Let's face it--2004 was the election we had to win.

[European Socialist]

The economy is a total wreck thanks to 4 more years of Chimpco. Obama will just be a lifeboat captain with 300 million wretches aboard.

[European Socialist]

1. I knew there was a reason I was out on the ledge back then.

[shadowknows69]

2. W did a lot of damage in that four years

[Hubert Flottz]

3. We did win in 2004

This is Blackwell's fault.

[European Socialist]

4. Good point.

[tom_paine]

5. And THAT's why the Bushies stole it. All evidence points to major Bushie malfeasance

and massive Electoral Fraud.

My God, the evidence is right out there in the open. (thanks autorank, for seeing it hiding out there in plain sight).

# of total voters (est.)
=====================
1992 - 103.9 million
1996 - 94.7 million
2000 - 104.3 million
2004 - 121.2 million
2008 - 122.3 million

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0781450.html

As Sesame Street says One of these thing is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...

The dataset was clear. Add in the commone sense of the excitement and groundswell of Obama's campaign in 2008 vs. the "inspirational 2004 Bushler campaign" which created the greatest single increase (even in terms of percentage) of voter turnout in as presidential "election".

Bullshit, bullshit... BULLSHIT!

Bushler almost certainly got no more that 56 or 57 million, NOT the 60 MILLION + HE IS REPORTED TO HAVE GOTTEN.

As DUer autorank has documented, the 2004 "election was "won" with the help of the ghosts of white republicans in the big cities...ghosts who have NEVER EVER made their presence known in any other election before or since.

Just another of the MANY WAYS the Bushies aqre guilty o HIGH TREASON and should be tried, then properly hung (or perhaps lethal injection) if convicted for their monstrous crime that ahs resulted in trillions of dollars stolen and million murdered who wouldn't have otherwise been stolen and murdered.

HIGH TREASON!

As Sesame Street says One of these thing is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong...

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Yes!

[machI]

6. The economy is one thing, add in the damage done to the Supreme Court, and we are phucked

Our President Obama will have to nominate four Justices to make up for what Bush has done to us. He will be replacing two Liberal Justices, and if we are lucky, two conservative pukes.

It is time to turn the Supreme Court back in favor of the people by making it Liberal again.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Out of the Great Depression came 40 years of progress.

While it is painful to have to go through a systemic crisis, it seems to be the only way to get rid of the termites of capitalism. Forty years from now perhaps the creeps will sneak back into power, hopefully our children and our grandchildren will be wiser than we were and not let that happen.

[stray cat]

8. you could argue the same for 2000 and we would have avoided the mess

although I agree Obama is inheriting a sinking ship

[KharmaTrain]

9. Live In The Past And Walk Into Walls...

I sure didn't vote for 4 more years of the boooosh regime, I never bought on for the first four. I worked my ass off both years to try to avoid what I knew would be a fiscal and social disater for this country...and in retrospect, I vastly underestimated what happened.

We can conjecture the whatif game and it does nothing. The salvation is that those goons will soon be out of power and fresh ideas are soon to invade the beltway. The strength of Democrats have always been to take adversity and make positive things happen.

Cheers...

[reflection]

10. There is a lot of truth in that statement.

The damage W has done is epic.