
8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.
10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.
11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.
16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.
Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.
Yours,
Michael Moore MMFlint@aol.com www.michaelmoore.com
again Mr Moore has his facts way wrong. That's like saying Kerry got more votes than FDR. Irrelevant. Adjusted for population percentage it is not even close...
| Year | Candidate | Vote | US Population | % of Pop. |
| 1984 | RONALD REAGAN | 54,455,000 | 234,000,000 | 23.37% |
| 2004 | JOHN KERRY | 55,902,001 | 291,000,000 | 19.21% |
Well-stated. See my #156 above
-Eric
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I bought it before I saw the movie. It, and many other hymns in that movie, touched my soul.
oops!
To quote Shakespeare: "A tale, told by an idiot...Full of sound and fury..signifying nothing."
That's the shakeTheirFoundationTruth
To make things even worse for Moore's comparison, let's look at Kerry vs Reagan as a percentage of population AND turnout...
| Year | Candidate | Vote | US Population | % of Pop. | Total Votes Cast | % of Votes |
| 1984 | RONALD REAGAN | 54,455,000 | 234,000,000 | 23.37% | 92,652,680 | 58.8% |
| 2004 | JOHN KERRY | 55,902,001 | 291,000,000 | 19.21% | 115,724,432 | 48.3% |
Blowout, and another falsehood exposed by the blowhard.
My God, I WASTED precious EYE time reading this CRAP?? Where was the troll warning???
I'm sure once Mike is rested up from raiding the student activity funds of colleges around the country spreading his venom and downs a few dozen cheeseburgers he no doubt will want those he likes to refer to as "stupid Americans" aware of these and other facts he inadvertantly forgot to mention.
Have some more Kool-Aide, Michael.
Moore is fudging his claim because he is not making it clear what he is basing his claim upon. If his claim is judged by the electoral vote, then he is right. If it is judged by the percentage, then he is wrong.
In any event his point is as silly as a Crazy Paul Krugman rant, and equally deceptive.
Juding his claim on the popular vote total is silly since only 17,667,827 were cast in 1916.
I agree but plenty here on this forum live for precisely that point Moore made....
It's a bias shared by many who are either naive or belong to some minority.....but would never admit that is their motivation.
Well....I'll admit mine. I'm in the majority (aside from being male) and i don't want to give that up. My forebears stole that land fair and square from the Indians and I see no reason to capitualte now at this late date.
But a much bigger win than is buddy Jimmy (hee hee), he might remember that while maligning Reagan.
Proving once again DemonRats and members of the Rosenberg press can do math unless it involves their paychecks and the taxes they don't pay.
Shut your pie hole, loserfatboy!! No, better yet, keep spewing the same vile stupid crap. Keep the Democrats going down the wrong road. Current and future Republican victors thank you.
If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!I doubt he ever played organized sports (other than the "target" position in dodgeball) so I am sure they will be as lame as this one. If you ran 55 yards while needing 58, and the clock ran out, you don't get the ball on the three yard line to start the next game. sheesh.
-Eric
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