I really think Bush won because he was successful at smearing Kerry enough that voters joined a wartime Nuremberg movement that ignored all of Bush's glaring failures. I see the present day as a huge reversal of previous American understanding in order to install the new Bush Company, or the new American Tea Company...Truly, Minnesota, your comments would not be worth commenting on were it not for the many otherwise rational people who are swayed by such crap. I'm sorry I made the crack about the "cult" Christians, not because it's wrong, but because it's sure to be misunderstood.
Bin Laden is great for military industrial complex business. I had a long conversation with a relative who voted for Bush and told me the reason why was because "they really believed the WMD's were there, and besides Saddam had his opportunity to come clean and didn't"...
Ralph Nader commented that Bush's greatest success was persuading a segment of American voters who stood to benefit the least from his policies to vote for him enthusiastically...