Letters to the Editor
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Hilarious!
Again I say, Help us Obi-wan Huckabee. You are our only hope. Only a Baptist pastor traditionalist conservative with the mindset of Edmund Burke and John Locke has any hope of rolling the trend towards executive authoritarianism back, as only a Nixon could go to China. Only such an outsider would even consider rolling executive branch power back...
-- tominwindsor
Talk about battered electorate syndrome! It's bad enough with the Paultards, but this? After 40 years of buying into this crap, he still wants more? Just bend over and assume the position, Tom.
Game over, man! Game over! My country is full of morons!
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The game.
I have to agree with some of the posters here who've pointed out that the zealots on both sides of the duopoly are snookered.
It's a game. Both the Repub and Dem pols stroke their bases when it's election time--then afterwards go about business as usual. All they care about is power and maintaining their incumbency.
That is the same argument I made with a 'value voter' before the '04 selection. I think they saw the light, at least a glimmer. Gays are a 'button' issue, well you could say a 'bumper issue'. Like the bumpers in a pinball game. *BOING* *THUMP* *BONG* *BONG* *BONG* *BINK* goes the values voters, bouncing off the bumper issues. Gays *BONK* Death tax *DING* Until they are needed for the next hysterical moment in 'bumper politics'. I read also that the house and senate members are the richest so far in all of history. Who wouldn't want to stay in that more and more private club?
Hell, Bill Clinton and Daddy Bush are golfing buddies. That tells you all you need to know. It's all a charade. And all you fervent believers in the Ds or Rs are shmucks.
It is odd but not unheard of to associate with your opposition. It is hard to believe that after all the millions that the Bushies wasted on Clinton clique investigations and all of the dirty tricks and 'rat fucking' that went on, probably at the direction of or at least knowledge of the Bush cabal, that Bubba would be so very much forgiving. Is it an act? Is it the 'keep your enemies closer' bit? Is it the abused spouse clinging to the abuser? Is Bill more comfortable with the bare knuckle Bushes than clueless democrats? OR, is he hoping that the Bushes will support his wife.
You've been brainwashed to never vote for a third party. You'd be wasting your vote. Keep repeating that mantra. That's what the powers-that-be want you to believe.
The 'third party' fallacy is that a 'real third party candidate' will come striding in from the woods and be elected to 'save the country' in the nick of time and right all wrongs and all will be right with the world. Isn't that a rather messianic fairy tale that lazy cowards would tell their children in the bombed out cities of the future? The third party fallacy is just that in my mind. There would have to be a candidate with such gravitas and such command of whatever makes people vote for them that they would be nearly everyone's choice for the position.
What you are asking for is a christ-like figure who would instantly just 'knock'em dead' and also have such a spotless past, or control of the media, that any questions of their character would bounce off like bullets on Superman's chest. Such a person does not exist. Well, except Rupert Murdoch who *could* control enough media that they could in essence control the message and pummel anyone that dares to ask anything meaty related to the many scandals he is in the middle of.
It is very telling that with every scandal and every half wit candidate for office the bar is lowered for those that follow them. It's really a study in abnormal psych and in programming than much of anything else.
If this trend continues, because the bar has been lowered enough that both the sitting president and vice-president are convicted lawbreakers, who knows what the qualifications will sink to for future leaders.
One thing is certain. Through out history, the oppressive leaders of a country are eventually overthrown. Not always for the good, unfortunately. I can understand the Nihilist belief that to change government sometimes you have to start over. perhaps America is overdue for another revolution. I only hope that the right people start it and the right people end it.
-- libertaria
I saw a bumper sticker that said 'Freedom is not Free'. Perhaps Americans have been to complacent and take freedom for granted. That time for leisure and compliance is nearing an end. I'm not advocating violence. Just expressing an extreme of what could happen in the future in America. After all, how embarrassing would it be if some other country freed the citizens of this country?
Maybe voter education would be a great idea. Start pulling religious influence out of politics. Work to get money out of politics. So many avenues for effecting change...
Monday may tell all. If Reid, et all are able to pass retroactive telecom immunity, then the future looks very dark indeed.
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Help! Freeze, ice, and slippery slopes are forecast. Snow!
I 've been 'out-there' elsewhere listening to people. The "normal" folk 'out' there 'screwing' up need to retire/tread/turd. Pew. Get. Scat. Crawl up in a fetal ball...weep.
My drive home late last eve from Baltimore are was on a fast driving Interstate. It was wild, weary, and wow-whee! Please no ask. Skip. I prayed "baby Jesus, please take the steering wheel while I sleep."
The truck-news-radio last night said expect some sleet. O, sheets! I felt like a stroll down the Fells Point, Balto's, taverns streets for some more news, and cold brews. Yikes.
Arkansas Governor Hackable was interviewed. Whoa! Another gop cleft in a rock, a safety refuge, and a relief to provide cold beers for thirsty tongues, and a safe tower? huh. He too will show unrestrained power toward Iran. He will Blame the foreclosed homeowners, and keep bombs that kill babies on the dinner table? O, Huck baby, O, rock me in a cradle, O, make me and the yet unborn offspring a sandwich with peanut butter and jam? Gracious fir' tellin' the world what's really happening. possums. And Blame me and others, yet, O, Che prays you will nor forget to give the bank-lenders a free roll of tp? O, we want to be happy and renounce our forlorn. Aka yak
dodo Odo...o wonders of miracles...and yet...
for you types must Know-~too, Whoa scabies,
Woe. Lola. No-longer- perform. Go to Sheol!
Help our unbelief! The spies keep debating.
Let it snow, let it snow let it snow. Snow!
Now that the lord baby infant got me safely home without a tickle in the pants, It's time to wait for more wrath? Age's get me a white head painted with snow. O, leave me not preacher huckabee more pale or more forlorn. O, let me enjoy the fixated snow!
Pastor preachers can read the black FECA bible and sit in the back pew. O, help-givers, just ignore 'our' childish ways and lead people not in a temptation in Fells Pony barrooms or get in drunken brawls with any politicians. O my Good God Unnamed may thy wonted will happen- O, can you spare some of us a dime?
Please skip and ignore me.