[quote=Sedai]Or Poltergeist  :D[/quote]

[quote=OG-][quote]So what you're saying is that the country would be just as divided if Kerry had won....
I'm not sure I understand the argument. You're just angry because your guy isn't the one who gets to try and fix the massive "schism"?[/quote]

I know the country would be divided either way, that isn't my problem, it seems to me that the winners are scoffing off the comments of the losing party as simple emotions, when it isn't necessairly the case.[/quote]

[quote=SamsoniteDelilah]I wonder if they'll sell copies of [i]The Amityville Horror[/i].[/quote]

[quote=Herod][quote=sedai]Right, that is exactly my concern, that, during a second term (notoriously unpredictable), Bush might just start taking economic chances he would never have even considered in the previous climate. [/quote]  Actually, surprisingly, history shows that American Presidents care [i]more[/i] about doing the right thing in their second terms, because they begin to worry how history will remember them, and not just about pleasing their side to get re-elected.  Or so they say, at least.

[quote=OG]We're more divided today than the country has been since the civil war. [b]You'd be equally as angry if Bush had lost [/b]and would be saying the same exact thing as the naysers [sic] on this forum and the rest of the world. [/quote]
So what you're saying is that the country would be just as divided if Kerry had won....
I'm not sure I understand the argument.  You're just angry because your guy isn't the one who gets to try and fix the massive "schism"?[/quote]

[quote=Sedai]Apparently Wal-Mart has taken to setting up shop on [url=http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/10/20/417608ab20afe?in_archive=1]ancient burial grounds.[/url][/quote]

[quote=OG-][quote]I fail to understand the reasoning behind what very clearly looks like national support for the president. You're an American! Get behind something and stop whining.[/quote]

Bush may have national support by about 4 million accordig to the polls, but if you think he has the support of the entire country, wrong.    We're more divided today than the country has been since the civil war.  You'd be equally as angry if Bush had lost and would be saying the same exact thing as the naysers on this forum and the rest of the world.  It'll be very interesting to see if Bush can do anything to reconcile this schism.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda][quote]...From every report I've read, the rest of the world considers it a tragedy, as well.[/quote]
...which doesn't really address the point I was making at all. If anything, it may underscore it, as "the rest of the world" sounds a bit like the exaggerations I'm talking about.

The plain and simple fact here is that a shocking number of complaints about Bush, and about this election, are emotional and hyperbolic. When someone tells me they don't want something to happen, I'm inclined to believe they have a reason. But when someone tells me that the world is ending because it did, I'm inclined to believe that they've let their emotions run over their objectivity.

Not that I'm surprised. The right went nuts when Clinton kicked their butts, too. I can only hope you, and others who are disappointed in these results, can learn from that and stop wandering off into Chicken Little territory just because your guy didn't win.[/quote]

[quote=mack]Well IM sad about it.  :([/quote]

[quote=SamsoniteDelilah]From every report I've read, the rest of the world considers it a tragedy, as well.[/quote]

[quote=Yoda]I disagree with you, yeah, but I wasn't commenting on that. Just on the absurd idea that it's a "tragedy for the whole world" because you favored the other guy.

In other words, when you start painting an election as if it were a struggle between good and evil, it's safe to say you've probably lost perspective.[/quote]

[quote=The Silver Bullet][quote=Yoda]Quit buying into the ridiculous hyperbole surrounding Bush.[/quote]
Yeah. I'm the one who's grossly mistaken in my thinking.[/quote]