Just woke up after sleeping most of the afternoon and tuned in to see the early election results. What I am seeing is discouraging. Voter intimidation is going to be the elections story. The NAACP is filing lawsuits in Michigan (I have Detroit network news) I bet it is bad everywhere else. The democrats knew it before hand too. I smell defeat… and not fair defeat either. I think it was Greg Pallast (a democrat investigator) that predicted a Republican victory due to voter intimidation shaving a few percent off of the vote with voter intimidation in battleground states. He knew the Republicans had lists of Florida challenge targets. I hope I am wrong… I’m getting my last beer out of the fridge.
Election day!
Looks like I initiated some-self reflection through a vague, (over)generalized comment: lizamae I will respond later as to what I was feeling and why I made it. (done.)
Monday, November 1, 2004:
(Crud. I didn’t want to combine yesterdays and todays posts.)
110! reasons why bush must go. I thought I would be pretty pumped up to see the election results tomorrow but I can’t seem to scrape up much fight right now. I find that Bush supporters tend to be uninformed and childlike in their belief in his abilities, they use arguments like “I just know” and “I just feel it”, and so on. I have a Christian fundamentalist co-worker that I tried to talk politics with, wow, I can’t believe the core beliefs and priorities some people live by, it is quite scary…. I feel pretty sour about the whole thing though. I was unbelievably crushed when Al Gore lost 4 years ago, it still really stings to think about. My largest issue is the environment, Al Gore would have looked after it like no one else ever before, he would have fought to have integrated the cost of damage to it into buisness, he understood the ecological footprint. He wrote a book, Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit…. Come on!! He would have been perfect!!!! Bush!!!! He is running not only the U.S.A. but the planet into the ground! Anger rising…. Fight returning!!! Howard Dean scream: YAAARHRGGARAGRGGRRRHHH!!!!!
If you want to rewrite what’s been wrote… Vote!
If you want to squeeze the bastards throat… Vote!
If you want to keep your boat afloat… Vote!
If you are tired of the sugar coat… Vote!
If Bush makes you bloat… Vote!
If you are dying to emote… Vote!
If you’re a man and not a goat… Vote!
If you can’t sing a note… Vote!
If your couture is haute… Vote!
If your castle has a moat… Vote!
To not smite is to become smote… Vote!
If you are a Serb or a Croat… Vote!
If you can’t find the remote… Vote!
If you are in a German U-boot… Vote!
If you like Raison brand or Oat… Vote!
If Wednesday you want to gloat… Vote!
The Ancient Undergrad 
sorry dood, still my vote goes to bush. -jb
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one of the reasons i heard why bush, and christian fundamentalists ignore the environment is because since they believe in the rapture, and the imminent second-coming of christ there’s no sense in preserving the earth. we’re all gonna be leaving any year now, anyhow… well, those of us that live in Alabama and Wyoming, etc…
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Thank god I’m Canadian.
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i’m sorry you feel that way…i’m a bush supporter, and i don’t use those phrases ever…in fact, i find more kerry supporters use it that i’ve interacted with..but hey, whatever
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i do have one question though..are you actually in canada? you seem to be real interested in what goes on in U.S. politics
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That could be because it affects us a lot! Everything America does affects us in some way.
This is such an important day.
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Huh… You’re in Canada??? Confused….
Strange abouth Meghan’s comment, though. Strange to finally hear someone say that America affects their country.
How about this one: If you’re tired of scandalous anecdotes… Vote! Or: If you want to count as more than a dust mote… Vote!
Sorry… it was so tempting. 🙂
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hey, i’ve been to nova scotia so
in a very sparsely populated small town
once
when i was 14
haha
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Ahhhh I’m attracting Republicans! Quick, someone get the spray! J/K, thanks for the comments. :p
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oooh Ellebelle posted a nice comment just before I did that… now I feel guilty..
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I voted for Kerry this morning.
The problem I have with a lot of Bush supporters is their willful ignorance. If you aren’t a white billionaire, Bush isn’t doing sh*t for you.
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I can’t believe it….. Beau just told me it’s neck and neck. Why don’t more democrats vote? Practically everyone I know is a democrat. If I held my own election, I bet the democrats would win 90% of the votes.
Ahhh… the world would be a strange place if I was it’s dictator.
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