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Okay this is my conspiracy theory - mainly because I can't accept the figures...

As for Bush winning the election and in record numbers..

*piffle*

Popular vote, my @rse...only just!

It was fixed, imo, someone in his administration chose the states that everyone knew he would win and fixed the figures..courtesy of his friendly well paid hackers..I'll bet his provisional votes were counted if they voted for Bush...

I can't be the only one that has mulled over this.

*AND* why can't everyone just wait the allotted weeks till *EVERYONES* vote comes in, regardless of estimations of how many won't be accepted.

Doesn't it say something to everyone that NY was a blue state and that *is* the state that has been most terrorized by the news and propaganda after 911?

The media over here has been putting his success down to his link with Christian evangelism.

http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/B/believeitornot/bornagain.html

Apparently, he's been encouraging church leaders to influence the voting in his favour.

If so then we can expect more of the same only worse from him, since this time he got a majority of the popular vote

Good grief.

And when someone like Blair is prepared to say 'I believe it. I may be wrong...but it's what I believe'........

Surely ever since Locke, Hume and (dare I say) Tom Paine, we have a right to expect belief of any kind to be kept out of politics. Both the 'revealed truth' of the Christian Right and the untested fictions of muddle-headed fantasists surely need some form of objective scrutiny before they are used as justifications for killing? (And, indeed, for endangering the lives of working class adolescents).

I question, though, whether Bush and the Neo Cons (and I don't think Bush is a true Neo Con, incidentally) are trully part of the Christian right. Rather, they find it convenient to use and to bolster fundamentalism in order to provide them with a pool of unwavering bedrock support.

What really worries me, though, is that that mad fantasist Blair really *has* got the religion thing.

Blair? Has he?

There are lots of conspiracy theories about those voting machines being fixed. We still use the far superiour paper ballots here in MN. What do they use in NY, MV?

Blair? Oooooh yes! Not only has he been taking Catholic mass, but he and Cherie are into all sorts of New Age nonsense. Plus, in Parliament, he praised the work of a state-funded school that was 'promoting diversity' by teaching creationism.

This is the man who claims to have stowed away on a plane from Newcastle to Bermuda when he was a teenager. His father has no recollection of it. There have never been flights between Newcastle and Bermuda.

He maybe hitched a ride with his own personal guardian?Certainly didn't hop on a flying carpet, much too Eastern.

I am very glad i live in France where church & state are strictly kept apart. (hence the headscarf ban uproar)

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I don't know... I was scared Bush would win. I am scared that he has. I'm scared of what it means for the entire world. And although I suspected his supporters would be using voting machines that "forgot" democratic votes, I don't believe that explains his victory. What explains his victory is that may millions of USians consider him a hero for "taking the fight to the enemy" for his complete disregard for what the rest of the world thinks. His campaign demonised Kerry as libral. The USA is a nation were that actually works! "OMG! That mans a libral! We can't have that sort of morally perverted individual in the White House!"

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Now that is something of which I have no doubt whatsoever! Cheers, MV..

Really? You don't think it is more the case that alot of USians think "yee-ha" as you put is a rational foriegn policy?

I couldn't believe it when I heard on the radio that h'ed been voted back in, its beyond belief after waht he has done The suggestion I've hurd banded around by several people includign several 'experts' and comentators on the UK radio, is that one of teh major factors was because of Bush's religious beliefs, and that the Evangelical vote as it were helped him get back to the white, or should it be 'death' house. Adn that they vote for him solely on the basis of his anti gay marage, and anti abortion stances, asisdes anything to do with his having started two wars against countrys that have no direct link with an act of terorism comitted by a small group, for now what we are told are 'humanatarian' reasons, and to help these countrys have the wonder of our westernised 'democracy', whilst symultainiously ignoring humanatarian disasters round the world which have little interest to US enonomic goals.
On the good side, well, about hte only good thing I can think of, is that the US army is pretty much going to be tied up in Iraq for the whole of his next term in office, though I expect he'l still make missery of life for millions in the US and elsewhere.
and the one thing I pray for at the moment, is that this relelection of Bush doesn't influence the UK populus when they come to vote out the UK PM, for whatever reason, bad information, bad judgement, whatever, he took a momentusly wrong desicion in going along with the US invasions of Iraq and afganastan, in deference to our closer to home advice in Europe

I don't know so much... I wonder if people in this country won't take out their anger at Bush's return to office on Blair and his "New" Labour cronies...

Well, I can hope they do

so long as they don't let Michael Howard in

<< a lot of USians think "yee-ha" as you put is a rational foriegn policy?>>
I don't want to think that, but you may be right that a lot of them do... I was looking forward to changing that tag-line, after the election, but ly, I think it will have to stay...

I'll probably be voting for the Greens this year, I prefer what I've heard of their stance on the EU to that of the LibDems, but more investigation is needed by myself there...
But if enough LimDems could take labour seats for the Cons and LimDems to be able to block the government on things without being dependant on backbenchers putting their conscience before the career...

Unfortunately a lot of Usasians are able to overlook his killing spree overseas as long as he spews this "culture of life" BS. *Deep breaths, Hellbound* I can't even rant, I get too upset, and I've completely forgotten what I was going to say here.

Oh yeah, I stopped in a liquor store on the way home today. I walked in on the end of a conversation the clerk was having with a customer. The customer was looking forward to another 4 good years or something and the clerk was agreeing with him. I turned around and left. I just heard headline from a UK newspaper, I think it was. Something about millions of idiots who voted for him...Wasn't paying attention. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

I don't know the headline, but I am of the opinion that Kerry's intelligence was a weakness. Bush wasn't threatening to the voters because he's "a good christian and isn't too bright".