Who REALLY won the election ???? ( OT)

[marc avery]

First of all it wasn't a "landslide victory".  Fifty-one percent of the 
popular vote was cast by an estimated 60% of the total eligible voters.  
This means that Bush received backing from about 31% of all elibible U.S. 
voters.  That my friend is hardly a "landslide".  Secondly, I am so sick of 
every right wing zombie always falling back to the same old message of "the 
left wing media".  Almost every day during the Clinton adlministration we 
had to hear about the great "Whitewater scandal".
I actually work for one of those left wing media operations that you speak 
about.  Let me tell you this buddy, those networks are huge corporations.  
Huge corporations that benefit from administrations like Bush's.  Didn't 
Bush just sign a new tax cut for corporations?  Oh, and here's your next 
comment I'm sure.....  "Well corporations hire people, so with the new tax 
cut they will be able to hire more people".   YEA RIGHT!  That savings will 
go directly into the pockets of the major shareholders and the staggering 
amount of Presidents and VP's that these companies have.
For the rest of us, well we will probably go through another series of 
budget cuts.  By the way, I've gone through four of these cuts in the last 
four years.  I make $18,000 per year LESS than I did 3 years ago. By the 
way, there were NO budget cuts here during the entire Clinton years in 
office.
It was also Bush's daddy that was most responsible for deregulating the 
broadcast industry.
Now we have three to four major players that own most of the broadcast 
properties in the United States.  It's embarrassing the wages most of their 
employees make.  But since these companies usually own 4 to 5 stations each 
in every market (especially major markets), these people have nowhere to go 
to get a better salary.  In broadcasting, the way a person moved up was to 
change stations every few years for better pay and better positions.  Now 
with "standardized pay scales" in these CORPORATIONS, there is no place to 
go to scrape out a better living.  Thank you again Mr. Bush.
And lastly some food for thought.  Take a look at a graph of the national 
deficit from the beginning of the Clinton administration (1992) through 
today.  If you were on the board of directors of a major company and took a 
look at those numbers (because numbers are the ONLY concern of the modern 
corporation), who would YOU select for your next CEO?

Values?.....  I value being able to earn a decent living.  I value being 
considered a human being, not a number.  I value not having to worry about 
my job every year.
For me, I'm certainly not better off than I was 4 years ago.  How about you?

And as for"liberalism being dead politically".  I believe liberalism was 
voted FOR by 48% of those Americans who voted.

Marc

>From: LarryinAtlanta@aol.com
>Reply-To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
>To: pianotech@ptg.org
>Subject: Re: Who REALLY won the election ???? ( OT)
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 02:14:10 EST
>
>In a message dated 11/8/2004 1:25:49 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>sarah@graphic-fusion.com writes:
>Of course this is only a rough
>estimate, but my tentative conclusion would be that George Bush is the only
>2-term US president never to have been elected.
>
>Sarah, the only thing you've "proven" is that someone was playing fast and
>loose with the numbers from the exit polls. Let's look at this logically - 
>if
>there was anything to this conspiracy theory picked up from the known to be
>unreliable source of underground democrats.org, the media arm of the DNC  - 
>CBS,
>ABC, NBC - would be all over it. Since they aren't, it's fair to say 
>there's no
>truth to it. Since the source of the "story" is a bunch of leftist nutbobs,
>it's fair to say that the news media is correct in not talking about it. I
>assure you that if Dan Rather could find the slightest bit of truth to work 
>with,
>he'd be out there right now telling us all about it, even if he had to make
>most of it up like usual. Your party had tens of thousands of lawyers all 
>over
>the place watching for the slightest thing they could complain about. So 
>did
>the Republicans. Most all of them said it was a valid election.
>
>No, the simple fact is this. America turned out in record numbers, and gave
>Bush a landslide victory. America voted not only *for* Bush, they voted
>*against* your ideology. In record numbers. Liberalism is dead politically. 
>America
>said you have taken your party too far to the left, and lost your way. You 
>no
>longer represent what Americans consider American values. Almost 
>immediately
>after the election, your party leaders began admitting that the election 
>was a
>statement by the citizens of America telling them they reject your views 
>and
>values.
>
>You lost. Get over it. Instead of trying to justify your loss with 
>conspiracy
>theories spread by leftwing nutcases and embarassing yourself with 
>statements
>like the one quoted above, you and the rest of your party need to take a 
>good
>hard look at why your party has lost yet again, and why if you don't open
>your eyes and address the *real* problem your party and its current 
>ideology is
>destined to be a minority party for decades to come.
>
>Frankly, I think that's the best place for it.

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