GWBfan
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This is an email I recieved from a friend of almost 20 years during the heat of the elections. We have been struggling with our polar opposite views regarding politics for quite some time. I will NEVER see any point to the ultra-liberal stance. She's a card-carrying liberal.
And as mature adults, we've decided that friendship is more important.. So I present her viewpoint on an anonymous basis. It's ugly, but up for civil discussion please!
Thanks!
> As far as the websites go, I don't know what DU is, but I have been on
> sorryeverybody.com and feel the exact same way those folks do. If they are
> college students, then give me college students over Lexus SUV driving
> soccer moms in Plano or Highland Park any old day. I can certainly
> understand the desire to separate oneself from the masses who voted for
> Bush, I have a new bumper sticker on my car which does just that. Plus,
> keep in mind that 55 million people voted for Kerry, the largest number of
> votes against an incumbent in history and I truly doubt all 55 million of
> those came from college kids. Lots of college kids voted for Bush as well,
> but they are different? Believe me, as hateful and caustic as SOME
> Republicans can be, I feel 110% sure there would be tons of anti-Kerry
> websites out there if he'd been elected, as if there aren't already.
> George Bush arrogantly led this country into war, based on lies. Bottom
> line. Those are facts, not partisan dribble. Had he let the weapons
> inspectors finish their jobs, he would have found there were no WMD's in
> Iraq and maybe, just maybe gone after another target besides a country that
> had no WMD's and had nothing to do with 9/11.. Osama bin laden perhaps?
> This, on top of many other issues are reasons you are finding such
> bitterness towards this man from half the country, including me. This
> election was won on the basis of "moral values" rather than economics and
> war. When it becomes clear that we are sacrificing these kids lives in Iraq
> over "misinformation" and half the country continues to vote for him, in my
> eyes, we've got BIG problems. It's just so much more important that Bill
> and Bob never marry and Cindy can't go get an abortion and Yahoos can own
> assault weapons that we'll elect a person who takes us into war that was
> obviously not planned well and take 1,100 plus of our own kids, not to
> mention 1,000's of Iraqi civilians lives. I consider myself a patriot as
> well, that is why I don't condone or support this war because we are
> fighting the wrong folks. These kids are dying because Saddam Hussein tried
> to kill Bush's daddy and he holds a grudge. Yes, it is truly a wonderful
> thing that Hussein has been captured and will hopefully be eliminated soon.
> The man is ilk and the world is better off without him, for sure.
> However...Osama bin Laden is obviously still alive and living and
> reorganizing and he and his clan are the ones who ARE responsible for the
> attacks on our country, not Saddam Hussein...His clan will be responsible
> for the next attack on our country, most likely NYC or DC, LA or SFO, the
> blue states that voted against Bush. You think he's going to attack
> Cincinnati or Tampa? This is why people are angry and I'm right there with
> them. I can direct you to a website that makes me look like Snow White. I'm
> not a person who is a "hater" (a term of my Republican father) in general.
> I hate people who abuse animals and other people and yes, I do hate this
> administration. They do not protect my beliefs and values. If we were
> fighting Osama bin Laden and crew, I'd be all over that but we're not.
> We're in a war with people who have never done a thing to this country. You
> cannot expect people to just jump on a "support the president" bandwagon
> when they have been dealing with him and his neo-conservative beliefs for 4
> years. It's just not going to happen. 49% of this country do NOT want to be
> led by this man any longer.Plus, I give no credit to him for "subsidizing
> my dog-sitter", that benefit was in place long before he got into office.
> Do you think Don is going to be better off in 4 years? I don't think so at
> all...
> This is a blurb from one of my emails to my father:
> "Well, let's see...He lied about the reasons we went to war with a country
> who had nothing to do with 9/11 , our health care is in shambles, he caters
> to the ultra-rich ( I happen to have nothing but middle class friends) and
> large corporations, not to mention his religious wacko friends, he's
> ruining the environment, he's arrogant as hell, he attempts to amend the
> constitution when he sees fit, he AWOL'd from the TX Nat'l Guard which
> we've still never gotten to the bottom of, Cheney managed to avoid fighting
> in Vietnam 5 times, but yet Kerry was the bad guy,(according to the Swift
> Boat Fools), a man who volunteered to leave his family and fight, something
> these 2 know nothing about, I'm pro-choice and he'll see to it that Roe v
> Wade is abolished somehow, I'm not gay, but I believe in civil unions and
> gay rights , something he'll forever fight, not to mention that he's
> managed to divide the country in a way I've never seen before. I realize
> that Enid is 99.9% Republican, but there are lots of us out there who will
> not support him and his "moral values." I'll take my morals over his any
> old day.."
>
And as mature adults, we've decided that friendship is more important.. So I present her viewpoint on an anonymous basis. It's ugly, but up for civil discussion please!
Thanks!
> As far as the websites go, I don't know what DU is, but I have been on
> sorryeverybody.com and feel the exact same way those folks do. If they are
> college students, then give me college students over Lexus SUV driving
> soccer moms in Plano or Highland Park any old day. I can certainly
> understand the desire to separate oneself from the masses who voted for
> Bush, I have a new bumper sticker on my car which does just that. Plus,
> keep in mind that 55 million people voted for Kerry, the largest number of
> votes against an incumbent in history and I truly doubt all 55 million of
> those came from college kids. Lots of college kids voted for Bush as well,
> but they are different? Believe me, as hateful and caustic as SOME
> Republicans can be, I feel 110% sure there would be tons of anti-Kerry
> websites out there if he'd been elected, as if there aren't already.
> George Bush arrogantly led this country into war, based on lies. Bottom
> line. Those are facts, not partisan dribble. Had he let the weapons
> inspectors finish their jobs, he would have found there were no WMD's in
> Iraq and maybe, just maybe gone after another target besides a country that
> had no WMD's and had nothing to do with 9/11.. Osama bin laden perhaps?
> This, on top of many other issues are reasons you are finding such
> bitterness towards this man from half the country, including me. This
> election was won on the basis of "moral values" rather than economics and
> war. When it becomes clear that we are sacrificing these kids lives in Iraq
> over "misinformation" and half the country continues to vote for him, in my
> eyes, we've got BIG problems. It's just so much more important that Bill
> and Bob never marry and Cindy can't go get an abortion and Yahoos can own
> assault weapons that we'll elect a person who takes us into war that was
> obviously not planned well and take 1,100 plus of our own kids, not to
> mention 1,000's of Iraqi civilians lives. I consider myself a patriot as
> well, that is why I don't condone or support this war because we are
> fighting the wrong folks. These kids are dying because Saddam Hussein tried
> to kill Bush's daddy and he holds a grudge. Yes, it is truly a wonderful
> thing that Hussein has been captured and will hopefully be eliminated soon.
> The man is ilk and the world is better off without him, for sure.
> However...Osama bin Laden is obviously still alive and living and
> reorganizing and he and his clan are the ones who ARE responsible for the
> attacks on our country, not Saddam Hussein...His clan will be responsible
> for the next attack on our country, most likely NYC or DC, LA or SFO, the
> blue states that voted against Bush. You think he's going to attack
> Cincinnati or Tampa? This is why people are angry and I'm right there with
> them. I can direct you to a website that makes me look like Snow White. I'm
> not a person who is a "hater" (a term of my Republican father) in general.
> I hate people who abuse animals and other people and yes, I do hate this
> administration. They do not protect my beliefs and values. If we were
> fighting Osama bin Laden and crew, I'd be all over that but we're not.
> We're in a war with people who have never done a thing to this country. You
> cannot expect people to just jump on a "support the president" bandwagon
> when they have been dealing with him and his neo-conservative beliefs for 4
> years. It's just not going to happen. 49% of this country do NOT want to be
> led by this man any longer.Plus, I give no credit to him for "subsidizing
> my dog-sitter", that benefit was in place long before he got into office.
> Do you think Don is going to be better off in 4 years? I don't think so at
> all...
> This is a blurb from one of my emails to my father:
> "Well, let's see...He lied about the reasons we went to war with a country
> who had nothing to do with 9/11 , our health care is in shambles, he caters
> to the ultra-rich ( I happen to have nothing but middle class friends) and
> large corporations, not to mention his religious wacko friends, he's
> ruining the environment, he's arrogant as hell, he attempts to amend the
> constitution when he sees fit, he AWOL'd from the TX Nat'l Guard which
> we've still never gotten to the bottom of, Cheney managed to avoid fighting
> in Vietnam 5 times, but yet Kerry was the bad guy,(according to the Swift
> Boat Fools), a man who volunteered to leave his family and fight, something
> these 2 know nothing about, I'm pro-choice and he'll see to it that Roe v
> Wade is abolished somehow, I'm not gay, but I believe in civil unions and
> gay rights , something he'll forever fight, not to mention that he's
> managed to divide the country in a way I've never seen before. I realize
> that Enid is 99.9% Republican, but there are lots of us out there who will
> not support him and his "moral values." I'll take my morals over his any
> old day.."
>
