[grooveless touque]

The US has never deposed a sitting President in wartime. To do so would be an admission of failure on a cataclysmic scale. That nationalistic drive, as much as anything else, got him re-elected. Although Bush DOES have millions more guaranteed vote from the religious right, I have never said it was militant Christians who were solely to blame for Bush's reelection. They were obviously a factor, since Kerry had to start with far fewer votes as a "given", but it's oversimplifying it (and nobody's better than the American media than forgoing shades of grey) to say it was just because Bush governs by faith. Values and the fact that the US is locked into a long, hard slog in Iraq (Rumsfeld's words, not mine) both had a hand stirring the pot.

[Kim]

Have you guys seen the website http://www.sorryeverybody.com?

It's where the dissapointed half of the USA has turned to after Nov 2nd.

Check it out - especially the gallery(click on page and then scroll down), has some great pictures such as this one:

[The Horrible Esthete]

No need to apologize, Miss Man Hands! :lol:

[grooveless touque]

Well, if the US feels sorry, it should be for themselves. Witness that Bush has taken the federal debt limit from $5.8 trillion to $8.2 trillion in just four years. I find it particularly scary how the writer says the government is in imminent default:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress sent President Bush an $800 billion boost in the federal borrowing limit on Thursday, spotlighting how the budget has lurched out of control in recent years and how hard it will be to afford future initiatives.

The House approved the measure by a near party-line 208-204 vote as White House and bipartisan congressional bargainers moved to the verge of agreement on a year-end spending package expected to total $388 billion. Negotiators said just a handful of issues remained unresolved, and a package might be ready for votes by late Friday.

With the government facing imminent default because it has depleted its authority to borrow money, the debt limit bill would pump up the federal borrowing cap to $8.18 trillion. That is 70 percent the size of the entire U.S. economy, and more than $2.4 trillion higher than the debt Bush inherited upon taking office in 2001.

"The president commends the Congress for passing the debt limit increase," the White House said in a written statement that did not mention the magnitude of borrowing involved or its causes. "Passage of this legislation was important to protect the full faith and credit of the United States."

Umm...right.