Oh, For....
Nov. 1st, 2006 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomAnything to take the heat off their own sorry asses for even a microsecond:
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
You can't simultaneously say "he botched a line" and "he insulted the troops" -- either you think he meant to, or you think he didn't. You can't simultaneously say "[he] put gasoline on the fire" and "we're not the ones who whipped this up into a big issue" -- either it's offensive, or you let it go like the adults you purport to be (and I'll even grant the option of a snide shot at Kerry, something along the lines of "he should rehearse more the next time he intends to speak in public" -- it would've stung like hell, but that would've been legit).
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
So they whip up the tiniest thread of a potential something into as much of a conflagration as they can, hoping not for fire but for smoke. Because the more that people look at what the President and his men have done, the more they realize it's time for a pretty drastic change.
The Repubs figure they only have to keep people off-balance and distracted for another week. And their desperation is palpable, for one reason: they have failed at everything else. They have failed in Iraq, and they have failed in selling Iraq. They have failed at governance. They have failed at stopping corruption. They have failed at their basic vow of defending and protecting the Constitution. They have failed at homeland security. They have failed at international relations. They have failed at environmental protection. They have failed at education. They have failed at basic accounting. They have failed at telling the truth about the freaking weather.
They have even failed at keeping their own base "values" voters.
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
The White House pressed Sen. John Kerry today to apologize for a comment Republicans say was disrespectful of U.S. fighting forces in Iraq, saying he “put gasoline on the fire” of an already sizzling midterm election campaign.Kos has an excellent look at the whole bullshit spectacle. But I'll tell you what struck me:
“Sen. Kerry may have botched the line, but what he said was insulting to the troops, and what he ought to say is, ’Look, I botched the line, but I’m sorry for giving offense,’ “ press secretary Tony Snow said on CBS’s “The Early Show.”
“We’re not the one who whipped this up into a big issue. Sen. Kerry did so yesterday,” said Snow, appearing the day after President Bush and Kerry traded their harshest accusations since the 2004 presidential race. Bush accused the Massachusetts Democrat of troop-bashing and Kerry called the president’s men hacks who are “willing to lie” to gloss over problems with the war policy.
The fiery exchange evoked memories of 2004, injecting more adrenaline into what has been a taut midterm election fight between Republicans trying to cling to control of Congress and Democrats striving to win it back.
What triggered it was Kerry’s comment, to a group of California students on Monday, that people unable to succeed in the U.S. educational system would likely “get stuck in Iraq.”
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
You can't simultaneously say "he botched a line" and "he insulted the troops" -- either you think he meant to, or you think he didn't. You can't simultaneously say "[he] put gasoline on the fire" and "we're not the ones who whipped this up into a big issue" -- either it's offensive, or you let it go like the adults you purport to be (and I'll even grant the option of a snide shot at Kerry, something along the lines of "he should rehearse more the next time he intends to speak in public" -- it would've stung like hell, but that would've been legit).
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
So they whip up the tiniest thread of a potential something into as much of a conflagration as they can, hoping not for fire but for smoke. Because the more that people look at what the President and his men have done, the more they realize it's time for a pretty drastic change.
The Repubs figure they only have to keep people off-balance and distracted for another week. And their desperation is palpable, for one reason: they have failed at everything else. They have failed in Iraq, and they have failed in selling Iraq. They have failed at governance. They have failed at stopping corruption. They have failed at their basic vow of defending and protecting the Constitution. They have failed at homeland security. They have failed at international relations. They have failed at environmental protection. They have failed at education. They have failed at basic accounting. They have failed at telling the truth about the freaking weather.
They have even failed at keeping their own base "values" voters.
They have nothing.
No. Thing.
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Date: 2006-11-01 03:37 pm (UTC)And yet, overall, close to 50% of Americans will vote for them, because they fear that, if they don't, the streets will be overrun with flag-burning married homosexuals.
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Date: 2006-11-01 03:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 04:58 pm (UTC)Flag-burning, married, homosexual illegal immigrants what listen to the Dixie Chicks in their hot-pink Priuses, you mean.
*cough*
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Date: 2006-11-01 04:58 pm (UTC)Priusi?
Priusi?
Date: 2006-11-02 12:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:05 pm (UTC)From North Korea!
(Icon love.)
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Date: 2006-11-01 07:19 pm (UTC)The older I get, the more I think this is actually less accurate than I used to think.
Close to 50% of Americans will vote for them because that's what their parents did, and that's what they've always done.
I cannot tell you how many people in my state are having a problem with our Senate race--they certainly don't want Conrad Burns back in office because he's horrible, but voting for Jon Tester is difficult for them "because he's a Democrat." That's the reason. That's the reason they say out loud.
Which is not to push that off just on Republican voters. Plenty of Democratic voters are the same way, though I think it's a lesser percentage.
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Date: 2006-11-02 10:01 pm (UTC)I just knew I was voting the communist, socialist, hairy-legged baby-killing atheist ticket. But snce I was already going to hell for being gay, I figured, screw it.
Voting democrat (or republican) is like sex, it gets easier the more foten you do it.
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Date: 2006-11-01 03:51 pm (UTC)Do good is school or you might end up an idiot playing at being president, who gets himself stuck in a bad war since he doesn't know how to get himself out of it.
I guess it all depends on how you look at it.
VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 03:53 pm (UTC)Kalki Gaur, Editor World Press Club, Washington DC, 7:00 AM, Wednesday, November 1, 2006.
GOOD GUYS Vs BAD GUYS: United States is a Two-Headed Giant, where One head is of the Good Guy Republican American that wants to create American Empire. The Second head is of Bad Guys Democrats that wants to make White House the Servant Quarters of the Church and Papacy. Good Guys want to Rule the Oil World, wage war on Terrorism and befriend India and Democracies. Bad Guys want Pope to Rule America and nurture Islamic Terrorism and Communist intolerance and overthrow democracies. Choice is yours. Vote your conscience on 7th November 2006. Vote for Virtue and Dump Evil.
REJECT DEMOCRATIC AGENDA OF DECEPTION NEWSPEAK DOUBLETHINK: Democratic Party, Presidents Administrations are experts in Deception and fool people by proving that Black is White, Upside is Downside, Good is Bad, Evil is Virtue and this is recognized worldwide as Wilsonian Policy of Deception Newspeak Doublethink. Republicans especially Bush and Rice are straight shooters. Petro-Pax-Americana in Afghanistan, Iraq and possibly Iran, is a Virtue and good for American economy and a moral imperative for War on Islamic Terrorism. Vote against Democratic Deception Newspeak. Clinton Carter Kennedy weakened America. Reagan and Bush empowered America and destroyed Communism.
DEMOCRATS UNFIT FOR OVAL OFFICE: American Blacks, Latinos and WASPs should vote for the Republicans in elections 206 and 2008 to protect and empower secular Petro-Pax-Americana. The Carter, Clinton and Kennedy Administrations represented the New Dark Age of Axis of Medieval that harmed the national interests of the United States by extra-constitutional misuse of the power of the White House to implement the hidden Iconoclast Monotheist Agenda of the Church. The Election 2006 is the electoral clash of Democratic Medievalism Vs Republican Machiavellian Colonialism. Democrats have offered no policy alternatives, except to deploy Inquisitions for Republican sexual digressions, the same Democrats who opposed Monica Lewinski allegations. The 2006 Election Clash of Religious Democratic Medievalism Vs Secular Republican Petro-Colonialism is a Real Choice for American Voters. Americans have to choose between Pope’s lobbyists or Oil lobbyists, and between Fundamentalism-Terrorism Axis or War on Terrorism. American Voters now have an election opportunity to choose between Democratic Religious Medievalism and accommodation of Islamic Terrorism and secular Republican Machiavellian Petro-Colonialism and War on Islamic Terrorism. Democrats want the Global New Dark Age to descend on Earth. Republicans wants the New Age of Colonialism in 21st Century. Democratic Party represents Dark Age Medievalism. Republican Party represents Secular Machiavellian Modernism. The Two Party System no longer represents the same wine in differently colored bottles. Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Samuel P. Huntington, Madeleine Albright represent the pro-China patriarchal iconoclast fundamentalist intolerant Axis of Medieval in American Politics that seeks to implement the End of Time eschatology of Prophetic Christians that conducted foreign policy to implement the religious agenda through an alliance with genocidal Islamic terrorism and Communist extremism. George Bush and Condoleezza Rice represent the morally right secular axis of modernity that seeks to implement the Oil agenda through an alliance with nuclear India and via War on Islamic terrorism. The elections of November 2006 and 2006 present to American Voters an opportunity to choose between Medievalism and Modernity. The Congressional Cox Report Jan 1999, details how Democrats allowed the theft of American nuclear technology to China and other countries? Global Axis of Medieval engineered the transfer of nuclear weapon technology to Pakistan, Iran, Malaysia and North Korea to ignite Christian-Islamic Armageddon to fulfill End of Time Eschatology.
George Bush & Condi Rice symbolizes Machiavellian Colonialism, which is morally right.
KALKI GAUR
Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 03:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 04:01 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 04:17 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 06:37 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 06:42 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 04:30 pm (UTC)However, that last bit touting "Machiavellian Colonialism" as "morally right" seems to indicate that it is a spoof indeed, just one gone way overboard.
@ Hugh Casey: Can I gank that avatar?
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Date: 2006-11-01 05:01 pm (UTC)Re: VOTE GOOD GUYS REPUBLICANS - DUMP EVIL BAD GUYS DEMOCRATIS - KALKI GAUR
Date: 2006-11-01 06:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 03:54 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:44 pm (UTC)Cowards.
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Date: 2006-11-01 04:04 pm (UTC)I wish I believed that automatically meant they'd lose the next elections.
What I Want to Hear From John Kerry
Date: 2006-11-01 04:16 pm (UTC)"I apologize also for your having to be there as the result of incompetent and criminal choices by a C-minus student who evaded any serious military duty himself, and cannot possibly understand what you are experiencing there. I'm sorry you're dying as a result, and we are going to do our damndest to get you home, where you belong, as soon as possible."
Yeah, What I WISH We'd Heard From John Kerry
Date: 2006-11-01 05:45 pm (UTC)Re: Yeah, What I WISH We'd Heard From John Kerry
Date: 2006-11-01 05:54 pm (UTC)What a Grand Old Party this is...
Date: 2006-11-01 04:39 pm (UTC)I was at the Kerry talk. The "offending" phrase is one which got a big laugh from most of us present. We knew WHO it was directed at. Every news account I've read of it since has taken it out of context & edited out the general audience reaction.
So much for the media being too "Liberal."
Re: What a Grand Old Party this is...
Date: 2006-11-02 12:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-11-01 05:45 pm (UTC)As for your spammer, I'm eerily reminded of a Dr Bronner label...
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Date: 2006-11-01 07:21 pm (UTC)Thank you. I think that's what I've been trying to say and have been too annoyed by EVERYONE to squeeze out.
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Date: 2006-11-02 02:33 am (UTC)Gee, coulda fooled me.
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Date: 2006-11-02 03:46 am (UTC)Literally. The Republican party is about NOTHING. It's a bunch of immature not-quite-adults having a party at our expense and playing soldier with the lives of our troops.
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Date: 2006-11-02 10:04 pm (UTC)*sigh*
Any teacher will tell you he's speaking just the plain truth. I don't think he needed to apologize. I think he needed to stand behind his words and say "There is something wrong with an America where putting your life on the line in a combat zone is the only way out of poverty for some people."