Mid Term Elections

[mkemse]

Yes our system has it faults and always will, but our system has worked fairly well say except for 2004 since 1776, no other country on earth that I can think of, possibly outside of England,Canada and Alaska offers the chance and opportunity we do to allow anyone one to run, speak openly about issues and critizes their current administraTION WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING JAILED
try using some of our technics, runnig adds, speaking your mind on the opposition in Russa, China, Koera ect andsee what happens, probably free room and board for a while
Again I thank everyone who replied to this post, her's to 2008 and an onslaught of mindless TV ads

[miss duece]

I'm not a tree hugger, far from it. But I'm glad those poor trees aren't suffering too much now, and I'm even more glad that my mailbox has returned to normal from transforming into a political shit talking ground. It's really nice to come home to a mailbox with just bills and grocery ads.

[miss duece]

for miss duece,

i just caught this thread and i am in a big hurry this morning..BUT i had to stop and take time to say this.

As an election worker...i salute you!

I think I should be saluting you.

[DungeonMaster6]

It is not unusual to see the opposition party win control of congress during a two-term presidency. The same thing happened to Clinton. But what makes me happy is seeing that smug, in-your-face attitude of Bush wiped off, now that his party will no longer be in control. He even invited the new Speaker-of-the-House, Nancy Pelosi, over to the White House for lunch. What worries me though is his still claim of "We will stay in Iraq until we accomplish our mission." ...Which is what?

[mkemse]

Dungeonmaster6,
I loved your reply
As far as his "We will stay...remark, is belive that he is at loss for words after being throughly trumped Tuesday, and I feel his whole attitde will change when the new Congress meets in January, I would love to see the New Congress pass a resolution, have the Prsident veto it, and have congress over ride it, this might give him a taste or reality, I do not believe he is yet aware ofthe actualy result of the elections andwill not realize it's impact til January
He did mention yesterday there arem any thing he wants done with THIS congress, but as Joe Biden put it "John Bolton is going NOWHERE" this is going to be a rude wake up call forthe President in January when all the realities of the election come to be
I did have to laugh when he said at his press conference that "If you look real close, the results were close" It is like winnig a ball game 2-1 is does not make ANY difference what the margin of victory was over the Republicans was, what was the issue was that the Democrats won, be is by 200 votes or 5 million
I never saw Bush as humlbed or angry as he was when he met the press then ext day
I will be intrested now to see how accountable he make Carl Rove over thjis
Makes no difference as I said whether the victory was bt 200 votes or a million, thereality is he was soundly defeated and needsto deal with an accept it
I do not believe either that the Democrats will simpyl CUT funding for the War, if for no other reason we have 2008 on the horizon and they are not going to be stiped enough to do anything that would even remotely hamper their chanced of wiinig the White House back in '08, the best may be yet to come, thereality is always different from the fact
You can plan all you want as to how you would handle being in a car accident, but I gurantee you by my own exerience that plannig is one thing, the reality of a crash is a whole different story

[BlackWatch]

Thank God for President Bush, to me the very thought of Al Gore incharge of anything is scary...I think history will show he will be one of the better Presidents....I believe this country is in big trouble with the communists (I believe those in charge of Liberal wing of the Democratic Party are actually communists) in charge the US House and Senate....this past election wasn't so much about a 'change' as to punish the Republicans for NOT keeping their house clean....notice that NONE of the traditional Democrats are in ANY position of power in either House or Senate...ALL of those are covered by communists....

[mkemse]

Blackwatch,

Thank you for your reply and comments

[mkemse]

Blackwatch.
Was wondering your opinion of Sen. John MCain of Arizona

[mkemse]

Also, based on Polls and the Election both, it is very possible that President Bushes legacy will be Iraq, be it right or wrong, he will be remembered more Iraq that then anything else in his 8 years in office when his turn finished
And yes, the Democrates may not have "won" the election, it was the Republicans who "Lost It"
Like they said about the just completed 2006 World Series, The St. Louis Cardinals did not win the title, The Detroit Tigers lost it the way they played

[BlackWatch]

and for the record folks, I consider myself more of a "jacksonian" Democrat....and I am not trying to pick a fight with anyone here....remember, the stages of this fight first was started by Islamic fascists back in the 1960's; they have been killing American citizens for years....they hate the U.S. for what it is and believes....ie....EVERYONE on this forum, especially if you are American....we as nation have been fighting this war with a self emposed hand tied behind our backs....all this election will do is convince the fascists to increase and redouble their efforts as the fascists believe the Democratic Party elitists will not fight; not sacrifice,

....I hope to god I am wrong, in fact I want to be wrong...however, I believe things are going to get much, much worse....

[mkemse]

I fully agree, thing will get much worse then they are now
I also believe be it right or wrong, that 1 BIG mistake we have made as a Country, is we have need to put our selvesi n the potion as some have said of "Policeing The World" we need to stop policing the world, forcing our way of life on others
I have hear both very conservative Christian Repbulicans as well a very Liberal Democrats say "We As A Nation, Need To Stop Policing The World"
We also a a Nation need to stand up and get our reputation as a Super Power Back as well as therespect of all our allies and enemies, we have lost of respect as a Nation World Wide
My concenr is issues such as Immigration, Drugs Problems, Healthcare, Homelsssness, ect, will take back seat to all other issues
We are the riichest and most advnace country on the planet, we should not have a homless problem, we should have Universal Health care ect ect.
Thanks again for your reply and comments

[CommieCowboy]

As long as its legal for companies to help China censor the Internet (i.e. Cisco and IBM), over half of the population belives that humanity was created by a sky fairy in its current form within the last 10,000 years, and its illegal to smoke pot, sell sex toys, or run an Internet poker room, the U.S. will be a hopeless country and a tyranny among tyrannies.

[CommieCowboy]

Yes our system has it faults and always will, but our system has worked fairly well say except for 2004 since 1776, no other country on earth that I can think of, possibly outside of England,Canada and Alaska offers the chance and opportunity we do to allow anyone one to run, speak openly about issues and critizes their current administraTION WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING JAILED
try using some of our technics, runnig adds, speaking your mind on the opposition in Russa, China, Koera ect andsee what happens, probably free room and board for a while
Again I thank everyone who replied to this post, her's to 2008 and an onslaught of mindless TV ads

I can think of plenty of Washington-controlled dictatorships elsewhere in the world where one can not speak their mind...Suharto's Indonesia, Pinochet's Chile, and Somoza's Nicaragua are just a few of the many examples. The fact that you've been less tyrannical than places like the Soviet Union or the People's Republic of China to the people within your own borders merely made it easier for you to get away with your crimes broad than it did for those superpowers. I am a civil libertarian, I am a secularist, and I am a social democrat. I am disgusted by what tyrants in Washington, Beijing, Moscow, the Vatican, and the Middle East have done to our world...Everything they have built for themselves has broken the backs of other nations and peoples.

Who, for instance, was funding and arming the Nepal's feudal and theocratic monarchy, a country where the nobles and the royal family lived better than Bill Gates well the vast majority of people have always lived in grinding poverty? The United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the People's Republic of China did, that's fucking who! Why does the U.S. believe that pro-American Islamist wackos are better for the people of Afghanistan than their anti-American predecessors were. Go to www.rawa.org to learn the truth about Afghanistan: The Americans there now, the Soviets and the Brits who were there in the past, and the Taliban sympathisers who still run half of the country side now sure as fuck won't! Fuck the global superpowers and fuck the tyranny of Abrahamic mythology.

[mkemse]

Commiecowboy,
Thanks for your reply