In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Kerry's FIRST draft concession speechMy fellow Americans, the people of this nation have spoken, and spoken with a clear voice. So I am here to offer my concession.Angry humor aside. We (blue america [and we really are blue these days]) are just stunned because we just got it so wrong.
I concede that I overestimated the intelligence of the American people. Though the people disagree with the President on almost every issue, you saw fit to vote for him.
I never saw that coming.
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I concede that I put too much faith in America's youth. With 8 out of 10 of you opposing the President, and with your friends and classmates dying daily in a war you disapprove of. With your future being mortgaged to pay for rich old peoples' tax breaks, you somehow managed to sit on your asses and watch the Cartoon Network while aging homophobic hillbillies carried the day. You voted with the exact same anemic percentage that you did in 2000.
You suck.
Seriously, you do.
There are some that may say that I sound bitter, and that now is the time for healing, and to bring the nation together.
We in blue states produce the vast majority of the wealth in this country and pay the most taxes, and you in the red states receive the majority of the money from those taxes while complaining about 'em.
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Blue state civilians are the actual victims and targets of the war on terror, while red state civilians are the ones standing behind us and yelling "Oh, yeah? Bring it on!"
The election wasn't about Iraq, Halliburton, the economy, mendacity, competence, or our liberties. It was about a war, a war the blue states didn't even catch on to the fact that we were fighting it (not really). It was the cultural war. Though the folks in the red states watch "wife swap" or "friends" just as much as those in the blue states, they feel angry that they had the option to watch it. They want that to end. They watch "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" but they want the cast to be behind bars. They don't see a separation between church and state they see a union. It is the only marriage that isn't between a guy and a gal that they are okay with.
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