The most prescient article ever! (referenced in today's Krugman column)

[HomerRamone]

http://chak.org/pages/onion/bush_nightmare.html
("This article is copyright The Onion, January 18, 2001, reprinted with permission by Dan Chak on January 16, 2004.")

Note again the date this Onion article was published: January 18, 2001!

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

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Bush swore to do "everything in power" to undo the damage wrought by Clinton's two terms in office, including selling off the national parks to developers, going into massive debt to develop expensive and impractical weapons technologies, and passing sweeping budget cuts that drive the mentally ill out of hospitals and onto the street.

During the 40-minute speech, Bush also promised to bring an end to the severe war drought that plagued the nation under Clinton, assuring citizens that the U.S. will engage in at least one Gulf War-level armed conflict in the next four years.

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"You have no idea what it's like to be black and enfranchised," said Marlon Hastings, one of thousands of Miami-Dade County residents whose votes were not counted in the 2000 presidential election. "George W. Bush understands the pain of enfranchisement, and ever since Election Day, he has fought tirelessly to make sure it never happens to my people again."

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"We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in two," Bush said. "Much work lies ahead of us: The gap between the rich and the poor may be wide, be there's much more widening left to do. We must squander our nation's hard-won budget surplus on tax breaks for the wealthiest 15 percent. And, on the foreign front, we must find an enemy and defeat it."

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. Well DAMN!

Now we know where Bushco gets their ideas!

[Wetzelbill]

2. omg, whoever wrote that is a frickin' genius....

[evolved Anarchopunk]

3. ha, one of the few Onion yearly books i own...

is from 2001. Truly i believe it is one of the best compilations, still, it's hard to look at those soldiers.

[Dr.Phool]

4. Couldn't connect to link

But I know the article it came from. I e-mailed it about 2 years ago to a Republican friend of mine, and he went ballistic. I had to point out to him it was The Onion-satire.

But it sure came true.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Amazing....

Gotta start reading them regularly, they've got one hell of a crystal ball...

[HomerRamone]

6. I'm afraid they've lost it.

They've been mostly lame the last couple of years. I don't know why; the Daily Show proves that there is an abundance of material for great, vicious satire...

[stickdog]

12. They've been "suffering" from a bout of corporate expansion.

As advertising $'s and circulation have increased, humor and insight have decreased.

[GoBlue]

7. It has lost much of it's humor however...

kick and nominated.

[nashville_brook]

8. this has been on my fridge since it came out

i read it from time to time and weep quietly. okay, i don't weep -- but yes -- amazing, isn't it!

[muriel_volestrangler]

9. The only thing they got wrong was they predicted a tax hike

because they thought that Bush would have to do something to cover the cost of the war. Of course, he just added to the already huge deficit.

[meti57b]

10. We did not have a "war drought" ..... Kosovo

[libodem]

11. I see in another thread Bill is saying 'no timetable for withdrawal'

I wish he knew what they actually think of him before he becomes their spokes boy spews their rhetoric them.

[yurbud]

13. I remember this--I saved it. SNL did a skit imagining what would happen..

if Bush won, and it showed the Oval Office trashed with Bush coming out from under the desk with a bottle. Out the window you could see Washing ton in flames.

He pulls a piece of paper from his pocket that he thinks is a speech and reads it, but it says, "Help me, daddy, I didn't think it'd get this far."

If someone is beyond satire, that sets a new benchmark for bad.

Hillbilly Hitler art:



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