Rock the Vote

[SkyeBlue]

Yup, NYC and Maryland and PA...the places I've called home in the past and the place I hope to call home soon...the people living in those states have a brain.

Four years ago I went to bed crying thinking that Bush was our president. I woke up with hope as I heard that Gore hadn't conceded.

This year I went to bed with hope knowing that Kerry had yet to concede and was going to fight for every vote. I woke up a few minutes ago, sickened to hear king george has yet again retaken the throne.

Kerry just conceded.

Anyone wanna move with me out of this country?

I just don't understand the people here.

11 states had on their ballots this year the chance to vote against that stupid idea that marraige should only be between a man and a woman. I believe all 11 voted for it.

I feel like I'm living in the '60s - when people had the ignorance to fight against desegregation. I feel like I'm living in a country that believes it should be illegal for an interracial couple to marry. When people thought Vietnam was right. I've always wanted to live in the '60s not for those reasons, but because it seems like a time when even though our country was so divided and in such great turmoil...people on the right side - the side of peace and equality - those people banded together and fought for what they believed in.

I guess now is kind of like that. Half of our country has united and stood up against Bush and all his injustices. Unfortunately, it's not enough.

When will the time come when I'll get to wake up and be happy that the right side is once again winning?

It won't be for the next four years. Will it be after that? Will Hillary Clinton run and win and began to fight for the right and just again? Or will she run and lose because a little more than half our country isn't just ignorant enough to believe that Bush is a good man, but also ignorant enough to believe a woman can't do the job?

All I know is I'm counting down the days till Nov 2, 2008 and praying that that will be the time when I'll get to wake up and know that the side of the right is once again on top.

Until then...I'm so scared for this country.

[Jan]

U are so not alone Megen..noone in LI is happy about it either..it's the MEGA MEGA buzz today here in NYC:( A lot of ppl saying it was rigged but I don't think it was this time:( I just don't get it myself..Imagine Michael Moore's follow up to this?

[SkyeBlue]

Just watched Kerry's concession speech...boy did he make me cry...

He was very emotional - promised every vote would be counted but that even with those left to be counted, we couldn't win Ohio and therefore couldn't win the election.

He thanked all of his supporters and said he's learned so much from us and will take us with him as he goes on now - he said he wished he could wrap his arms around all of us individually.

He thanked John Edwards' family and his family...one of his daughters at one point looked like she was crying and her sister wrapped her arm around her. When he thanked Teresa for her grace and candor there was a standing ovation and she blew him a kiss. I love them.

At one point someone yelled, "We still got your back!" and Kerry responded with, "Keep watching - I still have your's."

He promised us that the day would come when our votes would change the world...and that we've already started to open doors with this election. I hope that day is Nov 2, 2008.

That was all paraphrased but you guys get the idea.

I refuse to watch Bush' little victory dance scheduled for 3 pm. I wish I had time enough to get to DC and boo him.

[Jan]

Megen u will fit in like glue (well u already did) in the Big Apple when u move here cos that was the mega talk of the town today..ppl are so angry by how the outcome turned out! It's beyond belief! If u go to boo call me! LOL..literally..I know Kerry's speech was extremely touching! Wonder what Cher is saying!

[Elsa]

I. f**king. HATE. This. Country.

I went to school today tired as hell because I was up all night watching CNN. Thankfully, three of my teachers allowed me to sleep through class because they know what a Kerry-supporter I am; I have been on the announcements talking about Kerry, I have about six assorted Kerry shirts, and I keep my Kerry buttons on my purse all the time. Finally I got to French and the teacher told me that Kerry had conceded. I had to put all my buttons away because I figured that if I didn't, I was going to tear the pins through my skin. How the f**k did this country allow Bush to take the presidency AGAIN?! It must all come down to there being too many stupid people in this country, and too many f**ked-up conservative asshats. Now because of f**kers like them, I'm not going to be able to get married, my pregnant friend's not going to be able to get her abortion (she's 15), my college tuition is going to leave me in debt for twenty years, and I AM NOT f**kING HAPPY ABOUT IT. I feel like I could have tried harder, but I went through my town and through the city supporting Kerry. Yesterday, I walked through the rain for hours downtown with my Kerry signs trying to get Bush and Dick out of office. And it was all for nothing, and our rights are being eroded as we speak, and I'm giong to f**king kill somebody. I swear, in thirty years there are going to be textbooks about this era, and children reading will be thinking, "Holy nuts. People in 2000 were f**ked up! Gays and lesbians didn't have rights, college cost $40,000 a year, abortions were next to impossible to get... I'm glad I didn't live back then."

[SkyeBlue]

Someone just emailed this to me...

11/5/04

Dear Friends,

Ok, it sucks. Really sucks. But before you go and cash it all in, let's, in the words of Monty Python, 'always look on the bright side of life!' There IS some good news from Tuesday's election.

Here are 17 reasons not to slit your wrists:

1. It is against the law for George W. Bush to run for president again.

2. Bush's victory was the NARROWEST win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.

3. The only age group in which the majority voted for Kerry was young adults (Kerry: 54%, Bush: 44%), proving once again that your parents are always wrong and you should never listen to them.

4. In spite of Bush's win, the majority of Americans still think the
country is headed in the wrong direction (56%), think the war wasn't worth fighting (51%), and don't approve of the job George W. Bush is doing (52%). (Note to foreigners: Don't try to figure this one out.  It's an American thing, like Pop Tarts.)

5. The Republicans will not have a filibuster-proof 60-seat majority in the Senate. If the Democrats do their job, Bush won't be able to pack the Supreme Court with right-wing ideologues. Did I say "if the Democrats do their job?" Um, maybe better to scratch this one.

6. Michigan voted for Kerry! So did the entire Northeast, the birthplace of our democracy. So did 6 of the 8 Great Lakes States. And the whole West Coast! Plus Hawaii. Ok, that's a start. We've got most of the fresh water, all of Broadway, and Mt. St. Helens. We can dehydrate them or bury them in lava. And no more show tunes!

7. Once again we are reminded that the buckeye is a nut, and not just any old nut -- a poisonous nut. A great nation was felled by a poisonous nut. May Ohio State pay dearly this Saturday when it faces Michigan.

8. 88% of Bush's support came from white voters. In 50 years, America will no longer have a white majority. Hey, 50 years isn't such a long time! If you're ten years old and reading this, your golden years will be truly golden and you will be well cared for in your old age.

9. Gays, thanks to the ballot measures passed on Tuesday, cannot get married in 11 new states. Thank God. Just think of all those wedding gifts we won't have to buy now.

10. Five more African Americans were elected as members of Congress, including the return of Cynthia McKinney of Georgia. It's always good to have more blacks in there fighting for us and doing the job our candidates can't.

11. The CEO of Coors was defeated for Senate in Colorado. Drink up!

12. Admit it: We like the Bush twins and we don't want them to go away.

13. At the state legislative level, Democrats picked up a net of at least 3 chambers in Tuesday's elections. Of the 98 partisan-controlled state legislative chambers (house/assembly and senate), Democrats went into the 2004 elections in control of 44 chambers, Republicans controlled 53 chambers, and 1 chamber was tied. After Tuesday, Democrats now control 47 chambers, Republicans control 49 chambers, 1 chamber is tied and 1 chamber (Montana House) is still undecided.

14. Bush is now a lame duck president. He will have no greater moment than the one he's having this week. It's all downhill for him from here on out -- and, more significantly, he's just not going to want to do all the hard work that will be expected of him. It'll be like everyone's last month in 12th grade -- you've already made it, so it's party time! Perhaps he'll treat the next four years like a permanent Friday, spending even more time at the ranch or in Kennebunkport. And why shouldn't he? He's already proved his point, avenged his father and kicked our ass.

15. Should Bush decide to show up to work and take this country down a very dark road, it is also just as likely that either of the following two scenarios will happen: a) Now that he doesn't ever need to pander to the Christian conservatives again to get elected, someone may whisper in his ear that he should spend these last four years building "a legacy" so that history will render a kinder verdict on him and thus he will not push for
too aggressive a right-wing agenda; or b) He will become so thingyy and arrogant -- and thus, reckless -- that he will commit a blunder of such major proportions that even his own party will have to remove him from office.

16. There are nearly 300 million Americans -- 200 million of them of voting age. We only lost by three and a half million! That's not a landslide -- it means we're almost there. Imagine losing by 20 million. If you had 58 yards to go before you reached the goal line and then you barreled down 55 of those yards, would you stop on the three yard line, pick up the ball and go home crying -- especially when you get to start the next down on the three yard line? Of course not! Buck up! Have hope! More sports analogies are coming!!!

17. Finally and most importantly, over 55 million Americans voted for the candidate dubbed "The #1 Liberal in the Senate." That's more than the total number of voters who voted for either Reagan, Bush I, Clinton or Gore. Again, more people voted for Kerry than Reagan. If the media are looking for a trend it should be this -- that so many Americans were, for the first time since Kennedy, willing to vote for an out-and-out liberal. The country has always been filled with evangelicals -- that is not news. What IS news is that so many people have shifted toward a Massachusetts liberal. In fact, that's BIG news. Which means, don't expect the mainstream media, the ones who brought you the Iraq War, to ever report the real truth about November 2, 2004. In fact, it's better that they don't. We'll need the element of surprise in 2008.

Feeling better? I hope so. As my friend Mort wrote me yesterday, "My Romanian grandfather used to say to me, 'Remember, Morton, this is such a wonderful country  -- it doesn't even need a president!'"

But it needs us. Rest up, I'll write you again tomorrow.

Yours,
Michael Moore
[e-mail]
www.michaelmoore.com





If Michael Moore can find humor in this and have hope...well, I gotta try too.

I'm gonna buy a t-shirt that says, "Don't blame me - my state voted for Kerry."

And I want a button or something that says, "Proud to be a liberal."

[Jan]

Megen Did u hear what Pi Diddy said? He said Bush won..if so many of u are upset well then too bad more of u should have gone out there and voted! I have to commend him on that one! Loved your list by the way! Hope to C ya soon..any more CHER tours for u? Let us know when u come to the Big Apple! Jan

[SkyeBlue]

That's cool Jan...I agree - if you don't vote, than you have no right to complain about who is elected.

Well, if you don't vote and are of age to vote anyway...

Reading what Michael Moore wrote, some of the things actually did make me feel a little better...especiall the last one about how more people voted for a Massachusetts liberal than Reagan and since Kennedy.

Anyone for Hillary and Kerry running as co-presidents in 2008?!

[SkyeBlue]

Has anyone seen this website www.sorryeverybody.com ?

It's HILARIOUS - check it out when you have a few minutes...just go there and click on "gallery."

[Jan]

Just saw the site Megen! Too funny! LOL..