More people than you know...I just had a great conversation.

[JanMichael]

A vendor (A General Contractor) made an odd comment, after a meeting that I attended, that caught my attention. "I hope to god he goes in November" the man mentioned to a co-worker. I jumped on it and let him know how I felt about el Busho and low and behold he was as enraged as I was!

Here are some of the things that HE brought up:

1. LIHOP
2. Rightwing control of the Media
3. Insane deficits
4. Horrible Economic Policies
5. Horrible Environmental Policies
6. Stolen election
7. 2004 could be a disaster if Bush steals it again.
8. Fascism on the doorstep

Needless to say I was shocked...This is SW Florida, not exactly a bastion of Liberalism, and builders are almost ALL rabid conservatives lately.

I asked him which internet sites that he went to, I figured Bartcop at the least, and the answer was "None". Apparently his dad was a pre-CIA guy and he's just intuned with Lying Liars and their Lies. Also he's been hitting the book stores in search of alternative news.

Oh, and by the way, he was a Liberal Republican up to 2000.

I would never have guessed that he was on OUR side...Just goes to show that there are plenty of us out there!

You just have to pay attention.

[GCP]

1. Did you tell him about DU?

He'd feel so at home here.

[ComerPerro]

2. I love when that happens

That is funny that he mentioned LIHOP. How did he approach it? And how did he phrase it?

[rsdsharp]

3. What is LIHOP

and the other version of this which slips my mind? It's driving me crazy.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. Let It Happen On Purpose.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Made it happen on purpose

I fall in that category because I believe he gave an order for the military jets to stand down, thereby allowing the airliners to crash where they did. (PA was just for credibility purposes.)

[northofdenali]

10. For a list of DU'isms, there's a pretty good website:

http://dug.seattleactivist.org/

LIHOP: Let it (9/11) happen on purpose.
MIHOP: Made it happen on purpose.

[Skittles]

12. the other version is MIHOP

made it happen on purpose.

[Hamlette]

5. they were ranting when I stopped for coffee this morning

against Bush and the gay marriage amendment. I would have guessed they were liberal but they whole place was fired up. We need something to light a fire under people. If the $87B and the no WMD didn't do it, this amendment might.

I told them to be sure and vote. They said they never had before but would this year. I told them they had to get all their friends to vote too. They said: Absolutely!

[mcar]

7. It's happening everywhere

A childhood friend of mine and I were having an e-mail discussion last week. In all the years we've known each other, we have never talked politics, she's just not interested. Almost out of the blue, she writes that she has sympathy for me because I'm stuck with both Bushes (Florida here) and that she can't stand W.

I was surprised and pleased. If someone who is that apolitical thinks that way, there's a lot to be hopeful for.

[Jackpine Radical]

8. Today I was at a garage getting routine maintenance on my car, and

struck up a conversation with another customer, a cabinetmaker. We talked a little bit about woodworking (a hobby of mine) etc. I mentioned that I didn't believe the economy is doing well in any long-term sense. One thing led to another, & I found out he's antiwar, anti-Bush, pessimistic about the future of the country in Republican hands, etc.

Then I stopped at home for a few minutes & an insurance agent dropped in looking for my neighbor. We chatted for a few minutes, long enough for us to vent our mutual feelings about the economy, the Bushies, health insurance, etc. & even she was anti-Bush, saying she thought he was just interested in helping his rich friends.

I tell ya, there is a groundswell of revulosion at the current administration.

[proud patriot]

9. Yes !

Thanks for sharing

[northofdenali]

11. Hi, JM - how's sunny SW Florida holding up?

My mom over in Brevard County is hearing a lot of the same, plus a LOT of buzz over the voting machines.

I'm hearing more and more from Republican Moderates (actually a political party here) and straight Republicans that there's much, much disillusion over the economy - and here in Alaska, that's enough to stop a politico dead in his/her tracks. * promised (and didn't deliver) ANWR and funding for a gas line to parallel the Pipeline.... it could ruin him here. And, hopefully, along with him will go Senator-for-Life Ted Stevens.

[Misinformed01]

15. I don't know if Michael is paying that much attention

to FL politics right now; he is moving north tomorrow!

Stephanie

[JanMichael]

16. Today is my last day!

Off to NC after work.

Good luck with SFL Stevens, he's a real piece of work...

[BeatleBoot]

13. Same thing happened to me today, too!!!!

Too weird.

A lady I work with, whom I thought was very conservative, started talking about how Federal spending is out of control and the enormous deficit.

Blamed it squarely on Bush.

Then, I saw a car in the traffic while driving that had an an anti-Bush bumper sticker!

[JasonBerry]

14. I hear it more too

More and more I hear people who had once supported Bush beginning to question. The record is there for all to see and, as they say -- it ain't pretty. We must continue to expose the Bush regime for what they are -- corporate stooges carrying water for international capital.

[JHB]

17. Make sure he knows that the biggest threat to Social Security...

...isn't *'s record deficits, but the decade(s)-long push by market ideologues to scuttle it.