A simply scary quote from a Salon article

[requiem99]

It was dealing with the declared Bush war on the NY Times. This is Bush talking, but quoting someone else that he agrees with.

"All of you do, up and down the West Coast, the East Coast, a few blocks in southern Manhattan called Wall Street. Let me clue you in. We don't care. You see, you're outnumbered 2 to 1 by folks in the big, wide middle of America, busy working people who don't read The New York Times or Washington Post or The L.A. Times. And you know what they like? They like the way he walks and the way he points, the way he exudes confidence. They have faith in him. And when you attack him for his malaprops, his jumbled syntax, it's good for us. Because you know what those folks don't like? They don't like you!"

The way he walks, talks, and points? I got news for you people: There was someone else in history who talked, talked, and pointed even better than Bush, but like Bush, he sucked at everything else.

[Maestro]

1. Unfortunately people do not want to think

so they go on image. I actually had a co-worker tell me she couldn't vote for Kerry becasue he didn't look presidential and she didn't like Theresa, nothing else. This was before the debates and how infantile Shrub looked there, but you never know.

[AndyTiedye]

7. Did Your Coworker SEE Booosh in the Debates?

I've never seen such an un-Presidential-looking pResident.

[Maestro]

15. It was before the debates

that she said this and hasn't uttered a word to me politically since so I am guessing she is just too embarrassed.

[troubleinwinter]

9. Tell her to write-in Martin Sheen, then.

[Maestro]

14. Yeah I should.

;)

[Paradise]

2. the elephant in the room! n/t

[rkc3]

3. It's the same as all of the comedies on TV with a stupid, fat husband

and a hot wife.

For some reason the combination works.

And I'm pretty sure Americans don't want anything to do with the real world - so a barely functional idiot who pisses away any chance at uniting the free world against our problems is just fine with them.

[wysi]

6. It just reinforces the American Dream...

... anyone can be president. After all, if this dumb ass can get the job, any joe six pack can.

[ElementaryPenguin]

4. Some scary shit indeed.

:crazy:
:spank:
:scared:

[sui generis]

5. and you know, that's EXACTLY what's wrong with this country

you have a bunch of willfully ignorant hayseeds who live in the "middle of America" (apologies in advance to their neighbors) who hate "city slickers" and "librools" and have no exposure to anything multicultural or outside of their one horse county who want to tell the rest of the country how they should live.

And here's what I would reply to Salon with: It worked so well in the past, with slavery, segregatation and lynching, I just don't see why they can't keep the momentum going and make the rest of America come their senses.

Buncha dumb fucking uptight holier than though bigoted hayseeds.

[kcwayne]

8. Hitler was an excellent orator, motivator, organizer, and political

strategist.

Bush is a mere puppet. It is unfair to Hitler to compare him to an unaccomplished person such as Bush, who is clearly an intellectual inferior to Hitler.

If Bush turns out to be just as evil as Hitler, it will be due to incompetence of managing the evil within his administration, not because he himself is evil. He is too stupid to be evil, evil takes ambition and strategic thinking capability, which Bush has not shown any capacity for.

Bush's grandfather Prescott could have attested to this, since he was so heavily invested in the Nazi party through the companies he managed in Germany until the US Congress passed a resolution to make him disgengage from trading with the enemy.

[requiem99]

10. Best quote ever. Welcome to my sig.

[requiem99]

11. Its a dangerous trend of 'image over substance'? Anyone agree?

[acmavm]

12. I agree, but unfortunately it's true. Try living here in Nebraska where

there is absolutely no benefit for the average joe if bush* is in the White House. It actually is harmful to them. Some corporations here are big enough to gain some advantage, but for 99.9% of us, bush* is really our worst nightmare come true. But you know what? They're gonna vote to put that guy back into our White House.

[npincus]

13. so true, picking on what a DUMMY the Chimp is seems natural to us but

it only turns off the greater majority of AMericans. I can't understand why IQ is so undervalued, especially in a Commander-in-Chief.

[Technowitch]

16. Every time someone ridicules me or where I live...

Calling me a flaky Californian or an unAmerican unpatriotic liberal, I have to ask the question:

"If you don't consider me part of your America, how can you presume to be the sole authority to choose the government I must live under? If we're both Americans, the government should be a compromise, something we can both live with -- even if neither of us is 100% happy. Otherwise, my land might as well consider secession, since you have no plan to govern us as we would wish."