Wednesday, 3 November 2004

I can't believe it

Even though it looked like it was going to happen, I still can't believe it. I just hope that things go well and he doesn't declare war on us. *sigh*

Just a note, when I read this at first it was after an hour on /. and there was about 1200 comments... check out what the number is now. At the time of this post there is 1752... more than I have ever seen before.

6 comments:

  1. Yeah, it's one thing to be governed by a moron when you are in a monarchy or dictatorship, but the US is a democracy. In democracies, the governor (or President, here) represents the people. So what does that make the US people?

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  2. Well, the american people just proved to the world that if you lie to them, destory the environment, invade another country for a personal vendetta, and take away freedoms you get rewarded for doing a good job.

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  3. I went back and looked at that globalvote2004 link from a few blogs back and was quite surprised with the results. Bush lost in every region. However he received the highest percentage of votes from the middle east. At 37%. Are the people in the middle east happy with what bush is doing? Are those statistics just really inaccurate? what's going on?

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  4. Americans are, in general, disliked around the world for that very reason -- they don't care what other countries think about them. Many of the people I met in France (from all around Europe) said this. Americans are geographically and idealistically isolated from the rest of thre world, and the US media doesn't help. That's the Americans' choice and I respect that, but they have to reap what they sow ... and again, they don't care about sowing what the world gives them. So it's cyclical.
    I think Bush won the election on domestic issues, and the rest of world doesn't really understand the US domestic issues, so Kerry seemed like a better choice. An overwhelming majority of Americans don't care about foreign policy (outside of revenge for terrorism), they only care about how the president will help THEM personally, like taxes. Protecting the environment takes a back seat because it means raising taxes. Universal health care takes a back seat because it means raising taxes. It's sad because it's short-sighted, but what do you expect from an instant-gratification culture? Bush portrayed Kerry as a "tax and spend liberal" and people bought into it.
    In Bill Clinton's autobiography, he talks about properly defending yourself in an election. I think Kerry did a poor job of defending his ideals and didn't make convincing enough arguments for not cutting taxes. The same thing happened with Gore in 2000: he seemed too soft and wasn't aggressive. The US is an agressive country and needs a strong, decisive leader like Bush or Clinton. With a stronger Clinton-like leader the Democrats would have won both elections.
    The best part about Bush being re-elected is that now he has to deal with the deficit HE created. He's not just passing it on to the next administration (which Republicans have been accused of doing in the past). The US dollar is very weak against the euro. It will be interesting to see how Bush will deal with it.
    Naturally that's all just my opinion.

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  5. I was actually under the impression that they're still verifying the results... and that the Bush camp is a little anxious over the tallies thus far. I could be wrong, but that's what I heard on the news.

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  6. Kerry conceded the election to Bush, so it doesn't matter what the vote counts are.

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