amanda [email] said at 7:27 PM 11-08-2004: My friend Jennifer's grandma swears that when she was a little girl growing up in Northwestern WI, she saw the devil appear in the sky during a church social.
nelson [email] said at 4:35 PM 11-08-2004: Honestly, I would have expected this type of response from a Dubya supporter if he had lost, not the other way around.
anotherben [email] said at 5:05 PM 11-08-2004: why is that? look at convention arrest numbers or just the ratio of defaced campaign signs wherever you go. the less constructively expressive seem to - more often than not- favor the color blue.
woody [email] said at 6:34 PM 11-08-2004: Or maybe Bush just makes people angrier? Or places more authoritarian control over protestors and arrests more of them for no good reason? Nah, he wouldn't do that.
anotherben [email] said at 7:17 PM 11-08-2004: or perhaps kerry failed to evoke emotion or boston authorities are lax on violent protestors? maybe the alignment of the stars just invoked a more antagonistic mood for all earth-dwellers during the week of the repub-con. i personally think kerry fans just lack a good sense of humor.
pokey [email] said at 1:19 AM 11-09-2004: Maybe its because more liberals are young, volatile types, while conservatives are old farts who avoid real world confrontation.
josh [email] said at 6:45 PM 11-08-2004: convention arrest #s are largely because of black bloccers, who aren't really red or blue since they are radical anarchists who don't believe in government.
and also because the repubs get buck, i know people who got arrested in NYC and they were just standing there.
Wade said at 7:40 PM 11-08-2004: Republicans are against people standing around and doing nothing.
Thats slacking. Its a liberal thing. If those people didnt have anything to do beside stand there, they should have been in trade school, or studying for the GED. Or something. SLACKERS.
Wade said at 12:00 AM 11-09-2004: Thats retarded. But yeah, I wouldn't mind a hunting rifle and a scope and some of those caffinated retards running amuck nearby. IDIOTS. And look! They clearly originated in France. Man, does france suck cock!
Wade said at 12:05 AM 11-09-2004: Like, what on earth could that poster be saying to me? Can someone decode that? Where is our resident 'frenchy'? I don't know what that says...
nelson [email] said at 7:52 PM 11-08-2004: Consider how militaristic the Bush Administration is.
Think about some of this campaign's most fervent supporter, and their mentality.
It is one thing to be arrested in a political protest, and it is quite another to challenge someone to an old-fashioned brawl.
nelson [email] said at 7:33 PM 11-08-2004: Sorry, but I could not see this post being on Craigslist here in San Francisco, or nearly anywhere else for that matter.
NYC has a certain street toughness that placates this sort of thing.
kiche [email] said at 9:38 AM 11-09-2004: yeah, i was thinking the same thing.
i'd say "only on the east coast". everywhere else i live something like this wouldn't have been even half as reasoned, professional and family friendly.
rick [email] said at 10:42 AM 11-09-2004: If there is a Bush Fight Club, those lads who kicked the protestor while she was down on the ground, need to be in it.
NathanK said at 2:22 PM 11-09-2004: That's hilarious - NYC obviously has its flaws, but then has everything you could possibly be interested in - that's why NYers are too busy to slag other cities. As a side note - listen to the Secret Machines.
nelson. said at 1:52 AM 11-10-2004: I am not slagging NYC. I actually think it is an amazing city, and I would love to live there one day. I just thought this was a funny CL post, given how matter-of-fact the guy was.
