04-11-2004 01:01									#1
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I think I have to go with Schadenfreude, the shameful joy in seeing misfortunes befalling your neighbour

	04-11-2004 01:13									#2
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befuddled

	04-11-2004 01:13									#3
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Ah, the ever popular write-in candidate "befuddled"

	04-11-2004 01:15									#4
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You left out-

ecstatic.

	04-11-2004 01:15									#5
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You forgot:

	04-11-2004 01:18									#6
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I'm the only one to admit to schadenfreude yet it has 3 votes.

A rose by any other name....

	04-11-2004 01:19									#7
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Sort of surprised, in the "what the hell is wrong with you people?!" kind of way.

I'm not really sure how to narrow that sentiment down to a single emotion.

	04-11-2004 01:20									#8
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We have two votes for constipated.

Take an ex lax, catch the 4:00 to Toronto and call me in the morning.

	04-11-2004 01:21									#9
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You left out 'despairing', although that lasted maybe 2 hours tops, followed by the realization that I no longer give a rat's ass about my fellow countrymen, so that whatever happens to them is fine by me, which was then followed by the next realization that if I don't care about them I make for a lousy communist, but a great republican...

	04-11-2004 01:23									#10
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Relieved. Despite all you guys wanting to sit down and have a pow-wow with murderous terrorist, I still think they are better off dead and the countries that spawned them better off democratic. W is the man for the job. The world would have been a worse place if JFK had his way and we sent in the FBI instead of the Marines.

	04-11-2004 01:26									#11
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse I think I have to go with Schadenfreude, the shameful joy in seeing misfortunes befalling your neighbour

I go with Schadenfreude too, for the simple reason that the Dems still need some lessons in national electibility and how to reach down to the two-digit IQ vote, and four more years of Bush won't bring the US to it's knees, but will help the Republicans achieve what they did the last time they were in power for any length of time - make themselves and their policies so widely repudiated that they didn't see daylight for more than half a century.

	04-11-2004 01:26									#12
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Indifferent, edging on happy for my own megalomania.

	04-11-2004 01:28									#13
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MtG forgets about Reagan?

	04-11-2004 01:29									#14
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quote: Originally posted by PLATO Relieved. Despite all you guys wanting to sit down and have a pow-wow with murderous terrorist, I still think they are better off dead and the countries that spawned them better off democratic. W is the man for the job. The world would have been a worse place if JFK had his way and we sent in the FBI instead of the Marines.

Who wanted to sit down and have a pow-wow? All I've been interested in is concentrating on the right rag... er, um, targets, instead of half-assedly spreading ourselves too thin.

And we really don't want those people democratic unless we can guarantee that they'll elect our boys. Democracy is a nice buzzword until you get a strategically important democratic country that is hostile to US interests and policies. If that happens, then, well, you have to give them a little more democracy until they get it right.

	04-11-2004 01:30									#15
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quote: I go with Schadenfreude too, for the simple reason that the Dems still need some lessons in national electibility and how to reach down to the two-digit IQ vote, and four more years of Bush won't bring the US to it's knees, but will help the Republicans achieve what they did the last time they were in power for any length of time - make themselves and their policies so widely repudiated that they didn't see daylight for more than half a century.

You mean good ol' Hoover?

20 years is not quite 50, MtG.

	04-11-2004 01:31									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Japher MtG forgets about Reagan?

Reagan helped keep a Dem majority in Congress for most of his two terms. That way, he could take credit for successes and blame the Dems for any failures, but Bushie has the whole banana now.

	04-11-2004 01:33									#17
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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi You mean good ol' Hoover? 20 years is not quite 50, MtG.

Even when there were Republican Presidents, they were stuck with Democrat Congresses and legislative majorities in most state legislatures, so those Republican Presidents had to kind of do "Republican Lite"

	04-11-2004 01:34									#18
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Puzzled...

	04-11-2004 01:35									#19
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The Euros seem puzzled. A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

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MtG thinks that a repug magority in the house is the blame of the president, obviously. He also thinks the last time a repug majority and reug prez coexisted bad things happened. He is, however, forgetting the policy precedes affect, sometimes by years if not a decade.

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MtG: Don't forget that the Republicans had the presidency, House, and Senate briefly under Eisenhower.

	04-11-2004 01:38									#22
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"Impotent" is closest to "despaired".

	04-11-2004 01:39									#23
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quote: A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

I wonder how realistically the media in their own countries portrayed the race. Did they spend their time blowing smoke up their readers'/viewers' asses or did they give the straight dope?

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quote: Originally posted by Japher MtG thinks that a repug magority in the house is the blame of the president, obviously. He also thinks the last time a repug majority and reug prez coexisted bad things happened. He is, however, forgetting the policy precedes affect, sometimes by years if not a decade.

IOW, there's no standing situation in politics that can't be excused away.

	04-11-2004 01:39									#25
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quote: Originally posted by KrazyHorse The Euros seem puzzled. A good dose of US media would go a long way toward explaining things.

You mean the much-maligned "liberal media" who's constantly pushing pinko left-wing ideals onto the public?

Or are we talking FOX here?

	04-11-2004 01:41									#26
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quote: Even when there were Republican Presidents, they were stuck with Democrat Congresses and legislative majorities in most state legislatures, so those Republican Presidents had to kind of do "Republican Lite"

DanS made my point for me on Eisenhower.

Though you raise an interesting point.

Will Dubya be the Roosevelt for the right?

Will people fifty years from now, vote for the party of Dubya? Will they be called Dubya Republicans?

	04-11-2004 01:41									#27
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Any of it.

CNN is less likely to have you twitching on the ground in hysterics though.

	04-11-2004 01:42									#28
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quote: Originally posted by DanS I wonder how realistically the media in their own countries portrayed the race. Did they spend their time blowing smoke up their readers'/viewers' asses?

From what I could gather, roughly speaking:
It was a close race
Republicans claim Bush is a good leader and Kerry is a flip-flopper who'll open America up to further terrorist attacks
Kerry says he's not Bush and he's got some actual plans


So, how far from the truth am I?

	04-11-2004 01:43									#29
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Y'all can see my account on FFZ if you want the answer to your question DanS.

They were very good, until they were looking at a Dubya victory.

	04-11-2004 01:43									#30
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quote: Originally posted by DanS MtG: Don't forget that the Republicans had the presidency, House, and Senate briefly under Eisenhower.

I thought those rotated - that the House and Senate majorities were off from each other by two years. Either way, that was just a bump on the Dem road of Congressional dominance, just like a possum carcass.