What is wrong with telling people if they voted for Mr Bush they Deserve what they get? What's the problem?
547538
People who voted for Bush seem to have done so because of their self-righteous-"Clinton is an adulterer"- piety.  Alas, I long for the days when our biggest concern was whether our president received oral sex.  It was simpler times.\n\nYou see what happens when we let the self-righteous decide who becomes president?\n\np.s. \nUnemployment is low, but the gap between the rich and poor is ever increasing because the types of jobs that are being created are service jobs and not the kind of jobs that allow you to improve your situation.
1180039
I have problems With President Bush, but I believe that he has gotten some bad advice and has surrounded himself with people who don't have the nation's best interest at heart.  I voted for him simply because I didn't want Kerry to become leader of the free world.  As for my vote, who knows, it might count, it might not.  I still vote with high hopes and low expectations.
565287
I am not against George Bush. He is a decent honest man. He cares about this country, both present and future. However, he is only one man and too many people want to blame him, or the government for their own stupid problems and lousy choices in life. How can anybody blame one person for all their problems. We have a huge government from local on up. On one hand people like you hate George Bush, on the other you act as if though he has the power of God. If everybody would accept responsibility for their own actions and not expect the government to solve all their problems, the country and the world would be a much better place. Why do hate him? If you live in the United States you have more opportunity than most people in the world. How is George Bush messing up your life? What are you doing to make life better in this country? I would like to hear it.
211169
just because everyone is doing it, it doesn't make it right.  \n\nPeople do things which are convenient to them.  And when it becomes convenient to many, it becomes popular.  What makes something important is what people view as important. Everything we do is for our OWN benefit.  People pay attention to things they think they would be good for them.  IT DOESN'T MEAN IT IS NECESSARILY RIGHT.\n\nwe must have good disgression to distinguish which are valid or useless popular opinions.  \n\nIf you were a dirty politician, you would be dying to be a popular choice, wouldn't you?\n\nGO AGAINST THE WIND.
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Because Cons are a "special" people.\n\n\n\n\n\nYOU ARE A SPECIAL PEOPLE CONS\n\nYou supported bush, but in time, you will come to\nrealize how he targeted you for deception.\n\nYou were specially picked because of the attributes\nyou possess: fear, ignorance, arrogance, belligerence,\nbigotry, and low self-esteem. Bush's political\nstrategists calculated that the people most easily\nmisled and controlled are the ones who fit your\nprofile, so they crafted their propaganda just for\nyou.\n\nHe got your support by making you feel better about\nyour personal flaws. He told you to wave the flag\nbecause your bigotry is nothing be ashamed of, and to\nthump the bible because your ignorance is a virtue.\nYou should cherish your hatefulness and\nsmall-mindedness as they are family values. You are\nnot society's rejects, but rather, you are higher on\nthe ladder than certain other people. Right-wing radio\npoints them out so that you know who to hate to feel\nbetter about yourself.\n\nHe feeds you crap about "imminent threat",\n"patriotism", "spreading freedom", and "flowers and\ncandy". He's only tossing you a bone because he knows\nhe's going to be asking you for a hefty sacrifice\nsoon. He repeats meaningless, mind-numbing platitudes\nlike "Freedom is not free!" and "We're fighting them\nthere so we don't have to fight them here!" You fell\nfor it.\n\nBy now, it should be apparent that the invasion of\nIraq was a shameless oil grab. We're there because the\nrich, powerful, and greedy of this country, people who\nyou have nothing to do with, want to control that part\nof the world's oil resources for decades to come, and\nthey're using your tax dollars and your children's\nblood to do it. Over a hundred thousand people,\nAmerican and Iraqi, are dead because of it, and the\ndepleted uranium left behind will ensure that tens of\nthousands more die afterwards. You call that\nliberation? Not even that many people died when Saddam\nHussein tried to grab Kuwait's oil fields years ago.\n\nYes, you are a special people, cons. You do not\npossess patriotism, a love of America, or any of those\nhigh-minded ideals as you would like to believe. You\npossess the qualities that allowed bush to hijack your\nfree will to do his bidding. You were used, and he did\nit by playing to the personal shortcomings that most\npeople try to hide. Like Samuel L. Jackson's character\nat the end of the movie Unbreakable, you become aware,\nonly after the fact, of the disgraceful role that you\nwere destined to play. You will come to realize that\nyou are history's bad guy. Like the McCarthyites or\nthe brownshirts, you will serve both as a symbol of\nshame and a warning to future generations. You truly\nare a special people.GOD HELP US ALL,AND AMERICA.
785705
I think it is a civic duty for every American citizen to vote. But you are very right that an ignorant vote may defeat your own purpose, because when you randomly vote for anyone on the ballot that somehow seems at the moment to possibly be the better choice, even though you know absolutely nothing about that persons history or views, you may actually help elect someone who does not have your best interest in mind. Even voting blindly straight down for one particular party, but you really don't know if some of them do not represent you political views, you may be making a mistake.\n\nHaving said that, I urge that all Americans start caring to research the candidates before any election and become INFORMED and there fore be an informed voter for a better America. I am Republican because I believe in Republican values in general, and I vote mostly Republican, but I will vote Democrat or Independent or Green, too, if I like that candidate better for his or her voting history or moral outlook over the Republican alternative. I voted for Bush and I stand by him now even when there is so much Bush bashing going on all around me, because I have done my homework and I see that he is an honest man who is doing his best and has the right ideas. I do also resent that there are so many stupid people who want to undermine our leadership in a terribly dangerous time of war which weakens our position and makes all the other countries laugh at us. And, I don't believe in blindly following a trend that hates one candidate or loves another just to be popular not really understanding all there is to it. So, before you vote, please study all of the issues in depth and know what your candidate really stands for, and don't listen to partisan propaganda to form your opinions.
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Typically, two types of people vote for Bush, the ignorant and the people who enjoy the stutus quo. As in the rich getting richer, innocent dying in Iraq, student loan increases, etc.\n\nEven they cant name one good thing or at least one goal that he accomplished.
1167513
This question is too vague.\n\nObviously you do not like our current president.\n\nI voted for George W. Bush twice and think he is a wonderful president.
523995
If you're going to giveaway something you shouldn't be voted. The elections are won by the one who gives better ideas and proposals, not the one who gives most presents...
729741
Nobody likes to think that "their guy" (Bush), the guy they voted for can do anything wrong especially when it comes to the war on terror and because most Americans don't have a clue about the Middle East or Iraqi politics it's very easy for them to understand Bush's very basic comments "stay the course, cut & run, fight'em over their not here", etc...) and after 9/11 everybody wants revenge and since Muslims caused 9/11 (still amazes me that Americans don't realize that most of the 9/11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia) Muslims must pay whether they have WMDs or terrorists in their country or not.  War is not about the truth it's about winning and that's it.  There are no rules (Bush thru the Geneva convention out the door) just life and death and people will do anything they can to survive even if it means lying and this includes Bush.
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I support our President, whether I voted for him or not.  \n\nI wish people would keep in mind that you don't have to agree with someones decisions to support them.  We already look like idiots to the rest of the world, but the more we fight with eachother, the worse we look.\n\nI don't agree with a lot of what our President has done, but without the support of the people we look like a bunch of crybabies who would rather blame someone than take an honest look at how hard the questions are that he has to answer.\n\nKeep in mind, he may be a dullard, but he's our dullard.  Oh, and yes I did vote for him and I consider myself a fiscal conservative and a social libertarian.
764505
Hypocricy runs rampant in both parties. You know what would be a better way to select our canidate by having actual facts as to how the voted on any and all issues when they were in government. This way you know if this person is voting the way you want them to on the issues that are important to you. What was their absent record. \nAfter all aren't we all their bosses to some extent we put them in office. \nYou know what irks me the most it's the wonderful raises they give themselves. If there is something that should be put in the ballot it's rather or not they should have a pay raise. After all where else can you go to work and decide gee I am giving myself a payraise.\nHowever it's all a bunch of propaganda with mudslinging.
567176
There was a similar conversation going on within yahoo 360. I, being an American, can do nothing more than agree with you on most points. I don't know that I would go as far as to say that as a whole we are worse than Hitler, but I have mentioned to several that I work with that I feel, our President Bush is modern days version of Hitler. \n\nI think, unfortunately, that most (not all) foreigners don't realize that most (not all) Americans don't like the man either! His approval rating as of yesterday was 33%. That's pretty bad. We don't like that he seems to be a bully to others and don't like that we are as a whole viewed as believing the way he does. The argument can be made that "we" re-elected the man. I understand that, although I did not. I didn't vote for him either time. I think the general thought at the time, was that he started something we better let him finish it, since (in theory) he should know what he's doing. Ha!\n\nAs far as history is concerned. I can't argue that either. But again, like every other country that is judged, and they all are, the country as a whole does not necessarily believe the same as their leaders do. I think in the beginning they put on a good "show" and are then elected into leadership. Whom ever puts on the best show wins the "prize". It sucks.\n\nMy response in the discussion to the blog was similar to what is here. I also said that I really hope that someday people just learn to accept others for what they are and what they believe. There is no right or wrong way. There is only what people believe is best for them. That includes democracy! It might be OK for us, but not for others. Our way is not necessarily the "best" way. I just wish everyone could leave everyone else alone.
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A woman as president? let see England hasn't done too bad. If a good woman ran I would vote for her. Any person that is capable of moving the country forward deserves the chance. As for all the people that are condemning Bush, DID YOU VOTE??! because if you didn't you have no right to complain.
542928
Because they're a bunch of hypocrites with double standards. Our govt is stupid, but again it's our fault because we voted them into office.  We should do something to vote them OUT.
672783
IF YOU DON'T VOTE YOU FORFEIT YOUR RIGHT TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE INCOMPETANCE THAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW WITH BUSH&CO. I PROUDLY VOTED AGAINST THEM!!
643757
Who the hell voted for these people is what i want to know!!we are all guilty, we let our government do as it wants so we all have to take some blame,unless you stand up and be counted,and make your voices heard this kind of stuff will go on for ever.