I feel like I've lost my leader. After a year of hope and a positive agenda to help this country rise from the ashes via stronger education, health care, security and pride, our leader is gone.
Without warning over half of the American people revolted and assassinated their bright shining star without knowing his real potential. Swayed by propaganda and hallow promises our leader is in ruin and for the immediate future our country will not progress.
Where we are now is equal to the dark ages — where men toil and plunder for their own survival, where death is common and where we have no other hope but to look to god and hope for a way out.
It is important during this time to remember that this loss is only short lived — it is not the end of hope. We will once again have the chance to battle another campaign and help our country rise up instead of being suppressed from the top down.
What we need now is time with family, personal time to remember what is important and to remember that our leader fought the good fight. He fought for the little guy, for education of our children, for the health of our entire country, and for helping us to reconnect with our friends and allies around the world. The path to success is this my friends. Helping every American rise up and be stronger is the only path to our success. We have missed the opportunity, and we have lost part of our childrens future.
As the first JFK stated:
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
The minds of the American people over the past four years were tempered with deception, lies and propaganda. As a whole we have been deceived and somehow mislead to believe that arrogance, stuborness, and selfishness is the route to success. This is truly the route to hell and we have no other choice but to fight this thinking tooth and nail.
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— go to most recent comments1 - Cap'n Ken
Oh come the hell on. All that happened was that you lost an election.
You need help.
P.S. Don't come back and call me some kind of crazy right-winger. I'm a libertarian, the Christians scare the hell out of me and I didn't vote for Bush.
2 - Tom Johnson
the American people revolted and assassinated their bright shining star without knowing his real potential.
You don't get it, yet you write the words down - this is exactly why we didn't vote for Kerry. He didn't show any potential. He never stood for anything. He just carped about what Bush did wrong, or what Bush didn't do, offering no actual solutions other than "we'll fix this." Kerry, to be elected over an incumbent, you have to show HOW you're going to fix all the things you see as wrong. Kerry didn't do that, and so we chose to keep the known over replacing him with the unknown.
3 - vox populi
What hope? What positive agenda? The reason I could not support Kerry is precisely because he was unrelentingly negative in this campaign and offered no solutions whatsover.
4 - Kurt Nordstrom
How many people who actually voted Kerry were really voting for him? The most vocal sound from the camp seemed to be "Anybody but Bush!" That is, Kerry was seen as an alternative, but not really a prize to be desired.
Obviously, this wasn't everybody, but it sure seemed to pop up a lot. For those people, even supporting Kerry was all about Bush.
5 - Eric Olsen
I heard an awful lot about "what" he wanted to accomplish, most of which was fine and dandy, but very little about "how"
6 - Bryan
I think I explain Why the democrats lost the election in my post.
its about time and energy. They just simply directed their time and energy in the wrong direction. Read my post on my personal feelings about it.
7 - Eric Olsen
Bryan, why don't you join Blogcritics and post it here rather than just link to it?
8 - Yensid
I am one that really did a lot of research on the candidates and the comments above really show how Americans think. We need information fed to us in soundbytes to make informative opinions instead of thinking for ourselves. The George Bush plan was simply more of the same which is easy to understand and get behind if you are for his agenda. Then to counter Kerrys positive agenda for change Bush put out this wall of sound and propaganda that labeled Kerry as a flip flopper, a liar, an evil politician, a... well you know. Kerry just did not compete with W on the level he needed to get his message out. GW got his message out where it matters, to the hicks and the fanatics and they came out and voted. It is as simple as that.
9 - Eric Olsen
actually, it's not as simple as that and a more nuanced version of reality would probably be received better by those not in total agreement with your perspective. I do not believe 51% of the nation is "fanatics and hicks." IN fact one might reasonably label the view expressed above as "fanatical"
10 - bhw
Unfortunately, Eric, the Bush campaign effectively derided the idea of "nuance," so we can't really expect the electorate to think about complex issues in a nuanced way anymore. The election showed that people don't want to think about difficult issues; they wan't sound-bite platitudes.
11 - Eric Olsen
bhw, why exactly did the elction show that?
12 - bhw
Because Kerry was derided for talking about "nuance." The Bush campaign very effectively convinced a large portion of America that the world is a very simple place. If you're not with us, you're with the terrists, remember? It's really that simple.
That is the thinking that America voted into office for a second term. Nuance is dead.
13 - RJ
"Where we are now is equal to the dark ages"
Get a grip, you loon...
14 - RJ
"our leader fought the good fight. He fought for the little guy"
And "little guy" is EXACTLY what this elitist billionaire thought of you all...
15 - RJ
"GW got his message out where it matters, to the hicks and the fanatics and they came out and voted. It is as simple as that."
So, 51% of the electorate is composed of "hicks and fanatics"?
Why don't you just move somewhere else, if you hold the American people in such contempt?
16 - Yensid
Yeah, I agree. I apologize to the hicks and fanatics out there. I highly doubt they are reading this though. If you read my post from yesterday you'll see my real opinion on how this election was lost -- among other things. It is time to move forward though. Hopefully --at the least-- the American people will expose George Bush for what he really is of the next four years. It is going to be one wild ride.
17 - Antfreeze
I've decided that GW won the election for one major reason. Americans absolutely hate being told how to act and what to think. I guarantee you that every person who received that letter from the Guardian voted the opposite of how they were told to. This is a Jack Webb nation. We want just the facts maam, and we are plenty smart enough to see through the deceptions of a Fahrenheit 911 and to realize that celebrities are no better able to select a president than the rest of us. I personally would've voted for Mickey Mouse if he was running against W, but at the same time I cancelled my subscription to Time because of the blatant slant to their reporting. In one breath they hack on W's lack of speaking skills and in the next print an entire article called, "What Kerry means to say."
18 - Yensid
Man I love getting you people all worked up. See, if you look at the voting results and where Bush won and where Kerry won you will see that the rural vote went for George Bush. Why is that? Why did the majority of John Kerry wins come from the most populated areas of our country? Even in my state of Ohio the most populated areas around civilization and cities went for Kerry and the corn field working Amish and the rednecks went for Bush? The center of the civilized world New York went for Kerry. (The people that experience 9/11 first hand) California went for Kerry. I'm sure there are many reasons for this but my thinking is that people that participate in society will learn the truth. People that live in rural areas are just slightly more able to go for more basic beliefs. They think force is the answer. If it crosses you, just shoot it! Even the people that I know that voted for Kerry are educated people. People that work for NASA, leaders of companies, people that are involved and these people do their homework. The few that I know that voted for Bush are highly right wing fanatical Christians, self centered bigots and retired people that have no connection to the outside world except for Fox News propaganda. This comment above really just summed it up for me:
"What hope? What positive agenda? The reason I could not support Kerry is precisely because he was unrelentingly negative in this campaign and offered no solutions whatsover."
If you are not doing your homework then you get propaganda in your face. Kerry had an extremely positive message. You can still go to his web site and read the positive message and his ideas on how he was going to make change and pay for it. The reason he was so negative in his campaign is because he realized that was the only way he could compete. If you saw the Dem convention they tried to take the high ground and got stomped. They tried to play a positive campaign and Bush unleashed the attack dogs that painted him as soft and unfit for the oval office.
I'm done with this thread. We'll see what happens in the coming years.
19 - RJ
The counties Bush won had something like 170 million people living there. The counties Kerry won had something like 110 million people living there.
Bush won something like 2600 counties. Kerry won less than 600.
The two education demographics Kerry won were:
- 1 People with Masters and Doctoral degrees
- 2 People who dropped out of high school
In other words, a tiny percentage of the elites, coupled with mindless hordes of the semi-literate and uneducated, voter for Kerry. Everyone else (in the aggregate) voted for Bush.
Spin this all you want. Bush won, decisively. Kerry lost.
DEAL WITH IT
20 - RJ
"In other words, a tiny percentage of the elites, coupled with mindless hordes of the semi-literate and uneducated, voter for Kerry."
*voted for Kerry...
21 - RJ
And the only age group that voted for Kerry was the 18-29 bunch. And they didn't turn out in very large numbers.
BTW, I am part of that age group. And I voted for Bush.
And there will not be a draft, despite the lies of MTV's "rock the vote"...
22 - andy marsh
so RJ, if we combine your comment (19) with yensids comment (15), which ones are fanatics and which ones are hicks?
23 - urthshu
Don't worry. Kerry has a plan for this, I know it.
24 - yndygo
Oh please... Melodramatic much?
I'm a Republican who voted for Kerry... but it's no more the "dark ages" now than it has been for the last 4 years...
Complicated? Partisan? Extreme? yes.
But you need to get a grip on reality.
This was an election - that's all. Better men than John Kerry have run and lost before. He's not dead. He wasn't assassinate. He just didn't have enough supporters to out number the Bush supporters.
Sheesh.
25 - Shark
"...but it's no more the "dark ages" now than it has been for the last 4 years..."
Um, but the day is young.
Sorry, gotta run! The US is bombing the shit out of that newly 'sovereign' Fallujah on TV!
And then I have to go to my Creationism class, and afterwards, we're gonna go crack some married faggots' skulls in the name of God.
Like Bush, He spoke to me personally.
Whoo-hoo!