A funny thing happened on the way to work today,

Lookout, I just don't think you and the other pro-Bush folks can even begin to understand the animosity the rest of us feel toward the president. The Cellar has actually been quite moderate in its response when compared with other spots on the net. I took a peek just now at the masses over on AOL, and it's like checking in on the howling gates of hell. There is so MUCH rage that it's scarey. I almost could give credence to the thought that has been bandied about that four more years of what we've already experienced will bring us close to civil war. If Bush thinks he got a mandate from this election, he's a damned fool.

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Originally Posted by marichiko

If Bush thinks he got a mandate from this election, he's a damned fool.

and if you think that the cellar is truly representative of society at large, you are a damned fool.

this board is primarily inhabited by fairly liberal folks - and that isn't a bad thing. but it is amusing to me that when you all get together in your post election moarning stage (which you deserve) the only thing you come up with is that 54,000,000 + people were either fooled, stupid, or evil. while some of them are - you just can't accept that a lot of americans looked at the same information you have access to and came up with different conclusions. that doesn't make one group intelligent and the other stupid - it makes them different.

the pendulum will swing back without the end of the world. it would be difficult for a republican to be elected in '08. the best thing that could possibly happen for the democratic party is to learn the lesson of '04 and take it to heart. bring the party back to the center so that americans have a choice between the far right and the far left. if that happens i, and many others, will again vote for a democrat for president. i don't want a candidate who only talks tough about the world scene for a few weeks before the election. i said it before - if Kerry's last 20 years gelled with his last 2 months i would have actively campaigned for him.

Lookout, I never said the Cellar was a representative cross section. I was talking about AOL. I don't know how representative that group is either, but certainly its far larger and much more diverse. I very rarely mess around on AOL, I just use it to interface on to the net. Tonight, however, one of their headlines got my eye, and I checked out their nationwide discussion. It was VERY nasty.