we have a sneaky man running our country again bitchezzzzz.

[ilaughoutloud]

"Of course, it’s not for lack of trying… on both sides. Our fervent rallying was matched and outmatched, unfortunately. And of course, and I wouldn’t say more than ever, but certainly more than in a long time, religion won this race. The republican campaign struck gold by appealing to the emotional center of their broadest supporters, evangelical Christians. They put their devout belief in God in direct opposition to what ‘liberals’ stood for on key issues: abortion, gay marriage, and the possibility that non-Christians or those with ‘non-Christian morals’ would run the country, and the world for that matter. They target mailed, telephoned, went door to door to millions and millions, and simply got more of them to the polls than we did. They inspired more votes. It’s as simple as that. Of course, we had strategy too, the problem is that theirs put the politics of the day in the adherence to the commands of the bible, not the church-state seperated social, economic, and environmental issues. It’s sad because that truly is regressive. It’s sad because the centers of science and technology, human progressiveness, medical achievement, environmental awareness, and so on, which are touted and praised in non-political years as leading the world to help and heal it, are then disempowered largely by singular religious beliefs. It’s sad because a strategy of fear actually works. It’s sad because, as Karl Rove said, a factor that tipped the scales was Kerry’s vote against funding for the war through he initially voted for it-which to me demonstrates that he learned from the misleading and mismanaged push for the war that it would be a mistake to follow that route, instead of the Bush camp’s blind devotion to it despite the facts.”.

Pierre de Reeder.