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2005-10-06 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by mojo 2005-10-06 11:20|| || Front Page|| [11124 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Watta maroon. The decision to invade Iraq was one of the most debated decisions this country ever made. We argued about it for over a year. We had demonstrations. We had giant puppets. We had horses' asses of every political persuasion on the TV. Everyone in this country, serious and sober, idiot and delusional, had an opinion and had their say.

What in the world is this man talking about?

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2005-10-06 11:36|| 2005-10-06 11:36|| Front Page Top

#2 And we also had this little thing called a congressional vote - and most of your friends voted FOR it, lol.

Maroon is right, Dr Steve, lol.

Posted by .com 2005-10-06 11:38|| 2005-10-06 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 What in the world is this man talking about?

It's not what he's talking about, it's who he's talking to.

Democrats do not lose elections; elections are stolen from them. If Democrats come out on the short end of a political debate, then the debate never happened.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-10-06 11:55|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-10-06 11:55|| Front Page Top

#4 How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered "an alternate universe"?

GORE< YOUR AN IDIOT!!! None of us have heard that!! Only you have entered an alternate universe!! It's called the TWILIGHT ZONE!!!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2005-10-06 12:00|| 2005-10-06 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Al Who?

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-10-06 12:46|| 2005-10-06 12:46|| Front Page Top

#6 First he invents the Internet now he comes up with a cure for Insomnia.

His talents never cease.

Posted by DepotGuy 2005-10-06 13:58|| 2005-10-06 13:58|| Front Page Top

#7 he usually manages to find a record cold day in a city to do a speech on global warming....AlGore - man with the tin ear

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-10-06 14:11|| 2005-10-06 14:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonder who is dumb enough to still pay to listen to this windbag? Not really welcome in Tennessee or anyplace else south of the Mason Dixon line, considered a poseur who, through incompetence, fumbled away the Democrats' divine right to rule, Big Al is the Democrats' equivalent of Louis XVI with Tipper playing Marie Antoinette.

Posted by RWV 2005-10-06 14:12|| 2005-10-06 14:12|| Front Page Top

#9 I'll take Politics for $500, Alex.
Alex: Gore, Kerry, Carter, and Chirac.
Who are has-beens who should just shut up?
Alex: Correct!

Posted by Planet in Jeopardy 2005-10-06 14:22|| http://www.jeopardy.com]">[http://www.jeopardy.com] 2005-10-06 14:22|| Front Page Top

#10 Reconsidering the Democrat = Imperial France analogy:
Bill Clinton = Louis XIV the Sun King, "I am the State"
Al Gore = Louis XV, "After me, the Deluge"
John Kerry = Louis XVI, "Why me?"

Posted by RWV 2005-10-06 14:23|| 2005-10-06 14:23|| Front Page Top

#11 Good God! We're they passing out razors so people could slit their wrists during this thing?

Posted by tu3031 2005-10-06 14:23|| 2005-10-06 14:23|| Front Page Top

#12 If only!

Posted by Darrell 2005-10-06 14:25|| 2005-10-06 14:25|| Front Page Top

#13 How many of you, I wonder, have heard a friend or a family member in the last few years remark that it's almost as if America has entered "an alternate universe"?

Not only have I heard it, I've said it. I've often thought that, since 9/11, the world has resembled that in Murray Leinster's "Sideways in Time" (1934), in which a natural catastrophe causes the surface of the Earth to become checkered with alternate timelines.

So we have the spectacle of free-wheeling libertines cheering on repressive 7th-century religious barbarians. We have a world in which people cry "Free the Women of Afghanistan!", until somebody actually does, and then it's "Imperialism!"

We hear that opposing tyranny only breeds more tyranny, but so does cajoling tyranny, bribing tyranny, and starving tyranny. Apparently the only thing that actually works against tyranny is marching in the streets with giant puppets.

On the other hand, it's a universe where the US has bases in the heart of Soviet Asia, and Warsaw Pact members belong to NATO.

And you tell me that's not an alternate universe.

Posted by Angie Schultz 2005-10-06 16:40|| http://darkblogules.blogspot.com]">[http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2005-10-06 16:40|| Front Page Top

#14 Beautifully said, Angie. Such a statement is sure prophylactic against the frustration that we haven't openly won already. Thank you.

Posted by trailing wife 2005-10-06 17:04|| 2005-10-06 17:04|| Front Page Top

#15 14 Beautifully said, Angie. Such a statement is sure prophylactic against the frustration that we haven't openly won already. Thank you.

Heh!. . . Heh!Heh! She said proflo. . . profolo . . . lacto. . . ya know! that thing!

Posted by AlmostStupid 2005-10-06 18:34|| 2005-10-06 18:34|| Front Page Top

#16 Angie, comment #13..I stole it. thanks

Posted by Red Dog 2005-10-06 18:50|| 2005-10-06 18:50|| Front Page Top

#17 I shuuuuuuudddddddder to think what would have happened if a few hundred of the dims who moved from NYC or Boston to California in the 90's had moved to Florida instead. If Al had been a Kennedy, old Joe would probably have had a labotomy done on him. Actually, maybe he did anyway?

Posted by FeralCat 2005-10-06 20:21|| 2005-10-06 20:21|| Front Page Top

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