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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:26 AM
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My God. The perfect storm. It's actually happening
Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 11:27 AM by RummyTheDummy
We have oil at an all time high. We have continued unrest in Iraq, with a major series of explosions in downtown Baghdad just today. Poor performacnes by Bush and Cheney in the debates. Kerry gathering major momentum heading down the stretch.

How can BushCo. survive this?
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:27 AM
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1. BBV - They can cheat
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:28 AM
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4. This keeps up for three more weeks
And they won't be able to cheat. It won't be close enough.
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Syncronaut Seven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:48 AM
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20. They'll be hell to pay
If the bbv vote comes back significantly different from the paper ballots. Nationwide I wouldn't expect more than a 1/4 point deviance between the two.

It's looking like they'll have to make up quite a few points at this time. Hopefully the cheating will be obvious, though, being obvious about it didn't seem to have much effect in 2000 and 2002.



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andyhappy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:01 PM
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29. October Surprise!
Don't discount the October surprise. Its coming...just you wait!

Osama in chains? Pictures of Kerry in drag? A public horse whipping of Saddam?

I keep lookin over my shoulder cuz I know they got some sort of dirty trick up their sleeve!
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andino Donating Member (668 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 12:41 AM
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36. They could postpone elections....
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Booster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:28 AM
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2. By stealing the election.
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flyingfysh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:28 AM
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3. how can BushCO survive?
by massive theft and fraud. Look for all kinds of attempts to steal the election.
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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:28 AM
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5. Bite your tongue - don't tempt fate
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JHB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:29 AM
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6. The show ain't over til the fat lady sings...
and she ain't sung yet.
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fujiyama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 12:48 AM
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37. or
until candy crowley cries...
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joefree1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:30 AM
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7. They could go live on a island and pretend
The world doesn't loathe them.


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deadmessengers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:31 AM
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8. Rove
I'm sure that Karl Rove is working his fevered little brain on that very subject right now. He's thinking of how he can pull Osama bin Laden out of his ass, or Photoshop pictures of John Kerry sodomizing a cocker spaniel, or even show John Edwards flattening down the shark-like dorsal fin that he mysteriously sprouted some time around when he graduated from law school. He might even be arranging huge shipments of fissile material to Baghdad, to be "discovered" some time around Halloween.

But, he is thinking about it.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:58 AM
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28. I've wondered about that
<He might even be arranging huge shipments of fissile material to Baghdad, to be "discovered" some time around Halloween.>

It actually surprises me that this hasn't been done or something similar.
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andyhappy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:23 PM
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33. no kidding
Why haven't they planted WMD's?

1. They are still thinking they will find them?

2. They are too honest? (ummm...I dont think so)

3. They are worried that they will not be able to pull it off and that getting caught will send the GOP into a tailspin that will last for a generation ...man, wouldn't that be great?

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democrat_patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:31 AM
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9. It only takes one major event in favor of Dumbya.

26 days!!! Keep up the good work, and NEVER let up.

Alot can happen in 3 1/2 weeks!!
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:31 AM
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10. "it's not our fault" seems to be their strategy
Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 11:35 AM by noiretblu
saddam tricked us into thinking he had WMDs, or he tricked us into thinking he might get them if sanctions were lifted,...or something like that (whatever sticks) :crazy:
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:44 AM
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17. Its going well AND its not our fault AND Kerry would screwed it up too
Layers and layers of lies, dodging, and spin, all inconsistent and showing up in the same Bush speech! Its going great BUT not our fault AND Kerry can't fix it either! Go figure!
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:53 AM
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27. so true...layers of lies
that's a great talking point!
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jaysunb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:48 AM
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21. Well....
As the saying goes..." you can fool some of the people some of the time...but some of us don't do bullshit anytime "

that is an old saying ain't it ?
:hi:
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noiretextatique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:51 AM
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24. fool me once, shame on you
Edited on Thu Oct-07-04 11:52 AM by noiretblu
fool me twice...throw my ass outta the white house...so you don't get fooled again :hi: that's a new saying :7

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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:31 AM
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11. by stealing it
However I don't believe it will work this time. If they try it it won't pass scrutiney - but the black box voting machines have me very concerned.

Would GOP operarives sabotage the election if they think they will lose ?
I think they will if they can get by with it. Isnt it time for our first martial law RED alert?
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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:33 AM
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12. Shark attacks and a young white newlywed missing should do.
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Virginian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 12:18 AM
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35. Shark attacks pregnant young white newlywed - Husband suspect.
That should take the press attention off the Prez for a while.
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realFedUp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:34 AM
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13. Osama bin Laden wants him to survive and be re-selected
was just listening to an interview on
democracy now.org...an interviewee said
that bin Laden had stopped any orders
for a terrorist attack before our elections.

Said it would isolate America even more.
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:41 AM
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14. I'm just surprised N. Korea hasn't taken advantage of this...
...seems like it'd be a perfect time, with our military stretched, the economy on dangerous ground, etc...To attack and invade South Korea. Maybe they're waiting for us to remove more of our Troops like Bush said we were going to do.

What are the odds that they wait for us to remove the troops we said we would and then they attack?
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:43 AM
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15. They can not survive and they will take the entire republican party
DOWN WITH THEM

please read sigline
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RummyTheDummy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:43 AM
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16. I guess I'm maybe a little too optimistic
Clearly nobody feels that same sense. But I have a deep, gut feeling that we will win this thing. I've never been more confident. And my record with "hunches" is pretty damned good.

We shall see. God Damn, I love politics.
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:46 AM
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18. How have they survived any of this? The lapdog media
BBV, as noted, will also be a major factor.
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GoSolar Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:48 AM
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19. I always think that...
but somehow they DO seem to survive, despite all the awful news.
It's as if people aren't paying attenting, or are so interested in single issues, such as tax cuts, that nothing else matters...
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:49 AM
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22. Voter intimidation, voter fraud, Diebold haclers with the codes
Amnd a multi-billion dollar Propaganda Infrastructure and Lie Laundry that would have made Goebbels green with envy at it's subtlety and capabilities (what else have the PR/marketing/profesional liar section been working towards...indirectly if not directly...for the past 60 years).

How did Hitler survive until the world brought him to bay (which most definitely will NOT happen here in Amerika, and I'm not even sure I'd want that)
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mzmolly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:50 AM
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23. They can survive because "we can't change horses in the middle of a race?"
:eyes:
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Lars39 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:52 AM
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25. My fear is that all the newly registered voters will not
get their cards back in time and will not know where to vote. Isn't there a website that might help with this information? I thought someone had posted one before, but I didn't bookmark it.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 11:52 AM
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26. 2000 was a COUP!
not a botched election.

the bushgang oligarchy won't let a trivial event like an election remove them from power.

BBV, vote fraud, intimidation, outright violent implementation of martial law . . . whatever it takes, they do not intend to lose power and they do not intend to subject themselves to the random tyranny of a proletariat democratic process.
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vetwife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 01:42 AM
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38. E X A C T L Y !!!!!!!!! You hit the nail on the head !
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:05 PM
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This election is OVER!
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ArkDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:05 PM
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30. This election is OVER!
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killbotfactory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:16 PM
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31. More like the perfect shit storm
All the goddamn damage these assholes have caused... it blows your mind.
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onecent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:20 PM
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32. Our media will take care of it.
They always do for the horrid little man.
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rniel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-07-04 12:28 PM
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34. It's October
The next Karl Rove trick out of the bag is coming soon I'm sure.
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sr_pacifica Donating Member (775 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-08-04 02:43 AM
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39. I'm with you on the optimism
But I'm also feeling cautious, aware that BushCo. will stop at nothing to remain in power.
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