This country needs to heal. A modest proposal.

[Goblinmonger]

Our country has been torn apart in the last 6 years. It is now time to heal. Impeachment of Bush would only add to the division in our country. Libby, Rove, Bush, and the rest need to be pardoned of any possible wrong doing so that we can move on as a country and heal.

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Oh yeah, like that worked the LAST time they let the criminals go...

[deaniac21]

2. No, they need to be torn apart by angry mobs!

[Nickster]

3. Sarcasm? n/t

[Goblinmonger]

4. Satire.

As evidenced by the "modest proposal" title.

[Nickster]

7. Thanks for the clarification. n/t

[TankLV]

24. Well - a use of the "sarcasm" icon can be a good thing...

[Avalux]

5. Did you forget the sarcasm icon?

If not and you are serious - letting all the illegal bullshit slide will not allow this country to heal. There must be investigations, accountablility and retribution. Then we can move on and heal.

[Goblinmonger]

10. I titled my post a "modest proposal"

If that isn't a clear enough indication that what follows is satire, then I can't help people. Needing the :sarcasm: when given the title of one of the prime examples of satire is just silly.

[Nickster]

17. So sorry allow me to kiss your feet and bow to your greatness. I for one have not read "A Modest

Proposal". I must be a dumbass.

:eyes:

[Goblinmonger]

18. Dumbass, no.

Ignorant, yes. It is THE classic example of satire and is included in most every British Lit anthology for high school. I would guess you are missing a lot if you don't know of "A Modest Proposal." And just so you don't think this is some high-brow only thing, The Dead Kennedys did their version with the song "Kill the Poor"

[RaleighNCDUer]

6. A modest proposal.

They should be served up as christmas dinners for the poor.

[Goblinmonger]

9. At least somebody got the reference

Doesn't anybody read in this country anymore?

[RedStateShame]

14. Oh, sheez!!! Am I red-faced!!!!

Read that thing thousands of times in college. I even had to point out the Sealab 2021 reference to it for my friends who hadn't read Swift. You caught me at my job, when I'm not at my best thinking. No fair.

:blush:

[RedStateShame]

8. Is there any other legal obligation that has been ignored for sake of "healing?"

Geez, I'd love to convict you for driving drunk and killing a family of 5, but that would only add to the division between your family and the victims' relatives.

Yes, there's a difference. Most drunk drivers can't get drunk off power, and no drunk driver has ever killed more than 3,000 people.

[WinkyDink]

11. Since "A Modest Proposal" is one of the greatest satires ever, I must

assume your post is in that spirit.

[Goblinmonger]

12. Apparently just the "non-well-read"

are posting today. I thought it was obvious.

[WinkyDink]

15. Not obvious, when there are many posts being very forgiving of

a former Republican President today.

[EST]

21. Like the cat who has had his tail stepped on way too many times,

many of us are quite naturally suspicious. Your reference was immediately obvious, but in defense of those who were, perhaps, a little more literal minded, there are, in fact, some pretty non-liberal proposals (read-nutso) posted in this forum and defended spiritedly.

As an old fart, myself,I am familiar with Johnathan Swift, but the younger crowd has had a far larger volume of literature thrust at them from a doubtlessly less progressive crowd, and there's so much more of it that is "ancient history" than there was when I was a teen.

I thought your proposal delicious in this day of Ford orgasm and winger disinformation.

[bluerum]

13. Ha ha ha. You fo'got the sarcasm smiley. Wee he he he. That's good. nt

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Most Appropriate Given The Hagiographers Today

That and the morality lecturers. Nice Swiftian take.
The Professor

[acmavm]

19. Is that you george??????????

:sarcasm:

[leftofthedial]

20. is there any way possible that we could

let them stay in power for an extra 4 or 8 years?

I know they want the best for our country and just need more time for their loving plans to work out.

[IdaBriggs]

22. Are you out of your mind??? The best way for "healing" to take place

involves purging the poison! Let the guilty go to jail, toss out the trash, and then let the wounds heal -- anything else is going to be poison IN MY GUT for the rest of my life.

I don't care whether the offenders are Republicans or Democrats -- you commit treason (by outing one of our spy masters) or getting my troops killed (by lying about "weapons of mass destruction") then I want your ASS IN JAIL!!!

These weren't "accidents" or "simple mistakes in judgment" -- WE'RE TALKING TREASON FOR MONEY!!!

And the folks who preach "forgive and forget" seem content to have us keep repeating the disasters over and over again. (See "Ford, Gerald, former President" for details.)

[TankLV]

23. NO FUCKING WAY!

In order to "heal" as you claim - we need to IMPEACH THESE WAR CRIMINALS and PUNISH them and IMPRISON them and PREVENT THEM FROM EVER REGAINING POSITIONS OF POWER EVER AGAIN!

That's the only way to "heal" the country - to insure that they NEVER damage the country like they have done ever again!

Oh - wait - "A Modest Proposal" - sarcasm - now I get it...

I'd like to serve THEM for dinner - to my dogs - no wait - my dogs don't deserve that inhumane treatement...

[pitohui]

25. if you want peace work for justice

sorry, evil men need to pay or don't expect peace

* and the rest need to face public trial for their crimes


there are thousands of men, every day, placed in prison for far less than what nixon did and what * has done

it is not fair to put anyone in prison if only the people whose skin is too dark or wallets too light for your taste must face public trial and punishment

the world will never be at peace while powerful men can be confident that they will NEVER stand accountable for their crimes

[ck4829]

26. LOL

And let me improve upon your modest proposal by letting Bush run for a third term, that will heal and unite the country even more.

[Goblinmonger]

31. Good addition

Perhaps if I had that in the original, more people would have gotten it.

[gulliver]

27. Nixon would have been impeached.

He was brought down. That is the important thing. Everyone knew Nixon for what he was in the end. Everyone knew he would have been impeached, indicted, and convicted. I'm glad Ford did what he did.

If Bush and Cheney end up resigning like Nixon and Agnew, I'm fine with it. I don't expect it. The GOP would need to find and dust off its integrity for that to happen. Maybe they can do that in honor of Ford.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

28. Good one! :)

[robertpaulsen]

29. You had me for a second. Very Swift of you. n/t

:rofl:

[riderinthestorm]

30. Best. Thread. On. Ford. Of. The. Day

LOL!!!

Thanks. I really needed this - the lecturing and admonishing going on DU today was creeping me out, it was beginning to look at little freeperish in here.

[Goblinmonger]

32. It just amazes me

that the same people that are calling for bush's head on a platter are lauding someone for pardoning Nixon in an effort to heal the country. Bullshit is bullshit regardless if one of the slingers of the shit just died.