Napier, this is one of the sorriest things I have ever read.
Where the fuck do you get off posting a smarmy piece of shit like that and trying to pass it off as being from all of us? “This is a very embarrassing time to be American.” My ass.
No. I’m not going to Pit Napier. I agree with everything he said in the text of his OP. But I am not embarrassed to be an American. I’m proud of it and told him that in my post in his thread. But pit him? Why would I do that? He’s right.
And FTR, his text reads like someone proud of his country and sad to see the mistakes the current administration has so royally made. If I’d written it I would have left out the first and last sentences. But the rest is spot on.
Forgive my disagreement, but I honestly believe that the re-election of Bush is the worst thing that could possibly happen to America. Period.
I honestly have no idea what I’m going to do if he’s kept on for another four years. It will prove to me that a majority of my fellow Americans are gullible idiots who will believe anything that comes out of the mouth of a multiply-proven liar if he’s the “right” party. Our neighbors to the North begin to look awfully attractive at that point.
Ok, I got a little pissed at what I consider to be a particular level of weirdness on this board. Apologies.
I really don’t want either of them to be president for the next four years. One of them will be, and the sun will come up just like always, no matter which one is elected.
I fear that some of you have worked yourselves into such a state of haterd that if Bush wins you will be stuck with an attitude like you’ve expressed. It ain’t gonna’ be the end of the world, either way.
For your own sake, try to relax and be more pragmatic. Close to one-half of the citizens of this country don’t agree with you. That fact doesn’t make them fools, even if you’d like to think it does.
Or, oh, I don’t know…Bush is a hack of a president who’s done some uncommonly stupid things in his four years in office and really shouldn’t be allowed within 100 yards of any seat of power more influential than the Texas Rangers (the baseball team, not the actual law enforcement organization)?
Or maybe because this election will either prove to the world that the last four years (well, actually last three years) was a fluke and we’re not REALLY all about letting some ham-handed grown child play with the nuclear/military toybox, or it will prove to them that Americans shouldn’t even be allowed out of their houses without keepers, let alone allowed to vote?
I’m tired of being “nice” and “diplomatic” and “agreeing to disagree” with people who are obviously set on returning a miserable failure to the White House. We’re better than this shit.
How can you be posting when The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen to America is going to happen in less than 24 hours? Shouldn’t you be performing last rites or getting ready to run to Canada or something?
Well, Napier composed a pretty damn good thread I thought. He may not speak for all Americans, but he speaks pretty accurately for probably about half of the electorate.
Plague?
Famine?
8.0 Earthquake?
Civil war?
Full nuclear exchange?
Bollocks, none of those would be nearly so bad as seeing a poor president re-elected. Our republic has never had to survive bad chief executives before … we can’t handle it! The deaths of millions are nothing compared to the horror of a lame-duck president try to enact policy facing a divided Congress.
“deeply obsessed individual” it is.
If I’m obsessed, it’s because I’ve been made obsessed. I’ve watched this “president” make a shambles of worldwide sympathy and concern after 9/11. I’ve watched this “president” fight for the passage of a constitutional amendment that would have set a cause I’m passionately committed to back 50 years. I’ve watched this “president” feed this country shit sandwiches for at least three years and convince at least half of us that they’re filet mignon.
Millard Fillmore was a poor president. George W. Bush isn’t qualified to shine Fillmore’s shoes.
I’d say it’s pretty bad when your own former-president father has kept his mouth clamped shut the entire campaign because he can’t bring himself to endorse his own son but doesn’t think it would be right to come right out and say so.
I don’t think that I would fault Bush with an 8.0 earthquake. In my opinion, anything else is more likely to happen under his watch.
Take the plague for example. It wasn’t just the museum in Baghdad that was looted. According to the American Ambassador to Croatia who was in Baghdad on April 13, 2003, two of the things looted were from a center for the study of diseases and were “live” containers of HIV and Black Fever. After the Ambassador reported this in person in an hour long conversation (along with info about missing yellow cake from another site) to Wolfowitz, an angry Wolfowitz refused to accept any calls from him.
He gets off posting any opinion that the Straight Dope finds meets with their rules and regulations – same as you. Why? Are you one of those Americans who wants to gag people who don’t agree with them?
He was’t trying to pass it off as being from all of us. (We can pretty well figure that out on our own. Some of us have noticed a slight disagreement in the USA about who should be President.) When he says, “This is a very embarrassing time to be American,” most of us have no trouble discerning that he is talking about his own feelings.
Your pitting is a waste, but I’m glad that you and Napier take advantage of the freedom that SDMB grants to you.