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We all know that the GOP will not stop short of anything when it comes
to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Semi-clever, ultra-wealthy Bush supporters suddenly donating piles of money to the Nader campaign in an obvious attempt to steal votes from John Kerry? Pshaw. Ptouey. Child's play. Tip of the iceberg. A mere distraction. We ain't seen nuthin' yet. This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical Orange Alerts and imminent al Quada attacks coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook. Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Republican party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to maintain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed. How about another, "imminent" terrorist threat? Pretty much a given, really. Followed, of course, by another. And then another. And then another and another until every other day the newscast features a thick-necked, panicky Tom Ridge saying yes, oh my God yes, we now have definitive proof that terrorists are more or less sort of maybe planning to strike the U.S. maybe very soon and disrupt our shopping and screw with our TV reception and blot out the sun. We just don't know, you know, where, or when, or how, or what the hell to do about it. P.S.; Vote Republican. Look, times have changed. Of course politics has always been a truly ugly business, and each party's strategy to gain or regain power as election time rolls around has always become increasingly low-down and nasty and mudslinging and soul-cringing and borderline illegal. But this time it all feels, somehow, different. Uglier. More sadistic. There is a sense of lawlessness, of desperation, among the Republican party right now. It is no longer a question of simply which party will run the show or which platform will have the most influence on policy. Rather, it's about a radically polarized worldview: are we going to be an aggressive macho globally disrespected isolationist nation who has burned all bridges and molested all foreign relationships and mocked all global sympathy, or are we, as the GOP wants you to believe, going to become some liberal namby-pamby country where gays can marry each other and sexually deviant women can have abortions every day and everybody speaks French? Because there is no middle ground. This is the GOP message. You are either with us, or you are a terrorist. You are either on the side of the "patriotic," pro-war party of WMD lies and homophobia and violence toward the global community, or you're a liberal hippie 'Nam protester like that jerknose Kerry. What else could they do to guarantee a November win? What are they capable of, in the wake of 2000's stolen election and the rigging of the Florida recounts and a sneering, despoiled Supreme Court? Just about anything, really. How about a nice "October Surprise" of suddenly finding Osama somewhere in a remote Afghani cave, as the news media receives an "anonymous" delivery of a big glossy photo of Dubya himself standing outside said cave in a manly flight suit and lookin' all tough in his cowboy boots and confused smirk as he waves an American flag in one hand holds Osama by a chain in the other? What, too obvious? Well, then, maybe something a bit more devious? How about the thousands of electronic, touch-screen voting machines now installed in the nation's polling places, most every one manufactured by corporations run by staunch Bush-supporting Republicans, many of which don't allow for recounts or paper trails or any means of double-checking their completely programmable results. An obvious recipe for election-rigging? Is that Katherine Harris, giggling through her Botox? Look. This much is clear. It's not merely going to be dirty politics as usual. It's not going to be mudslinging and name-calling and finger-pointing and policy-wonking, childish little claims of "fuzzy math" and aww-shucks dumb-guy cowboy shtick to appeal to the lower intellects. It is not going to merely be BushCo spending millions of its enormous war chest, as he already has, to launch incredibly vicious attack ads against Kerry and Edwards that dare to question the veracity and validity of Kerry's many Vietnam war medals or of Edwards' political experience, as Bush himself is the least-qualified president in U.S. history, one who ducked military service and went AWOL and makes all military service people wince in embarrassment. No, it's going to be far worse. And more nauseating. Who, for example, isn't sighing in appalled disgust as the Pentagon suddenly discovers that, oh my goodness, Bush's own military service records were "accidentally" destroyed? How amazing! And would you believe it, but the records in question just so happened to be the exact months of just those exact years that Bush was supposedly to have "served." What a crazy coincidence! Now we can never really know if he even bothered to show up for duty at all! Gosh, what a shame. Another possibility: ditching nasty, wan little Dick Cheney entirely. Rumor has it the Angry Puppeteer could be dumped from the ticket very soon, swapped for a less slimy and more human candidate. Maybe a nice, crusty war hero like John McCain? Or a strange, lonely, friendless woman like Condi Rice? A bitter, emasculated Colin Powell? Anything to galvanize the ticket, make it, you know, less ugly and old and warmongering, more palatable and sassy and Edwards-like. This is the new rule: If it might force a victory, the GOP will consider it. And finally, if all else fails, well, why not just postpone the whole damn election itself? That's right, simply invent some (non-specific, unsubstantiated) terrorist threat of sufficient hysteria so that BushCo simply has no choice but to delay the vote. The result? Give you gullible, timid voters more time to reconsider your choices and maybe vote based on your fear instead of, you know, your heart, or your soul, or your ethics, or your brain, or your general sense of universal humanitarian progress. Could it happen? Well, no. Most experts say such a delay is impossible, ridiculous, flagrantly anti-democratic. Doesn't matter. What matters is the galling fact that the GOP even floated the idea in the first place. So then, let this be a warning. Get ready. Expect the unexpected. Watch the skies, scrutinize the headlines, dust off your stash of duct tape. Because Karl Rove and the cutthroat BushCo war hawks and corporate cronies who run the show aren't about to go down without a screaming, sickening, fiery fight. And if BushCo has proven anything in the past four violent, budget-gutting, honor-molesting, nearly unbearable years, it's that there ain't no international law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America. |
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"basskisser" wrote in message om... We all know that the GOP will not stop short of anything when it comes to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Semi-clever, ultra-wealthy Bush supporters suddenly donating piles of money to the Nader campaign in an obvious attempt to steal votes from John Kerry? Pshaw. Ptouey. Child's play. Tip of the iceberg. A mere distraction. We ain't seen nuthin' yet. This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical Orange Alerts and imminent al Quada attacks coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook. Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Republican party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to maintain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed. How about another, "imminent" terrorist threat? Pretty much a given, really. Followed, of course, by another. And then another. And then another and another until every other day the newscast features a thick-necked, panicky Tom Ridge saying yes, oh my God yes, we now have definitive proof that terrorists are more or less sort of maybe planning to strike the U.S. maybe very soon and disrupt our shopping and screw with our TV reception and blot out the sun. We just don't know, you know, where, or when, or how, or what the hell to do about it. P.S.; Vote Republican. Look, times have changed. Of course politics has always been a truly ugly business, and each party's strategy to gain or regain power as election time rolls around has always become increasingly low-down and nasty and mudslinging and soul-cringing and borderline illegal. But this time it all feels, somehow, different. Uglier. More sadistic. There is a sense of lawlessness, of desperation, among the Republican party right now. It is no longer a question of simply which party will run the show or which platform will have the most influence on policy. Rather, it's about a radically polarized worldview: are we going to be an aggressive macho globally disrespected isolationist nation who has burned all bridges and molested all foreign relationships and mocked all global sympathy, or are we, as the GOP wants you to believe, going to become some liberal namby-pamby country where gays can marry each other and sexually deviant women can have abortions every day and everybody speaks French? Because there is no middle ground. This is the GOP message. You are either with us, or you are a terrorist. You are either on the side of the "patriotic," pro-war party of WMD lies and homophobia and violence toward the global community, or you're a liberal hippie 'Nam protester like that jerknose Kerry. What else could they do to guarantee a November win? What are they capable of, in the wake of 2000's stolen election and the rigging of the Florida recounts and a sneering, despoiled Supreme Court? Just about anything, really. How about a nice "October Surprise" of suddenly finding Osama somewhere in a remote Afghani cave, as the news media receives an "anonymous" delivery of a big glossy photo of Dubya himself standing outside said cave in a manly flight suit and lookin' all tough in his cowboy boots and confused smirk as he waves an American flag in one hand holds Osama by a chain in the other? What, too obvious? Well, then, maybe something a bit more devious? How about the thousands of electronic, touch-screen voting machines now installed in the nation's polling places, most every one manufactured by corporations run by staunch Bush-supporting Republicans, many of which don't allow for recounts or paper trails or any means of double-checking their completely programmable results. An obvious recipe for election-rigging? Is that Katherine Harris, giggling through her Botox? Look. This much is clear. It's not merely going to be dirty politics as usual. It's not going to be mudslinging and name-calling and finger-pointing and policy-wonking, childish little claims of "fuzzy math" and aww-shucks dumb-guy cowboy shtick to appeal to the lower intellects. It is not going to merely be BushCo spending millions of its enormous war chest, as he already has, to launch incredibly vicious attack ads against Kerry and Edwards that dare to question the veracity and validity of Kerry's many Vietnam war medals or of Edwards' political experience, as Bush himself is the least-qualified president in U.S. history, one who ducked military service and went AWOL and makes all military service people wince in embarrassment. No, it's going to be far worse. And more nauseating. Who, for example, isn't sighing in appalled disgust as the Pentagon suddenly discovers that, oh my goodness, Bush's own military service records were "accidentally" destroyed? How amazing! And would you believe it, but the records in question just so happened to be the exact months of just those exact years that Bush was supposedly to have "served." What a crazy coincidence! Now we can never really know if he even bothered to show up for duty at all! Gosh, what a shame. Another possibility: ditching nasty, wan little Dick Cheney entirely. Rumor has it the Angry Puppeteer could be dumped from the ticket very soon, swapped for a less slimy and more human candidate. Maybe a nice, crusty war hero like John McCain? Or a strange, lonely, friendless woman like Condi Rice? A bitter, emasculated Colin Powell? Anything to galvanize the ticket, make it, you know, less ugly and old and warmongering, more palatable and sassy and Edwards-like. This is the new rule: If it might force a victory, the GOP will consider it. And finally, if all else fails, well, why not just postpone the whole damn election itself? That's right, simply invent some (non-specific, unsubstantiated) terrorist threat of sufficient hysteria so that BushCo simply has no choice but to delay the vote. The result? Give you gullible, timid voters more time to reconsider your choices and maybe vote based on your fear instead of, you know, your heart, or your soul, or your ethics, or your brain, or your general sense of universal humanitarian progress. Could it happen? Well, no. Most experts say such a delay is impossible, ridiculous, flagrantly anti-democratic. Doesn't matter. What matters is the galling fact that the GOP even floated the idea in the first place. So then, let this be a warning. Get ready. Expect the unexpected. Watch the skies, scrutinize the headlines, dust off your stash of duct tape. Because Karl Rove and the cutthroat BushCo war hawks and corporate cronies who run the show aren't about to go down without a screaming, sickening, fiery fight. And if BushCo has proven anything in the past four violent, budget-gutting, honor-molesting, nearly unbearable years, it's that there ain't no international law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America. |
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I notice that you are still stealing copyright material. And no local
Atlanta papers that support you agenda? "basskisser" wrote in message om... We all know that the GOP will not stop short of anything when it comes to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
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Calif Bill wrote:
I notice that you are still stealing copyright material. And no local Atlanta papers that support you agenda? Here yoo go, **** for brains...an editorial from today's AJC: Rooting out terrorists tough in dictatorships By MANSOUR O. EL-KIKHIA Published on: 07/21/04 It is fascinating how politically interdependent the world has become. I am not a fan of conspiracy theory, but I do think the Bush administration is fighting and defending the wrong war. Mansour El-Kikhia, a native of Libya, is an associate professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where his specialty is Middle Eastern politics and international relations. Billions of dollars are pumped into a brand new security industry that has sprouted since Sept. 11. Now that its roots are down, it will not go away without a fight. Indeed, nothing pleases this new industry more than the perpetuation of an atmosphere of fear to provide its existence with a reason to be. Fiddling with the alert color codes, setting up commissions to postpone America's presidential elections, keeping Americans constantly on edge with unsubstantiated warnings of potential terrorist attacks all serve that purpose. It is easy to blame Islam and Muslims for all the ills in the world because injured people need quick answers on the causes of their injury. But Islam is not the reason for terrorism, even though those who committed that awful act declared themselves to be Muslims. I would venture that political interdependence among non-compatible countries is the source of the new global instability. The world is rapidly converging economically and politically, and, while it did develop a common economic dictionary, it has no such political lexicon. Islamic fundamentalism, like Christian fundamentalism, has been with us for hundreds of years and will be for hundreds more. All one has to do to find religion is to look at the Republican Party's platform or at the platforms of Christian parties in Europe, or for that matter at the Likud Party in Israel. There is no such party in any of the Arab countries. That role has been usurped by dictatorial regimes. The first Muslim political movement to emerge in the modern age was the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928. However, Gamal Abdel-Nasser's dictatorship quickly eradicated it, like all other political movements in Egypt, and sent it underground, where its splinters became radicalized and re-emerged with a vengeance during the '70s. In spite of the constant repression the mainstream Islamic movements face in Egypt today, they continue to be the most trusted by the average Egyptian. They are the providers of social services, charities, medical facilities and all the other social and economic concerns the Egyptian government should be handling. The Egyptian government is not unique in its disrespect for its people. I am constantly amazed by the lack of respect all Arab regimes display toward their citizens. They do little to alleviate their political, economic and social pain. Unemployment in North Africa is more than 20 percent, resulting in huge numbers crossing the Mediterranean to reside and work in Europe. Saudi Arabia has close to a million Egyptian workers and millions more from the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, yet unemployment there exceeds 15 percent. These dictatorships instill policies of the status quo; in other words, policies that keep them in power indefinitely. In my lifetime, only two Arab rulers have left the seat of power walking. The rest vacated their seats being carried. What makes matters worse is that these dictators are trying to ensure their seats for their children after they leave. Hafez Assad of Syria did it and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Moammar Gadhafi of Libya are following suit. Saddam Hussein would have done it. I certainly can't imagine an Iraq under the psychopath Odai. There are no institutions to hold the dictators accountable and no opposition willing to confront them, except Islamic organizations. America continues supporting these regimes with aid and arms, as well as turning a blind eye to the atrocities they commit against their people. If this administration is serious about confronting terrorism, it needs to change the focus of its war and, when it does, it may find enlightened Muslims are its best allies. -------------------------------------- A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush; A vote for Bush is a vote for Apocalypse. |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message link.net... I notice that you are still stealing copyright material. And no local Atlanta papers that support you agenda? Even the atlanta fishwrap is smarter than asslicker. "basskisser" wrote in message om... We all know that the GOP will not stop short of anything when it comes to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 |
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To easy to show how democrat liebrals are guilty of the very thing they
accuse conservative of. "Calif Bill" wrote in message link.net... I notice that you are still stealing copyright material. And no local Atlanta papers that support you agenda? "basskisser" wrote in message om... We all know that the GOP will not stop short of anything when it comes to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Republicans go to trick America into another BushCo victory? By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 We all know that the DNC will not stop short of anything when it comes to power mongering!! Rig My Election, Please Just how far will desperate Democratss go to trick America into a Kerry victory? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Semi-clever, ultra-wealthy Keery supporters suddenly donating piles of money to the Moveon.com in an obvious attempt to evade caipaign finance laws? Pshaw. Ptouey. Child's play. Tip of the iceberg. A mere distraction. We ain't seen nuthin' yet. This is the time of desperation and anxiety. This is the time of hysterical "throwing seniors out on the street' and imminent 'health care crisis'coming from outta nowhere at any minute and violating our children and kicking our puppies and badly denting our Honda Accords. And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Left that will make Hillary Clinton's "It takes a Village"" look like a cupcake cookbook. Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Democratic party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to attain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed. How about another,'no' terrorist threat? Pretty much a given, really. Followed, of course, by another. And then another. And then another and another until every other day the newscast features a thick-necked, panicky Tom Daschle saying yes, oh my God yes, we now have no definitive proof that terrorists are more or less sort of maybe planning to strike the U.S. never. We just that it will never happen or what the hell to do about it. P.S.; Vote Democrat. Look, times have changed. Of course politics has always been a truly ugly business, and each party's strategy to gain or regain power as election time rolls around has always become increasingly low-down and nasty and mudslinging and soul-cringing and borderline illegal. But this time it all feels, somehow, different. Uglier. More sadistic. There is a sense of lawlessness, of desperation, among the Democratic party right now. It is no longer a question of simply which party will run the show or which platform will have the most influence on policy. Rather, it's about going to become some liberal namby-pamby country where gays can marry each other and sexually deviant women can have abortions every day and everybody speaks French?, or are we, as the DNC wants you to believe, a radically polarized worldview: are we going to bean aggressive macho globally disrespected isolationist nation who has burned all bridges and molested all foreign relationships and mocked all global sympathygoing Because there is no middle ground. This is the DNC message. You are either with us, or you are a idiot. You are either on the side of the tradional american values or you're a liberal hippie 'Nam protester like that jerknose Kerry. What else could they do to guarantee a November win? What are they capable of, in the wake of 2000's attempt at a stealing of and election and the rigging of the Florida recounts and a sneering, despoiled Florida Supreme Court? Just about anything, really. How about a nice "October Surprise" of suddenly finding another conspiracy theory, as the news media receives an"anonymous" delivery of a big glossy photo of Kerry himself standing outside waving the paper work, shrill schreeching we mus t get to the bottom of this. Well, then, maybe something a bit more devious? How about the thousands of electronic, touch-screen voting machines now installed in the nation's polling places,run by staunch Kerry-supporting democrats, many of which don't allow for recounts or paper trails or any means of double-checking their completely programmable results. An obvious recipe for election-rigging? Is that John Edwards, giggling through his Botox? Look. This much is clear. It's not merely going to be dirty politics as usual. It's not going to be mudslinging and name-calling and finger-pointing and policy-wonking, childish little claims of "fuzzy math" and aww-shucks I'm for the little guy despite being worth almost a billion and you are not fit to wipe my shoes shtick to appeal to the lowerintellects. It is not going to merely be Kerry spending millions of its enormous war chest, as he already has, to launch incredibly vicious attack ads against Bush and Cheney that dare to question the veracity and validity of Bush's National Guard service or of Cheney's' political experience, as Kerry himself is the least-qualified president in U.S. history, one who backstabbed his comrades military service and threw his ill gotten medals over the fence and makes all military service people wince in embarrassment. No, it's going to be far worse. And more nauseating. Who, for example, isn't sighing in appalled disgust as the Media's fawning over Kerry's lackluster military record How amazing! And would you believe it, but the records in question just so happened to be the exact months of just those exact years that Bush was supposedly to have "served." What a crazy coincidence! Now we can never really know if he even bothered to show up for duty at all! Gosh, what a shame. Another possibility: ditching nasty, wan little John Kerry entirely. Rumor has it the Lurchcould be dumped from the ticket very soon, swapped for a less slimy and more human candidate. Maybe a nice, Dick Gephart? Or a strange, lonely, friendless woman like Hillary Clinton? A bitter, emasculated Wesley Clark? Anything to galvanize the ticket, make it, you know, less ugly and old and warmongering, more palatable and sassy and Bush-like. This is the new rule: If it might force a victory, the DNC will consider it. And finally, if all else fails, well, why not just postpone the whole damn election itself? That's right, simply invent some (non-specific, unsubstantiated) election fraud accusation of sufficient hysteria so that trial lawyers simply has no choice but to delay the results. The result? Give you illegal, union thug poll workers more time to falsify ballots and create votes devoid ethics, Could it happen? Well, no. Most experts say such a delay is impossible, ridiculous, flagrantly anti-democratic. Doesn't matter. What matters is the galling fact that the DNC has already annouced it is mobilizing lawyers So then, let this be a warning. Get ready. Expect the unexpected. Watch the skies, scrutinize the headlines, dust off your stash of duct tape. Because Al Gore and the cutthroat Democrat whiners and socilaists who run the show aren't about to go down without a screaming, sickening, fiery fight. And if Kerry has proven anything in the past four , name calling , honor-molesting, nearly unbearable monthds, it's that there ain't no ethic or moral law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America. |
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P.Fritz wrote:
To easy to show how democrat liebrals are guilty of the very thing they accuse conservative of. I'll bet you are as uneducated and ignorant as your use of language, eh, Bushboy? -- A vote for Nader is a vote for Bush; A vote for Bush is a vote for Apocalypse. |
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Well, I don't know about that. Sun Tzu's Art of War is a very serious
book. You can learn and read it at www.sonshi.com And yes, this is the time of election-year political tactics coming from the increasingly anxious Right that will make Sun Tzu's "Art of War" look like a cupcake cookbook. Do you feel it? Can you smell it in the air? The sensation that the Republican party, though various tentacles, will stop at absolutely nothing to maintain power in the White House? It's true. It's the feeling that, during the next few months, it's all about to get very shrill, and very surreal, indeed. How about another, "imminent" terrorist threat? Pretty much a given, really. Followed, of course, by another. And then another. And then another and another until every other day the newscast features a thick-necked, panicky Tom Ridge saying yes, oh my God yes, we now have definitive proof that terrorists are more or less sort of maybe planning to strike the U.S. maybe very soon and disrupt our shopping and screw with our TV reception and blot out the sun. We just don't know, you know, where, or when, or how, or what the hell to do about it. P.S.; Vote Republican. Look, times have changed. Of course politics has always been a truly ugly business, and each party's strategy to gain or regain power as election time rolls around has always become increasingly low-down and nasty and mudslinging and soul-cringing and borderline illegal. But this time it all feels, somehow, different. Uglier. More sadistic. There is a sense of lawlessness, of desperation, among the Republican party right now. It is no longer a question of simply which party will run the show or which platform will have the most influence on policy. Rather, it's about a radically polarized worldview: are we going to be an aggressive macho globally disrespected isolationist nation who has burned all bridges and molested all foreign relationships and mocked all global sympathy, or are we, as the GOP wants you to believe, going to become some liberal namby-pamby country where gays can marry each other and sexually deviant women can have abortions every day and everybody speaks French? Because there is no middle ground. This is the GOP message. You are either with us, or you are a terrorist. You are either on the side of the "patriotic," pro-war party of WMD lies and homophobia and violence toward the global community, or you're a liberal hippie 'Nam protester like that jerknose Kerry. What else could they do to guarantee a November win? What are they capable of, in the wake of 2000's stolen election and the rigging of the Florida recounts and a sneering, despoiled Supreme Court? Just about anything, really. How about a nice "October Surprise" of suddenly finding Osama somewhere in a remote Afghani cave, as the news media receives an "anonymous" delivery of a big glossy photo of Dubya himself standing outside said cave in a manly flight suit and lookin' all tough in his cowboy boots and confused smirk as he waves an American flag in one hand holds Osama by a chain in the other? What, too obvious? Well, then, maybe something a bit more devious? How about the thousands of electronic, touch-screen voting machines now installed in the nation's polling places, most every one manufactured by corporations run by staunch Bush-supporting Republicans, many of which don't allow for recounts or paper trails or any means of double-checking their completely programmable results. An obvious recipe for election-rigging? Is that Katherine Harris, giggling through her Botox? Look. This much is clear. It's not merely going to be dirty politics as usual. It's not going to be mudslinging and name-calling and finger-pointing and policy-wonking, childish little claims of "fuzzy math" and aww-shucks dumb-guy cowboy shtick to appeal to the lower intellects. It is not going to merely be BushCo spending millions of its enormous war chest, as he already has, to launch incredibly vicious attack ads against Kerry and Edwards that dare to question the veracity and validity of Kerry's many Vietnam war medals or of Edwards' political experience, as Bush himself is the least-qualified president in U.S. history, one who ducked military service and went AWOL and makes all military service people wince in embarrassment. No, it's going to be far worse. And more nauseating. Who, for example, isn't sighing in appalled disgust as the Pentagon suddenly discovers that, oh my goodness, Bush's own military service records were "accidentally" destroyed? How amazing! And would you believe it, but the records in question just so happened to be the exact months of just those exact years that Bush was supposedly to have "served." What a crazy coincidence! Now we can never really know if he even bothered to show up for duty at all! Gosh, what a shame. Another possibility: ditching nasty, wan little Dick Cheney entirely. Rumor has it the Angry Puppeteer could be dumped from the ticket very soon, swapped for a less slimy and more human candidate. Maybe a nice, crusty war hero like John McCain? Or a strange, lonely, friendless woman like Condi Rice? A bitter, emasculated Colin Powell? Anything to galvanize the ticket, make it, you know, less ugly and old and warmongering, more palatable and sassy and Edwards-like. This is the new rule: If it might force a victory, the GOP will consider it. And finally, if all else fails, well, why not just postpone the whole damn election itself? That's right, simply invent some (non-specific, unsubstantiated) terrorist threat of sufficient hysteria so that BushCo simply has no choice but to delay the vote. The result? Give you gullible, timid voters more time to reconsider your choices and maybe vote based on your fear instead of, you know, your heart, or your soul, or your ethics, or your brain, or your general sense of universal humanitarian progress. Could it happen? Well, no. Most experts say such a delay is impossible, ridiculous, flagrantly anti-democratic. Doesn't matter. What matters is the galling fact that the GOP even floated the idea in the first place. So then, let this be a warning. Get ready. Expect the unexpected. Watch the skies, scrutinize the headlines, dust off your stash of duct tape. Because Karl Rove and the cutthroat BushCo war hawks and corporate cronies who run the show aren't about to go down without a screaming, sickening, fiery fight. And if BushCo has proven anything in the past four violent, budget-gutting, honor-molesting, nearly unbearable years, it's that there ain't no international law that can't be broken, no fear synapse that can't be hammered to death, no fraudulent power tactic that can't be abused. Anything is possible. You have been warned. God bless America. |
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"basskisser" wrote in message By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, July 21, 2004 If you insist on cutting and pasting Mark Morford, you ought to take your posts to alt.politics.comedy.fiction. |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... Calif Bill wrote: I notice that you are still stealing copyright material. And no local Atlanta papers that support you agenda? Here yoo go, **** for brains...an editorial from today's AJC: Rooting out terrorists tough in dictatorships By MANSOUR O. EL-KIKHIA Published on: 07/21/04 I notice you do not believe in copyrights either. |
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