The Night Kerry Won the Election
The Night Kerry Won the Election
#0The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 8:37am
Historians will refer to September 30, 2004, as the night Kerry won the election.
It will go down in history as the equivalent of the Nixon/Kennedy debate, the night the nation realized which candidate had the stuff it takes to be president.
The polls are overwhelmingly saying that Kerry won, some of the more conservatives ones saying by 50-60%, some like the Florida Sun-Sentinel by 76%. (And Florida was supposed to have become a 50/50 state in the past few stormy weeks!)
But let's keep fighting the good fight! The opera ain't over until Barbara Bush sings.
#1re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 8:46am
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU.
I will now, happily, get my morning coffee.
As sad as it is to be so frivolous about the debate, I have to admit I was laughing all through it at Bush's...er...comments. Let me quote Nathan Lane in "The Frogs":
"Have you listened to our leaders? Words seem to fail them. Even the simplest words..."
Neither a borrower nor a lender be...unless that's mine in the first place.
Updated On: 10/1/04 at 08:46 AM
CaTheatreGirl
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#2re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 8:56amExactly, Heart!! Perfect quote to sum up Bush's performance.
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#3re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:00ammust......contain......rage.......must.....not.......fall....for.....liberal.......crap......
Auggie27
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#4re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:08am
Arrogance, thy name is Dukakis. Let's be careful not to be too confident after one frankly overdue positive performance.
Today, I still reel hearing people stand by the Bush doctrine and man. It startles still to listen to those who thought Bush did well last night. I shall never understand his appeal, in style or substance, but it's ever more offensive to hear him describe Iraq as "the enemy" after 9/11. There is only one word for that kind of rhetoric -- one Kerry avoids -- and it's LIE. How he and Potato Head get away with it continues to be illuminating--as to the power of using propaganda as a mantra.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
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#5re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:09am
Personally, I waiting for Cheney to eat Edwards alive.
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#7re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:11am
If it litterally happend, I would laugh.
Good morning, Grant, glad to see you haven't been hit by a bus or something.
Matt_G
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#8re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:12am
CNN's online poll asking who won the debate gives Bush 12% and Kerry 86%.
It's a good day.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
#9re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:15amIt is only a good day if the actual votes cast match the debate percentages.
Matt_G
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/1/04
#10re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:17amWell until that day comes, I'll take a day like this where the country thinks our Pwesident is an even bigger fool than he usually comes accross as.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
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#11re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:17am
Intersting thing about polls, I personally have NEVER been polled. Have any of you?
Matt_G
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#12re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:19am
I have been polled twice.
Hmmmm. That might not sound right.
"Noah, someday we'll talk again. But there's things we'll never say. That sorrow deep inside you. It inside me, too. And it never go away. You be okay. You'll learn how to lose things..."
Updated On: 10/1/04 at 09:19 AM
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#13re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:30am
"Arrogance, thy name is Dukakis"
I just read that... big time funny
Auggie27
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#14re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:46am
Scared spitless, thy name is Auggie27.
Thanks for posting the CNN poll. Even AOL's non-scientific thang, which always skews old fart conservative, gave it to Kerry with 57%. I am clinging to this general consensus being widly reported today. But remember, folks, many people who said Kerry "won" the debate still like the mind-numbing "simplicity" of Bush. Win the point, lose the game has never felt so frightening.
Totally tacky and pointless observations: I never realized that Kerry's nose is so damned pointed. But did anyone else notice that Bush looked especially bad last night? And to be fair, he usually doesn't (the only President I can recall who hasn't aged in office--make what you will of that.) Part of the time he even had the exact expression captured in the pre-Iraq War Declaration footage of FAHRENHEIT. Then, in longer shots, the Eddie Munster thing kicked in.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#15re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:50amHe had more (facial) contortions happening than a Cirque de Soleil performer.
Jon
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#16re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:51am
The problem is that that most Americans are idiots who will vote for the nice, likeable fellow, even if he is a lying idiot, instead of the serious, intellgent guy.
Maybe the Civil War wasn't such a bad idea. Let the redneck South have Bush, and their guns and their homophobia in their own new country. The United States of Ignorance.
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#17re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:51am
Every history porfessor in the country will tell you this:
IN 1960 John Kennedy's people adjusted the heat and lighting in the room to make Nixon look bad (or should I say worse) add to that the fact the Nixon was too "manly" to wear any make-up.
The day after the election, polls indicated that people who watched it on TV thought Kennedy won, people who listened to it on radio said Nixon won.
Updated On: 10/1/04 at 09:51 AM
CurtainUp2
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#18re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:54am
people who watched in radio??? 
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
- Nelson Mandela
Updated On: 10/1/04 at 09:54 AM
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#19re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:55am
I thought you blocked me.
YOu knwo what I mean, bothead.
#20re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:55amAnd let's not forget this was a debate that focused on foreign policy. The area where Bush is supposed to be strongest (although I don't know how ANYONE figures that). I can't wait to get down to domestic issues, the economy, healthcare, the environment, and education, where Bush is a miserable failure at every level.
Auggie27
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#21re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 9:55amHoney, I don't think W won on the radio. You could sing half of the WICKED score between some of his pauses.
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
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#23re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 10:00am
Folks no one is happier than I am that Kerry did so well last night. BUT to quote "It ain't over til its over". It is still a long time until election day, and the ONLY poll that counts is the one on November 2nd. So let's all keep on woking hard to see that the Kerry/Edwards ticket wins the day.
Sadly I am from Massachusetts, if Kerry wins I loose a high ranking Senator, (whose replacement maybe named by the Republican Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Rommney) If Bush wins we are stuck with the Shrub for another 4 years.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
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#24re: The Night Kerry Won the Election
Posted: 10/1/04 at 10:02am
I Kerry's Senate seat up this year?
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