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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:51 PM
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I will literally cry if Bush wins in 2004...
And I'm Canadian.
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Girlfriday Donating Member (570 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:52 PM
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1. I'm MOVING to Canada if shrub wins!
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qwertyMike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:11 PM
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10. Canada's too close
Ireland for me & my son
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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:13 PM
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11. I feel the same way...
If the NDP ever ends up playing a role in a coalition government, or if the Liberals ever are again led by someone who isn't a neo-con enabler (for all the things that irk me about Chrétien, he most certainly isn't one) like (Lieber)Martin while holding power, I will be scared.
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JohnKleeb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:23 PM
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15. Thats on my list
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:54 PM
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2. You're going to cry? Well...that's understandable.
I didn't trust Bush one bit while he was campaigning. Not once. What made me not trust him? It was all the money that was literally pouring into his campaign from the Pharmacetical companies, Energy companies, and everyone else. I knew it on the spot.

Did I cry on Election night 2000? No. But I felt this deep sense of anger.

However, if Bush wins in 2004, yes. I think I would cry. In fact, I just might move away.

However, as I look to next year's elections, I'm cautiously optimistic that Bush would lose.
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dofus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 10:58 PM
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3. If Bush "wins" in 2004
there will be satellite photos of the millions of Americans fleeing across the Canadian border. It will be like refugees in Rwanda.
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Mari333 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:04 PM
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5. Yes, and Im working on it now..trying to get my kids to go too
.
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LittleDannySlowhorse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:59 PM
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24. Indeed
Local Windsor news affilliates would start carrying the stories about "boat people" coming over from Detroit.
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:02 PM
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4. I'll 2nd that & i'm in B.C.
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frank frankly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:06 PM
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6. I will cry all the way to Vancouver...
:hi:
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LibertyorDeath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:52 PM
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21. and stop the second you're here...
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:07 PM
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7. Save your tears. He didn't win the first time.
However, I agree - if he is reinstalled, I will join you.

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blkgrl Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:09 PM
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8. I'd just go numb
Probably lose interest in politics and accept our fate.
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elperromagico Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:10 PM
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9. I will literally throw my TV into the lake
n/t
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:15 PM
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12. I will too and that will be before I slash my wrists.
No I won't really, but I will be depressed enough to want to and yet I think it's in the stars. The California recall election was a bellweather for me. I know that most Californians did not want the recall and most did not want the Gropenator elected, but yet I felt deep down the election had been rigged somehow and was a done deal. I figured if they pulled it off in California, it's in the works for 2004. I don't know how this can be proved, but I feel it down in the marrow of my bones.
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SteveG Donating Member (833 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:20 PM
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13. I hate to say it
but that's why we have to have weak gun control laws... and all DU'ers should join the NRA.. if we owned it they would have to listen.....
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:27 PM
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18. 2 hardcore liberals who agree with you.....
Me, and this guy

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson

And this guy was pretty GD smart.

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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:41 PM
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20. I thought TJ was a libertarian...
hmmm?
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Zorra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:35 AM
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31. He is the founder of the Democratic Party, and
I guess we could get into a debate over labels and semantics, but according to the dictionary definitions of both of these terms, I would say that he was both.

"Freedom and happiness of man are the sole objects of all legitimate government." - Thomas Jefferson
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:22 PM
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14. I'm not worried enough...
Congress GOP or Democrat controlled will be so pissed at Bush it's not funny, if he gets re-elected. GOP senators whose seats are up in 2006 will be desperately trying to salvage themselves from the negative effects of the Bush agenda that they voted for. Bush may get a second term but it will be one hell of a miserable second term.
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Clete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:26 PM
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17. You still seem to think we are having honest elections.
If this were true, the Republicans would not control both houses and a man who should be in prison for being a felon sexual batterer shouldn't be the Governor "elect" of California.
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:39 PM
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19. Well...
1) As I stated in a post last night, the system of redistricting for the House of Representatives is totally fucked up and makes it so the elections are not even competative.

2) Republicans control both houses because of the 9/11 factor that people thought they should support their president and give him a Republican senate. In addition, we didn't do enough to get our voter turnout and we kinda did kiss GOP ass in that election.

3) They said there were several thousand people who's votes got screwed up somehow in the governor's race but the margin wasn't enough to make a difference. Davis was blamed for the economy and they kicked him out. Bustamante had about the same amount of enthusiasm as Mclintock and Arnold was an exciting guy. People dismissed the accusations because the campaign made them seem like bullshit. They have EVERY right to do that. I don't like Arnold but he won the election fairly.
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Wapsie B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:00 AM
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27. That's a very likely scenario.
Even if he were to actually win this time, history has not been kind to presidents after year 5. It might very well be the only way to get to the bottom of even a few of his many crimes. But it's still early for a true standard bearer to emerge for the Democrats. Anything can happen. Like it or not, the repugs waited years for this power grab to take place. They're not going to just give it up.
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DoveTurnedHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:25 PM
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16. I'd Be Too Drunk to Cry
I'd probably cry in the morning, though.

DTH
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AndyTiedye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:20 AM
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28. Unless We Can Expose the Black Box Voting Fraud It's All Over
They demonstrated that they can steal California's vote.

All the candidates and all the Democrats in D.C. need to put aside their
differences and devote ALL of their efforts to ridding our elections of the
baleful influence of Diebold, E.S&.S, and Accenture (a.k.a Andersen Consulting,
they count the military ballots).

Without this, our party and all other oppostion parties face extinction.

Even with fair elections it will be extremely difficult.
They own the broadcast media in every state.
All we have are a few newspapers on our side.
And the internet.


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Sephirstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:36 AM
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32. I'm getting liquored up for the election...
No matter how much fucking class I may end up having the next day.
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Valerie5555 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:55 PM
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22. Try as I might I think it may be hard to
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 12:22 AM by Valerie5555
:puke: :puke: :puke: my guts out if HE wins and I'm also a Canuck.


On edit Depending on how disgusted and nauseated I am I may need a big time :puke: bag. :)
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LittleDannySlowhorse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:57 PM
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23. If Bush wins...
...enough people will cry that the amount of tears shed might be enough to affect the earth's orbit.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-14-03 11:59 PM
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25. It's back to Paris for me....
Or montreal....

I'll cry for those left behind!
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Cat Atomic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:00 AM
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26. You won't have time to cry, brother.
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 12:02 AM by Cat Atomic
You MIGHT have time to organize the Canadian Resistance before the US "liberates" Canada, but not if you spend an evening crying.

;)
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:24 AM
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29. I cried in 2000
Edited on Wed Oct-15-03 12:25 AM by proud patriot
knowing full well what America was in for
with a bush presidency..
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-03 12:31 AM
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30. No tears...let it turn into something else
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