London Mirror: God Help America: elects "dim-witted, draft-dodging" cowboy

[HamdenRice]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/allnews/tm_objectid=14832124%26method=full%26siteid=50143%26headline=god%2dhelp%2damerica-name_page.html

GOD HELP AMERICA

Nov 4 2004
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN..

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.

This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.

...

But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas. A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.

A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources.

[bpcmxr]

1. link please?

[bpcmxr]

2. thanks!

[DU9598]

3. Great summation

That pretty much sums up how I feel. It is good to know the outside world realizes we have pretty much a sham of a democracy.

[Jivenwail]

4. OMG!

This is so great, thank you so much for posting this!

I have emailed it to a number of friends/associates because it so aptly describes this election. And it's most certainly made me realize that we are not alone.

I hope everyone reads this. Perhaps we should keep this kicked

[nine23]

5. As an "outsider"....

I'm afraid this pretty much summates how the rest of the "civilized" world looks at the US.

America had it's chance to show it's "true colours", and apparently, it did.

How very, very sad.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. The "Yellow Rogue of Texas"

That was a masterpiece!

Bravo!

--bkl

[Loki]

7. God help us.

This is what the world thinks of us now, and I knew this was coming.

snip: "The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".

Fuck.

[chiffon]

8. Sadly...an accurate summation. n/t

[Name removed]

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[benito]

10. snippet

Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each other to survive. Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.


Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory. And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak.

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4...................more..............years:cry:

[Champion Jack]

11. Heres the cover for next weeks Time...

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[Anarcho-Socialist]

12. The whole article is very fitting about how I feel n/t

[carpediem]

13. that's it - it's exactly how i feel.

God help us.

[HamdenRice]

14. The Mirror paper copy headline was ...

"How Could 59,000,000 People be so Dumb" under a picture of Bush. CNN very briefly held the paper up, along with other foreign newspapers, and Amy Goodman just read the headline on Democracy Now!

I wish I could buy a paper copy as a keepsake.

[Mokito]

15. ROFLMAO

an Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency

[otohara]

16. This Is Harder Than I Thought

it would be....