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Right between Roosevelt and Lincoln because he's a "hero"
rug
(82,333 posts)Legacy and all.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)why is it more important than Snowden, "hero"?
rug
(82,333 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)and anyone else in the vicinity.
It is more important than Snowden in that it incorporates a centerpiece strategy of a Presidential administration.
Kix are for kids and Mount Rushmore is for Presidents, silly.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"It is more important than Snowden in that it incorporates a centerpiece strategy of a Presidential administration."
Uh, don't let anyone know that you're diminishing the importance of Snowden, "hero"
I mean, think of what happened when John Lewis was misquoted.
rug
(82,333 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Pholus
(4,062 posts)Thanks for that!
LOL!
RL
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)dkf
(37,305 posts)What you elicited is almost genius.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)evincing no sense of humor, is that you think your OP was a fine piece of stand-up comedy.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)"The funny thing about this awkward response...evincing no sense of humor, is that you think your OP was a fine piece of stand-up comedy."
The entertainment is in the responses.
neverforget
(9,436 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)The GOP want Reagan up there.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Rush Limbaugh
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)cordelia
(2,174 posts)Ain't much left. Damn.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)mick063
(2,424 posts)Thus further creating a folk hero. The Mt. Rushmore touch perpetuates the legend.
Squeezing jello. The harder you squeeze, the more it oozes between your fingers.
If he is brought back, I expect martyrdom status. All because a few folks try so desperately hard to divert attention from the surveillance state.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/07/18-15
tytechortz lingum 24 days ago −
We are starting to get a lot of good candidates to replace the tyrants on Mt. Rushmore.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I heard Brad Pitt isn't supporting Matt Damon's bid to appear on Mt. Rushmore.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I'm in my mid 40's. I've been a liberal and a registered Democrat all of my adult life. I'm now at a point where I'm completely immune to protestations, haranguing, and browbeating. No one can MAKE me like what I don't like. No one can make me support a man I feel has burned a lot of people. No one can guilt me with the premise of a Supreme Court with Ted Nugent at its head. No one can tell me that the shit I'm smelling is actually roses. No one can push me into a voting booth, and no one can sway me by telling me I'm part of the problem if I don't vote. I can be, and I am motivated when I feel like my President is being honest with me, when I feel like the same things that are important to me are also important to the President. I don't think I'm alone in feeling this way.
I also believe that some of the "cheerleaders" understand this, and they've moved from attempted strong arm persuasion to plain old jeering and stick-poking. Have you noticed that in some circles, it's now fashionable to reply to Obama criticism with a reminder that you still have 3.5 years of Obama remaining, or that if you don't like this or that, don't vote for Obama next time around (insert laugh)? Personally, I'm in no rush to escort Obama out the door; my interest is in the changing tactics of the Obama-can-do-no-wrong crowd, from attempted persuasion to something a little less constructive and a little more desperate.
I'm relieved that I don't feel the sense of powerlessness these people must feel when there's nothing they can do to keep this thing from slipping through their fingers. Following a cult of personality will burn someone every time. Thanks.
Bonobo
(29,257 posts)When you have a moral and political compass, it cannot be swayed.
It is hard for those without one to understand, but those of us that do know it.
Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Very well said and to the point.
Pholus
(4,062 posts)Thanks for that!
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Good one!
Logical
(22,457 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)Mojorabbit
(16,020 posts)joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Adickes probably would not create a bust of Snowden. I guess we could hang a mug
shot with his numbers on it.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Only. In. Your. Mind.
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Sorry to disappoint.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)You always seem to know, and are never afraid.. to tell us what we are thinking...
Pholus
(4,062 posts)Perhaps you should create a petition to "We the People" to have it removed....
Take the whole nose, just to be sure.
giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)nostril after they carve his face up there.
Cha
(297,190 posts)cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)Logical
(22,457 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)You cleared that shark by a mile!
ProSense
(116,464 posts)Bonobo
(29,257 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)The OP is not.
RetroLounge
(37,250 posts)But I do.
RL
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)nt
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)when you have to post SOMETHING but can't find any articles to selectively quote.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)"That awkward moment when you have to post SOMETHING but can't find any articles to selectively quote."
...could you imagine how different the responses would be had the OP contained an article and a "blue link"?
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)I hope you're happy now. My husband is giving me strange looks 'cause I'm chortling.
He says I'm a dork. That this is nerdy funny, not funny funny. To each his own. I'm going to click out of here and wait ten minutes to see if it still makes me laugh.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)ProSense
(116,464 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)My husband asked me to explain, but I couldn't enunciate clearly enough for him to understand what I was saying because I was laughing so hard.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He told me to turn off my iPad and watch breaking bad or he's going to play Fight Night. Like I'd ever do that.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I can only imagine what Fight Night is like. Having to watch those things would be sheer misery.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I love breaking bad but, at the beginning of every season I hate Walter White more and more. Fight night is torture. Pot helps.
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)you have flat done lost it.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)But seriously, as one who could potentially be opened to a different point of view with sound reasoning, I have not been finding your OPs of late very persuasive.
Frankly, I am not sure what it is you are trying to accomplish. You are not going to bring me along to understand and respect your point of view by being such a boor.
Just my $.02
This may be more to your liking:
Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald will not do TV interview despite preliminary talks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023453953
corkhead
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hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)there would be room for him on Mount Rushmore.
panader0
(25,816 posts)No chttp://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4877773983515244&w=80&h=80&c=8&pid=3.1&qlt=90onnection-it just made me think of this.
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)He's a cheese faced libertarian twit.
SwampG8r
(10,287 posts)I feel good about this
normally I read a op from you and I go arghhh uit tonight I have read 2 or 3 I thought were pretty good stuff and now this!
this is an odd feeling I am posting a big well done for prosense
well done prosense!
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Nope, not ridiculous at all. Carry on.
SidDithers
(44,228 posts)Sid
kentuck
(111,089 posts)Nobody's kidding anybody.