What were you doing when you heard about the SCOTUS 2000 recount decision?

[zanne]

My husband and I had just come into the house with our Christmas tree. I turned on the televsion just in time to see the reporters running down the stairs of the Supreme Court building and the first reporter breathlessly informed us that Bush was the new president. We dropped the tree.

[lonestarnot]

1. Being sick listening to it.

Trying to work at a job and remain focused was difficult as I knew we were had and what we would face.

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Sitting on the couch stunned.

It was like commercial where the guy is at the psychiatrist and he tells him his problems and the psychiatrist responds in another language.

I thought I wasn't hearing it right.

[zanne]

10. I think of that whole first year as a surreal fog...

It seemed like every day was another insult to our intelligence. Suddenly, the Dark Side was having it's way. I felt like the "Roadrunner" when the anvil would land on him. "BAM"! "BOOM"! It was a bad dream I couldn't wake up from, but so many people around me weren't in the least bit upset.

[ColbertWatcher]

22. Um...

...I don't think the roadrunner ever got hit with the anvil; the coyote was always done in by his own traps.

[zanne]

23. See how badly they screwed me up? nt

[ColbertWatcher]

24. LOL! If Katherine Harris was watching the show...

...she'd call it even!

[Tippy]

3. Sitting right in front of the TV waiting..for them to tell FL to count the votes...

I just knew they would vote that way..I always knew our Constitution would protect us...Boy was I wrong....I sat their crying my eyes out, I just could not except what I had just whitnessed....The next thing I did was go out on the porch took my flag down and turned it upside down...It stayed that way until began falling apart...just like our country was doing.

[izquierdista]

4. Sitting in a foreign country

Thinking how I could cancel my return flight and just stay.

[helderheid]

16. I was living in Holland at the time, terrified of what would happen.

[remember2000forever]

5. In The Street Protesting In Palm Beach!

[mrcheerful]

6. I don't remember watching political shows at that time and I got the news from the 6 o'clock news

from that day forwards I changed my live and let live veiws. I put it in every pukes face every time George Bush said he cared about the countrythen doing the exact oppsite of his words, starting with his willingness to go on vacation instead of taking care of the countries business. Then 9/11 hit and I saw rampent greed as the towers burned, while the towers burned gas stations in my area started raising prices on gas and people were lining the block to fill up as the price continued to rise. I told pukes that this was their future with the SCOTUS decision to put a dry drunk in the white house, rampent greed with higher and higher prices and lower wages, job loss and longer hours. Never in my life would I have dreamed that the highest court in the land whose job it is to uphold the consititution ( remember that was the SCOTUS original intent according to the founding fathers )and I saw the puke corruption in the SCOTUS undermine the law of the land. I am sickened by puke corruption and greed.

[elocs]

7. To be honest, I have absolutely no idea. n/t

[katmondoo]

8. Watching Dan Abrams read the Ruling

He seeemed happy!!

[flashl]

9. Didn't need to wait for the announcement, the answer was already clear. nt

[sharesunited]

11. At the computer waiting for the PDF to download.

Within two minutes of starting to read it, I could see they were installing that nincompoop into office.

Pretty discouraging and disgraceful.

[michreject]

13. Watching one of the news programs

waiting for the announcment.

[Berry Cool]

12. Sitting in what was then the house of my youngest sister, surrounded by family members,

trying to come to terms with the fact that at about 1:45 a.m. on the morning of the previous day, my mother, out of nowhere, had dropped dead of a heart attack. Requring me to pull myself together and get on a bus as soon as I could and go to that house and deal with it.

Watching the news with the roomful of other people, because someone at some point had turned it on, and feeling as if I was wrapped in a swath of cotton gauze that had left me numb and unaffected by anything going on in the outside world. Thinking to myself: Right now, the Supreme Court could announce that it had decided that a reincarnated Hitler was going to be the new President, and it wouldn't really make any difference in how I feel.

I do believe that whatever emotional stresses my mother was undergoing that may have contributed to her death, the unresolved election situation was probably not helping. Like all of us, she was used to knowing the day after an election who was going to be the President. When that turned out not to be the case, it probably didn't do a lot to help her anxiety about life in general. Nor can it have been pleasant for her to have sat in front of a TV and watched it be argued and fought about for a month.

But really, on December 12, 2000, I was sad, depressed and upset as hell, but not one particle of it had anything to do with the fact that George W. Bush was going to be President.

Looking back, I'm glad. If I'd had any idea of what it would ultimately mean, I don't know what I would have done.

[zanne]

14. What a terrible time for you.

I'm so sorry you had to go through that and I hope that time has helped to dull the pain.

[Berry Cool]

21. Thanks. n/t

[AlCzervik]

15. On the phone with my sister 3000 miles away, i think we both cried.

that was literally one of the worst days of my life and i was pretty depressed for awhile. I kept thinking it wouldn't stick and cnn would break back in telling us all that Gore was actually the President.

[LucyParsons]

17. Working as a tour guide at the Texas Capitol and Governor's Mansion

Yeah.

We were all watching TV in the breakroom. And all hated W.

:cry:

[MountainLaurel]

18. At work

My boss came out of her office to report the news.

[stevedeshazer]

19. In the emergency room with my dad and my brother

My brother is a right winger. He was delighted.

Now he and my sister in law have switched to the Democratic Party. Not because they're Democrats in spirit, but so she can get elected as a county commissioner in 2010 and get campaign funds from the local right-wing Democratic machine.

Yeah, they exist.

But that's a whole 'nother story.

[CTyankee]

20. All I remember was how quiet my office at Planned Parenthood of CT was.

Our VP for Public Affairs had a Time magazine mock up of George W. Bush with the banner "We are fucked."

It was a crushing blow to prochoicers. Just stunning. We had warned everyone about Bush and what he would do to Roe v. Wade. What a nightmare coming true!

[King Bacon Fat]

25. We've been fortunate...

that Little George has only had the chance to replace two justices and that neither of them were from the "liberal wing". The next president could potentially replace 4-5 justices over two terms. All the more reason to get Obama in the White House.

As for me? I was 18 and that was the first election that I ever voted in. Even though I hadn't voted for the Democratic ticket- I wrote in Al Gore with Paul Wellstone instead- I was still distraught. I went through a carton of cigarettes a week for a month and a half. By 2004, whiskey had replaced tobacco. I was drunk for two months after Bush "won" that election.