Where did all this "thank you for your leadership" stuff come from?

[Skidmore]

I don't remember hearing that before the junta came into being. It seems as though elected officials spend alot of time appreciating and congratulating each other for I'm not sure what. That and thanking people for their service--which has been extended from military service to any type of association with government. It's grating.

[Dammit Ann]

1. they have to thank each other for something.

so that it will appear that they are actually DOING something. "thanks for your leadership" is just a code for thanks for showing me how to bullshit my way through, just like you.










THE DAMMIT CHRONICLES

[cornermouse]

2. Not sure because, comparatively speaking, I'm poor and unimportant.

But I think that's pretty much the way they do things in D.C. and the American weathy upper crust elite.

[electricmonk]

3. LOL

The whole thank you for your service thing has bugged me for awhile. "I was in the army." "Thank you for your service. Where did you serve?" "I was a clerk in an office outside of DC." "Oh, well I guess someone had to do it so thanks."

Guess I'll be branded anti-troop now. Time to go to bed and sober up before I start sending sexually suggestive emals to teenagers.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Part Of The Scociopathic Nature

Repugnicans like to live viacriously in their delusions. Somehow by putting a Chinese-made Yellow Ribbon on your car, ths was making a contribution to the war effort...or if you say "we support the troops" long enough, it'll drown out the hypocrisies of the funds being cut and the fact most of these people prefer someone else's child or loved one to serve...they'll stay here and man the keyboards. Pay for this fiasco? Hell no...in this world, money just materializes...and if you don't have money, then you're just not worth enough yet.

A big part of this world is the world of denial. Not only don't they assume any responsibility, they mask their screw ups by rewarding themselves or finding some little sliver of decent and spin it to huge proportions. How else could Paul Bremer get an award for fleecing billions and Tenet for looking the other way as this country was attacked. It's avoiding reality by manufacturing their own news and history.

That "thanks for your support" is an empty suit when its said by a Repugnican. It really means "better your ass than mine".

[Why Syzygy]

5. Maniacs

The bushites have managed to drive the whole world crazy.

WTF?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=219x5974

They don't even need concentration camps like grampy had. They just cut off aid, wait for people to drown, starve, let someone else kill them off, mental illness, death penalty, wars. oh well.

I REALLY want a seat on the 50 yard line when there is nothing left but the Bush's sitting on a dry, blazing planet, toasting each other and hugging. Then they might look around and say, hey, who is bringing my next Jim Beam? Sorry, bozo, you killed everyone.

How much money did Howard Hughes leave? ALL OF IT. You don't get to stuff your pockets when you go to the grave. I do not even get where these people are coming from.

[mcscajun]

6. I think it comes from the "M.B.A." style that Bush wanted to bring to

the WH.

One of the things in the corporate world that always disgusted me were the Chamber of Commerce-type things, where this month we'd all get together and give you a plaque for something, and then next month you and your guys would all get together and give me a plaque for something else, and next month it would be someone else's turn. The achievements were minor, the fuss was major, the applause and the smiles were mostly phony, and the speeches and the costs were sickening. It's all very self-congratulatory, and Bush just loves it.

[genie_weenie]

7. Simple. Get that thought out there enough and people

will begin to believe it. The Federal Government IO/Psyops campaign against the American Citizen is still going strong.