Posted on 11/04/2004 1:29:36 PM PST by areafiftyone
I loved your post!
It is my heart and how I have felt for many years about President Bush.
I do hope others will one day see what I do about him.
I voted for Dubya because of his firm leadership, his resolve and determination, his high moral standards and...
because I never, ever, ever vote for a Democrat.
J Black, Atlanta, GA"
A skunk at the picnic, I think this one's is a phony too.
Every one of them remarked on moral values and there is no way of telling if they were Christian, Muslim, Jew or athiest.
Europeans have lived with corruption so long they think it's an acceptable way of life.
To me, a vote for Bush was a slap in the face for the authoritarian media and its 40 year dominance of western cultural life, his victory a critical step in accelerating the decline of centralized media power. We are farther along than any other country on the saturation media learning curve, and we have come a long way since the traitor and Vietcong shill Walter Cronkite was "the most trusted man in America." A Kerry victory would have reversed this decline and might have prevented its spread to the rest of the world, something that may go a long way toward explaining the Euro elites' maniacal hatred of Bush.
In Europe, the kind of skepticism we see here about Big Media barely exists. People in Britain actually believe what they see on the BBC, and they accept its interpretation as gospel, much as Americans did with the alphabet networks in the 60s. In continental Europe, it is even worse, with media conformity still regarded as the epitome of intellect and cutting-edge sophistication. As for the Muslim world, there you see the power of modern media being inflicted on a population whose mindset is still in the Middle Ages, as though the whole panoply of modern media were transported back to Chaucer's England.
Big media and their close ally, commercial pop-culture, hate Bush, partly because of his admittedly inadequate speaking style (a mortal sin among media conformists), and partly because his policies directly contradict long-standing media tropes, such as the glorification of the superficially rebellious (think Che t-shirt) and the constant drive for equivalency.
This conflict is rooted in the internal culture of the mass media themselves, an internal culture that deveoped in the 1960s in response to the success of revolutionary new advertising strategies, and which dominates mass media all over the world to this day.
Arch-lefty Thomas Frank gave away the ranch when he exposed the connection between commercialism and lefty media bias in his landmark cultural history, The Conquest of Cool. I think it is the most important book of the last 10 years, and I highly recommend it.
I voted for Bush because Euro's, Hollywood, The media, Michael fatboy Moore, and the rest of their ilk told me not too. I enjoy pissing people off.
Because he has secret plans to bomb Britain.
I am saddened that I live in a country of intolerance toward other cultures and beliefs. I am saddened that our country believes it can arrogantly push its ideals of democracy on everybody else. With the erosion of our own civil rights, how can we hope to bring any to those in other countries? As for those who say this president supports Christian values, whatever happened to 'love thy neighbour'? Our country is more concerned with interfering with other people's privacy than actually helping anyone. I hope all you Bush-supporters lose your jobs in the next four years of economic crisis.
Sara Smith, Atlanta, GA
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Obviously from a Liberal...
Me too. Turns out we were right.
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My response - for what it's worth:
George W. Bush has moral clarity. He is resolute, honest and does what he says he will do. In spite of what the liberals of Europe and America would like to believe, Mr. Bush does what is right for the right reasons. Mr. Bush is good for America and for the rest of the world - in that order. Precisely as the President of the United States should be.
I voted for Bush because I want America to win the War on Terror.
Somebody needs to post this. I don't know how and I'm too lazy to learn. It is the infintile whining of international jerks. I'm about to the point where I would like to withdraw from the rest of the world and then shoot them the bird when they come begging for help. Or, go ahead and take them on when they get too big for their britches.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/talking_point/3981519.stm
I voted for Bush because I though him better than Kerry. I still think he is better than Kerry. Most disappointed in big spending (over and above that necessary) and lax control of the border.
Sara Smith of Georgia, USA spells neighbor neighbour?
For Bush hoping he'd change the Supreme Court. You know what kind of wacko lefties and tree-huggers Gore would have picked.
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