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sepia_steel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 05:23 AM
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Things that never happened - before Dubya
Can you guys help me complile a list? I think it would be pretty compelling for non-believers.

I'm talking about things such as:

1 Winning with under 50% approval ratings

2 Already being below %50 approval less than a month after the election

3 Exit polls being dead wrong or even a little wrong


Feel free to throw in ties to NeoCons that were slighty before Dubya, such as partisan vote technology owners.

Get as specific as you like, but I'm looking for things to list to people who won't read a ton of paragraphs so keep that in mind.

It doesn't all have to be election-related, but the more the better.

There is no fucking way this moron won this election.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 05:31 AM
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1. press conferences where the reporters don't ask one good question
and don't REAL demand answers
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Mist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 05:42 AM
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2. Black box voting with no paper trail
So many "glitches" with optical scanners, all "oddly" in *'s favor.
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SariesNightly Donating Member (237 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:15 AM
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3. Debt Mountain
Couple of billion a day in a stupid war that's stuck in limbo
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Nay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:16 AM
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4. Winning an election after demonstrably losing every debate before
the election.

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tngledwebb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:34 AM
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5. Biggest single mass murder in history,
and for the first time ever, not just one but three successful attacks on the homeland using high-jacked jets, one on the Pentagon building!

Total collapse of three skyscrapers, only two of which were actually hit by aircraft.

And about 1000 other one-time only events on the same day, many as yet unexplained or investigated. And after three years no-one has been held accountable for the most horrific military intelligence failure in the history of the world.

Two unprovoked illegal and immoral human bloodbaths disguised as 'wars on terror' in response to the above attacks.

Near total MSM complicity in the cover-up and/or dissemination of official government lies regarding the above.
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robbedvoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 06:40 AM
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6. An entire campaign with bused audience, loyalty oaths, hundreds vs
tens of thousands for the other guy who...lost.
Undecideds (and many others) breaking for the incumbent
All differences between exit polls/results benefitting one side only
Voting lines - 4-10 hours long - producing less votes for our guy than in 2000 - without the lines (Ohio, Florida)
High turnout benefitting the GOP
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fliesincircles Donating Member (174 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 09:10 AM
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7. Burger flippers
Become part of the "Manufacturing" sector.
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fryguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 09:22 AM
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8. surpluses wiped out in record time and replaced by record deficits
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HughBeaumont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 09:26 AM
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9. Not one net new job created
coming out of just a recession, not a depression.
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cybildisobedience Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 10:48 AM
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10. cheating during debates and having it go unaddressed
Everyone knows Bush was wearing some kind of device, despite the denials from his camp.
Can you imagine the hue and cry if Clinton were photographed wearing some kind of unexplained listening device, and if he stood there, looking dumbstruck, while answers were fed to him?

Instead, we got ridiculous "explanations" and no commentary from the Beltway whores.
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tom_paine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 11:14 AM
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11. The use of Executive Order as Imperial Fiat
To get around what the legislature won't pass.

Example: Faith-Based Funding, funding the Office of Strategic Initiatives and the more Soviet aspects of the Citizen Corps.
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-21-04 11:16 AM
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12. "Clear Skies" through unchecked, unregulated corporate
pollution.
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