Anyone see this?...NewsMax Story about DU Online Poll

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004 11:05 a.m. EST
Angry Dems: Bush Win Worse Than 9/11

The results of Tuesday's election have driven Democratic ultra liberals completely batty, with some now saying George Bush's victory was actually worse than the 9/11 attacks.

An online poll conducted by the Web site Democratic Underground found that 72 percent agree that Bush's re-election was the more devastating of the two events, with 28 percent who said it wasn't.


http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/11/6/111215.shtml

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. Newsmax

The home of delusional, dysfunctional, failed fiction writers...........

By the way, I voted in that damn poll, and I chose "Ashlee." I distinctly remember choosing Ashlee......................

[tsuki]

2. Watch out.

They're after us.

[Mizmoon]

13. Your are right

be careful everyone

[morillon]

34. Careful how, though?

Lots of people have been posting their real names here. Brave of them, but I'm way too paranoid to do that.

One thing to watch out for, I think, is people figuring out where you work and then calling up your company with some made-up crap to get you in trouble. There have been incidents on Usenet in the past where people in a horribly vicious flame war tracked down someone's employer via an IP address on a post to the group. In one incident, they forged some posts to the newsgroup in the person's name, then called his employer and the cops. The posts contained threats of violence against the people who did the forging. Even though the poster was eventually exonerated, it was too late to save his job.

I don't read DU from work, period.

[Mojambo]

3. This from the same people

who thought that Clinton getting oral sex in the White House was the beginning of the apocalypse.

[HuckleB]

Indeed.

:hi:

[prodigal_green]

4. More people will die and the devastation will be more

widespread.

New Yorkers feel this way too (I am one). Everyone I spoke to said they felt exactly the same way as they did on 9/11 (disoriented, grief, disbelief), except that this time we knew that the country was not behind us--that they hate everything we stand for and that our family and friends who perished in the 9/11 attacks were USED by the chimp to scare the yokels into voting for him.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. George Bush has led to many more deaths than 9/11

He's a terrorist's raison d'etre. Stuff that up your pious neocon ass, Newsmax.


BTW...isn't Newsmax Brent Bozell's rag...the man whose son committed suicide because of his hateful homophobic father? Some family values y'all got there ;-)

[The_Casual_Observer]

6. And guess what? DU was right.

[NVMojo]

9. we may be right but sudden interest in DU isn't necessarily a good thing

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[Career Prole]

19. I put my name in the post on the front page that day. Newsmax mentions

don't scare me a friggin' bit. Newsmax, kiss my ass.

Again, for the record...I'm Rick Hamel and I approved this post.

[0rganism]

30. Were we? What would bush be today, if 9/11 hadn't happened?

9/11 was Trifecta Day for dubya. Everything since then has played out the way it has because of the de-facto mandate he received on 9/11. He rode those terrorist attacks all the way to the 2004 election. Without the terrorists, bush would be remembered as the goofy dullard who alienated Japan by sinking a fishing boat with a submarine, the dumbass who got a spyplane back from China in a box, the nitwit who declared a landfill to be a National Historic Site. He was well on his way to being a one-term wonder.

9/11 really did change everything. There's probably still 10% of the electorate who supports him for no other reason than that he makes their scared little selves feel safe from the ay-rabs.

9/11 sowed the seeds of 11/3. Osama laughs at our stupidity.

[seabeyond]

7. i knew this would bite us on the butt.

never went into that thread, but wasnt fond of it when i saw it. oh well,........shrugs

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

18. I've never seen this thread.

[seabeyond]

25. it was a poll i believe, at first glance was offensive, in thought

there are angles. but then that is the difference between a democrat and a republican.

example, 3000 loss of life, how do you compare. well we can equally say loss of life with bush win

emotionally traumatic the out of the blue 9/11 attack, well i can see how someone could put the emotional trauma right up with with a bush win. especially if you see bush administration as we do.

so on thought the poll wasnt so out there, but i thought, wow, someone on other side see that they may have issue. in thought though, it is an interesting question

[pearl]

8. Screw Them

Screw Them.

[bemildred]

15. Ditto that. nt

[tjdee]

10. While they're at it, they should point out that NY and NJ voted for Kerry.

The two states who lost the most in 9/11 voted overwhelming against "Great Protector" Bush.

I thought that DU poll was stupid and I didn't vote in it.
Being sick with worry over where my family and friends were that day was indeed worse than being saddled with an Assclown who probably has incited similar future events.

on edit:
I only hope I don't have to re-live that again. Thanks to Bush, I probably will, and I think that's what the poll was getting at.
I still thought it was stupid.

[Old and In the Way]

11. Expect them to come after us.

They'll be Repug ops posting wierd shit here for the sole purpose of using it in their RW media to discredit us. You know that.

[kayell]

14. Like they don't already.

:shrug:

[meti57b]

12. Since the religious right considers New York City to be heathen central,

it's surprising they even care about 9/11. They certainly don't care how many non-Christians the bush administration kills in the rest of the world

[Lostnote03]

16. "Heathen Central"...???...LMAO

......BTW a 911 catstrophic image alongside NJ/NY voting for Kerry/Edwards would be poignant...I apologize for my misplaced levity...

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

17. Ultra liberals?

What's an ultra liberal? I wasn't aware I was an ultra liberal.

[realisticphish]

21. and how does one define "ultra liberal"

i really REALLY like unions? i really REALLY dont want corporations controlling my government? :shrug:


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[cassiepriam]

32. It means we are even worse than a plain liberal......nt

[requiem99]

20. The hell? If this election stands, it IS worse than 9/11

Even if this election turns out to be legitimate, and I doubt it will, it proves that a slight majority of the country would rather have someone they percieve to have high moral values in the office of President than someone who would do a good job. Bush has failed outrageously; his ineptness and inaction allowed 9/11 to happen, and he decided to go after Iraq unilaterally, silencing all dissent and evidence that condradicted his point of view, thus giving Al Qaeda the biggest recruitment tool they've ever had and further separating the nation down the middle as a result.

Putting this terrorist enabler back in office would be the biggest mistake in the history of the country, and don't you dare call me an ultra liberal left wing anything for my point of view, as I'm actually an independent moderate, but just because I view Bush's administration as the greatest threat to what the United States of America stands for, doesn't mean that I'm blind.

[Democat]

22. CNN and Fox will probably pick up the story soon, as they usually do

Any right wing rumor from any source, including email hoaxes are valid news stories for the mainstream media, as long as they attack the left or praise the right.

[are_we_united_yet]

23. Dang!

I didn't even weigh in on that poll.

[seraph]

24. Fuck off MOONIES. (nt)

[lauralei]

26. newsmax is about as reliable as...

reading the tea leaves. Of course, all the main stream media will pick this up and view it as truth

[CindyDale]

27. NewsMax spammed me

Trying to sell me a video. It is an unethical site, IMO.

I wouldn't doubt that the writer is so shallow and depraved that a scratch on his car would upset him more than losing his country.

Cindy

[StClone]

28. NY and New Jersey

Didn't think 9-11 was worth putting Bush back in office and they suffered more than any. That says something doesn't it?

[sweetheart]

29. The funny part is that 11/3 really was worse

The new spin, is that the empire is right, and the majority is
always right. If the majority supports concentration camps like
guantanamo, then it must be right. If the majority decides that
mass murder and grand larceny is right, then it must be. If
a minority perpetrates and election fraud to appear as the majority,
they must be right.

Newsmax, is a spinstation. Turn off the TV.

[muchacho]

31. well..

more people have died as a result of Bush's illegal war than died in 9/11. That's bad.

[DS1]

33. Because online polls are infalliable

:eyes: