You Will Anyway: Presidential Auction 2004

Monday, May 10, 2004

Presidential Auction 2004

One of Billmon's readers has just about had all he (she?) can take.

Just what the freak did John Kerry have to say about this?

Well, we can help in the future in Iraq by getting the Peace Corps in there.

He's said more, of course, but that's stuck with me. Freaking definition of lame right there. Inept, if you will.

This fucking idiot is about to unleash all the savagery of the Deaniacs. If you think Al Gore got disparaged by his own party you haven't seen anything yet. They're going to rip him to shreds with just one more lame-o statement like that.

I'm really sick of this. How the freak did we get somebody so stupid as our nominee? The idiot voted for the war and now can't hit back on it. Just incredible.

Yadda yadda yadda the son of a bitch can still criticize Bush on it. By advocating the Peace Corps? Jesus Christ.

He's reaally lucky he's only being described as inept. Pretty soon it will be loser.

I'm ranting and spewing again in irrational angst and I don't fucking care. The country cannot afford Bush to win again and yet the Peace Corps will save us.

What I wouldn't do to slap that idiot around. The last thing we needed was a chump but somehow we got one with Nader to dog his heels. God.

Posted by: seething at May 10, 2004 02:12 PM

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And other words of wisdom...

It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes

There is no inverse relationship between freedom and security. Less of one does not lead to more of the other. People with no rights are not safe from terrorist attack. -- Molly Ivins

[War] is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. ... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives ... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. -- Major General Smedley Butler

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe. -- Albert Einstein

"The brain of our species is, as we know, made up largely of potassium, phosphorus, propaganda, and politics, with the result that how not to understand what should be clearer is becoming easier and easier for all of us." -- James Thurber

One of the fun aspects of Empire is how many ironies it creates. -- Glenn Greenwald

I had a slightly insane discussion the other day with a winger who wanted urgently for me to understand that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. Whereas I was trying to point out to him that the Haditha massacre is the kind of thing that happens in war. -- Molly Ivins

Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception. --George Orwell

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare. –- Howard Zinn

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. --Upton Sinclair

If we're the greatest country in the world, then maybe we could have the greatest government. -- Lewis Black

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. -- Aristotle

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naive and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who loves his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair. -- H.L. Mencken

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. -- James Madison, 4th President of the United States

No nation builds a wall out of strength. They build it out of fear. -- Michael Flynn

They call it The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it. -- George Carlin

Texas justice is Texas justice. -- Victoria Nuland, US State Department spokeswoman

When you hold up your arm and swear to uphold the Constitution, you don’t say, “Except in wartime.” -- George McGovern

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