This is all too hard for people to admit

[klyon]

Thursday night there was a collective horror spreading throughout the land. People saw for themselves the sorry excuse for a leader we have. The nation saw clearly that the job of President of the United States can not just be left to some guy you want to have beer with or a son of somebody or other. Clearly we saw a President that was so over his head, so far out of it that the only thing holding him up was the podium. We all saw clearly that a mistake was made 4 years ago when he was allowed into the White House on a technicality. Some have even hung their faith on this man, how hollow they must feel now that in their hearts they must know he is not the man of God he proclaims.

Thousands are dead because of this man’s blunders both here and abroad. Our economy is sinking in debt and our environmental progress is being rolled back. Jobs are being lost and the corporations pay no taxes and get no-bid contracts. Children without health care and elderly people without medicine. This is the shadowy world of George Bush that the world is begin to see.

But it is hard to admit we made a mistake, that we were taken in by the seeming folksy ways of candidate Bush. Some of our fellow citizens have placed everything they had down to their religious faith on this man and it will be very hard for them to trust again. When they finally understand the depths of the deceptions and lies this administration has perpetrated on the people of the world their hearts will be very sad.

KL

[indef]

1. The fear ought to subside

In a polling booth, no one can figure out who you voted for unless they ask you.

[underpants]

2. That IS a hard pill to swallow for many people

Very well said.

[bushwakker]

10. It shatters people's worldview

I know a guy who I discuss politics with quite frequently. He's bought into the whole GOP line. He's totally convinced and petrified that the "Islamo-Fascists" are gonna attack his family and the "tuff guy" approach is the only way to protect ourselves. I sense he has some recent dissatisfaction with Bush but to switch sides now would be a devastating realization that we are horribly off track. There's a lot of self-delusion going on.

[underpants]

12. I guess the lack of willingness to admit a mistake is shared with W

or as Tandalayo_Scheissikoff said on my Va. Stae Fair thread

The Chimpinator done wore his old supporters out. All but the frothingest of the frothing.

Here in the most repuke section of NJ, I hear stories of just the same thing. Interestingly, it filters downward towards congressional races as well. At least here.

Starting to look like people are seriously examining their positions.

Either they stubbornly hang on or they start to see the light.

[bushwakker]

15. It really is devastating for people to come to the realization

that most of our government's response to 9/11 has been counter-productive to the goal of making ourselves less vulnerable to terrorist attacks. It's fells like we have to start all over - which we do.

[tomfodw]

3. That's why the "W stands for Wrong" meme is so powerful

If it takes - if we hammer it home the way * has been hammering the Kerry = flipflop meme - it has the potential to overcome the natural reluctance to admit one has been hoodwinked. The Koolaid drinkers are hopeless, they'll follow * off the cliff (and, alas, take the rest of the world with them), but there are still, unfathomably, undecided voters out there we have to reach.

Supreme Court, environmental despoliation, world ridicule, Iraqi quagmire, "It's hard work!", Abu Ghraib, net job loss, eternal deficits, vote suppression - if we can't win over the undecideds with these (and I'm sure you can add your own to the list) we don't deserve to win.

[zinsky]

4. Well Put

klyon:

Nicely said. This emperor has no clothes and it is way past time that people see this. He is the most incompetent, unChristian buffoon that has ever disgraced the Oval Office.

I like to startle my Christian Coalition friends by saying something like, "I wish we had a president who was really a Christian". Their eyes get big and they say, "what do you mean?" I reply that a true Christian president would never undertake a foreign policy predicated on the belief that we can "kill our way to peace". I point out that Christ said, "By their actions, ye shall know them". Anyone who looks at Bush's actions knows this man is a phony Christian.

The right-wing is dumfounded by this line of attack, because it flys right in the face of what they wrongly believe about this cynical, evil man. Try it sometime!

zinsky

[indef]

5. I always quote the Sermon on the Mount

Matthew 5 9 - Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Certainly there is no peace coming from this White House.

[zinsky]

7. AMEN

It's time for the religious left to stand up and be heard!!!

[SayitAintSo]

11. Good point ... I like that ... n/t

[Jokinomx]

16. Excellent point Zinsky...

I will using that the next time I am in a discussion with a RWer...

:toast:

[Militant_Left]

6. There refusal to accept it will be irrelevant.

When the revolution comes, you are with us or against us, and holding on to the mistakes of the past will not gain you any sympathy.

Where will their savior in chief be for them then?

[Lindsey]

9. Religious Left...

I like that!:-)

[Malva Zebrina]

8. I wonder these days

what the black robed five who launched their favored candidate into the White House, might be thinking now. I wonder also what the other four might be thinking.

[blondeatlast]

14. The other four are thinking...

KE-RRY! KE-RRY! KE-RRY!

Of all the "checks and balances" of the US democracy, I held the Supreme Court as most importanat and least likely to be corrupted. It is so painful for me to see what has happened.

We will save democracy, I believe it, but a Kerry presidency is just a beginning of what must be done.

[blondeatlast]

13. Sadly, they will never understand the deceptions.

They have been programmed to tune it out.

[klyon]

20. that's what I fear

but I still hold hope we can awaken enough to end the bleeding
deprogramming is possible
KL

[Jokinomx]

17. You are absolutely correct...

People have always had a hard time admitting their mistakes... that feeling is multiplied ten fold when you have dead soldiers that are part of the mix.

Lets just hope and pray that those people see the light before Nov. 2nd.

:kick:

[Roland99]

18. Not me! I have managed to realize Bush pulled a bait-and-switch!

I voted for Bush and was even supportive of the invasion last year.

I can safely say I have seen the light now!!

[gratuitous]

19. Welcome to the side of the angels, Roland99

If you'd care to limn your personal journey for us, a number of folks would be interested. I hope you still maintain contact with your friends who think Bush is the ubermensch the country needs.

[Karenina]

21. Sure took y'all

long enuf!!! :evilgrin:

How ANY Joe 6-pack could believe for a moment that the *dauphin would condescend to a beer with him or give a shit if his kid was blown up...

If I owned a network, I'd be showing Babs' quote every hour on the hour.

[wishlist]

22. Will reality finally overcome the illusion?

On Air America's Ring of Fire yesterday with Bobby Kennedy Jr, his guest (Jim Hightower I think) explained that the American public has in essence been convinced that the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, despite all evidence to the contrary- where illusion trumps reality. Bobby had asked him how Bush can be perceived as a strong effective successful leader when all of the factual evidence in the news says otherwise.