Anyone seen this site yet?
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Wednesday 17 November 2004 By Mark Morford - San Francisco Gate Columnist
Dear World : Sorry About Bush
No, seriously. Very, very sorry.
How sorry ? Well, let America show you ... in pictures.
It's a movement. It's a phenomenon. It's a Web site.
Or maybe it's far more than that. No one can really be sure.
No matter what it is, it's called sorryeverybody.com
( http://sorryeverybody.com ) and it expresses, better
than any outpouring so far, a sentiment that's omnipresent
and palpable and still going strong, and every single
Democrat and every single Kerry supporter and every
single liberal of any stripe whatsoever probably felt it
like a white-hot stab in the heart the minute Kerry's
concession speech hit the airwaves and it undoubtedly
went something like this :
Dear world : We are so very, very sorry. For Bush.
For our bitterly divided and confused nation.
For what's to come.
Please know that tens of millions of us did not vote
for him. Please do not hate us. Not all of us, anyway.
OK, maybe Utah. Do you know where Utah is ?
Never mind.
See, not only is half of America still deeply dejected
about the onslaught of Dubya Dubya II, but much of
that half wants the world to know just how crestfallen
we are, and just how awful we feel for inflicting Bush
and his middle-finger foreign policy on them like
a virus, a toxin, a nasty STD, yet again.
After all, we knew this wasn't no ordinary election.
We knew how much was at stake, how this one
represented a sea change in global attitudes,
a dramatic upheaval and reversal of long-standing
American ideas of cooperation and defense and
restraint, ideas that BushCo has now mutated into
a hollow, kill-'em-all faux-cowboy maverick
attitude, an almost irreversible shift, mostly
backward. Or downward.
But here's the genius part. Beyond e-mail, beyond
blogs or radio shows or despondent letters to the
editor or overly verbose progressively insulated
Left Coast columnists who avoid excessive
punctuation as they type because it might spill their
scotch, sorryeverybody.com nails the sentiment
in a way no one could have imagined : in photographs.
http://sorryeverybody.com/gallery/1/
Or, rather, thousands of photographs. Of people.
Ordinary people, grainy and crooked and funny
and amateurish and honest and full of pathos and
raw emotion and wry humor and surprising beauty
and you want that connecting thread ? That thing
that unifies and makes you feel less alone and
that helps you locate yourself in a country gone
mad and lost and regressive ?
You can do no better than this.
And so far the site carries nearly 5,000 photos,
with an apparent backlog of over 1,000 more
ready to be uploaded and new ones coming in
faster than the site's diverse gaggle of stunned
creators -- namely, a sly neuroscience student
from USC named James and his ragtag team of
webmasters and designers from across the country --
ever dreamed. And the reaction has been, to put it
mildly, overwhelming : a whopping 50 million
hits to the site so far, moving nearly two terabytes
of information. And growing fast.
And if a picture's worth a thousand words, then
sorryeverybody.com is exploding with a few million
very ardent expressions indeed, all echoing the same
simple but heartbreaking sentiment and all, presumably,
posted in the hope that the message will be somehow
reach the eyeballs of the world, the countries so very
and rightfully appalled and revolted by our apparent
lack of vision.
It seems to be working. Pictures are apparently
flooding into the site from around the world, full
of messages of "It's OK" and "Thanks for trying" and
"Just don't let it happen again" and it's even spawned
a European response page called apologiesaccepted.com
( http://www.apologiesaccepted.com/index.html )
and this is when it hits you : this little gag site,
unex
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I posted this before. Can't remember exactly how it goes, but here it is:
Blah-blah-blah Kerry lost, but Bush is yadda-yadda-yadda, whine-whine-whine to go with your cheese, bitch-bitch-bitch move to Canada (or maybe Iran, or North Korea).
Can you people possibly get over it??? You're going to be making a lot of counselors very rich. Sheesh.
Everyone dies alone.
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This isn't whining.
This is coalition-building. This is reaching out and building peace.
You can't see it, can you?
Poor limited creature.
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My acceptance of the apology will come when I see the protests as fighting policies doesn't end at the voting booth.
That said, I appreciate it 
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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@firefloozysuzie:
Thank you for posting the responce that I couldn't think of. You have a way with words
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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Yawn.
Reaching out and building peace, with a little "please pity us, we lost". Just a bunch of sour grapes, people. I've accepted Kerry resignation speech, why can't you? Now you can work for 2008, maybe even "Billary" Clinton. 
Everyone dies alone.
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@JRC:
Are you trying to provoke a fight?
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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Truth hurts, don't it?
Fight? Me? Nah..... 
Everyone dies alone.
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Quote:
Originally posted by JRC:
Truth hurts, don't it?
Fight? Me? Nah.....
Everyone dies alone.
What are you talking about?
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"Canada being mad at you is like Mr. Rogers throwing a brick through your window." -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show
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Get over it? Thats almost funny. Not as hillarious as getting a bum that couldn't do anything right get reelected. that was funny. It just shows that this once great nation has stooped to a new low. How soon will we be compared to the French? All that arrogance and for what? What have we done right lately? Where is the war on terror? If our new job is to take out power mad dictators who's next? jrc hasn't said anything of any real value. Kinda like Dubya.
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