kentuck
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:45 PM
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OK......Do you feel the tide turning ?? |
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Is Bush and the Repubs on the defensive or are the Democrats about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Do you feel like Dr. Dean's comments have given our Party a small shot of adrenaline? Are you beginning to feel like we might actually have a chance of taking back the House next November? Or does your gut tell you something else? :)
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:49 PM
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1. My gut tells me that we are 'pissing in the wind" because the Republicans |
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own the voting machines and the news media!!!!!
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:51 PM
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2. Can't we work on outlawing the voting machines |
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and becoming our own media? There are ways, aren't there?
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:52 PM
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We are going to have a difficult time breaking even in the 2006 midterm elections. An opportunity presents itself in 2008, but that is a long way off.
In the meantime, it is trench warfare.
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:52 PM
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I just came back from the Democratic Party of Wisconsin Convention. The energy level there was incredible. Look who we had there:
Dave Obey the fiesty Congressman from the 7th District and real working class hero....
Russ Feingold, the backbone of the US Senate....
We passed a resolution calling for impeachment of Bush, Cheney and Rummy....
We passed tons of resolutions on labor, woman's rights workers rights and on and on and on....
Then I come back and find out most state newspapers just gave us brief mentions....if any...and most of the stories were either inaccurate or, like the one from the Oshkosh Northwestern "balanced" with Republican rebuttals....
We've still got a lot of work to do...but there is reason to be optomistic....
Howard Dean is one good reason The energy of the Democrats coming to Dean's defense is another The energy and pure, raw GUTS of the members of the Wisconsin Party is another.
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:53 PM
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5. Yep...it is beginning... |
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Edited on Sun Jun-12-05 08:53 PM by slor
however, no Dem should rest on their laurels. Push a populist platform, talk about rethug corruption, and push for a smart energy policy, and we will sweep the elections. Of course, this is barring any election theft.
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:54 PM
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6. The GOP just rammed through two or three of the worst possible |
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judges ever to Federal Appeals Court.
If the tide is turning, it's gonna be quite some time before it reaches shore.
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:55 PM
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I'm so leery whenever I start to feel that people might be waking up. I felt the tide was turning a number of times before the election in November only to be crushed by the result...even if it wasn't legit.
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:56 PM
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8. I certainly like playing offense instead of defense |
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The Doc's just telling the truth...I don't know why everyone has such a hard time with it. :-)
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Sun Jun-12-05 08:59 PM
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*Bush conservative supporters have join with ACLU over Patriot Act *Information gushing out of London on the push to war in Iraq *Millions missing (215 million, 4.5 million, 10-13 million) BWC in Ohio *Rep from Toledo, OH is asking for investigation of election fraud *White House press corps still pissed after locked in during evacuation *MSM is reporting the NEWS****what a shock *Bush is receiving below 50% approval in the polls consistently
I'd say we have reached the tipping point
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:06 PM
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It may be that public opinion is turning around. Or not. I dont know anything anymore, except this: They own the media. They own the courts. They own the voting machines. Me? I'm so busy trying to keep free of the bill collectors, and attempting (not very well) to feed myself, and I cant get to work becaudse my car stopped running,and I think I might have broken my foot, but I cant afford a doctor, and even if I could , I couldnt get there because my car dosnt run. and I dont think I'm the only one living like this. So I could stop worrying about my own survival long enough to worry about my country if it would do any good, but fuck, they own the media. They own the courts. They own the voting machines.
Under these conditions public opinion hardly matters, does it?
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:24 PM
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12. YES I do feel it is turning |
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but it does not matter who votes, but who counts the votes
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:26 PM
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13. I try to be optimistic .. |
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and I look for any indication to be hopeful. In reality I know that it's going to take some time for the tide to turn. "Please sir, oh please may I have just a small crumb of optimism?"
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:29 PM
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14. I do feel the tide is turning and the sooner the better!!!!!........n/t |
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:34 PM
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15. No. But I am inspired by how Kerry and Boxer and Kennedy have been voting. |
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Some of our Dems have been standing up to the Bastids.And Kerry has been proving why he should have been president!
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:39 PM
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16. Even before Dean spoke up... |
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.... the tide was turning. Political polls and economic polls and stats all confirm it.
The country is off course and people know it. Approval of the Iraq war is way below 50%. Bush**'s own approval ratings are in the low 40s. The percentage of folks who think the economy is doing well is dropping in number pretty sharply in recent months.
I think that Dean is doing the right thing by putting the Republicans on the defensive. I don't think he can single-handedly save the party, but I'm downright sure that nobody else in the Dem party seems to be able to break out of the moribund mood and tired tactics that have gotten us nowhere for many years.
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:44 PM
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17. Yes, the tide is turning. |
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These dark times can't last forever. I think they might be coming to an end soon.
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Sun Jun-12-05 09:57 PM
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18. Your post made me think of my favorite |
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childhood book "The little engine that could". The little engine went up the big mountain and said "I think I can, I think I can, I think I can". And he made it all the way up the hill!!! I know how cynical we all are, put lets try a little positive thinking with our reality check.
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Sun Jun-12-05 10:02 PM
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19. The tide will turn when we git rid of the voting machines. n/t |
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Sun Jun-12-05 10:14 PM
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20. i agree with dave502d! as long as we have those voting black |
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box machines, we have no democracy - why vote? it won't get counted. jomama.
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Sun Jun-12-05 10:17 PM
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I still haven't seen Smirk lose on ANY of his anti-American initiatives. The voting machine makers and the media still work for him. Any 43% of the people are still ignorant to think he's doing a good job.
I see nothing positive here at all.
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Sun Jun-12-05 10:30 PM
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If Bush's approval ratings get down in the 30s, then something might happen. What Dean is doing is great, but I don't think it's making that much of a difference yet. I currently have no optimism for 2006.
I think I've had the "tide is turning" feelings a half dozen times over the last year and obviously I've been wrong every time. I think the biggest thing stopping that tide is the bogus media that we've got working overtime to prop up the criminals running this country.
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