the Peoples DemocRATic Republic of Ithaca... listen to the lamentations and smell the bile!!!
Posted on 11/05/2004 4:52:01 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
ITHACA--This past Wednesday, on a campus where a majority of the faculty and student population are liberal-leaning, disappointment over the election outcome mixed with the enthusiasm of some very happy Bush supporters.
"He pulled something," said Kenia Knights '07. Knights said she could not believe that all the voter drives that were aimed at young people did not produce a win for Kerry.
"Damn my demographic," said David Gartenberg '05, citing the lack of young voter turnout in Ohio. "So close too, so close."
Upon learning of Bush's re-election, Prof. Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions, said, "Given that my own preference was for, quote, 'anyone but Bush,' there was this sense of disappointment in the deep pit of my stomach."
Prof. Richard Schuler, economics, agreed, "I'm somewhat depressed about it. ... I just find some really distressing elements in what has been happening in the past four years in the administration." Schuler went on to state that if he graded Bush on how he ran the economy, he would give Bush a D plus and Kerry not much better.
In reference to Kerry's loss, Prof. Walter Mebane, government, said, "I am very, very, very unhappy." Mebane reported that based on conversations he has had with colleagues, he would use the terms "devastated" and "horrified" to describe the general mood of Kerry supporters.
Ross Brann, chair of the department of near eastern studies, said, "As an American citizen, I have some concern about the further erosion of civil liberties."
All of the professors interviewed did not believe Bush's re-election would significantly affect their curriculum.
Mebane said he would continue working to improve the electoral system so that in four years voters will not have to worry about being disenfranchised in what Mebane predicts will be yet another controversial and intense election.
Reactions were varied among the many political student organizations on campus, but all expressed their willingness to keep discussing, questioning and fostering political activism on campus.
"I'm sure that most Cornellians are disappointed by President Bush's re-election, as most young people around this country are," stated Tim Lim '06 president of the Cornell Democrats in an e-mail. "Cornell Democrats have and always will be dedicated to making sure that the progressive agenda is advanced ... this election has just cemented that drive and we will work harder than ever to make sure that President Bush's feet are held to the fire."
"I think it's very disappointing. I think the Republicans managed to paint themselves as the moral choice and that's why they won the election," said John Turrettini grad, president of the Cornell Law Democrats.
"I'm absolutely ecstatic," said Mike Lepage '05, chair of the Cornell College Republicans. "Some of my Democratic friends seem like they're going to jump off the bridge with the results."
"I'll say this much -- it amuses me to see how seriously Cornell's left is taking this. Even if Bush were as awful as they seem to think, this is hardly an insurmountable tragedy or cause for a 'Day of Mourning.' To hear many of them carry on, you get the impression that they think that America has died," stated Jim Shliferstein '05, a Sun columnist and president of Cornell Political Coalition, in an e-mail.
They are probably making space for the inevitable "Don't blame me, I voted for Kerry" stickers.
Here in Greensboro, before the election, Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers were about even with the Bush/Cheney ones. Guilford county went narrowly blue. This morning, the number of Bush/Cheney stickers had not diminished, but I didn't see a single Kerry/Edwards sticker at all. Go figure.
Ah, I love the smell of panicked Liberals in the morning!
On the other hand, we are talking here about tenured academics, tenured for life. They will continue their drive to ruin the minds of their students for decades to come. Marxism is alive, well, and growing on nearly every American campus.
Like voter fraud, something needs to be done about this, and soon, before it poisons our entire national well.
Morality has NO place in the liberal communist world. That is why they will always loose.
Well, UNC-A is out, then.
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LOL!! We need to put out some "Canada Immigration Help, (website name)" bumperstickers.
the Peoples DemocRATic Republic of Ithaca... listen to the lamentations and smell the bile!!!
"I'm sure that most Cornellians are disappointed..." oh, yeah... almost forgot
I think you nailed it. They thought they had an easy win with Anyone But Bush, so they picked Treasonous Fraudman so they could spit in the face of the military as they coasted to the White House.
It didn't work. Now they're all in shock because they can't believe the rest of the country doesn't think like they do.
Cornellians - sounds lke an evil, invading, alien race that's hell-bent on our destruction! Unleash the terraforming nanobots to turn them into trees, grain, mulch, and compost before it's too late! LOL
Sort of like Borg, only instead of armor and circuitry, they are covered in hemp clothing and love beads.
"Resistance is, like, futile, man..."
Graffiti reported
Reported: Thursday
Time occurred: 2:04 a.m.
Location: The corner of Tioga and Seneca streets, Ithaca.
Incident: Someone spray-painted "Stop the stolen elections" on a sidewalk, police said.
Rumor has it that the graffiti is simply a test marketing of possible new slogan for the City's official seal, but you never know.
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Oh Happy Day!!
http://tinyurl.com/4ygmf
they say they have the blues, well i hope it's a nice deep dark NAVY BLUE... not some namby pamby baby blue or sky blue that they will get over in a year or two!!!
What an intellectual and moral cesspit.
What they really mean: Stop the elections".
After all the evil accusations they threw at Bush, they truly deserve to be "devastated" and "horrified" at his re-election.
They ran a campaign of deceit and slander and they ended up deluding themselves the most.
Now reality has hit them like a ton of bricks.
It is a beautiful thing to behold.
LOL!! Saw a great cartoon last week that showed the Dems donkey angrily bursting into a bedroom saying "Overslept again?!" The kids is passed out on the bed wearing a shirt that says "Youth Vote. A 'Bruce' t-shirt is on the floor, and a 'Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll' pennant on the wall. It was just classic!
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