Kerry concedes defeat: Bush is officially re-elected

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Kerry concedes, White House aide says
Candidates to speak later Wednesday
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Posted: 1634 GMT (0034 HKT)


A White House aide says Sen. John Kerry has phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede.


(CNN) -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede the presidential election, a White House aide said.

President Bush was to deliver a victory statement at 3 p.m. ET, Bush aides said. Kerry was expected to make a concession speech at 1 p.m. ET at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kerry's phone call came a few hours after White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card announced that the Bush campaign was convinced the president had won re-election.

"President Bush decided to give Sen. Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election," Card told GOP supporters at the Reagan Federal Building and International Trade Center in Washington.

"We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes," Card said. (Transcript of Card's comments)

Ahead in the popular vote by more than 3.7 million votes, the president moved tantalizingly close to winning an Electoral College majority with a lead in the key battleground state of Ohio, though the Buckeye State remained too close for CNN to call. (Electoral College)

"President Bush's decisive margin of victory makes this the first presidential election since 1988 in which the winner received a majority of the popular vote," said Card, referring to the White House victory by Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush. "And in this election, President Bush received more votes than any presidential candidate in our country's history."
 

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how long before fat boy moore makes a 'doco' showing how the evil bush family brainwashed the american people into voting republican and also prevented all those decent democrats from voting........it's a giant conspiracy i tells ya, and dont forget about those jews, their conspiring with those religious right-wingers to rule the world......oh and dont forget to see my new film where i expose this evil conspiracy, now showing in a cinema near you.
 

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how long before fat boy moore makes a 'doco' showing how the evil bush family brainwashed the american people into voting republican and also prevented all those decent democrats from voting........it's a giant conspiracy i tells ya, and dont forget about those jews, their conspiring with those religious right-wingers to rule the world......oh and dont forget to see my new film where i expose this evil conspiracy, now showing in a cinema near you.
it doesn't matter what MM does or anybody for that matter because intellectual retrobates like yourself will not open your closed minds, enjoy the coming wars, I only wish tossers like yourself would put up and go and fight these wars you so desperately want, gutless toerags the lot of you
 

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Kerry concedes, White House aide says
Candidates to speak later Wednesday
Wednesday, November 3, 2004 Posted: 1634 GMT (0034 HKT)


A White House aide says Sen. John Kerry has phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede.


(CNN) -- Democratic Sen. John Kerry phoned President Bush on Wednesday to concede the presidential election, a White House aide said.

President Bush was to deliver a victory statement at 3 p.m. ET, Bush aides said. Kerry was expected to make a concession speech at 1 p.m. ET at Faneuil Hall in Boston, Massachusetts.

Kerry's phone call came a few hours after White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card announced that the Bush campaign was convinced the president had won re-election.

"President Bush decided to give Sen. Kerry the respect of more time to reflect on the results of this election," Card told GOP supporters at the Reagan Federal Building and International Trade Center in Washington.

"We are convinced that President Bush has won re-election with at least 286 electoral votes," Card said. (Transcript of Card's comments)

Ahead in the popular vote by more than 3.7 million votes, the president moved tantalizingly close to winning an Electoral College majority with a lead in the key battleground state of Ohio, though the Buckeye State remained too close for CNN to call. (Electoral College)

"President Bush's decisive margin of victory makes this the first presidential election since 1988 in which the winner received a majority of the popular vote," said Card, referring to the White House victory by Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush. "And in this election, President Bush received more votes than any presidential candidate in our country's history."
must have been one massive wet dream come to fruition for you hey dipstick
 

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it doesn't matter what MM does or anybody for that matter because intellectual retrobates like yourself will not open your closed minds, enjoy the coming wars, I only wish tossers like yourself would put up and go and fight these wars you so desperately want, gutless toerags the lot of you
stop spanking the monkey and post some intelligent comments for a change.
 

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must have been one massive wet dream come to fruition for you hey dipstick
Miller ... finally the Dems see sense and concede gracefully. Demon Dave just hasn't caught up yet, but his sorts of views are fast becoming irrelevant..

From my pov as a leftist, am hoping this will see the end of the disastrous stranglehold the pseudo Michael Mooreists have had on the Dems (and Labor here) and both parties can start to rebuild.

And now for the Trifecta ...

Tony Blair and New Labour ...
 

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From my pov as a leftist,
HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Leftist?
In your dreams Jane, everyone on this board knows and understands you are a neo-con.

Stop trying to fool everyone, just keep on fooling yourself, you make us laugh.
 

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HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Leftist?
In your dreams Jane, everyone on this board knows and understands you are a neo-con.

Stop trying to fool everyone, just keep on fooling yourself, you make us laugh.
Neocons ARE leftists, Goldenblue.
 

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Neocons ARE leftists, Goldenblue.
Now I have heard it all - Jane you have to stop reading 1984! Jerry Falwell the spiritual father of neo-cons has said "right is right, left is wrong" . Rummy, Wolfowicz and Cheney would not agree with you.

Privatising welfare, faith based charities, unfettered environmental damage, the failure to adjust the minimum wage since the Clinton years, tax cuts for the wealthy? Sounds pretty left wing to me!

I am too gobsmacked to write anymore - this is incredible. Hitler was a National Socialist as well.
 

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Miller ... finally the Dems see sense and concede gracefully. Demon Dave just hasn't caught up yet, but his sorts of views are fast becoming irrelevant..

From my pov as a leftist, am hoping this will see the end of the disastrous stranglehold the pseudo Michael Mooreists have had on the Dems (and Labor here) and both parties can start to rebuild.

And now for the Trifecta ...

Tony Blair and New Labour ...
Leftist, that's gold, and Miller is a Palestinian anarchist. :rolleyes:
 

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Jane has gone so far to the left she has ended up on the far right.
Nixon and Barry Goldwater where anarcho-syndicalists. Henry Kissinger was a Eurocommunist, Al Haig was a big fan of Arthur Scargill. Maggie Thatcher was a militant leftist who loved the NUM so much she had to destroy it. Howard was a member of the Brigade Russe and Tony Abbott is a stalinist who spent time in the Baader Meinhoff Gang
 

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Congratulations, Jane. You are making progress. I guess, in your twisted world view, that makes you a progressive.

Between admitting here that you are a neocon, and admitting on this page that Bush has 'comprehensively stuffed up' Iraq, you're getting there.

Well done!
 

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Nixon and Barry Goldwater where anarcho-syndicalists. Henry Kissinger was a Eurocommunist, Al Haig was a big fan of Arthur Scargill. Maggie Thatcher was a militant leftist who loved the NUM so much she had to destroy it. Howard was a member of the Brigade Russe and Tony Abbott is a stalinist who spent time in the Baader Meinhoff Gang
:D
 

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Neocons ARE leftists, Goldenblue.
Were Jane.

Warmonger is a better word for you Jane.

Tim, Michael Howard could not win a raffle ticket. This is one election that the extreme far right won't win. Sorry about that chief.
 

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Now I have heard it all - Jane you have to stop reading 1984! Jerry Falwell the spiritual father of neo-cons has said "right is right, left is wrong" . Rummy, Wolfowicz and Cheney would not agree with you.
You are extraordinarily ignorant if you think Rumsfield and Cheney are neo cons. And Jerry Falwell? Honestly!

Privatising welfare, faith based charities, unfettered environmental damage, the failure to adjust the minimum wage since the Clinton years, tax cuts for the wealthy? Sounds pretty left wing to me!
Unbelieavable. " faith based charities"? None of this is a neo con agenda. Neo cons are mainly secular jews.

I am too gobsmacked to write anymore - this is incredible. Hitler was a National Socialist as well.
Suggest you do some reading and get informed.
 

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Congratulations, Jane. You are making progress. I guess, in your twisted world view, that makes you a progressive.

Between admitting here that you are a neocon, and admitting on this page that Bush has 'comprehensively stuffed up' Iraq, you're getting there.

Well done!
If you'd been around before the war, you would have known my greatest reservation was that the Americans would stuff it up.

And they did - in the event that they failed to understand the need for exerting authority and security in the aftermath of the war.
 
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