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Originally posted by mml
Ustwo, in regards to the photoshop pic, your damn right I'm crying. I am crying about the undermining of the electoral system. I am crying about the abuse of power and politization of the judicial system.
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How was it undermined? This claim I don’t understand. The Florida supreme court decided to IGNORE the laws of the state and the federal government. It was so bad that their own chief justice (a democrat) in a dissenting opinion said something to the effect that he knew the majority opinion was unconstitutional and would be over turned by the US supreme court. Had the Florida ruling stood, then I would have agreed that the electoral system was undermined. Judges who try to rewrite the law should never be allowed on the bench.
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I am crying that about the fact that this whole situation has only increased the political divide in this country.
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I’m glad it has. It is the future of the United States at stake, and there comes a point where you have to make a stand for who and what you are.
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I am crying because intelligent people, like yourself, refuse to look at facts and simply accept the premise you want.
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Dittos to you. Bush won recounts, he won in the courts, he won the presidency by the rules we have.
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I am crying about the piss poor job President Bush and his administration are doing.
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I’m semi-happy with Bush. I am pleased with Iraq, I am pleased with the war on terror. I am unhappy with some of the socialist elements he has passed in the name of ‘compassionate conservatism’ but I can live with them.
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By the way, you could have used the same picture for the Republican Party during the 8 years of the Clinton Administration, we all bitch and moan (me included) when things don't go our way.
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No you couldn’t. Ross Perot is why Bush I lost in 92, but we didn’t cry about it. We didn’t sue. We didn’t claim Bill Clinton was illegitimate as president. We didn’t even choke to much when Bill Clinton talked about a mandate despite his low % of the vote. And we sure as hell didn’t criticize Clinton with his various wars like the democrats are doing to Bush. Even the whole Somalia incident, which was one of the biggest clusterfucks a US president ever gave us, and our running from the region only fueled the ‘paper tiger’ image the US had, didn’t get the criticism it rightly deserved. (and BTW when do we get out of Kosovo?) We really should THANK Clinton for giving us the House of Representatives, but that’s another issue.