Get a good look at the people who voted for W

[Large Marge]

http://yourewelcomeverybody.com/gallery.php

[daverbee]

The disturbing thing is the smugness and hatred that shows up so often.
This really is a sick country, isn't it?

[Avalon]

That first guy looks like Gene Simmons. Now that is scary.

[Clytie]

Originally posted by daverbee
The disturbing thing is the smugness and hatred that shows up so often.
This really is a sick country, isn't it?

please be reminded of all the hatred on both parts...not just republicans hate...

and not all republicans hate either for that matter

[Large Marge]

Yes, daverbee, it is a very sick country.

I'm trying to get a teaching job overseas.

[Hermione]

My history teacher was once offered this amazing job in Saudi. Tons of money, good life, etc. He didn't take it because of the risks and the fact that he would be in Saudi.

Good luck with the job hunt

[Gatsby]

This is disgusting.

I'm a liberal hippie and I don't care who knows it, because I'll SEE the afterlife. 'Cause the Bible also says, "Let he who has not sinned throw the first stone" and "judge not lest thee be judged." But the conservs out there tend to throw these out the window in favor of gay-hate and liberal-hate. Well, I don't know 'bout you guys, but when I was little my kindergarten teacher taught ME that "blowing out someone else's candle won't make yours any brighter."

ARGH.

I have two bumper stickers on my car:
"Hate is not a family value"
and
"One human family"

'Nuff said.

[Large Marge]

Mine reads:

I miss Bill.

[Large Marge]

Thanks, Surbhi.

I just can't find a decent paying job in this economy, and Bush has given me no incentive to stay. Korea is paying people to come there to teach: airfare, accommodations, food, the whole enchildada.

Or, in this case, the whole kimchi.

[joppa.gal]

Here is someone who voted for W:

Me.


I like his funding for faith based organizations that help in communities and his stance on abortion, to name two reasons.

I am Twenty-seven, have a bachelor's degree from a four-year art college, and belong to an evangelical free church, which I volunteer at extensively. I don't own guns, hunt, or use my middle finger at all. I think gays should have equal rights in all things even up into marriage.

I thought John Kerry was a puppet.

So *there* take that you guys!

[Audreyvgs]

threadkiller!

[joppa.gal]

Oops!

I mean, George Bush stinks!

[ally]

I don't know enough about Americn politics to say much on this subject, in the big picture Bush looks more like a pupet to me. I think it sux that you only get hte choice between two candidates.

[Large Marge]

I agree with Ally and Ralph Nader: Our system is messed up. We DO need to address the electoral college thing, but our system isn't doing its best to get the BEST CANDIDATE in office, Bush, Kerry or otherwise.

Honestly, I think the Democratic Party deserved a better candidate than John Kerry. Don't get me wrong: I like John Kerry, thought he was a good speaker, liked what he stood for, his ideas on how to manage foreign policy, national services, his views on abortion and the war, etc., BUT he lacked a few things.

This is a well-educated, Ivy-league educated man married to the billionaire heir to a company that was founded on American consumerism.

I don't know about you guys, but I find it difficult to relate to that.

Why can't someone who lives a little closer to reality run for office?

Don't say, "Hey, this is America! ANYONE can run for president!"

Actually, no, they can't. You need a whole GOB of money and the backing of the party.

I think our country would do well with a system that:

- required at least two candidates FROM EACH PARTY to run
- leveled the financial playing field so green, independent and other party candidates stood a chance
- required the winner garner 50 percent of the vote to be declared the winner OR ELSE WE DO IT OVER WITH DIFFERENT CANDIDATES.

But, of course, that will never happen.

Where does that happen? Perhaps I'll move there.

[sparticle]

I don't know if I agree with requiring a re-do, but I agree with everything else you said, Marge. And I think the campaign should be, as Gore Vidal suggested in "The Nation", restricted to a 30-day period (October of election year), carried on public television only and limited to televised debate and individual speeches/presentations that do NOT mention the opponent. No ads, no smear campaigns, no nothin'.