Bush's speech scares the sh__t out of me.

[Cascadian]

If what he is saying about same sex marriage,conservative family values, and about apppointing conservative judges are true then this is not only a war on terrorism this is truly a war on our choices and how we live. The Christian Taliban is taking over the country and if you do not bend to their will and think, look, and act like you do, you will be singled out, tormented, jailed, and even killed. I don;t know about you but this is most scariest speech in my opinion since his "You're with us or with the terrorists." speech. If the RNC was trying to put a moderate face on their convention, they have failed to do this especially in the last couple of days.


I am convinced that if he is given another four years, he and his Neocon pals are going to seriously clamp down harder on us all. We might not have anymore elections and do not put anything past these guys, DUers. They are out to get people like you and me.


John

[JSJ]

1. i agree, but we shouldn't be scared n/t

[UdoKier]

2. You're just now scared?

This is the same tripe he's said for the last 4 years, only he didn't screw up his delivery for once.

[expatriot]

4. no, there was something different tonight....

it was a matter of degrees... but he tonight he was bolder than ever in the dismantling of the public sector, etc.

[Cascadian]

6. It is a war on terrorism, choice, and the poor.

If you are poor, you are dead. If you are against Christian fundamentalism, you are dead. It's as simple as that!


John

[expatriot]

3. this is the scariest speech i have ever seen... i can't believe it.

2 scary parts...

Many of our most fundamental systems -- the tax code, health coverage, pension plans, worker training -- were created for the world of yesterday, not tomorrow. We will transform these systems so that all citizens are equipped, prepared, and thus truly free to make your own choices and pursue your own dreams.

Another drag on our economy is the current tax code, which is a complicated mess, filled with special interest loopholes, saddling our people with more than 6 billion hours of paperwork and headache every year. The American people deserve -- and our economic future demands -- a simpler, fairer, pro-growth system.

[sandnsea]

5. It scares me

The wars, society, economy, environment. This man scares the bejeezus out of me, he really does.

[undergroundpanther]

7. I know

I think the people who do not want to be bullied and love thier freedom need to become more active and put limits on the powerful when they abuse power in any way that works.We have been so distracted by our little atomized lives,and our world relationships have shrunk into what matters is MY FAMILY,and so of course we get the illusion we are powerless against a cabal of bullies in the white house and look for a leader/savior.It's because we feel small in our relationship with this world full of people..This social atomization of our culture has been planned and engineered in America for decades.

Since we don't know how anymore to stand up to a boss trying to cheat us,or stand up to assholes in our life and say no more,.we also don't chew out a liar for lying to us,we don't say an abuser is wrong in public,we don't out the family tyrant to social services,,or embarass an abuser..especially we turn a blind eye if he ain't hurting OUR Child i.e ..MY property)
We have as a nation become so small in the way we are related, it's just our family and our aquaintences and the rest of the world doesen't exist or matter for us much unless it inconviences us or gets our attention personally. We have accepted too much abuse and atomization in our communities as if it is normal. But it's not normal and this has had a hand in creating the delimma we are in now politically.
In fact this all this is engineered for us,so we would dissassoiate our emotional attachments away from each other and cease taking care of each other.Because isolation and privatizing and the "nuclear family" suburbia game makes us feel small and feel big like a fiefdom at the same time.This dissonence makes us selfish,distant, mistrustful of our neighbors ,politically disengaged,docile and enabling.

[Cascadian]

8. kick

[elehhhhna]

9. "You; own everything but your uterus when I'm through."

[SpiralHawk]

10. "Nothing will stop us." - Bush mantra last night

How many times did he say it last night? At least a dozen.

I think he's trying to tell us something.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so
long as I'm the dictator." - GW Bush 12/18/2000. CNN transcript

[Mad_Dem_X]

11. Did he ever mention Osama?

And did he really rise out of the floor? I missed it last night.

[Ishoutandscream]

12. If Bush wins, nothing will stand in his way

If he has the House and Senate again, along with the Supremes, he will have his ultimate mandate. He won't have to worry about re-election, so he will throw caution to the wind and do his utmost to rule in the most extreme way. If we think it's bad now, just think about another four years. I shudder to think about it.

[B Calm]

13. The part that cracked me up was when he said

he inherited a recession and now has turned it around.

I was wondering which is worse the economy, the environment, his foreign policy, his energy policy, his education program "leave no child behind", cutting overtime pay, and the jobless rate never been higher. I was asking myself how's come Kerry don't have a 30 point lead?

[johnnie]

14. It's the same shit that party has been spewing for years

Go back to some of raygun's speeches. I will admit that the repubs have gotten freakier in the last decade or so, but there have always been these people in this country.
Don't let it scare you too much, there are a large majority of the people who aren't as messed in the head as shrub and his cronies. Plus, that shit he was trying to read off the teleprompter last night is just to appease the self righteous.

[8-6-PDB]

15. Now is not the time for fear

Now is the time for anger. Now is the time for resolve. Let's get this buffoon out of office, and THEN we can be scared of what ALMOST happened...

Serial Killa Kid's speech last night was a wake up call to all of us to get up off our asses and fight back. We have fallen into the trap of "intellectualism". It is time to stop telling each other what is wrong. We already know.

The time has come for all who love freedom to rise up and fight for it.