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I don't understand

I do telephone surveys two days a week. This evening, eight hours after the bombing, we did a survey on the american reaction to the bombing. The survey consisted of twenty questions. 8 of those were dealing with Bushes preformance and the replicans in general. I do not know who commiosned the survey. Hope thats more clear.

I see. I gues s the democrats did. I bet allot of people had fightin words for who ever is responsible for this. I myself am feeling my shock turn to anger.

why would dems comission a survey on republicans?...too many questions unasnwered.

I still dont understand the point of this post.

Why would someone commison a public realtions survey with heavily republican content to be processed 8 hours after the bombing ?
Who commisoned it and why ?

This is easily the stupidest thread of all time.

Yeah, but it hasn't hit Rock Bottom yet.

Almost certainly it would have been commissioned by a media source, Anthony. The first poll saying "98% of Americans support Bush"; "92% say bomb Afghanistan back to the stone age" etc. etc. is going to be fairly hot news.

Why Ally ?
Do you not find it at least semi interesting that someone was comssioning poltical surveys two hours after the bombing ?
Are we so focus grouped to death that we need people calling and asking how we feel ?

Of course there will be many interested in first opinion polls. Of course these polls will be almost utterly irrelevant, at least until things have been brought into proper perspective (wherever/whenever that might be). And no, surely we don't need to know HOW PEOPLE FEEL. Don't we know already?

Could this story be the result of the survey Anthony was involved in?

Maybe it's just because I'm getting tired tonight, but I'm coming pretty close to the end of by tether with all this well-intentioned discussion and dissemination and debating. But what else is there right now? It's inescapable for everyone, unless you're barricading yourself in your own little world and ignoring everything around you.

But now I'm watching the television reports, watching for something to happen in the background, thinking that, at any moment, the reporter I'm listening to could be assaulted, stabbed, killed, that the building behind him could explode, that the broadcast signal could dissolve into maddening static.

Sometime last year, while mindlessly browsing the internet, I stumbled upon a 6-second movie. It showed a woman tied to a chair, blindfolded (I think). She was dressed in a blue floral-print dress - that I do remember. The wall behind her was the type of faux woodpaneling you'd find in any number of surburban households; there might've been a small window, too. I clicked on the play button - she screamed, "This is real! This is real!" And then a gun entered the screen on the right while she's screaming. And then her head snapped back while smoke slithered out of the gun's barrel. I sat there in shock, my hand numb over the mouse, my eyes stapled open, suspended in this sense of dread, thinking that THIS COULD REALLY HAPPEN. That someone could carry a gun with them, point it at me (or anyone), pull the trigger, and erase a person (or persons) without a second thought. That simple.

And now I'm watching these updates with that same realization twisting my stomach in so many knots. And I have little idea what else there is for me to do but watch and wait for the inevitable.

Sorry for the rant. I was just thinking aloud, and I'm going to send this message against my better judgement. I'll go to sleep, and this will all fade into the back of my mind. Right now, though ... I don't know.