Posted on 11/03/2006 9:25:36 AM PST by teddyballgame
What a glorious couple of centuries it has been, all held together by this great string of luck. "The Lord looks after drunks, children and the U.S.A." went the old saying, and it seemed true. But the thing about luck is that, eventually, you run out of it. Everybody craps out in the end. And that is what has happened to us. As Americans go to the polls Tuesday we must confront the fact that we have become a luckless people, all across the political spectrum.
Was there any more mind-boggling bit of historic bad luck than what happened after Election Day 2000, when those 537 votes in Florida wobbled, then stayed in George W. Bush’s column? Never mind what kind of president Al Gore would have been—he would have been adequate, I suppose, but so would have most Republicans—it is hard now to avoid the conclusion that Bush was precisely the wrong man at the wrong time.
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These nihilists can go hang.
As an aside, a political web site that I have visited regularly has had their polling data down for the last 2 days. Just a few days before an election, and they don't want to show the latest poll numbers????
Maybe they are not confident in some of their polls, which shows Dems. taking the House by over 20 seats and the Senate by 1 seat, according to the last polls they had up there. Perhaps they are afraid that the election will be far off of the polls? After all, pollsters only have relevance if their polls are on target of what the actual election results turn out to be.
Anyway, thought it strange that a political site took down their polls. go figure.
It's Newsweek that's luckless to have this idiot on their payroll.
No, we've become a God-less people. We can no longer expect to receive His blessings when we have chosen to turn away from Him.
"Luck" my butt.
I submit that Bush winning in 2000 is providence, not lack of luck.
Dang bad luck causing record low unemployment.
The left will never get over the "stolen" election.
Somehow, I am now thinking of Tiger Woods. Luckiest golfer ever. I mean, do you know how many tournaments that guy has won?? I can't imagine how he's managed to be so successul. Just lucky, I guess. [/s]
Yep, record high stock market, steady economic growth, low unemployment and interest rates, a reduced federal deficit, no further terrorist attacks, Saddam gone, Taliban gone, Libya tamed, sensible justices on the Supreme Court yadda yadda yadda
It's all dumb luck for Der Chimpenfuhrer.
Hirsh can "luck" off.
Oh what bad luck; I had to read this loser's dellusions. Did anyone else notice how Reagan's accomplishments are no longer being denied by liberals? George Bush has become their boogie man for sure. Hey maybe in 20 years, bad luck liberals may even realize George Bush accomplished some good things. But perpetual victims never realize that accomplishments are more than just lucky breaks.
I must have missed that one.
What country is luckless? The United States? Is he serious?
I can guarantee you that, if Mr. Kerry had been elected president, he would be crowing about how low(4.4%) the unemployment rate was. He'd be bragging about the record high home ownership of the American people. He'd be bragging about interest rates that we the lowest in 40 years. He'd be jawboning about the stock markets and their new highs.
George Bush is the first president since Ronald Reagan to "call'em like he sees 'em." Mr. Kerry is a myopic idiot. Not only can he not see the truth of the situation, but he couldn't find his butt with both hands. In addition, he is a snob.
Religious fascists are trying to murder us, and President Bush is fighting them to keep us safe. He's taken the fight to THEIR neighborhood, not ours. Mr. Bush knows that to defeat someone, you don't wait for them to come to us; we go to their part of the world and kill them there.
My only complaint with George Bush and the war in Iraq is this: Let's kill the SOBs quicker!
Viva Bush!
I get the impression that if Gore won, he would have become "the man who pushed the button" after 9/11 in an effort to prove to Naomi Wolf that he really was an alpha-male, after all.
I wonder how the writer knows this. My guess is that he assumes it to be true so he presents it as fact.
"'The Lord looks after drunks, children and the U.S.A." went the old saying,'
I must have missed that one."
'Twas actually Otto von Bismarck who said it: "The Lord takes care of drunks, small children, and Americans."
Another famous Bismarckism is "The people's eyes should be shielded from what goes into the making of laws and sausages."
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