The world no longer respects this country

And I don't blame them. Sorry, but I don't have sympathy for the people of this country - atleast on issues like Health Care, Iraq, and outsourcing/unemployment.

This country saw everything wrong with the last four years and decided "hey let's give this guy another 4 years". At the same time they rewarded the party that presided over the most job losses in decades and a disasterous war that had no justification.

So, if you're expecting me to start getting all angry with the fact that Bill Gates is moving more jobs overseas...sorry...feel free to flame me. The rest of the world is very confused.

Many of those that voted for Bush are white white-collar workers - exactly those kind that will possibly have their job outsourced. What is there to sympathize about? These people knew what they were getting themselves into. I feel bad for individual (like those 55 million that are going to get shafted that voted for Kerry), but a majority is a majority...and 51% seem to be utterly brain dead.

Didn't Ralph Nader say "Things have to get much worse before they get better". I think I heard him say that once...or something similar to that.

Maybe I'm so cynical and tired of politics in general at this point. Over a week later, I'm still dumbfounded. I've accepted the verdict but it still makes little sense.

What will wake Americans up? I really fear another terrorist attack occuring - and this time the troubling aspect will be that the world won't care. They will have no sympathy at all....and terrorism is one situation where I feel sympathy because more innocent civilians shouldn't die - Americans, Iraqis, or anyone else for that matter. I think this country is also furthering the Clash of Civilizations with the recent TaliBornAgain shift. It's as though it's making it a self fulfilling prophecy.

these people are gonna get what they deserve. Nothing (at best!).

My fellow countrymen are selfish, arrogant, ignorant, apathetic, sociopathic assholes.

But I am through feeling sorry for people who cast their ballots on meaningless emotional issues, and then get screwed despite being warned again and again. I only hope that they regret it enough to do better next time.

I don't know, but if * screws up as much as we're all expecting, who's to say there will be a next time?

The most unpredictable and radical president in modern history has just been emboldened by victory and liberated from all public accountability.

One of the reasons that I am so uncomfortable when people talk about the Democrats in 2008 is that we really don't know what the world will look like in four years.

We speak of '08 like it's a year or two away. As we saw, a LOT of crazy shit can happen in 4 years.

We have no idea what kind of crazy policies can be implemented by Bush in this time - that too with a 55-45 senate margin. The numbers just make me cringe. They have control of all branches. They'll be able to appoint whatever kind of wacko they went to federal benches.

We have no clue what things will look like in another 4 years.

She said, "What this election has taught us is that performance doesn't matter."

I too am cynical about this, and I intend to remind every whining bush** supporter for the next 25 years what they have done to this country.

i use to go to a political chat room where one of the regulars was a right wing woman who worked at walmart. she would always attack democrats and she would show her ignorance with her repeating of right wing talking points.

but one day she came on and was complaining about personal problems. about how she lost her job at walmart because she was pregnant. i can't remember the specifics. but i think it had to do with them firing entirely rather than allowing her to take time off or some other help and flexibility she needed since she was pregnant.

i know i had and still have a hard time feeling sorry for her when i heard what happened. i actually did try to understand and provide advice such as going to a lawyer and where she could report what happened. but i could just never feel any sympathy for her and still don't.

with the rest of the world. It's bad enough he thinks he has "capital" because of his false "mandate" from his rigged election. Now he thinks he has captial with the rest of the world?!? From doing WHAT?

WTF planet is he living on?

but very few people I see face to face acknowledge the danger, even registered Dems (but who don't obsessively follow everything like we do at DU). It's just business as usual to them. oh well, another 4 years of Bush - "we'll survive".

All the elements of fascism (according to Dr. Lawrence Britt) were in place in the first Bush term except encourgement of the last important element: a pseudo-populist movement to purify the nation of its internal enemies. That'd be us, liberals, real libertarians, anyone who is gay, and anyone who publicly dissents.

Since I for one will NOT do down quietly, it sure looks like interesting times ahead.

Respecting ourseleves -- knowing that we truly stand for what we say we stand for is what is important. Achieve that and everything works out fine. This period of self examination is good for us.

Senator Roll Over's concession speech.

I hope they boycott American products like F*CKING CRAZY.

thing is, they always have. their leaders used to be more polite about it when they had better diplomacy with us. but most people have always hated america.

let me clarify. when you visit, they are very happy to smile and act nice and take your money as long as you're spending it. but as soon as you leave, they hate you and all the rest of the fat loud obnoxious americans. they sniff at us. always have.

i don't think you can separate the jobs issue from the political issue. we need to protect our own jobs and also protect our own power. shouldn't be just one or the other.

don´t think so bad about us :o we only hate the fat loud obnoxious Americans who voted for bush :p the rest of you is just fine ;) no.. seriously... of course, I can only speak for myself, but I think there are a lot of people around the world who are just as scared of the re-election of that moron as you are. I know it scares the hell out of me. A lot of the Europeans don´t support the war in Iraq, and never have. What makes you think we all hate you??? We DO hate the situation.. I know I do, but that´s different from us all hating you guys.

And I´ve seen the debates between Bush and Kerry, and it seems to me that Bush doesn´t really like Europe a lot.. does he? :s He´s like.. almost totally anti-Europe... that´s kinda scary to us too you know :s

So.. to us, it may look like Americans hate Europeans, while some of you may think we hate you guys :s