Its Over............Go G.W.!!!!

[Jagged]

Let us get back to working together to make this country great. Complain all you want, but Bush won without question even from Kerry.

On to the second term....Senator Kerry put up a good fight and what is more brought up important topics. I hope he continues to work in the Senate as both parties hammer out important law. All views are necessary to make good law.

 

[TheEarl]

Well said Jagged.

The Earl

 

[Pure]

If and when the administration decides to 'work together' --with anyone, domestic or foreign-- I'm sure it just might happen.

Given the stronger 2nd term mandate of popular vote, and strength in the Senate, doesn't there now seem *less* reason for Republicans to attempt 'bipartisanship'?

 

[McKenna]

Good on Kerry for calling in an conceding rather than dragging it out over a couple of months in legal battles. I think that says something positive about the man.


(I wonder if GW would have done the same?)

 

[Boxlicker101]

If and when the administration decides to 'work together' --with anyone, domestic or foreign-- I'm sure it just might happen.

Given the stronger 2nd term mandate of popular vote, and strength in the Senate, doesn't there now seem *less* reason for Republicans to attempt 'bipartisanship'?

Hopefully, the parties will close ranks and work together. I have some doubts about how much of a "mandate" there was, though. I think it was a matter of more voters voting against Kerry because of his liberalism than voting for Bush. I also think that most of Kerry's votes were more anti-Bush than pro-Kerry.

 

[SnoopDog]

Let us get back to working together to make this country great. Complain all you want, but Bush won without question even from Kerry.

On to the second term....Senator Kerry put up a good fight and what is more brought up important topics. I hope he continues to work in the Senate as both parties hammer out important law. All views are necessary to make good law.

Agreed. Well said.

But you have to allow us a little bit of whining since this was again unnecessary evil that just happened.

Snoopy

 

[KarenAM]

Let us get back to working together to make this country great. Complain all you want, but Bush won without question even from Kerry.

On to the second term....Senator Kerry put up a good fight and what is more brought up important topics. I hope he continues to work in the Senate as both parties hammer out important law. All views are necessary to make good law.

It's commendable that you want to get the country working together again, Jagged, and I can only admire your optimism, but I'm afraid I can't share it.

Bush won without question, yes, but I have no reason to feel that he is interested in bringing Americans together. Four years ago he claimed to be a uniter, that he would earn the country's faith, that he would heal the wounds done by the electoral failings of 2000. He claimed he would be fiscally responsible. After we were attacked on 9-11, he united the country for about three months and destroyed the Taliban.

I had hope then. I really did. But since that time Bush has added 2 trillion dollars to the federal debt, sent our soldiers into an unwinnable war without proper equipment or a strategy, and openly advocated for the amendment of the Constitution to restrict the rights of citizens rather than the powers of government. He has shown nothing but contempt for the idea of uniting the people of this country. He has encouraged division, not unity.

This is not the country I once knew, the country that was the shining light of civilization and hope for the world. I have lost faith in my government, and I grieve for it. As you say, all views are necessary to make good law, but my views and the views of millions like me are ignored by the president, and have been ignored for the past three years. My voice of protest, the most sacred right of any American, is regarded by him as treason.

I had hope even during the dark days of 2000, when it seemed for all the world that America's democracy was a sham. I had hope when the flags came out in September of 2001 and riding an elevator was a constant struggle against a panic attack. We were all Americans then, and when I awakened trembling from nightmares of the Twin Towers falling I could at least cling to my hope and my country.

I have nothing to cling to now. I have no hope. I have no voice. My president has abandoned me.

 

[CharleyH]

As the whole freaking world waited, breathless hoping for Kerry, he goes and concedes showing he is the better man. He had no hope, apparently this morning only 2 - 3 electoral seats away - he knew - as men do, and some women - there is no defeating the power of a bush.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Let us get back to working together to make this country great. Complain all you want, but Bush won without question even from Kerry.

On to the second term....Senator Kerry put up a good fight and what is more brought up important topics. I hope he continues to work in the Senate as both parties hammer out important law. All views are necessary to make good law.

How does one respond to this? Beside the obvious of wanting to reach out and slap you. Are you that blind ot just that stupid? It's a difficult call to make.

This country is more polarized now than it has been since the civil war. The election of GW will only harden stances, the man, his handlers and his party only know one way to unite and that's by sublimation.

If you want to gloat, gloat. But at least be honest about it. Talking about coming together after this takes the rediculous almost to the sublime.

I didn't want to see a Kerry presidency, although I didn't want to see another Bush administration. That said, I have the good sense, or at least tact, not to rub salt into the wounds.

-Colly

 

[minsue]

*sigh*

My hero