Posted on 12/21/2004 10:47:26 AM PST by The Loan Arranger
Tuesday night, I went down to the graduate student lounge in my college for an election night “party;” mostly just people camped out in front of the television with snacks and drinks. My idea for this column was to take along my laptop, which I did, and chronicle what an expat election party was like. Advertisement
I figured my fellow Trinity Hall students were good for some amusing and interesting quotes, which they were, and that any British students in attendance might provide a different perspective, which they did, and that even if the night didn’t go my way I could at least make lots of jokes about alcohol consumption.
But somehow I’m not up to editing through that night. I finally left at 6:00 in the morning, and laid awake in bed for half an hour unable to relax. When I finally went to sleep, I dreamed of the Electoral College. Now that, as I write this, I’ve gotten back up after a few hours and taken a painful glance at some news sites, it’s not any better.
What happened?
To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win. But I wasn’t expecting this either. A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed. An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988.
(Excerpt) Read more at rawstory.com ...
Ronald Reagan LEFT office in January 1989 (15 years ago). She is a graduate student (likely 22-25). I SERIOUSLY doubt that she has much of ANY memory of the Reagan years (seeing as how she was 7-10 years old when he LEFT office).
We all know that homelessness ONLY existed under Reagan/Bush and came back under George W. Bush. There never was any media coverage or leftist campaigns to sleep on the sidewalk during the Clinton years.
Well, I do not really have any feelings of love for these dirt bag demon rats.
How sweet it is!!!!!
Luckily, this is only the world according to Dana.
Hey Dana:
Cheney/Rumsfeld '08
:o)
No need to read any further, is there?
Four years ago, Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock. This season, Republican operatives stood outside polling places where African-American congregations marched to after their services with signs saying things like “Gay Adoption Now!” matched with an actual Kerry/Edwards sign with a rainbow background.
Is that anything like flyering homes and businesses with a piece of paper that shows black men being hosed down by police in the 1960s and claiming that this is what you will get if you re-elect George Bush?
Is that anything like leading the nightly news with some forged "smoking gun" memos, attacking the critics of said documents, and also declaring that even if the memos are fakes we must consider the points that they raise?
Stop eating tinfoil!
So, if I read this right, the author is saying that Californians never wanted the version of the 3-strikes law they got, but when given the chance to change this "unjust" law, they decided they wanted the version of the 3-strikes law they never wanted....????
Do leftists ever actually read what they write?
Nasty ol' Republicans have been against these "novel" marriage arrangements for more than 148 years now.
When, oh, when will the people WAKE UP????
/sarcasm
I don't know why this has a barf alert. I laughed all the way through it, especially this paragraph:
"To tell the truth, I wasn’t expecting Kerry to win. But I wasn’t expecting this either. A score of homophobic bans on gay marriage passed. An attempt to reform the Three Strikes law in California to a more humane standard (and one that most people thought they were voting for when the original proposition passed) failed. The Senate Minority leader ousted for the first time in 52 years. The popular vote not only in Bush’s favor, but a few million people in his favor. The first actual majority vote for a President since his father in 1988."
"This isn’t an election. This is a rout."
I read that part twice, for the fun of it. :)
Last time I checked homosexuals can get married just like everyone else.
No homosexual has ever been denied the right to get married.
My father tells me that when I was a child, my first steps of political activism were charmingly naive—I was calling up stores in the mall at 10 years old to say that they shouldn’t sell fur because it killed animals, because I was so sure that if I could just tell them, they would change. I just assumed that people did bad things because they didn’t know that what they were doing was wrong, and if I showed them, they would stop. I don’t know when it finally came home to me that sometimes people do the wrong thing because they didn’t care about injustice, or that they hold values that make an unjust result seem to them worth striving for.
Or perhaps it is because there is a DIFFERENCE OF OPINION about just what is right and what is wrong.
To Diarrhea, homosexuality is GOOD and MORAL, while killing animals for clothing (what about for food?) is WRONG and IMMORAL. Abortion is GOOD and MORAL while preventing the murder of small children is CRUEL and OPPRESSIVE. It is her opinion that our founding fathers were in ERROR including the Second Amendment (to protect the free speech assured by the First Amendment). Uncle Joe Stalin's socialism is GOOD while George W. Bush's War On Terror (including war on the nations that sponsor terrorism) is BAD.
They aren't liberals. They aren't progressives. They are socialists. Many are afraid to use that word because they feel it is "tainted" (and that it makes it easier for us to point them out as the Reds that they are). Others see it as a badge of honor (of course they still admire the Soviet Union).
tanker, they literally can't wrap their minds around the ideas and things that most of us in Flyover Country think is important or hold dear.
I voted they way I voted in part because I am sick & tired of having most of the things I hold dear spat upon and shat upon by my "betters" in the media and academia. And these selfsame arbiters of what they think is important or not never tire of shoving their "concerns" and opinions in our faces. Like the little tart who wrote this screed of low bigotry.
Maybe we realized the social programs they fought so hard for fifty years ago did not work and they spent trillions experimenting with them.
Actually, at a second look, it's an interesting insight into the twisted logic the left employs. For instance:
"Four years ago, Bush defeated John McCain in the Republican primary by starting a gossip campaign stating that McCain had a black child out of wedlock."
Many of the folks in my church were going to vote for McCain in the primary until he called the Pat Robertson (and by extension) the Christian Right "evil". Overnight every person in my church changed their vote. This train of thought is beyond Dara. She is convinced it must be a dirty trick, somewhere.
After all, its just religion, its just a few nuts in the South, somewhere.
Well, it's worked for the Democrats for a hundred years, Dara.
At least we're winning...
...people care more about one person’s position on abortion than whether their own children have health care. People care more about preventing a loving, monogamous couple from having the same legal rights as everyone else than stopping transnational corporations from exporting their jobs. People care more about injuring the “others” they hate than helping the “us” we should love.
Parents are in charge of their children's health care. Some immunization is FREE yet parents don't get their children vaccinated. How many homes have cable tv and cellphones and internet? Don't tell me that it is the government's role to provide free health care. People have a budget. They can spend on essentials (including TAXES, shelter, food, clothing, transportation, education, and SAVINGS) or trivial things like fashion/entertainment/addictions/vacations.
The "monogamous couple" that overturned the nation's sodomy laws (even those that did not just prohibit homosexual sodomy) were alerted to the police by an abused lover/roommate of one of the two men. That lover is now dead, murdered in an unsolved crime, while the two sodomites charged in Texas that day are not together.
We were told that we were getting all bent out of shape over the judicial tyranny which created this new constitutional right to homosexuality (other sex acts between consenting adults like incest and prostitution are still illegal). Less than a year later we see pushes for same sex marriage (nationally recognized marriages), same sex adoption, same sex foster parenting... It is not about two people but how those two people can "norm" the abnormal in society.
The citizen can choose the company he works for. The citizen can choose the company he invests his money in. The exporting of jobs is nothing new. Lobby for increasing the minimum wage in OTHER countries to $8/hour and you might find some jobs returning to the US and some economic "refugees" finding profitable work in their homelands.
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