Yes, they’ll relentlessly nice you to death. Terrifying. Really.
Isn’t naivete CUTE?
It doesn’t hurt for them to have reading comprehension. Or to be able to read.
Yeah, Bar was really sucessful with her literacy campaign. Her son, the appointed leader of the United States, proclaims that he doesn’t read. Note, I said doesn’t not that he can’t.
:dubious:
And yet another Republican was missed by Bar’s Literacy Campaign.
Was the last truly successful First Lady’s platform Lady Bird Johnson?
Ah, but little Karl Rove cries himself to sleep tonight. He had dreams, such sweet, sweet dreams…thousands of filthy, violent, nasty protestors…lots of signs equating Bush to Hitler…hundreds of NYPD carried off in stretchers, bloody victims of weapons-grade tofu…gangs of shrieking harridans demanding mandatory partial birth abortions for heterosexuals…
Alas, the dream fades, just a couple of puny hecklers… Rove gets up, a glass of warm milk, a couple of puppies into the blender, try to relax…
One of these days, the ‘loyal’ opposition will stop fabricating ‘facts’ about President Bush. On that happy day, you will go back to the referenced post and see where you made shit up.
God, I had to turn off the TV. It was just utter drivel. He only interrupted the platitudes to interject a few lies. How many more times is this guy going to say he invaded Iraq to “defend” the United States? Does anyone on the planet still believe that?
How many more times is he going to claim that the rest of the world is desparate for democracy and that we apparently have to issue forth on the request of God to force it upon them?
The sad thing is that there are obviously millions of people who still believe countless things this guy says, I think, through the power of repetition. If they say it enough times it becomes truth. It’s mass hypnosis. Or mass love.
I think there are some pairs of sunglasses out there, and if we put them on, we will be able to see the true alien faces behind the human masks of Bush and his cronies.
It doesn’t matter who wins, I won’t be dancing in the streets. Although if GW wins, I may be crying in the rain.
Sadly, I believe that America will guzzle down very last drop of the bilgewater spewed yesterday by that aphasic little gibbon and return him to office for four more years of Third World politics.
Good luck, dear cousins.
So?
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them” – Mark Twain
If it’s not raining, will a decent shower do?
Of course they will. Rove made sure that Bush said what Americans wanted to hear. Compare:
Kerry: We have problems.
Bush: We have hope.
Kerry: I am a hero.
Bush: You are all heros.
Kerry: I admire John McCain.
Bush: I admire Ronald Reagan.
Kerry: Your government is corrupt.
Bush: Your government is compassionate.
Kerry: The sky is falling.
Bush: The sky is the limit.
Kerry: Jobs, debt, poverty.
Bush: Honor, strength, courage.
Kerry: We need allies.
Bush: We have allies.
Kerry: Things are complicated.
Bush: Things are simple.
Kerry: We have a calling from our alliances.
Bush: We have a calling from beyond the stars.
Kerry: The battle for freedom is on our shores.
Bush: Our homeland is safe and free.
Kerry: We have a path from the 9/11 Commission.
Bush: We have a path to opportunity.
Kerry: Our people are diverse.
Bush: Our people have one goal.
Kerry: Drug companies get windfalls from prescriptions.
Bush: Our seniors deserve access to prescription drugs.
Kerry: I heard from a steel worker in Canton.
Bush: I heard from a soldier in combat.
Kerry: People are helpless.
Bush: People are resourceful.
Kerry: Invest in technology.
Bush: Invest in children.
Kerry: I will cut middle-class taxes.
Bush: I will overhaul the whole tax system.
Kerry: I will maintain the social security pyramid.
Bush: Americans should own their retirement funds.
Kerry: Spend less on prisons and more on Head Start.
Bush: Government handouts aren’t the answer.
Kerry: God is not on our side.
Bush: Freedom is God’s gift to mankind.
Kerry: We need to reach for the next dream.
Bush: Liberty is the everlasting dream of Americans.
This aggressive, belligerent and intimidating Minnesota liberal is just pissed off that the motherfucker interrupted over an hour’s worth of her football game with the same lies he’s been spewing for four years. Nice stereotype, though. :rolleyes:
Eh. As I said in a thread on the Fat Albert movie, I can complain about the stink of catshit, but if I pick it up and eat it, I have only myself to blame.
Rather than eating the catshit, I read The Three Musketeers last night, during the convention.
Far more nourishing.
Daniel
You can add Chester Alan Arthur to the list already given. He was diagnosed with a fatal kidney ailment and only put of a token effort to get the Republican nomination. He lived at 123 Lexington Avenue in NYC (someone was kind enough to take some pictures of the building, which now includes a grocery store and apartments - a damn shame), and died in 1886.
Ugh. Convention acceptance speeches are so heavily programmed that it’s highly unlikely that any particular one is gonna be a barnburner, and this one seemed more turgid than most. I was shocked that most of the assembled instant pundits whose opinions I heard (admittedly mainly on Fox) thought it was a big success; for me, W buried the lead, what with going on for what seemed like forever on various proposals that only the wonkiest of wonks could get excited about before eventually getting on to, uh, the vision thing. Although it turns out only to have been a few minutes longer than Kerry’s accpetance speech, it dragged like a 5-day cricket test.
I tried, as best I could, to listen to the Prez’s maunderings as if I’d never heard him speak before, and what I came away with was a series of proposals for both lowered taxes and increased government spending (How ya gonna do that, George?), repeated assertions that a right to litigate that in part gives the poor and disposessed a chance to stand up against corporate might is somehow one of the greatest scourges of our nation, a clearly contemptuous dismissal of Kerry, an utterly incoherent explanation of why we so badly needed to invade Iraq (as if we’ve ever heard a factual rationale from this administration), the US is on a MISSION FROM GOD to go around the world and depose any government, at any time, it decides, on its own, needs deposing, something or other about fetuses being productive members of society, and marriage between men and women, for some reason not clearly articulated in the speech, must be defended from something or other. Oh yeah, and the. most. boring. tag. line. ever. (“in this time of change”). Well, if this is a time of change, I’m all for making some changes, like in our choice of President, for example.
(Camera pulls back, tons of balloons and confetti drop from the ceiling, crowd chants “Four fewer years! Four fewer years! Four fewer years!”)
Fade…
This is a joke, right?
I’ve been saying the same thing about Seinfeld.