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05/10/2003 Archived Entry: "Procter: 'George Jumps The Shark'"
'George Jumps The Shark' by Rich Procter
All they had to do was nothing. Just leave the whole military issue alone, George. Just declare victory in your ginned-up little turkey shoot and looting party and go back to shaking down your loyal corporate 'donors' you know, Mr. Cheney's cronies who are going to harvest mega-bucks from those no-bid contracts to 're-build Iraq's infra-structure.'
But noooooooo. The Republicans, God bless 'em, HAVE to overreach - it's in their DNA. Trent Lott can't just wish Strom 'Segregation Forever' Thurmond a happy birthday he has to turn a photo op into a Klan rally. Rick Santorum can't just cough up platitudes about 'family values' - he's got to demonize, criminalize and threaten the entire non-hetero, non-Republican population of America (and insult the Westminster Kennel Club in the bargain).
It's not enough the Bush/Rove Thug Cabal and Gun Club owns the Supreme Court, the Presidency, the House, the Senate, AM radio, and Cable Television. It's not enough they're about to shove a tax package down our throats that is going to produce decades of billion dollar deficits, and destroy every constructive social program passed since Teddy Roosevelt was President.
Now the people who brought you the Ronald Reagan who single-handedly liberated Nazi Death Camps while making Army training films in Burbank want to sell you George W. Bush, the Right-Stuff, Top Gun, Roger Ramjet death-from-above sky jock. They want to smother America with a 'counter-myth' that will obliterate the unpleasant truth of Junior's AWOL past. Full Article
Replies: 5 people speak up
Very nicely done, Rich! I think I'm going to post the ad part along with a link back to this from the Funny Farm...
And as always thanks to Don for giving you his sopabox to use...
Posted by (: Tom :) @ 05/10/2003 02:32 PM NY
I'd love to see the footbal angle explored some more by some fans that know more than I do:
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"A civil suit, and an interview with a former statewide officeholder, confirmed what had long been common knoledge in Austin. Barnes, Kralj, and another Barnes aide, Robert Spelling, ran an underground railroad that quietly moved the sons of privilege from Selective Service offices into a safe haven in the Texas Guard units. The unit that accepted Bush included the son of former Texas senator Lloyd Bentsen, the son of former Texas governor John Connally, and enough rich young men to field a polo league. It also included a few black Guardsmen-several members of the Dallas Cowboys football team."
from Shrub: The short but happy political life of George W. Bush, Molly Ivins, 2000, pp 4-5
Posted by Barney Gumble @ 05/10/2003 03:43 PM NY
i can only hope that awol jumped the shark.
Posted by skippy @ 05/10/2003 08:15 PM NY
I love that ad. If I eventually see that ad on TV early in the campaign I will surely know that, "I have done died and done gone to heben."
Posted by Gerald @ 05/11/2003 01:43 AM NY
Right on! However, while i definitely think "anybody but Bush" would be a better President, i think it's also going to take alot more than just regime change to turn around what's going wrong with democracy-- that is, the Class War and the subjugation of the masses by those in power, including mainly the "personhood" of huge multinational corporations, which has slowly but surely eaten away at basic human rights.
Posted by Keith Rowley @ 05/11/2003 05:00 PM NY
