BS: The Worm Turns

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:45 PM

That GUEST who posted at 1:41 was me. Sorry.

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 03:12 PM

Rick Perry, Gov of Texas is an empty head who followed Bush to the job. He has great hair, by all accounts.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 02:19 PM

"Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get."

Precisely.

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 02:14 PM

Talking of conservatives whatever happened to that guy who prided himself on having a good haircut - not much inside his head as I remember.

Where is he when Bush needs him.

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 01:41 PM

Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans are happy to have an "empty suit" in the White House as long as he spouts the correct rhetoric. That's what Ronald Reagan was, after all, and they want to put his face on Mount Rushmore.

Reagan was way more articulate than Bush (at least at the beginning of his presidency), but he was mainly articulate only about his ideology (e.g. the Soviet Union was the "evil empire") and he was happy to leave the details of implementation to others. Hence the "arms for hostages" deal.

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Aug 04 - 12:40 AM

It may be too late for this year, but America Coming Together aka ACT, has a petition one may sign which calls on the FCC to require "proof of fact" before political commercials may be aired. You may sign the petition AND see a BRILL video of Will Farrell as Dubya, by clicking here. They also need volunteers in 17 swing states to help counteract the lies, etc. of the ads from the shrubites.

kat

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:56 PM

Not that I like Kerry that much, A-Mike, but I'm afreaid you are completely correct. We gotta bunch of really dumbed down folk in this country these days...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:39 PM

As much as I enjoyed and agree with this article, I'm afraid that too many people will instead listen to the negative commercials coming at us non-stop.

They will be told in these commercials that a weasel who went AWOL from the Texas Air National Guard is much more qualified to be Commander in Chief than is a decorated war hero. And, unfortunately, they will probably buy into it.

They will be told in these commercials that the economy is turning around and if you just vote for Georgie boy again, you will surely get a decent paying job (flipping burgers) soon after. And, unfortunately, they will probably buy into it.

They will be told that our lying, coniving, egotistical president is the only man to continue the war for oil in Iraq and that the challenger will not continue to kill, maim and destroy the homes and villages of innocent people. And, unfortunately, they will probably buy into it.

There was a saying I heard that goes like this: "Not all conservatives are stupid, but the vast majority of stupid people seem to vote for the conservative candidate."

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Bobert
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 05:06 PM

Ahhhhh, Charley Reese is far from a conservative. Maybe he used to be but he ain't no more... He is also carried in The Journal (Martinsburg, WV) and I look forward to reading each and every one of his columns...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Peace
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 04:26 PM

Hope the article does some good.

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Rapparee
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 04:24 PM

Yes, indeed!

Subject: RE: BS: The Worm Turns
From: Amos
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 04:17 PM

Hear, hear!!

Bravo.


A

Subject: BS: The Worm Turns
From: GUEST,maggiethecat
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 04:12 PM

The following was just written by Charley Reese of the Orlando Sentinel,
>a VERY CONSERVATIVE columnist with the Orlando Sentinel. If you know
>the writer and his strongly conservative reputation, you should find it
>eye opening. Note particularly what he says about John Kerry.
>
>__________________________________________________
>
>Vote For A Man, Not A Puppet
>
>Americans should realize that if they vote for President Bush's
>re-election, they are really voting for the architects of war - Dick
>Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and the rest of that cabal of
>neoconservative ideologues and their corporate backers.
>
>
>
>I have sadly come to the conclusion that President Bush is merely a
>frontman, an empty suit, who is manipulated by the people in his
>administration. Bush has the most dangerously simplistic view of the
>world of any president in my memory. It's no wonder the president avoids
>press conferences like the plague. Take away his cue cards and he can
>barely talk. Americans should be embarrassed that an Arab king (Abdullah
>of Jordan) spoke more fluently and articulately in English than our own
>president at their joint press conference recently.
>
>John Kerry is at least an educated man, well-read, who knows how to
>think and who knows that the world is a great deal more complex than
>Bush's comic-book world of American heroes and foreign evildoers. It's
>unfortunate that in our poorly educated country, Kerry's very
>intelligence and refusal to adopt simplistic slogans might doom his
>presidential election efforts.
>
>But Thomas Jefferson said it well, as he did so often, when he observed
>that people who expect to be ignorant and free expect what never was and
>never will be. People who think of themselves as conservatives will
>really display their stupidity, as I did in the last election, by voting
>for Bush. Bush is as far from being a conservative as you can get.
>Well, he fooled me once, but he won't fool me twice.
>
>It is not at all conservative to balloon government spending, to vastly
>increase the power of government, to show contempt for the Constitution
>and the rule of law, or to tell people that foreign outsourcing of
>American jobs is good for them, that giant fiscal and trade deficits
>don't matter, and that people should not know what their government is
>doing. Bush is the most prone-to-classify, the most secretive president
>in the 20th century. His administration leans dangerously toward the
>authoritarian. It's no wonder that the Justice Department has convicted
>a few Arab-Americans of supporting terrorism. What would you do if you
>found
>yourself arrested and a federal prosecutor whispers in your ear that
>either you can plea-bargain this or the president will designate you an
>enemy combatant and you'll be held incommunicado for the duration?
>
>This election really is important, not only for domestic reasons, but
>because Bush's foreign policy has been a dangerous disaster. He's almost
>restarted the Cold War with Russia and the nuclear arms race. America is
>not only hated in the Middle East, but it has few friends anywhere in
>the world thanks to the arrogance and ineptness of the Bush
>administration. Don't forget, a scientific poll of Europeans found us,
>Israel, North Korea and Iran as the greatest threats to world peace.
>
>I will swallow a lot of petty policy differences with Kerry to get a man
>in the White House with brains enough not to blow up the world and us
>with it. Go to Kerry's Web site www.johnkerry.com ) and read some of
>the magazine profiles on him. You'll find that there is a great deal
>more to Kerry than the GOP attack dogs would have you believe.
>
>Besides, it would be fun to have a president who plays hockey,
>windsurfs, ride motorcycles, plays the guitar, writes poetry and speaks
>French. It would be good to have a man in the White House who has killed
>people face to face. Killing people has a sobering effect on a man and
>dispels all illusions about war.