posted 04-10-2001 14:57            

1. He knew going in that winning the popular vote meant NOTHING. Unlike the majority of American voters/citizens, he knows how the system works.

2. People who claim the majority of Florida voters intended to vote for Gore can't possibly know that.

3. People attempting a recount had to guess at garbled returns. These should be thrown out instead. This is why the Supreme Court ordered the process stopped.

4. He lost. He admitted it.

Personally, I'm glad to see a President who views a tax-surplus as too much taxation. I'm glad to see a President who plans to institute sweeping tax cuts. (this leads to large amounts of growth, and MORE tax revenue with LOWER taxes.)

And hopefully, we have a President who will tell those Chinese fuckers where they can stick their downed pilot.

posted 04-10-2001 15:33            

1. Can't pronounce anything with more than two syllables.

2. Had only been out of the country 3 times before he was put into office. (foreign policy? yeah right)

3. Is more worried about how the Rangers are doing this year than the unemployment rate.

4. Has way too many friends in big business, and will probably screw the little guy to make them happy.

5. Has allowed 24 American servicemen to sit in a Chinese jail without taking any real action to get them out.

posted 04-10-2001 15:50            

Right on.

posted 04-10-2001 16:01            

As for Nader and Browne? Eh, I really don't think they had very many good ideas, and we'd probably only a tiny bit less screwed than we are now.

InThrees... man, I don't understand people like you at all.

posted 04-10-2001 16:36            

Oh yeah, h.

posted 04-10-2001 16:49            

I have a REAL problem with the statement "Yes, Gore really did lose the election"

There were so many things wrong with the ballots in MANY states, not just florida, that we should really look into new systems of doing the voting before the next national election. The fact of the matter is, we dont know who won, we will NEVER know who won, and the electoral college voted for Bush. Simple. We dont know... But the popular vote is only a guidline anyhow.

That doesn't mean I dont think he's the biggest mistake in the history of the whole fucking country though. I hope that his VP doesn't die and actually leave him in charge
h

posted 04-10-2001 17:37         

it's not like there's a big fucking pile of money in the basement of the capital building and the gw is trying to pry it loose from where mean old clinton and gore hid it.

the "surplus" is the amount of money that was projected to be left over after the government got done spending our taxes for the next 10 years. in other words, the usa would have this 1 billion dollars bush plans to "refund" if the economy stayed ike it did in 1999-2000.

it didn't.

unless the biggest economic bubble in recent history makes a quick trip back around on it's way to dot com hell, there is not going to be that kind of surplus nor anything like it any time soon. to cash the checks his dumb ass wrote to get into office, bush is going to have to cut into projected spending.

or he can make like his father and say fuck his campaign tax promises. "read my lips", anyone?

edit: rotton mixed metaphors... my thoughts need to learn to stay in formation.

posted 04-10-2001 22:18            

also the china thing and bush

just fuckin apologize and get our men outta there. is it that fuckin hard to suck it up and say "sorry we shouldnt have been there"? no

i think im gonna move to canada

nothing happens there

posted 04-10-2001 23:59            

1) I never would have voted for Bush because of his environmental policy, or lack thereof. I think it is terrible to cave to the oil companies and anyone else who will give him money for a short term benefit that will have extremely long-lasting environmental repercussions. What a selfish idiot.

2) While I agree Gore would have been marginally better and has the personality of a wet sock, at least he's literate.

3) I think the solution to this is to eliminate the electoral college. Candidates don't campaign in states they know they will win. They focus on the ones in contention and that have the largest number of electoral votes. Many people don't vote because they know their state always goes one way or another. Plus, the other candidates like Nader don't get enough votes because we all know enough other people won't vote for him to get electoral votes.

3) I think we should do like some other countries and make it a national holiday for presidential elections. Give everyone the day off so they have time to vote, make it more socially acceptable to vote, use the press to advantage to make sure people know where their polling places are and to summarize the issues without all the clutter. I get so many fliers from candidates and not a single one mentions where I should go to vote for them. That would seem to make sense.

posted 04-11-2001 03:38            

I prefer fjords myself. I have an award for my many fjords. Want to see my spaceship? I'm painting it pink! It looks just like an italian restaurant!

Speaking of Douglas Adams...Do you remember how the universe was run in his books? There was only ONE person in the entire universe who made all decisions...and he didn't know he was doing it.

The Galactic president (Zaphod Beeblebrox) was only for show. In fact: he was chosen entirely because he would provide the best distractions. He had no real power.

However: I like to maintain the happy fantasy that it is possible for a man to get into that 'esteemed' office and actually make a difference. Sure, that difference may only be in vetoing shit...but hey! Every little bit helps!

Let me live in my fantasy world damn you! I see a world where little zombie boys and little zombie girls can live in peace with...oh wait... thats not my line. Nevermind.

posted 04-11-2001 09:09         

i guess it's solved where bush is getting the money for his tax cuts. slash and burn for federal programs. i suppose that falls in line with his position on federal funds anyways, but he's gone out of his way to cut things even more to pay off his electoral bribe.

the worst part? he characterized the cuts as "protecting our surplus". in other words there's going to be a surplus because gw needs to give us back a surplus. and if the numbers don't behave as well as they did in the drunken coke-fueled haze he made this shit up in, by all that's holy he'll make them.

and the dirty fucker was visibly restraining himself from laughing at the press conference. maybe the sound byte of it i saw removed the part where the circus clown ran through the oval office or maybe he was carrying on clinton's traditions under that desk, but nevertheless i am insulted. was he absent the day they taught lying with a straight face in politician school?

damn it. at least if that ass clown gore was president we could be sure he would lie to us without cracking a smile. hell. fucking gore could smile without cracking a smile.

posted 04-11-2001 12:13            

Probably not.

Well, not in my lifetime anyways. We'll always be the corporately run country, because people by corporately produced shit. You can't escape it. Everything eventually goes cooperate if it gets big enough. It's unfortunate as fuck, but there's not a damn thing one, two, or a message board of people can do. Corporations rule this country, hence they rule the world... we're the big brother, no one wants to lose that.

Yay! For the rich upper 1% Wasps.