And, evidently, still lacking in the capacity for analytical intellectual thought....a full ten years after the fact....since you still do not seem to understand how easily a powerful media duped you and manipulated your thought process in one of the most important elections in this nation's history. One might understand how the uneducated masses were so easily taken in, but it is disappointing that people educated at one of the nation's finest universities like you & Childress still do not understand how you were played.
The 2004 election was a disaster, not a joke. This nation stood at a crossroads in history and took a disastrous wrong turn. As a result of that election, the ensuing years saw this nation suffer thousands of additional casualties & the waste of trillions of additional tax dollars in a war in Iraq that should never have taken place. It saw the passage of tax laws that accelerated what was already a dangerous trend of income & wealth inequality in the country. It saw the passage of the poorly named "Patriot Act" that began to dismantle our citizen's civil liberties. And, finally, it saw a corrupt financial industry completely unbridled so that its greed eventually put the entire U.S. economy on the brink of total collapse by October, 2008.
And even with the benefit of ten years of hindsight during which you have been able to witness the carnage resulting from that election, you still think that it's cute to put up that silly reminder to show everyone how easily your thought process could be controlled....and in so doing indicate that you still don't understand how you were duped? Sad, indeed.