BUSH '04!

[purple_roundy]

Yes, I am a Bush supporter. And Yes, Bush won. I have to admit that I am surprised at how large his margin of victory was. Bush won the popular vote by a margin that was SIX TIMES LARGER than that with which Gore won in 2000. READ THIS: BUSH RECEIVED MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. MORE PEOPLE

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[xeroxchamp]

I don't really think they're crying because they lost. I think they're crying because it always sounds better to go with the villain you don't know if you can trust over the villain you know you can't trust. Most liberals I know only liked Kerry mildly at best. It was just a way for them to prevent, perhaps, another invasion, save another life, or get the world to like America a little better. Bin Laden's tape obviously did the job, however, and got people to vote Bush. So they're dealing with it more on the terms of accepting that we are going to be the international villains for four more years, outraged that we're going to be told we're under attack for four more years, against hope they could have had a fresh start and ended Vietnam 2. I'm sure if the alternative to Bush had still been another Republican, a lot of my liberal friends would still have been excited for that, too. Consider that the DC electoral votes went to Kerry overwhelmingly. There are larger issues in the works than in a jr. high class election, where

[tunis]

EVERY GAY RIGHTS BAN WAS PASSED! EVERY SINGLE ONE! -that might be the most ignorant thing you've ever written.

sorry scotty.

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[purple_roundy]

To clarify:

The ban is on GAY MARRIAGE, not GAY RIGHTS. I am in favor of Gay CIVIL UNIONS, and many may not know that Bush is as well.

P.S. - I have gay relatives too.

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[pidgin]

oh, i see... so because you have gay relatives it's ok that you are foisting your religious beliefs on them.

[racheybaby]

You have to admit that Bush has fucked up so many things in this country. Bush won despite the fact that a majority of Americans believe the war in Iraq is not going well, that health care costs are rising, that their jobs are threatened, that their taxes are not going down and that the economy is not going as well as Bush told them it was. I'll stop "crying" once I see some improvement in this country.

I've accepted that Bush is our president, once again, for another four years. I just hope he can make the change that has to be made.

[coming_clean]

My opinion about the our president re-elect:

Bush lied to America when he pushed us into a war with Iraq. He made promises of weapons of mass destruction. A year and some change later we see that nothing substantial has turned up. Was this not his principal reason for invading Iraq? Don’t you feel lied to? Alienated? Used? I know that Saddam Hussein was a horrible person and that he gassed his own people. We’ve heard that story numerous times from his administration. But is that adequate justification for invading a sovereign country; a country that had never once threatened the United States in it's 228-year history? I don’t think so.

Did you know that the majority of people who voted for Bush still believe that there are/were WMDs in Iraq? Whoa. If that's not some fucked up shit, then I don't know what is. These people were deliberately lied to and then believed it. And still believe it

[coming_clean]

http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Pres_Election_04/html/new_10_21_04.html

better link to info

[purple_roundy]

Noah, I know that you are an informed person but I think that you are letting a single issue blind you, or at least that is what your post shows. All the major countries in the UN believed that Iraq had WMD and that is why there were diplomatic attempts to send in weapons inspectors after they were kicked out in 1998. Everyone understood this, not just Bush, even Kerry as well as a majority of our house and Senate. Im not going to try to convince you that Iraq is worth it, you have already made up your mind. However, I do support Iraq and our troops there and truly do believe that the world will be safer when Iraq is a democracy. Additionally, whether or not you agree with Iraq, the fact is that we are at war in that country and the country chose the man that can best handle that situation, and Im not talking about Flippy McGee

[ryancheng]

I have to admit that I am surprised at how large his margin of victory was. Bush won the popular vote by a margin that was SIX TIMES LARGER than that with which Gore won in 2000. READ THIS: BUSH RECEIVED MORE VOTES THAN ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.Scott, i know you're smart enough to realize what this actually means, but you're choosing not to. The past two presidential elections have both been rediculously close, with each candidate within about 1% of the other. For the sake of simplicity let us assume that Gore won the vote in 2000 by 2 votes. Bush winning this year with a margin "6 times larger" than the margin that Gore won with would come out to be 12 votes. If you do the math the closer the candidates are (within 1% is as close as it gets) the smaller the margin becomes. 6 times an incredibly small number doesn't automatically make it a large number. Any president that has won with 52ish% or more has won by more than Bush