And a few great articles from New York's Village Voice:
The most expensive US election in history:The Best Votes Money Can Buy
The Dream is Lost:
"WASHINGTON?The dream has become a nightmare. Not only did George Bush win, but he captured the presidency by a margin of what now looks like 4 million votes. That's a clear mandate and a big green light for the right wing to push ahead with an ideological program.
Barring an almost mathematically impossible outcome in Ohio, there will be no suprise win by John Kerry, no swooping in by a centrist Democrat to vanquish the specter of a modern American theocracy.
Bush will have no meaningful opposition, with a fully Republican Congress at his disposal. Even Tom Daschle, the Senate minority leader, was beaten in what looks like a rout of the Democrats.
The dream of a secular, liberal democracy is lost: Christians are stronger than ever, and whether it's true or not, the spin will be that they played a key role in building the Bush base. The visceral, cutting edge of the Bush mandate is the attack on same-sex marriage, led by the Christian right."
Full article: The Dream is Lost
It's Mourning in America:
"No matter what claims George Bush makes to another term now, we can't know without seeing Ohio's provisional ballots what voters here intended to say. By law, those ballots can't be counted until 11days after the election.
Already the pundits are calling for John Kerry to let it go, to pull back from seeking a full accounting. There's a very good chance that even if the provisional ballots?perhaps 250,000 in all?are counted, Bush will still have won re-election by a very small margin. Two or three percentage points in that single state will probably have made all the difference. And if Bush manages to pull it out?maybe he won't?in the next four years a thousand theories will bloom about what factors might have made those few points fall his way instead of Kerry's.
Here is one that you probably won't be hearing on CNN, rooted in my reporting of the last two years.
Full article: It's Mourning in America
Note: Kerry concedes; Bush wins
Bush wins
http://indymedia.us
The Best Votes Money Ca...
The Dream is Lost
The Dream is Lost
It's Mourning in America
It's Mourning in America
Stumble It!
Lucky for Canada that the Democrats did so poorly across the board, except for the fact that Stephen Baldwin may move here - that would be a 'scary' result!
I am very sad today, not only did I loose my Hard Drive with all my info and research, but I woke up to 4 more years of Bush. Life, sheesh.
---
"Fight every fight like you can win;
An iron fisted champion,
An iron willed f___ up."
---
"Fight every fight like you can win;
An iron fisted champion,
An iron willed f___ up."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
homepage: http://againstallflags.blogspot.com
As for this having been a fair election..umm..hoI dont know about that. For some odd reason, I knew Bush would get it. Then again, I am of the mind that no election is fair. I will always be suspicious of the male poltician.
My motto on it all: Here's to the honest poltician who ONCE bought STAYS bought!
Another four years of "daddy envy" in the south.
---
"The wind mocks me"- JA
The Canadian dollar traded near 0.68 US$ when GWB elected 2000, now it trades at 0.82 US$ In 2008 what will the Canadian dollar be at? Par?
---
Dave Ruston