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We barely recognize each other
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11/4/4 | Joan Ryan

Posted on 11/04/2004 7:54:55 AM PST by SmithL

Like others in the Bay Area, I was huddled with friends around the television set Tuesday night, my son pressing a blue-donkey or red-elephant sticker on each state as the returns rolled in. As we held out hope for Ohio, one friend related a story that, in retrospect, helped me understand Bush's convincing victory as well as any I have heard.

A young man, my friend said, was walking door to door on her street a few weeks ago to raise money for the Kerry-Edwards ticket. When he knocked on the door of one house, the owner responded to the young man in a huff.

"I'm a Republican!'' she said. "Didn't you see my flag?''

That, in the end, is what it boiled down to.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: boohoo; deludedandclueless; kerrydefeat
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Sorry, I read this stuff, and I just can't help gloating.
1 posted on 11/04/2004 7:54:57 AM PST by SmithL
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To: SmithL

I am not into gloating. I am simply awestruck at the depth and breadth of Democrat cluelessness.


2 posted on 11/04/2004 7:57:12 AM PST by Maceman (It's no longer a blue world, Max!!)
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The American flag belongs to ALL Americans. Some have chosen to abandon it.
3 posted on 11/04/2004 7:57:16 AM PST by SmithL (Do I seem like I'm gloating?)
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Sorry, I read this stuff, and I just can't help gloating.

Gloat twice as much this election as last election's joy was robbed from us by Gore!

4 posted on 11/04/2004 7:57:41 AM PST by frog_jerk_2004
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To: SmithL

Whoever this guy was. Great response.


5 posted on 11/04/2004 7:57:48 AM PST by marty60
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To: SmithL
"I'm a Republican!'' she said. "Didn't you see my flag?''


Good point. It was never clear to me why the democrat events sometimes include the flag -- they despise everything it stands for.
6 posted on 11/04/2004 7:58:15 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL

All your flags are belong to us! They always were......


7 posted on 11/04/2004 7:58:22 AM PST by Red Badger (Give someone enough EU-ROPE and they will hang themselves......out of pure frustration......)
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To: SmithL

Gloating is good, and better for the innards than schadenfreude.


8 posted on 11/04/2004 7:58:41 AM PST by headsonpikes (Spirit of '76 bttt!)
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To: SmithL

dumbfounded at how liberals will occasionally say THEY are the moral ones because they support gay marriage and legal infanticide. Isn't there something in the New Testament about how a time will come when evil is called good and good called evil? Looks like the time has come.


9 posted on 11/04/2004 7:58:44 AM PST by sassbox
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Didn't Kedwards debate whether or not they were going to even include the American Flag on their campaign logo? Very telling...


10 posted on 11/04/2004 7:59:06 AM PST by frog_jerk_2004
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To: SmithL

This stuff depresses me because it makes me realize just how much the left has replaced God with Government. The author equates morality with using government to fix all problems. That and the usual crap about the war being based on false pretenses.


11 posted on 11/04/2004 7:59:45 AM PST by Sharkfish
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Morality means more than prayer and more than proclaiming a personal relationship with God.

It is social as well as religious. Is it moral to wage war on a country that did not attack us, and to wage it on false pretenses? Is it moral to stuff more money into the pockets of the wealthy while teachers buy their own crayons and patch their own classroom walls, and while people with mental illness live on the streets and in prison cells for lack of services?

Is it moral to deny two people the joy of committing their lives to one another in marriage? Is it moral to prevent scientists from pursuing cures to devastating diseases because of our leaders' personal religious convictions?

Liberalism is your religion,lefty, enjoy your long painful trip into oblivion.

12 posted on 11/04/2004 8:01:40 AM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)
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To: SmithL
But I haven't lost my belief in another f-word -- .... They're bound to come back into fashion sooner or later.

I'd like to quote Dick Cheney and use another F-word in my reply to the author......"F"-you. You are still clueless.,P>someone should forward this post to the author.....since I cannot do it from this computer.

13 posted on 11/04/2004 8:03:32 AM PST by rface (Ashland, Missouri - Monthly Donor / Bad Speller)
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To: SmithL

Gloating rules!


14 posted on 11/04/2004 8:03:55 AM PST by mlo
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To: Maceman

Maybe they'll wake up to how deluded they have become -- misled by Marxists in the colleges and media. Whatever their values and no matter how sincere, they are NOT American values but something queerly perverse and hollow.


FROM THE ARTICLE:

"I saw that John Edwards was right about the two Americas.
But the two Americas are not divided by money but by belief systems that have drifted so far apart we barely recognize each other anymore."

"Our belief systems - - what is right and wrong, what is patriotic and what is not, what is truth and what is not -- are so different and so dramatically shape how we interpret news and information that we seem no longer to be living within the same culture."


15 posted on 11/04/2004 8:04:24 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: SmithL

I wonder, with this woman's obvious psychological disabilities, if she should be allowed to vote


16 posted on 11/04/2004 8:05:45 AM PST by wildcatf4f3 (out of the sun)
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To: SmithL

Remember right after 9/11, the MSM talking heads briefly sported lapel pin flags, then removed them saying they didn't want to be viewed as partisan, meaning they expressly rejected the notion that they were pro-American. I was surprised when Kerry started wearing a flag-it probably cost him part of his base.


17 posted on 11/04/2004 8:06:05 AM PST by Spok
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To: SmithL

If I were a homeowner, I'd want the soliciter's name, so that if I refused to donate, and then got vandalized, I'd know where to send the cops.


18 posted on 11/04/2004 8:06:56 AM PST by NativeNewYorker (Don't blame me. I voted for Sharpton.)
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To: SmithL

My son who was going to vote Kerry but in the end (with no influence by me) voted Bush put it a different way (when I asked him why he was going to vote Bush now).

"Kerry is Sketch!"


19 posted on 11/04/2004 8:07:29 AM PST by funkywbr
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To: SmithL

I read the whole article. It appears that the writer cannot
think for herself. All of her points are out of the
idiot Democrat playbook. I don't think they can think
out of the box. Kinda like Hitlers generals, when they
boasted that the "farmboys of the USA" could not beat
their battle hardened, well trained soldiers....


20 posted on 11/04/2004 8:09:25 AM PST by Getready ((...Fear not ...))
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