Rewind to December, 2000. Remember how you felt? Want to share?

[CatWoman]

I was so fucking mad.

After hearing about the SCOTUS' "landmark" decision, I got roaring drunk. Then I just cried.

However, I knew Bush would go down in flames.

You have to offer the electorate more than worn out slogans and catchphrases. You actually have to be able to govern.

I was appalled by the way he made it clear that he was only President to the gaggle of fuckwads who supported him.

Before 9/11 that idiot was on his way out.

And now I take much pleasure in seeing him take his rightful place in history, pre-9/11, as a lying, incompetent skunk who has no clue whatsoever about how to govern and even a lesser clue on how to lead.

Worst. President. EVAH!!!

These are actual photos of that scumbag's inauguration:

[senseandsensibility]

1. At that time I was not online

and had no idea that others were as angry as I was. I did not see those pictures you posted or any like them until years later. Still dependent on CNN and other cable networks for "news", I knew I wasn't being told the truth. And, like you, I knew he would be the worst "president" EVAH. Knew it in my bones.

[CatWoman]

5. I remember seeing pics (here on DU, of course)

of his limo being pelted by eggs.

Like you, I had no idea that there were millions out there who felt our pain.

[liberaldemocrat7]

14. The final Decision happened on my 50th birthday Dec 12, 2000

Weeks after this stolen election occurred I saw something very amusing on the net called the Steal Penny designed by a woman who used the yahoo politics mailing lists. Tammy Ballard had sought someone to make such a penny but never did.

I sought someone on my own to make a George W Bush stolen election coin and help market it. I found someone and we contacted a coin mint who made up about 300 silver plated and about 100 gold plated stolen election coins over a 2 year period in 2001 and 2002. We sold about 250 silver plated coins and 50 gold plated coins and the sales money went to the person who paid for the coin mint making of the DIE and the minting of the coins. We did not do this to make a profit.

I also gave away and sent a number of these coins to famous people such as Al Gore, Ted Kennedy, Brian Lamb of CSPAN, Dennis Kucinich, Howard Dean, Martin Sheen and got letters from some of the people including Brian Lamb, Al Gore and Ted Kennedy thanking me for the stolen election coin.

See the coin images at these links







We now sell the images of the coins on mugs, magnets, mousepads, t shirts, keychains at http://www.zazzle.com/maximus7 and http://www.cafepress.com/revolution09

I decided to change my anger into something creative and embarrass the Bush regime.

EDITED to correct the coin image links. They now work.

[babylonsister]

15. That's quite a story about the coins. You might want to check

your 'image' links; I'm not getting your images (maybe it's just me?).

[liberaldemocrat7]

19. I fixed the links.

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[European Socialist]

2. 2000--unhappy 2004--devastated. What a catastrophe.

[JeffR]

3. I remember how I felt because I haven't stopped feeling that way:

:grr: :nuke: :grr:

Thanks for the wonderful pics!

[NNN0LHI]

4. I swear I said if we can just get through these next 4 years without a war...

...with this unelected piece of crap squatting in the WH we should be OK.

You know how that went.

Don

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

6. I was filled with near-cosmic dread.

The most hopeless, helpless feeling I have ever felt. Everything I just "knew" would happen has come to pass, as well.

Everything. One thing I knew, there would be war and death. Amongst many others.

I don't recommend moments like that. They are not happy times or terribly entertaining.

I come from a long line of South Carolinian witchy women. My mother always said I had the gift. Me? I just ain't sure about that stuff.

[MadMaddie]

7. Catwoman....it does come full circle doesn't it?

It's too bad that newly awakened Americans that oppose * now didn't listen to us when we warned them and now America and the world is paying for it in blood...

He will be dethrowned and nothing less than full prosecution for treason, war profiteering and any other crimes he and the entire cabal have commited will be acceptable.

Mussolini's fate during WWII from his fellow countrymen is what this is going to come down too....

The deaths of the Americans tried and convicted for treason during the 50's...their crimes pale in comparison to what this Administration has done.

This administration has attacked the constitution and the people of the country far too long....and the wrath of the American people will be heard....I am convinced of it.

[CatWoman]

8. well said, MM

:hug:

[mykpart]

9. I remember telling my husband that in six months

the economy would be in the toilet and we would be involved in a war in the Middle East. I was wrong. It took 8 months!

[CatWoman]

10. More:

[baldguy]

11. I said to my sister: "If you ever wondered what a coup d’état looked like, here it is."

[tavalon]

12. I'm embarrassed to say

that I wasn't yet politically woken up. Yeah, I voted for Gore and was appalled at what happened afterwards but I didn't understand how treasonous what the Supreme Court did was. And since I was from Texas and had seen the idiot not govern, I figured he was pretty harmless and while I didn't appreciate having a Republican in there, I figured people would figure out he was stupid and useless and he would be a one termer, like his dad. I never imagined 9/11 nor the ability of this regime to ride the subsequent surge of nationalism to fascism.

I was politically woken up by what I saw in the months after 9/11 when my neighbors in a traditionally liberal area of Austin began draping themselves with American flags. I felt an increasing sense of unease and when I put out a World flag and had my house egged, I started trying to figure out what was going on. Around that time, a friend of mine (who was 50 at the time and so had been through the 60s as a teenager) began telling me about the military industrial complex and the way things had been in Vietnam and she told me that we would soon be going to war. She did a one person consciousness raising on me.

The whole thing snowballed for me and now I'm uber aware, a DU junkie and have been to many protests. I had always voted but in 2004, I actually volunteered for the Kerry campaign and last year I took the Wellstone activist training. I even pay close attention to local politics now. Hell, it's my whole life pretty much.

[emmadoggy]

13. Like someone above said, I, too, was filled with dread.

I told my sister the country was going in the shitter. I just had no idea it would be flushed away, as well.

[candidate]

16. I thought it was hilarious.

I knew Bush was an idiot, but I never thought he and his goons would do the damage they have to America. Back in 2000 I thought, well, what's the worst that could happen with another Bush in power?

Apparently, the answer is 9/11.

9/11 is what happens when the president is too busy "clearing brush" at his ranch to read those dozens of reports of terrorist activity in 2001.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

18. Welcome to DU!

[CrazyOrangeCat]

17. my wife and i immediately knew it was a coup.

and no one we worked with seemed at all concerned.

felt crazy.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

20. It was a nightmare in Tallahassee, the epicenter. We are a very

liberal democratic city and we were horrified that a large part of the coup had happened here; such a disgrace/ On Inauguration Day, we all marched to the capitol building and had a large rally and some asshole flew over in a plane with a JEB! banner on it. I was and still am sick; I just couldn't believe how the press covered it.
We have been proven correct though; I knew he was an obnoxious brat but I never thought things could get this bad and I guess 9/11 just sent the whole country into a tailspin and the played it for all it was worth. SIGH

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. One wourld sums it perfectly

DREAD

There is another that sums it as well

FEAR

We were in Hawaii, to report to a new command... and it was the feeling that before this tour was over we would be at war

[Ani Yun Wiya]

22. On 12/12/2000...

My mind kicked out three thoughts in rapid succession:

1. The money would get funny in a hurry. (We sure got one helluva deficit)
2. We would be at war in short order. (We got that in less than a year)
3. Forget free and fair elections in 2004. (We got the second "win" in '04)

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

23. Hell Catwoman, I was livid on Election Night 2000.

I knew that election would be stolen.

I remember sitting down with a drink and hearing NBC News declare Al Gore had won Florida. Mr. Wonderful had just gone to bed and I went in to tell him the "good" news. It was the first Presidential election he had voted in as he had become an American citizen in June, 1999.

About 15 minutes later, Karl Rove appeared on Fox News and said more or less "hold your horses". I didn't even know who he was, I just remember thinking "who is this dweeb"? In fact my sister called me about five minutes after he appeared and asked me that exact question. All I said was this is payback for 1960, those bastards are gonna steal it, wait and see.

I knew then what an unmitigated disaster this would be for our beloved country. I'll admit I'd gotten lazy and wasn't as tuned in as I should have been in 2000 but since I figured out on my own that George W. Bush was and is a complete and total moron, I gave too much credit to what I thought was old-fashioned American common sense. Girl, was I ever wrong.

[BlueIris]

24. Um, I was perversely...cautiously optimistic. 'Cause I was 21.

And hella stupid.

[Apollo11]

25. I'm still not over it ...

I will not get over it until Congress takes effective action to ensure clean and fair elections across all 50 states. We need a system that ensures everyone can vote and every vote gets counted. I don't trust machines that are built and maintained by partisan private companies.

I hope there are enough people in Congress who understand the urgency of fixing elections ahead of 2008. But it will not happen without continuous pressure from citizens. I am afraid that everyone is so focused on the Iraq War right now, that all other issues are being ignored.

The other thing that would help the healing would be seeing Al Gore inaugurated President in January 2009 ...

In Gore We Trust :)
www.algore.com
www.algore.org
www.draftgore.com
www.draftgore2008.org
www.patriotsforgore.com