October 12, 2005

Move on

This will be mildly political, feel free to stop reading. In fact, stop.

OK, so you're still reading because you want to make fun of my politics, fair enough.

Isn't it time to stop coming up with new (albeit creative) anti-bush bumper stickers? I mean, we haven't changed the 2 term rule yet right? - or was that in the 'patriot' act? I'm not saying stop pushing your agenda, I'm just saying how about pushing your new candidate? Why not begin to promote a good candidate so they have a chance of winning? Time to promote someone, enough with the anti already.

*oh come on, admit it, you're a libertarian...

Posted by heyhansen at October 12, 2005 07:18 PM
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Sure, you're right. Non-Bush supporters should just give him a pass on the next 3 years.

While he very well may be a lame duck, he's still the President, and he's still accountable for each and every new blunder his administration keeps veering the country into.

Giving him a pass after 9-11 is what caused most of this mess we're currently in.

Posted by: sp at October 15, 2005 10:33 AM

OK, so let's say you hire someone for a year contract. Financial advisor, home security system, accountant, whatever. And then they start stealing you blind, lying about it, and trying to cover it up 6 months into the deal. And you do what? Spend the next 6 months looking for their replacement without voicing any complaints or telling others about it? Without canning their asses and filing charges? That's what impeachment is for, and our administration appears to be participating in propaganda, widespread corruption, and treason. Is it time to stop voicing opposition and bringing to light the problems? No, it is time to start screaming it from the rooftops until "the evidoers are brought to justice."

Posted by: laloque at October 16, 2005 08:42 AM

OK. We get it. You don't like the guy. Fine. Have a call to action. Putting a bumper sticker on your car that says F*ck Bush is useless - worse than useless, it reduces it to a frat boy joke - hey, that critique sounds familiar?
So I don't like the contractor I hired and I just tell my friends that? How about a call to action? How about firing the contractor? DO something. No change to my contracting job - or this country - will happen if I just tell my buddies that "my contractor sucks".
So sure, "scream from the rooftops" if you like, but seems like it'd be far more interesting to DO something....

Posted by: mh at October 18, 2005 05:40 PM

It's prolonged public outcry that keeps things in the news. And then lands on the grand jury's desk. It's not enough (or even expedient) to promote a new candidate 3 years before the election. Putting pressure on incumbents and seeing how they respond leads to choosing/supporting the right candidates when the time comes. P.S. I don't like the guy?? HE'S A CRIMINAL!!!

Posted by: laloque at October 18, 2005 10:55 PM

Yes, by all means string him up. Let's all act and talk like tabloid writers. Baseless, unsupported accusations do nothing to educate or inform people; all they do is encourage them to be mad and pick up a molitav cocktail and huck it at the next person that tells them what to do. Information is key, and we are all slaves to what information is spun our way by the various news sources, which are paid by the same people that are for or against the people being written about in the first place. Round and round we go, where it stops, nobody knows.

Posted by: coach at October 19, 2005 01:22 PM