BOSTON, Massachusetts (CNN) — President Bush declared victory in his race for re-election Wednesday, telling his cheering supporters that "America has spoken."Source: CNN"America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens," Bush said. "With that trust comes a duty to serve all Americans. And I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as your president."
Hello! 48% of this great country does not trust Bush. That was proven on Tuesday night. So Bush should not be humbled. He should be cautious because almost half the nation voted for the chance to see what Kerry could do. But he won't be cautious. He is a lame duck, and he can do what he really wanted to do the first term. I am fearful of a lot of things right now, paramount to that list is a collapse of the economy, I hope it does not happen under Bush's second term. As my friend Brandon said "I am hopeful, because it's all I can be." I feel the same way. We can only hope. Lets hope that Bush's second term is not as bad as presidential history tells us about.
I don't really want to talk about the Ohio vote, but I have this to say: I am upset about it, but I do know that a great deal of this site has voted GOP in the past, especially here in the north west part of the state. Portage County, where I lived before college, voted blue. Stark County, where my dad lives, voted blue. Cuyahoga even voted blue. Rural voters in this state lost Ohio for Kerry. It is sad, I am sad.
Article comments
1 - Yensid
More like the hicks and the right wing gay fearing god freaks have spoken!
2 - Tom
48% of this great country does not trust Bush. . . . He should be cautious because almost half the nation voted for the chance to see what Kerry could do.
You seem to conveniently forget that 52% of the country does trust Bush and voted for the chance to continue letting him do what he's doing.
3 - Ken Edwards
Yensid, you put it so eloquently.
Tom - I did not forget. I thought the 52% was implied. The nation is rather divided right now. I think more so now then ever in recent times.
4 - Reginald
"More like the hicks and the right wing gay fearing god freaks have spoken!"
Do you believe that is an accurate description of the majority of the American people?
5 - Natalie Davis
I do now.
6 - simon hb
Actually, it's not true to say that 52% of your nation spoke up in favour of Bush. 52% of the the people who voted did which - on a roughly 70% turnout - would mean that, actually, only about 38% of people eligible to show their confidence in him did so.