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Kerry Concedes Election To Bush
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timothy
on Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:39 AM
from the now-clean-up-all-these-damn-peanuts dept.
from the now-clean-up-all-these-damn-peanuts dept.
WilliamGeorge points to this MSNBC story "that presidential candidate John Kerry has called George W Bush to concede the election. So it is over, and without a lot of extra fuss and recounts."
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Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Now, let's all have a big Slashdot group hug (Score:5, Insightful)
Bush got more votes than any American in history.
No matter how you slice it, he won this election. Electorally, popular vote, plurality of states, plurality of precincts, plurality of counties.
What exactly do you want to change in regards to the rules of the games?
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Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
Well, you're better off than me. I still gotta learn to speak Canadian!
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
Four years later and he's still here.
-Peter
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Insightful)
Tell that to the marines.
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Informative)
We hear a lot of threats to move from silly starlets and disgruntled geeks, but I've never heard of anyone who actually did it.
By the way, if anyone actually did move overseas, we miss you, and you can come back whenever you're ready. We won't wait up, but we'll leave the light on for you.
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Re:Oh Canada! (Score:5, Funny)
If I was God, I'd be, like "Get the hell off me ya freaking Canuck! I've got better things to do than be your rug!"
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"Immature" (Score:5, Insightful)
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Here's an idea (Score:5, Funny)
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"...without a lot of extra fuss and recount"? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:"...without a lot of extra fuss and recount"? (Score:5, Funny)
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How to Entertain Yourself until Thanksgiving (Score:5, Funny)
- Take up assault weapon collecting as a hobby
- Figure out how to best invest your $300 annual Bush tax savings to cover the social security benefits you'll never get
- Become rich, then get all your income from mostly untaxed dividends and capital gains income
- Join the guard and train for a one year tour of duty in Iraq
- Move so that the selective service can't find you
- Take some gay people and a girlfriend (work with me here) to Vegas. Taunt them by getting married and divorced inside of 12 hours.
- Make a sign saying "The Government should stay out of our lives!" and go protest in front of an abortion clinic.
- Pick up bow and arrow making to capitalize on the new corporate tax incentives
- Do something illegal, get arrested, and excercise your right to trial before 4 years of Bush-appointed, Republican confirmed Supreme Court appointees uphold the Patriot Act's elimination of right to trial.
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let me be the first to say.... (Score:5, Insightful)
I need directions . . . (Score:5, Funny)
Can someone tell me where I can sign-up for the upcoming Civil War?
Re:I need directions . . . (Score:5, Insightful)
That was it, last night. Every election is a bloodless civil war.
In all seriousness, continued attempts to start a bloddy one one are going to be met with overwhelming hostility. The solution to losing an election is not to start a war, and anybody who truly acts like it is shouldn't be moving to Canada, they should be moving to central Africa or something where that sort of barbaric behavior really is the expected result.
I'm not a "love it or leave it" person; I'm a "love it, leave it, work within the system to change it, or shut the hell up" person. But if you really think this is worth killing people because an election didn't go your way, then I offer you two other choices: Shut the hell up about "civil war" and grow up, or yes, get the hell out.
Good lord. You can demonize conservatives as much as you want, but when Clinton won, nobody talked about civil war.
Grow up, kiddies. You lose sometimes. Now is a chance to rebuild and refocus. Start a war and I'll be first in line to stop you with all necessary force.
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one nation under god (Score:5, Funny)
Re:one nation under god (Score:5, Insightful)
if you heard the Bush supporters calling up, they voted for him because of religion, no other reason.
so, now that Bush thinks God wants him to be president and he things God is telling him how to govern, we are in deep shit during his Legacy term.
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Re:one nation under god (Score:5, Insightful)
I've said it once and I'll say it again: The quicker we all figure out that both Democrats(Liberals) and Republicans(Conservatives) are both in it to fuck over the common man, the better off we'll all be.
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Agreed, a real alternative badly needed (Score:5, Insightful)
The situation for Americans wanting a real choice is becoming more bleak with each election. We need new parties.
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And the rest of the world... (Score:5, Funny)
Repent, for the Apocalypse Draws Nigh! (Score:5, Funny)
The only question in my mind is what form will the other two Horsemen take?
At least I don't have to update my .sig
Some silver lining.
Huh? (Score:5, Interesting)
*sigh*
took the high road (Score:5, Insightful)
I've seen reports of anywhere from 100,000 to 250,000 provisional votes, plus absentee ballots, plus recounts where necessary, still all hanging in the balance. Its a slim chance, but Kerry could still possibly win it if he pressed ahead with a long, drawn out legal battle. I'm assuming that his concession is a statement that he will not lead the Democrats down that road for the good of the country.
Ohio still has the responsibility of counting those ballots, though.
Re:took the high road (Score:5, Insightful)
Only if all of those prrovisionals are for Kerry.
Not happening.
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Only Good thing for the Dem's (Score:5, Insightful)
Here we go...... (Score:5, Insightful)
Aren't people tired of predicting the end of the world? Call me crazy, but I think we'll still be around 4 years from now with another successful election taking place.
It isn't over (Score:5, Interesting)
Let me tell you why (Score:5, Insightful)
Bush didn't win, Kerry lost.
Kerry was a TERRIBLE candidate. He took both sides of every issue. He would tell people whatever they wanted to hear. When people can't get a sense of where a candidate stands on anything, the incumbent wins. Really, it's as simple as that. I don't think many people were enthusiastic Bush supporters, but most people couldn't stomach voting for Kerry.
Instead of asking why the American people voted for Bush, ask yourself why the Democrats couldn't come up with a better candidate than Kerry.
The devious Gay Marriage measures (Score:5, Insightful)
Bush won the vote in many of those states because Christians showed up to vote to ban Gay Marriage.
Very clever on part of the Republican Strategists. It is doubtful that the "Evangellical Christians" would have voted if the anti-gay measures weren't on the ballot.
Evangellical Christians only show up when they can vote a fool into power or restrict personal liberties. I left my home town because of those fascists...
The rest of the world must think we're idiots (Score:5, Insightful)
So how the hell did he get elected? A combination of:
1. People, especially people over 50, who blindly vote for "their" party candidate.
2. A bizarre, misguided group who regard Bush as having high morals. I'm as dumbfounded as anyone here, but just watch how often this comes up in analyses.
3. A similarly bizarre, misguided group who seem to think that Iraq was responsible for the 9/11 attacks and Bush is keeping them from attacking us again.
4. Voting for the status quo is safer than a new guy.
5. Nobody really liked Kerry all that much. The anti-Bush people latched onto him because he's all we had.
This is a good argument for changing how a president is elected. For a good read, see Peter Norvig's Hiring a President [norvig.com].
A sad day indeed.
My generation (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, the youth vote was just as bad this year as it was four years ago..... What do we have to do make it a video game to make you stupid fucks vote? Your lives and the direction the country your going to be in charge of one day doesnt mean jack to you? Im sorry but they should just take away voting for 18 year olds and bring it back to 21 year olds.... if you guys cant use your right to vote, you shouldnt have it.
Liberal Flip-flopping? (Score:5, Insightful)
This is the story when bad meets evil (Score:5, Insightful)
And somewhere... my man michael badnarik is crying
T'is a sad day for me indeed. Support instant runoff voting! This 2 party crap has got to go.
alright, now flame away. But I had to get that off my chest.
despair (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm an American in London [colingregorypalmer.net] and used to be able to tell Europeans that I hope most of the American people don't approve of Bush and wouldn't have voted him in if they knew what he was going to do. Now I see that I am wrong and I despair.
Re:gore (Score:5, Funny)
-9mm-
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Re:Thank you Mr. Kerry (Score:5, Insightful)
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The votes reported by the precints say Kerry loses (Score:5, Insightful)
Additionally, Bush has a SIGNIFICANT edge in the popular vote.
Democracy doesn't mean the best man wins, it just means the majority is responsible for who they pick.
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Re:Thank you Mr. Kerry (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Thank you Mr. Kerry (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:disappointment (Score:5, Insightful)
So if any of you out there (of legal voting age) who bitched but didn't vote, please stop bitching, as some other foolish candidate in the future may end up running supporting your cause thinking that you may actually vote.
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Re:Well, (Score:5, Insightful)
I suspect that's what he meant by "us"
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Re:TIME TO PLAY THE BLAME GAME, FUCKERS (Score:5, Insightful)
Thus, I agree: I no longer blame Bush for the situation we're in. I blame the American public.
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Re:Sad sad day (Score:5, Insightful)
Economists against Kerrynomics [nationalreview.com]
Besides, we were already in a recession when Clinton left office. The surplus was dissipating as the tech bubble burst and the market took a dive. The subsequent accounting scandals didn't help. 9/11 didn't help. I'm not saying Bush didn't overspend, he did. What I'm saying is, he's planning to spend less than Kerry. To be quite honest, that's the main issue I voted on.
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