My family laughed at me when I told them the dread I felt in 2000

[greenbriar]

now they are asking me how much worse could it get...


My mom and sisters and brothers thought bushy was such a great man and christian...why he took time out of the campaign trail to lead someone to the lord don't ya know....

I said PHOTO OP and showed them his victory salutes
they just thought I was wrong




Now I laugh at them after I educate them!!!

[dhinojosa]

1. I wouldn't necessarily laugh.

I think I'd be pissed actually

[greenbriar]

5. inside I am but

laughing about it gets them worse



NOW they know I knew what I was talking about and dreading.

I am a political science and History teacher


3 of my sisters have sons age 13-30

can you say worried????????????

[Tesha]

15. Golly, how tragic for them that actions have consequences. (NT)

[Cha]

2. I felt "Dread", too...

And I was such a neophyte to politics.

It's all coming too true..I hate when I'm right like that.

[Ilsa]

3. So they got that stupid email too, huh?

The one about him leading a young man to Christ at a luncheon? Totally debunked on Snopes. I hope you sent it to them and everyone on the email list.

I still have to debunk rw email garbage for relatives. And some of it is terror-related, like HIV-infected hypodermics on gas pump handles. Real shit.

[Wetzelbill]

4. A sad way to be proven right huh?

My friend was in the military and totally gung-ho about going into Iraq. I was an opinions columnist at that time and he would freak out at the stuff I was saying about how difficult it would be to pacify Iraq, etc. I once told him via e-mail and one the phone that there would be no WMD in Iraq. He thought I was completely nuts! By the summer of 2003 he sent me a conciliatory e-mail saying how right I was. Now, he pretty much knows I'm right about everything. But, at what cost? I wish it never happened in the first place.

[greenbriar]

9. yea

I love to say I was right, but at the cost of losing America is not really much fun

[Hissyspit]

6. Here's the post I just posted in another thread:

We were screwed in 2000. My friends couldn't understand why I was
saying that back then. "We are screwed if we let these people take the White House. The damage will be horrendous." And even my remotely reasonable friends thought I was being alarmist. "At least he's not Clinton! Bush seems like a good guy." Now look at all the damage we have to deal with for years and years. And it's not over yet.

[Beaver Tail]

7. I never trusted it from the 1st time I saw it and heard it

He sounded like a bumbling bafoon and acted like a typical bully...in 1999

[greenbriar]

8. yes he did

I knew from the start.

now I am not one to say I told you so...but this time


I TOLD YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[driver8]

10. I have lived the past 5 years with a knot in my stomach...

and expect I will live the next three years the same way.

Whenever I think that things cannot get worse...they get worse. Just when I think the government cannot fuck the people of this country anymore...they find a way to do just that.

This country will not survive three more years of these idiots...I just don't see how it is possible.

[greenbriar]

11. sometimes I think that is exactly what they want

to fuck it up soooooooooooo much.



then sometimes I think SOMEONE will have a gut check and realize its way to much shit and break the silence

[not fooled]

12. Anyone who paid attention....

...knew back before sElection 2000 what a prick * was, just by looking at his record as a gov. in Texass (to say nothing of his failure- and crime-laden personal history). Once again, the media fell down on the job by failing to accurately portray this incompetent jerk.

[marions ghost]

13. seems like they ought to be praying

for the country now...

Keep up the re-education camp, greenbriar :thumbsup: seems like the spell is broken in your neck of the woods. I'm sure that feels good after watching the brainwashing take effect. Maybe you can help them understand how it happened so they won't fall into the same traps again.

[Skittles]

14. I was in England in Nov 2000

peope would find out I lived in Texas and ask me about Bush - I said HE WILL BE THE WORLD'S WORST F***ING NIGHTMARE. Boy they sure found out the hard way.