In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
HAY-OAP
If hope is all they've got, we're in serious trouble. That scene in The Thing where Blair is locked up and drugged in the shed, he looks up at Kurt Russell and says "I don't know who to trust!" Kurt says "I know whatcha mean Blair. Trust's a hard thing to come by these days. Why don't you just trust in the Lord?" and takes a huge swig of vodka and leaves him the rest of the bottle. That's how I feel after seeing the Democrats.
The Johns are unwilling to do what it takes, they're avoiding outrage instead of wielding it as a weapon. They have to pry this election out of the Republicans' cold dead fingers. Bush isn't giving it up. He'll cancel the election if he has to. They don't get it. Kerry's too busy trying not to offend anyone. He should be taking out Bush with every word and gesture, tearing him down, ripping him to shreds, not "uniting America." We are strongly divided. I want someone to say so. To get up on the stage and say, "All you people who voted for Bush? I'm not talking to you. Go away. I don't believe what you believe. Go fuck yourselves."
I'd vote for that guy in a minute. He's nowhere in sight. Instead what we get are imitation Republicans
The Democrats think the way to overthrow the Republicans is to mimic Republicans. Democratic rivalries are tamped down; liberal losers are kept offstage or out of prime time; the positive message - strength, heroism and patriotism - is relentlessly drummed in. ... Democrats on the podium who want to rip the nation's leaders as vile, dangerous deceivers who cried wolf on W.M.D., trampled the Constitution and left Iraq in chaos have to stuff it, if not shove it. Their speeches are scrubbed; Bush and Cheney are barely mentioned. ... Even John Edwards, in the spot usually given to the attack dog, barked oh so softly (matching the stage in his mahogany tie), preferring to hail a new man from hope with the mantra "Hope is on the way."
Hope my ass.
- Michael 11:48 AM - [PermaLink] -
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