I remember when Bush was re-elected in 2004

[lunatica]

I went into a 4 month long depression. I couldn't even go online to DU to see what was happening. My stomach tightened up into a painful knot that simply wouldn't go away. I felt despair because the big mistake that happened when the Supreme Court selected Bush was never going to be corrected. His illegitimate Presidency was never righteously ended by the American people the way it should have been.

I wonder if the Teabaggers, the hate radio jocks, and the billionaire brothers and Rover Norquist are feeling like that now. If they do I can't feel sorry for them. What I feel is that they ruined our lives for many, many years and they loved doing it. They loved our despair and depression. They threw their loathsome racist hatred at President Obama and wallowed in their fabricated rage like pigs wallow in mud.

What I do feel is that they deserve to feel the way they made us feel. It's time for their karmic adjustment. Let them get depressed and let them despair. They certainly earned it. I'm not going to even pretend that I'm better than that.

[PowerToThePeople]

1. Not re-elected in 2004

The last Republican president to be legitimately elected was in 1988.

Remember that. We have had them on the run a long time. They are very scared. Rightfully so. That is why they feel the need to cheat and lie.

We control this thing.

[lunatica]

3. I was going to mention it wasn't a re-election but that's another topic

You can't be re-elected if you were never elected in the first place.

[santamargarita]

13. True, true. Bush stole Ohio in 2004.

They sent the votes to Tennessee to be changed. Karl Roves fat greasy ass overseeing the criminal act and most likely responsible for killing that guy in the place crash.

[Ter]

15. Yeah, but even if they stole Ohio...

They really did have a couple of million more votes than we did in 2004.

[Politicalboi]

2. Only they stole Ohio in 04

Which again made the loss even worse. Outright fraud, but nothing happens to them. Mr. Ken Blackwell, I'm talking about you asshole. I'm standing outside waiting for the UN to come get my guns, and get me married to the lesbian of my dreams.

Here comes the UN van now.......

[orpupilofnature57]

4. I try to show them the way's our despair was justified...

while most of theirs is based on racism, or sycophancy to industry, who have shown us our best interest is not their concern .

[tblue]

5. Fuck 'em. And Bush was neither elected nor reelected.

I do not care if they are sad. It's a selfish sad. It's a greedy self-pity sad. It's a spoiled brat with a tantrum sad. It's also an ignorant sad because they don't know what's good for them.

Like him or not Obama has already done more for them than Romney would do in 10 presidential terms. We can't help it if they're ignorant though God knows we tried. I have no pity for them. I have infinitely more pity for the people who tried to vote but weren't allowed to because of the pathetic GOP.

[JI7]

6. Clinton and Obama had not been the Disaster that Bush was

they won based on fear , another 9/11 would happen even though 9/11 happened under them.

Clinton years were mostly good years and that seems to get people to take more risks . you think candidates can get away with wanting to privatize social security now ?

i really don't care how they feel. i can't compare it because we hated Bush for all he did. Obama has not been bad.and much of the opposition to him is based on racism.

[ejbr]

7. and then, once I started to recover

came Katrina to remind me why I was so depressed in the first place.

[sad sally]

8. Added to that 2004 long sadness so many of us felt, was the knowledge that a long eight years later

nobody(s) was ever held to blame, no truths have been fully uncovered, and we are made to believe that questioning the theft of an election doesn't belong in a so-called democracy like the USofA.

Yeah, it's our turn to gloat, but still so many unanswered criminal questions about the not-so-distant past.

[Horse with no Name]

9. I distinctly remember being told many times over "Get over it" n/t

[lunatica]

12. Yes. I remember that too

They gloated. They enjoyed themselves.

[JI7]

10. i'm checking out Freepers and they are going on about the Wrath of God

and other shit, saying things like they hope a woman that voted obama in new jersey and whose house got flooded dies. saying they hope people in ny , nj die because they voted obama. unlike here where you get a bunch of people protesting such things you don't see it on there.

[SoCalMusicLover]

11. Selected Twice

First time by the Supremes

Second time by the Machines.

[JHB]

14. Except pretty much all our issues with Bush were reality-based...

...whereas so much of the rancid opposition to Obama is simply delusional.

Bush lied us into a war, treated government as a giveaway store to well-connected businesses, made torture and spying on citizens into national policy, exposed CIA operations that were monitoring nuclear materials, openly politicized a host of agencies, and generally handed government over to radicals and thieves.

What have they got? Programs and positions that were originally conservative alternatives to liberal proposals, but became "socialism" the moment Obama agreed to do it their way so at least it could get done? Birth certificates? Videos edited to such a degree that old Soviet Pravda editors off in communist non-heaven raised their vodka bottles in salute? Making a "Che" out of Andrew Breitbart? The New Black Panther Party? Does it have enough members to fill a school bus?

All they have is a pile of crap. Let them despair that they don't know shit from shanola.

[SaveAmerica]

17. I should have read responses! This is exactly how I feel!

We had a laundry list of real issues that needed fixing, they are living in LaLaland Haterville.

[SaveAmerica]

16. What they feel bad for is so different than our response to the '04 election

I felt very much like you did after Bush 'won'. I was hurting so bad inside, but not for the mere loss of a candidate I supported but mostly for all the harm that he could do in 4 more years. Mostly was the damage to our sons, daughters, loved ones deployed in the Middle East, the people in those countries whose lives were being ruined, if not taken, and the ruin our country would face financially from those wars. That was the beginning of that list. I hurt for so many things that were going to change for the negative in the country and I mourned for the chance to get moving in a better direction.

On the other hand, the things I've been reading about the R's and how upset they are about losing makes me want to be sick. They don't care about the progress we've made up and out of the mess we were in, they have their own vindictive, racist, belittling reasons for feeling they should have won. They are sure that a mass of destitute, free-loading, crack hos has lined up to vote to get some more 'stuff' into their pockets. They are sure that godless heathens with nothing but fast and free sex anytime and anywhere with instant access to an abortion lined up to vote to make sure that doesn't change. The descriptions of what they think about us and our reasoning for voting for Obama and our lack of education has made me sick.

No, I don't feel bad for the feelings of loss they have. I don't feel bad that they didn't do their research when Karl Rove and friends lied to them day after day after day and they believed it. I don't care if they feel the saddest they've ever felt in their lives because the reason for their sadness is also something that will improve this country and they don't even know it.

Hate lost and President Obama will have a chance to fill in the gaps of programs he's started and those he couldn't because they were blocked. Hopefully they will realize this soon and get to work helping make it happen.