Post by rikitikitavei on Nov 9, 2004 8:33:54 GMT -5
Dear Friends,
>
>Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in,
>let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of
>life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
>
>Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
>
>1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
>
>2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
>Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
>
>3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young
>adults
>(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
>wrong and you should never listen to them.
>
>4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
>country is headed in the wrong direction (56%:
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country.h
>tml),
>think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%:
>http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm), and don't approve of the job George
>W. Bush is doing (52%:
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html). (Note to
>foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like
>Pop Tarts.)
>
>5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in
>the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack
>the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the
>Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
>
>6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the
>birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And
>the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most
>of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can
>dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
>
>7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just
>any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a
>poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces
>Michigan.
>
>8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America
>will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long
>time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will
>be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
>
>9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get
>married
>in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't
>have to buy now.
>
>10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
>including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good
>to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our
>candidates can't.
>
>11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
>
>12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
>
>13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at
>least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled
>state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went
>into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans
>controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday,
>Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1
>chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
>
>14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment
>than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here
>on out
>--
>and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard
>work
>that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th
>grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat
>the
>next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
>ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his
>point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
>
>15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a
>very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following
>two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander
>to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may
>whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building
>"a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus
>he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will
>become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will
>commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will
>have to remove him from office.
>
>16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of
>voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a
>landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million.
>If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you
>barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line,
>pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start
>the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have
>hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
>
>17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for
>the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than
>the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton
>or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media
>are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans
>were, for the first time
>since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
>always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is
>that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,
>that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones
>who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November
>2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of
>surprise in 2008.
>
>Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My
>Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such
>a wonderful country  -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
>
>But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Moore
>MMFlint@aol.com
>www.michaelmoore.com
>
>Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in,
>let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of
>life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.
>
>Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:
>
>1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.
>
>2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since
>Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
>
>3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young
>adults
>(Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always
>wrong and you should never listen to them.
>
>4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
>country is headed in the wrong direction (56%:
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/direction_of_country.h
>tml),
>think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%:
>http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm), and don't approve of the job George
>W. Bush is doing (52%:
>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/Presidential_04/bush_ja.html). (Note to
>foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out. It's an American thing, like
>Pop Tarts.)
>
>5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in
>the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack
>the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the
>Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.
>
>6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the
>birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And
>the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most
>of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can
>dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!
>
>7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just
>any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a
>poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces
>Michigan.
>
>8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America
>will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long
>time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will
>be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.
>
>9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get
>married
>in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't
>have to buy now.
>
>10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress,
>including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good
>to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our
>candidates can't.
>
>11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!
>
>12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.
>
>13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at
>least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled
>state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went
>into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans
>controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday,
>Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1
>chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.
>
>14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment
>than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here
>on out
>--
>and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard
>work
>that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th
>grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat
>the
>next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the
>ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his
>point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.
>
>15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a
>very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following
>two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander
>to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may
>whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building
>"a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus
>he will not push for too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will
>become so cocky and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will
>commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will
>have to remove him from office.
>
>16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of
>voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a
>landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million.
>If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you
>barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line,
>pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start
>the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have
>hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!
>
>17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for
>the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than
>the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton
>or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media
>are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans
>were, for the first time
>since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has
>always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is
>that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact,
>that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones
>who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November
>2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of
>surprise in 2008.
>
>Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My
>Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such
>a wonderful country  -- it doesn't even need a president!'"
>
>But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.
>
>Yours,
>
>Michael Moore
>MMFlint@aol.com
>www.michaelmoore.com
