K&R this Post - It's Patriotic! You Commie Bastards! Pick your cliche'!

[QueenOfCalifornia]

Post your favorite cliche'

Then Recommend.

I think we need to be seen by the rest of DU and we need to have a lot of Recommends to let Skinner know we are the silent, huddled masses of the DU yearning to be free... We are the homeless, tempest tossed....

We too must be taken seriously.

We are the spine of this place. We are the world. It Takes a Village. And any other over quoted thing you can think of.

Please ... DO IT FOR THE CHILDREN

[bluesbassman]

1. I'll start.

"I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good. I will go to the people and the programs that are the brighter points of light, and I will ask every member of my government to become involved. The old ideas are new again because they are not old, they are timeless: duty, sacrifice, commitment, and a patriotism that finds its expression in taking part and pitching in."

—George H. W. Bush, 1988

[QueenOfCalifornia]

2. That's long

but it has a good beat and I think we can all dance to it. :rofl:

[bluesbassman]

3. My personal favorite GHWB con.

He should have stuck to trading with the enemy.:nuke:

[pokerfan]

5. Daddy Bush on atheists

"No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered as patriots. This is one nation under God." -- George H. W. Bush, to American Atheists' reporter Robert Sherman in 1987, while serving as vice-president

[bluesbassman]

6. That's chilling, and I'm not an atheist. n/t

[TZ]

17. How about our "buddy" Joe Lieberman saying

that freedom of religion does not guarantee freedom FROM religion. Said while running with Al Gore.
Tx(

[QueenOfCalifornia]

18. About a year ago

I started a thread asking DUers to explain Gore's choice of Lieberman as his running mate. It was when a brazillion people were saying he was going to enter the race for President... A lot of interesting thoughts were in that thread.

Ah -- I found it:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2030338

[pokerfan]

32. One of my pet peeves

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; ...

Sounds like the definition of a secular state to me. Sounds like a wall between church and state to me, blocking interference in either direction.

The phrase separation of church and state is generally traced to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists, in which he referred to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. The phrase was then quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. This led to increased popular and political discussion of the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state

[QueenOfCalifornia]

9. I had never heard

this one....

Not cliche' at all.

Just fucking scary.

And I am an atheist - I guess I can't be truly patriotic unless I have an imaginary copilot.

[pokerfan]

27. Yeah

I am also an atheist (and an agnostic) so I tend to notice things like my president telling me that I shouldn't be a citizen.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/ghwbush.htm

http://religion.propeller.com/story/2007/07/13/george-h-w-bush-atheists-neither-citizens-nor-patriots

Googling for bush atheists citizens & patriots will reveal hundreds of thousands of hits.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

30. Thanks for this

The reason I love the DU is because every once in a while, I learn something.:hi:

[helderheid]

34. I'm the Decider!

[Bake]

31. I give it a 73!

:rofl:

Bake

[pokerfan]

4. "You are either with us or against us."

Tuesday, November 6, 2001

[nomorenomore08]

7. As long as we're on the Republican theme... "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Oh my, how fearless and ballsy, denouncing a crumbling old wall that was about to be torn down anyway!

[Mad_Dem_X]

8. "I'm a uniter, not a divider."

--From the biggest POS to ever run this country.

[NJmaverick]

10. The nut doesn't fall far from the tree

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. It is what it is.

Dear lordy, I hate that phrase.

[succubus.blues]

12. same vein

what will be, will be. :eyes:

[Guava Jelly]

13. It's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all

Bull

[succubus.blues]

15. oh I hate that one to.

:puke:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. A sad one that relates to our soldiers in Iraq, but is recited over and over again:

"They're fighting for our freedom."

I wish it was true, I wish there was something noble they were fighting for, but as much as I hate to admit it, it just isn't true. Bush's sick venture to Iraq has nothing to do with our freedom, and he is wasting lives (American and Iraqi) in the process.

Our soldiers are serving their country, and I do have the highest respect for that. However, their country isn't serving them by sending them off on a junket that has nothing to do with "freedom." That is why I cringe whenever I hear that phrase relayed to Iraq.

[KG]

16. 'War on Terror'

americans will happily buy any snake oil that fits into their adolescent worldview.

[KitchenWitch]

19. Don't forget Poland

[skygazer]

20. What will the neighbors think?

From my youth, when people actually knew their neighbors and cared what they thought. :P

[TZ]

21. Are we all on the same page?

I hear that all the time at work...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

29. I worked with that guy!

He is the kind of guy who loves to say "Are we on the same page"

It used to piss me off.

He is never on the dame page as anyone human.

[Carnea]

22. They are just misunderstood

I don't care if it is other people precious little darlings, Gypsies, or the Ebola Virus. Apparently my reality is an illusion caused by my preconceived notions that I might add were created by a previous reality.

In other words you kid isn't misunderstood and if he does that again I will give him something to really cry about.. (OMG I just channeled My Father creepy)

[SidneyCarton]

23. Okay, a "Republican" of a different sort

"Touch me and I'll eat your brains and s*** in your skull"

French Revolutionary Danton, responding to a death threat in the National Assembly, 1791

[skygazer]

24. I'm sorry if I offended anyone

In other words, I'm not sorry for what I said, only that you were so stupid as to take offense. :eyes:

[QueenOfCalifornia]

25. You offended me

and I am so sorry...:D

[kwassa]

26. He threw _______ UNDER THE BUS!!!!

Why not under the racing taxi-cab?
The train?
The steam-roller?
The race car?
The ferry?

[janx]

28. "All options are on the table." n/t

[PassingFair]

33. "Freedom Isn't Free"!!!!1!!1

:patriot:

[PassingFair]

40. "WHO could have foreseen?"

and of course:

"It will be a CAKEWALK."

[PassingFair]

41. Also: "Stay the course" and ....

liberal use of the word "deploy" throughout
their jibber-jabber.

[pokerfan]

35. We Fight Them Over There So We Don’t Have To Fight Them Over Here

[Brigid]

36. "Tax-and-spend liberal."

God, I hate that one. The biggest spender we've ever seen is the fascist warmongeriing idiot in the White House right now, and he is no liberal. :eyes:

[hellbound-liberal]

37. "If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator,"

from his "illegitimacy" George "Duh-Bya" Bush

[suninvited]

38. The greatest thing since sliced bread

how hard did it have to be to come up with sliced bread?

[AlCzervik]

39. Nice Socialist name there Gilligan, your flight to France is waiting.

[yellowdogintexas]

42. National and INternational (all three) nt