Anyone concerned with the election itself? - Page 2

**leejo** · 10-26-2004, 07:27 PM

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Originally Posted by IceCold

You like Rush Limbaugh, don't you...

I never listen to Rush Limbaugh, as if that had anything to do with anything.

**leejo** · 10-26-2004, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Wyzcrak

Fear and fury are not justification for treating other people with disrespect.

Meet the challenge.

Fear and fury have led a bunch of people to feel perfectly justified in calling the president an election thief, his supporters "brown shirts" and his vice president a murderer for concocting a war to boost profits. Your holier-than-thou lectures are not respectful, and I am not some schoolboy who needs your advice.

When someone says flat out that the President will "steal" another election they will hear from me, and I may call them what they are: losers.

**Tempus** · 10-26-2004, 07:48 PM

An argument about the supreme court and hanging chads and recounts could go on forever.

HOWEVER, one point is indesputable: in Palm Beach county, Pat Buchanan mistakenly got some 2000+ votes due to the butterfly ballot. I understand that this was not anyone's doing, but the fact remains that in the state of Florida, more people went to the polls with the intention of voting for Gore than for Bush, but yet the delegate votes were awarded to Bush. Combine that with the popular vote also going to Gore, and I'd say that there is a very good argument that the person who is currently in the White House and is currently running this country into the ground was not elected in good faith.

Good day.

**leejo** · 10-26-2004, 08:04 PM

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/flo...ries/main.html

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A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president.

...The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago study was commissioned by eight media companies -- The Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, the St. Petersburg Times, The Palm Beach Post, The Washington Post and the Tribune Co., which includes the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, the Orlando Sentinel and Baltimore Sun, as well as other papers.

IceCold · 10-26-2004, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by leejo

I never listen to Rush Limbaugh, as if that had anything to do with anything.

I just asked because you seem unable to bypass the rhetoric and look at the issue at hand. The fact is, regarless of which way you lean politically, that there are definitely problems with our system which could become quite serious under the right circumstances. We saw it in Florida 4 years ago and this election could make that problem seem trivial. You and I may not think Florida was ultimately mishandled, but the fact that a significant segment of the US population does believe that the last election was "stolen" speaks volumes when you realize that controversy may be trivialized this year.

HairyNevus · 10-26-2004, 10:01 PM

You guys are seriously starting to make me scared, especially this comment:

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Originally Posted by CingularDuality

Like riots. International attacks. Stock market crash. Jailbreaks. Dogs sleeping with cats. Pigs flying! Oh, sorry, got a bit carried away... Anyway, you'll see. Beware the ides of March

Ides of November...

Seriously though, I've stopped caring about who wins now (that's right, all the anti-apathy **** has made me apathetic). So long as they run the country well-enough and prevent 9/11 from happening again. Ever. And, I trust both major candidates equally. In other words, I think we're screwed either way. Glad I'm 3 hours from Canada.

**Wyzcrak** · 10-26-2004, 10:39 PM

Call them losers. They lost.

But don't accuse them of "mating cries" and then refer to them as "those people", unless of course your aim actually is to be disrespectful, be it directly of out of apathy for their feelings.

And since when is other people doing things justification for you or me doing it?

Nevermind your insinuation (did I spell that right?) that they're not helping us win the war... any of them... at all.

**CingularDuality** · 10-28-2004, 09:24 AM

Geesh, look at how emotional people are still getting about Florida...

Yeah, we're going to have problems next week. Big problems...

10-26-2004, 07:48 PM	#18 (permalink)
Tempus Join Date: May 2003 Location: Miami, FL Age: 38 Posts: 8,252	Re: Anyone concerned with the election itself? An argument about the supreme court and hanging chads and recounts could go on forever. HOWEVER, one point is indesputable: in Palm Beach county, Pat Buchanan mistakenly got some 2000+ votes due to the butterfly ballot. I understand that this was not anyone's doing, but the fact remains that in the state of Florida, more people went to the polls with the intention of voting for Gore than for Bush, but yet the delegate votes were awarded to Bush. Combine that with the popular vote also going to Gore, and I'd say that there is a very good argument that the person who is currently in the White House and is currently running this country into the ground was not elected in good faith. Good day.

10-26-2004, 10:39 PM	#22 (permalink)
Wyzcrak Join Date: May 2003 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 14,148	Re: Anyone concerned with the election itself? Call them losers. They lost. But don't accuse them of "mating cries" and then refer to them as "those people", unless of course your aim actually is to be disrespectful, be it directly of out of apathy for their feelings. And since when is other people doing things justification for you or me doing it? Nevermind your insinuation (did I spell that right?) that they're not helping us win the war... any of them... at all. __________________ Steam Community? Add me. \| Join #tacticalgamer \| Search Results Legend \| New Posts Forum Filter \| Postbox Toggle \| Live Thread Review \| One Line Results \| Free Remote, Encrypted Backup Darkilla: In short, NS is pretty much really fast chess. With guns. Apophis: I haven't seen anyone say that SM's are better than non-SMs. Nordbomber: This is THE first server I've seen where either side can comeback from out of seemingly nowhere with the right teamwork. en4rcment: I have NEVER experienced the type of gameplay that I have found here. Nightly I am amazed at the personalities and gaming talent. Root: Welcome to TG. Feel free to punctuate your sentences correctly. Monkerz: Its gonna take all my skills to beat those boys off in the future.

10-28-2004, 09:24 AM	#23 (permalink)
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