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Chanandler Bong wrote:Once again, who sniffed the phoney out?

Chanandler Bong wrote:Once again, who sniffed the phoney out?

Joey wrote:

Chanandler Bong wrote:Once again, who sniffed the phoney out?

you really should read the entire thread

nikki4982 wrote:Oh, and, the bandwidth is gonna die on her website real fast with everyone going there (stupid Geocities), but here are the links to the real Michelle:

Website:
http://www.geocities.com/talented_at_breathing/

LiveJournal:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/supermansdead04/

Michelle's CM profile:
http://www.clumsymonkey.net/phpBB2/prof ... ile&u=2391

me!! I do!! only cause it makes things interesting around here and its the only time no one's fighting icon_lol.gif

Cass wrote:

me!! I do!! only cause it makes things interesting around here and its the only time no one's fighting icon_lol.gif

I voted for Bush! I'm not smart enough to make up something like this

Okay, so last night I kind of went off the deep end a bit. I remember thinking how miserable and pissed off I was going to be for the next four years and how I just couldn't take it. But I woke up this morning, and I felt fine. No, I felt great. Not because Bush won. I was still miffed about that. But I felt great because I realized it wasn't the end of the world. There's a certain peace in knowing you did what you could, and now it's done. No more political ads. No more feverish campaigning. No more mudslinging. It's good to just know and be done, even if the wrong guy won.

It seems impossible after an election this divided that people can just go back to their daily lives and move on. Four years is a long time. Bush has plenty of time to screw things up even more. It's hard to believe that four years ago, 9/11 was the number you called in case of fire and terrorism something that only happened half a world away. Who knows what the next four years will bring, and what interesting ways Bush will find to screw them up?

I shouldn't be treating this so lightly, I know. But I just don't see why this has to be the end of the world. A disappointment, yes. A blow to civil rights, certainly. A door to a very disconcerting future, possibly. But only time will tell what deleterious effects, if any, the results of this election will have on the course of the future. Now that it's out of our hands, I don't really want to think about those things. It's too frightening, too depressing, too aggravating. I'm prepared to just take this a day at a time, as I have since Bush was appointed (not elected) in 2000.

But he was elected this time. So we're going to have to live with it. And this can go one of two ways: either Bush will screw things up so much and with such finality that no Republican (at least not one with the religious right leanings Bush has) will see the inside of the White House for many years to come. Or the next four years will go without incident, and we'll have a new, hopefully better guy in '08.

Is either option really that awful in the long run? I'm tempted to say yes, but I won't. I can't. I can afford rage when I have the power to do something about it, even if that something is as insignificant as a single vote. But being angry about this now will just get me an ulcer, and Bush will still be President. So I'm going to be complacent.

While I am a little scared at the possible crash of the US dollar (I've become an economics nerd somehow and I could go into a whole bunch of reasons why economically Bush is just wrong), I voted. My conscience is clear.

Because half of democracy is learning to deal with defeat. But I lied last night: I'm still proud to be an American.



"He's completely idealistic, but he calls it 'optimism'. I mean, he has this way of saying, 'you know, in ten years this isn't even gonna matter.' And you know you're screwed then, because he can't think of a bright side either..."

- Thane Furrows, High Strung

(ps-- Morgan I used some damn big words in here...and I didn't use the college student's vocabulary!!!!)