Letters to the Editor
Ijon Tichy
Published Letters: 452 Editor's Choice: 69
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More questions that ought to be asked
[Read the article: Your modern-day Republican Party]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why stop with eliminating habeas corpus? If the new definition of America is empire and the new definition of 'being presidential' is Julius Caesar, shouldn't we quiz our new Il Duce's on their dictatorial creds?
1) Rudy Guiliani: Your in your last term is President and its a time of great conflict would you hesitate or show true manly determination in suspending elections to ensure your continued reign?
2) Mr. Tancredo: Knowing that we are threatened by the dirty rabble of swarthy faced hook nosed hordes not just outside our borders but within, would you be strong enough a leader to order all non-citizens and their sympathizers be rounded up and concentrated in camps where they can be watched and isolated from society? If the demands of war require it would you have the sensible corporate leadership to put those who can work to work in factories making our weapons? If no country will take the rest and the demands of war make feeding and housing those that can't work prohibitive to the living standard so demanded by our people, would you have the courage to demand a final solution?
3) Mr. McCain: Having personally experienced the true depravity of our enemies would you have the resolve to take whatever actions necessary to ensure the Iraqi people don't follow our boys home to kill us here, ordering nuclear annilihation of Iraq before they annihilate us? Would you show the same resolve for Iran? How about China?
4) Mr. Gingrich: Knowing the ways Congress can undermine a President's authority, particularly through specious impeachment trials would you be man enough to dissolve Congress and declare yourself dictator for life, when such Congress poses a threat to your patriotic endeavors? Will you make marriage by same sex people a crime punishable by death and attendance at church mandatory to preserve our spiritual purity and essence of our precious bodily fluids?
If we are waiting for the people who support this type of lunacy to suddenly stand up and yell "Seig Heil!" to warn us of their dangers, we are in a whole lot of trouble.
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A president locked in the imperial palace
[Read the article: Dodging the boo birds]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]In the last months of Nixon's evil reign he was forced to make public appearances and speeches only at military bases. The public venom against him was so great his handlers could not risk a scene in an uncontrolled audience.
Long before the media woke up to what the public already knew, that Bush was an idiot and his war was one of choice and poorly chosen and executed at that, his handlers tightly controlled what "patriotic Americans" could swoon at his speeches. That alone should have sent the MSM and the Dems on a crusade to point out that any president that won't face the very people he wants to represent shouldn't be president. However, in this time of terrorism such controlled bunker speeches are considered acceptable to prevent our brave leaders from the onslaught of radicals, feminazis, Islamofascists and whatever baddy is the evil dujour on FOX's 24.
Thanks to someone yelling theatre in a crowded fire all sanity is tossed and we are subject to both the craziness of some real or imagined terrorist and the lunacy of those who create a fortress of solitude against them.
Then comes the first day of April and the ultimate one last chance at an America we love; the one with all the roques, scalawags, magnates and drug fueled athletes with which we contribute to the loss of job productivity to go and see.
It used to be that a president, know matter how disliked, would still be cheered for tossing out the first pitch of the first game of the season. It wasn't him tossing the pitch, but "Merica" blessing the new spring. And if he had any respect for "Mericans" he had better get his ass down to the nearest ballpark and bless this holy sport.
Today, this is a President so hated, more hated and despised than anyone since the fake Abner Doubleday invented the game, that he could not face the American people. (We're talking Nixon here, people. He never missed an opening day pitch) Well, he could if the Secret Service could prevent anyone entering the ballpark who didn't swear an oath to ultimate love and admiration for the President. I'm sure the idea was tossed out by Rove through some Sampson like toady, but for some odd reason not in keeping with the administration's policies, rejected.
If the MSM cared about us the people, or at least had a sense of humor they would track all the other traditional events that might put the president in jeopardy of being confronted by real people; like the ones with loved ones coming home from Iraq in a box.
Each night some somber talking head, or in the case of CBS, some perky female anchor whose name sounds alot like Fakey Your Ick, could and should run a monitor of each time Bush the brave, the pilot the commander in chief, the fearless defender of our boys in uniform, once agains cringes at the thought of actually meeting the people he so claims to defend.
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Ten bucks!
[Read the article: The people who claim "the surge is working"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I've bought rugs from Morroco to the Middle East and it would be an insult to pay such a pittance for a rug. What a twit. No wonder they hate us.
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He's tan, he's rested...
[Read the article: The GOP's secret weapon?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Actually, Dick Cheney was the paper's second choice, until someone in obits discovered Caligula's been dead for almost 2000 years.