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[rodneyscat]

So uhm, basically I'm scared shitless and I foolishly didn't expect this.

Thank you, to those LJ people who are residents of the USA and have shown me a side of the people in your country I wasn't all that aware of a couple of years ago. Fact of the matter is that because I've seen so many lovely, reasonable, intelligent, caring Americans around here, I kind of began to think you were in the majority.

I guess I was wrong.

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[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

A lot of what you say here makes me go 'exactly!', but this stuck out;

I think neither candidate was overwhelmingly moving

I must say I'm not so much pro-Kerry as anti-Bush.

It's weird seeing Marin Sheen in your icon. I asume that's him in 'West Wing'? I don't know what kind of man he plays in that, but that pic reminds me of him as a upcoming politician in 'The Death Zone': not the kind of guy you'd want to have in your icon! (No worries though, I'm probably the only one who makes that connection, because I'm not familiar with West Wing but I'm an avid Stephen King fan, and that movie is one of the few good adaptations of his books to screen imho.)

[thisside.livejournal.com]

I must say I'm not so much pro-Kerry as anti-Bush.

I think that's what many of those who voted for Kerry defined themselves as, and I think that's why things happened as they happened. The people who voted for Bush really did believe in him, or they believed that as president he should finish what he started. Many of the people who voted for Kerry, for the most part, were voting against Bush, or voting for what they hoped was going to be something better than what we have now, but they didn't have as much passion for HIM, the man.

Oh well, we'll have much better candidates in 2008, I think.

And yes, my icon is from the West Wing. I guess Martin Sheen likes to play politicians! President Bartlet is the kind of man I'd vote for. :)