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'They don't have anything. They come from the MOON!'
"A national mission to a far-away place where glory awaits and no rebel movement lurks will help Americans forget about the continuing problems in Iraq and portray the president as a peaceful visionary."
- "World press pans US Mars shot"
I am constantly amazed by the numbers of people who don't realize that Bush has made a laughingstock of our country and driven our already arrogant and ignorant reputation further into the ground.
The sad thing is, you can't just tell them this. You can't just inform them of what he's done, because they don't care. These are the same people who are waving their little flags and saying that if you don't like George Bush or war with Iraq, you should leave the country, because that's the way we do things here. If other countries don't like the way we do things, then fine - we don't need them anyway.
Their minds are completely infused with the "USA all the way" mentality and they're the ones who should be leaving the country. They need to get out and experience the real world and when they're good and experienced, then I'll let them back in.
[via Mr B------]
srah - Saturday, 17 January 2004 - 9:43 AM
Tags: george w bush, politics, united states
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Comments (9)
Mr B------ - January 17, 2004 - 10:15 AM - ℓ
I don't look forward to getting old, when I'll lose my grip on reality and start voting conservative...
MaTT - January 19, 2004 - 9:50 PM - ℓ
I think the Maoists would agree with you (or did Mr. B write this whole post?) -- saw this in a free newsletter in Shaman Drum...
http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/
Go Marxism! [rolls eyes...] ;)
Josh Crockett - January 20, 2004 - 3:49 PM - ℓ
You might be interested in how an Australian newspaper correspondent explains American support of President Bush to her readers: They like Bush, and they are not stupid.
Popularity doesn't necessarily reflect what is right, whether overseas or in America. Personally, I choose to be wary of political arguments that start out "Everybody else thinks this way, why don't you?" (This comment is rapidly converging with a discussion I had in a London hostel over New Year's and turning into a blog entry of my own, so I'd better quit here.)
Mr. Hibbity Gibbity - January 22, 2004 - 9:17 AM - ℓ
Not to start a firestorm here but . . .
At least we live in a nation and have a President that, after exhausting all reasonable avenues of peace, is willing to 'buck' so-called 'popular world opinion' and do what is right.
I mean, seriously. Was it wrong for us to get involved in World War II? Should we have let the Jews become exterminated? Similarly, should we allow a dictator to have 'rape rooms', to pull out the tongues of his opponents or to use his own people as test subjects for his biological experiments?
So we're the 'laughing stock' of the rest of the world. So what? Whatever happened to individuality and being able to stand up for what's right and decent in this world? While the U.N. sits around and endlessly debates the fate of a people, we're the only ones truly willing to DO something about it, instead of just talking about it.
To quote a fictional character, 'With great power, comes great responsibility'. We have the power and therefore the responsibility to make the world a better place. That certainly does NOT mean that we're to remake the world in our own image, but it does mean that we have a certain obligation to offer assistance where needed and to give people the choice between torture and freedom.
And if, along the way, we make allies or gain benefits for our actions, then so much the better. It will only serve to extend the freedom which we seem to consider such a precious 'right' and which allows us to have discussions like this in the first place.
katie - January 22, 2004 - 9:42 AM - ℓ
"Bush has made a laughingstock of our country"
Srah, srah, srah. How quickly we forget! It was Clinton who made a laughingstock of our country. Bush is just...ya know...keeping it up.
Personally, I'd vote Bush over the other candidates out there, but I really don't want to debate it. I mean, the point of democracy is that we have a right to our difference of oppinion, and to vote for what we believe. :)
I've always thought that too, it was originally just the song 'God Bless America' that made me wonder. Why not 'God Bless Earth?'