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I hear you Battleaxe, but I think it's not a fair comparison. Here at the ass end of the Bush years it would seem a no-brainer to take to the streets to fight the heap load of crap he was abotu to heap upon the country, but in Nov 2000 no one knew. We had just gone through the political muck with the whole trumped up Clinton-Lewinsky thing, the US had about zero perceived turbulence going on, Fukuyama was declaring the "end of history", communism was dead, capitalism had triumphed and the only pressing issues seemed pretty minor. The election was seen as between boring and harmless (Gore) and boring and harmless but folksy (Bush). There was no issues of state surveillance, habeus corpus or financial disaster at the time, so to compare Americans not going into the streets en masse at that time over what was perceived as a choice between two samey-samey candidates after a period yucky political infighting that everyone wanted to leave behind to what is happening in Iran, which is a huge over-educated generational rift subsumed in a theocratic/authoritarian regime amid a crappy economy with a veneer of democracy, well..it's apples to oranges man.
- Do you think if Obama lost to McCain under similar "election suspicions" there wouldn't have been huge protests in the streets?TheBlueOne
- streets?TheBlueOne
- oh people knew the election was stolen that is where the credibility went out the door ,BattleAxe
- and yes to McCain over Obama , but that would be the fool me twice angleBattleAxe
- I don't disagree with you, I just think the context explains itTheBlueOne