In the spirit of 'We Are Sorry'...

[liberalmuse]

Have you seen this?

http://www.zefrank.com/from52to48withlove/

[CatWoman]

1. touching

very sweet

however

I STILL FUCKING HATE WINGNUTS!! :)

[Hamlette]

4. what pisses me off is they were having NONE of this when they won

now that we won it's all "hey, can't we get along? We're all in this together you know?"

I agree, its sweet but 7 years too late.

[CatWoman]

7. I didn't think of that

thanks, H

:hi:

[OwnedByFerrets]

10. Damn right!!

[skygazer]

15. Well...... neither were a lot of us

I remember a similar site after the 2004 election only that one featured Americans with signs and notes telling the rest of the world "I'm sorry." Sorry that Bush was re-elected of course.

Which was a perfectly valid sentiment but wasn't exactly any kind of reaching out and trying to work together.

[Doremus]

18. Yeah, especially when the gloating repugs made their own site "no we're not sorry" dot com

Remember that? They couldn't stand our apologies to the world so they made a competing site and people uploaded pics that said they WEREN'T sorry. GET OVER IT was a common refrain as I recall.

God I hate repugs.

[DawgHouse]

27. Yes, I remember that, too! nt

[lcdnumber6]

35. I remeber it...

and I put up something on the weresorryworld website. well, anyway, in toto, I really likey this new website.

[RichGirl]

39. Yeah...they were really awful, fucking jerks!

So let's be just like them!!!!

[Hamlette]

20. I completely fell apart after 2004, I could not let myself believe America would vote

for a man who started a war without end based on such flimsy evidence (cough-lies-cough).

I wasn't one of the "I'm sorry crowd".

I didn't think I needed to apologize to anyone for Bush winning.

In hindsight, I think the answer is we have the right message and this year we had the right messenger who also happens to be a community organizer.

Dean helped too. I live in a VERY red state and have not worked for a campaign for 25 years or so. What's the use? But I've always given money. This year I spent weekends in a neighboring swing state and hosted parties where we called voters in swing states. I know many of us did which might have had an impact on turning Nevada and Colorado blue. And I was ruthless is shaming my friends into working or at least giving money. I know some people who could afford it but had never given a dime to a campaign. I was relentless. "Come on. He needs money. Don't you want to win?" And I'm very proud that at least at this point, we don't have no stories on our side about expensive hotel rooms or clothes.

I mean, I've heard of "flushers" but I thought they were only used in Chicago. I heard there were a million volunteers working on November 4. ONE FREAKING MILLION. And the flushers had an extremely sophisticated system. (The Houdini project it was called because as soon as an Obama supporter voted, their name vanished from the list. The last three hours they started rounding up those who had not voted. I've heard they got every identified Obama supporter to the polls in some places. EVERY ONE.

[CitizenPatriot]

23. I remember posting on that site!

free at last, thank god, we're free at last...

[Recursion]

32. Seriously, people are pissing on this?

Did you think Obama was just being a mealy-mouthed idealist when he said the point of this campaign was moving us past the pretense that there is a "good" America and a "bad" America?

Is some of the stuff we say on this board about conservatives any better than what Bachmann or Palin said?

This is the moment; we have to run with it.

[AspenRose]

40. Co-sign!

:mad:

[Pirate Smile]

2. Wow. That is great - such a different spirit.

[unpossibles]

3. awesome. nt

[The Wielding Truth]

5. These are great. Thanks,liberalmuse.

[MarthaMyDear]

6. These are great...but in reality...

...the folks I work with who were on the "other side" have NO interest in working together. The Repubs in Central Texas are still angry.

The husband of a co-worker of mine came in and started screaming at one of my friends about "voting for a socialist" and all kinds of things...I'm a nurse, my friend, my co-worker, AND her husband are all nurses. Hopefully this will all calm down soon, right now, it's bad... :(

[Mira]

8. With tears still coming easily....the "You complete me "with the flag, did me in.

[renate]

9. that's lovely

Yes, we could certainly choose to remain bitter towards the 48% (and I'm certainly going to stay bitter towards their leaders), and we'd be justified in doing so, but I prefer the forgiveness and unity shown here. It just feels better; it's the kind of country I want to live in rather than in the divided country we've had for the past eight years.

:loveya:

(Check out the cookie map on page 5--way cool.)

[crossroads]

36. Well said and very kind!

Yet, it took at least a month for me to stop crying/grieving after we lost in 04... and this win is sooo sweet now! I want to savor victory for a bit longer before I can forgive and embrace those who fought us so bitterly! Just my opinion... I also prefer unity, but the GOP is totally responsible for dividing this country!
CR
:nopity:

[always_saturday]

11. Fuck that shit. And it's 53, not 52.

[Eric J in MN]

13. Yes, it's 53-46.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/

[old mark]

12. They should all fucking drop dead.. nt

[Recursion]

34. Because we liberals are "real Americans", unlike them? NT

[Omnibus]

14. Shouldn't that be "from 53to46..."?

Let's not give them too much credit.

[Fire1]

16. I'm not that 'forgiving.' God's not through with me yet.

[rebel with a cause]

25. The one guy has written "If you never said bush was not your president

let's talk."

Well, I won't be talking to him, and bush was not and is not my president. As long as he is in office and is doing things to screw the USA over for his corporate pals, he is nothing but a lying crook to me.

We won, our guy was honorable while theirs was not. I owe them nothing but my civility. When they are ready to give up the hate stuff and treat the rest of us like humans, meaning get rid of hate/talk radio, then I will consider giving up my feelings about them listening and supporting that trash. JMHO

[Waiting For Everyman]

17. They can't be real Repubs... their spelling is too right.

[OregonProg]

19. touching, but not realistic

For every republican adding to that site, there's 10 more digging in for the hating game.

[calmblueocean]

21. This does nothing for me.

Strike that. It does do something for me. It annoys me.

It feels like an abused wife cringingly asking her husband what he wants for dinner after he smacks her in the face.

Do these folks not remember just a few weeks back when Palin & Co. were whipping their crowds into a raging frenzy? When shouts of "Kill him!" and "Terrorist!" were rebounding at their rallies? When fat, waddling rednecks were waving stuffed Obama-monkeys at the camera, while the others around smiled and giggled with approval?

And now you want to hug these people and pretend it was all fine? Give me a break.

Respect is earned, not given. I am willing to show Republican voters far more respect than they have shown me, but I'm not going to grovel at their feet after we've won, and certainly not out of some bizarre and unnecessary sense of guilt.

This just seems sad and sick.

[Rectangle]

37. I'd like to see what responses those pics would generate over

at our friends over at FreeRepublic or Free Conservatives

http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?f=9

(shower after going to that link!!)

They seem like such nice, warm, generous, understanding folks don't they??

:sarcasm:

[lcdnumber6]

38. let me tell you a little story.

I am the Prez of my homeowners association, and we are in the middle of trying to resolve deferred maintenance issues on our building.

We have a homeowner who is a rich slumlord A**HOLE who rents out his apartment to make some more cash, which he really doesn't need. He has been a thorn in everyone's sides for years. He somehow got selected to the Board, and I did everything short of suing him because his appointment was illegitimate (ie, no one did and no one would vote him onto the Board...bad management). He got away with intimidating people for a long time in order to get his way. This man and I have had incredibly heated battles at meetings that have left me emotionally drained.

Well, he got kicked off the Board but sure enough he continued to show up to meetings in order to vent how horribly wrong things were going. Then one day, at a meeting, after he had once again told us how hard he was going to fight against anything the Board did, I looked him straight in the eye with a smile and said, "I would expect no less of you, N". He has been quite cooperative since then.

The moral of this little fable is that if you shy away from people, they take it as a sign of fear. If you can hold your ground, look them in the eye , and still be respectful of them (like, um, Obama did on O'Reilly's show), you are going to get a lot farther with your own agenda.

I don't see anything on the OP's website that would make me think of a battered woman asking for forgiveness. This country is in too bad of a state to do things on our own as liberals/Democrats. Given my dealings with very difficult people who are in it for themselves, it does no good to be an a**hole toward them....cuz they'll always retaliate by being a bigger a**hole!!! It becomes a game of diminishing returns.

[anonymous171]

22. Wow. This is really awesome.

:kick:

[DrPresident]

24. this one's kinda sad

[sjdnb]

26. Saw it and was proud of the folks participating

Sure, maybe not everyone on both sides will be able to let go of the bitterness, but, it is heartening and encouraging, to see that many can.

[Sebastian Doyle]

28. Most of those people seem genuine enough in their sentiments

but not this guy....



Sorry, but if that's your bottom line, kindly go fuck yourself.

I called Nixon "President". And Reagan. And Bush Sr. I didn't like, or agree with any of them. But they were elected (for whatever reason) by the majority of the American people.

And you would have to say the same of Jimmy Carter. And Bill Clinton. And Barack Hussein Obama.

But George W. Bush jr was NEVER elected President of the United States. And I will NEVER refer to him as such. Not in the present tense, and not in the past tense after January 20.

[Erin Elizabeth]

29. What are the 52 and 48 references about?

[Nevernose]

33. Creative accounting.

They mean 53-46. Maybe it's easier to "come together" if you lie about how far apart we really are.

[baldguy]

30. About 23 of that 48 are what scares me.

[Dappleganger]

31. Beautiful.