Yes We Did!
As I posted about on Monday, I was not particularly nervous about President Obama's chances of reelection yesterday, as--popular vote aside--he seemed to have more than enough electoral votes. My true worry was Question 6, the Maryland ballot question that would extend marriage rights to same-sex couples. As I said Monday, this issue is one of the
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Well, since everything is permanent on the Internet ...
http://mashable.com/2012/11/06/trump-reacts-to-election/
After Obama won the popular vote--which didn't take long since, as I recall, when Trump indulged in his rant, California polls hadn't even closed yet--and Trump deleted his idiocy, I said that maybe, instead of eating his hat, he should eat his rug. Except, sadly, I know that's actually not a rug but his real hair. How a person can have that much money and that bad of hair really just baffles me.
Then there was the election here in 2000
That was my first election as a voter. I remember I spent the night over Bobby's parents' house, and he and I sat up half the night on his futon, watching election coverage. It was a formative experience for me. That night is definitely one I want to read about in history textbooks 50 years from now. Such a travesty. And a travesty with aftershocks I suspect we'll feel for decades. When I feel like melting my brain a little, I think about how things would have been different if Gore had won. Would 9/11 even have happened? Even if it did, I doubt we would have gone to any much less two wars. I doubt we'd be in the deep economic hole we are right now.
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Who knows. That is a bit of a stretch. I think intelligence on it slipped through the cracks while everyone was so busy trying to impeach Clinton for getting some blow jobs in his office and he was busy trying to defend himself. Don't even get me started on that one. Outrageous waste of taxpayers money and the time and attention of those involved. But you know me; I could give a damn what he was doing in his office, no matter how inappropriate or tacky, as long as he got his work done and it was consensual.
Whatever had happened, Gore certainly would not have had the balls to spend as much money on wars as Bush did. Although, both main parties are historically far too trigger happy IMHO.
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