Posted on 11/16/2004 5:37:52 AM PST by Numbers Guy
I would like to thank the 51 percent of American voters who re-elected President Bush. Thank you for putting a man back in office who favors rich, white men. His deep love for people like himself will push him to continue cutting taxes, and our nation's deficit will continue to expand wider than the average American's waistline.
Thank you, middle class working Americans who voted for Bush. The $1,800 you received in tax cuts won't even begin to cover the 10 percent tuition hike your son or daughter is facing.
And of course, thank you, children of small business owners. If it weren't for you, we'd have a nation of people who can think for themselves. I'd like to see what happens when you're on your own without mommy and daddy's money.
Next on the list, thank you, parents and grandparents for voting Georgie in. Now, when you're rotting beneath the surface of the Earth, your children will be giddy with excitement that you left them with the largest deficit in our nation's history. Amazing, absolutely amazing. I can't wait to pay for your mistake.
Thank you for electing Dubya because, as a woman, I sure feel my rights are protected. Roe v. Wade? Ah, forget about it! Bush will make sure to get that overturned. The government will rule our bodies - what's more safe than that? Then, at least, all the back-alley shops will open up and abortions will once again become scary, death-fighting procedures. You people are brilliant.
Oh, let's not forget the religious zealots. Thank you for voting for Bush. Now our country is run by homophobic, Bible-thumping, closed-minded people. It couldn't get any better. I personally have a problem with people who use religion to belittle people. Wouldn't God want everyone to be happy? My God doesn't discriminate.
Wait a second, with all of my thanking, I've forgotten some proposals. Now that the Michigan Constitution will be amended to take away people's rights, I would like to thank any homophobes who voted yes on Proposal 2. Now that it's said and done, was it really about the sanctity of marriage, or was it your homophobia that interfered? If you weren't so busy hating your fellow Americans, you'd probably find out that someone in your family is gay. That's right G-A-Y, gay. Yucky!
But back to my man Bush. I get e-mails from Bush-lovers and boy are the writers the most educated, wonderful people on the planet. One of them even used the phrase "towel head," but it was one word and spelled wrong. They also like to tell me I'm a "little s--- liberal." I can't side with Republicans when they're full of hate.
When it comes down to the final word, money and religion rule this nation. You either voted for Bush because you love your tax cuts or because you love your morals. And we are divided. But the separation of the nation is only because freedom has gotten this bad.
And I wasn't going to toot my Iraq horn, but I'll be really quick here. The other day, a Republican told me, "Well, it's hard to find Osama bin Laden in all the mountains over there." Then how in the hell did we manage to find Saddam in a hole in the middle of the desert then, huh?
Seriously, I am sick of the fight to be "free."
I was at a conference in Nashville earlier this month, and one of the sessions was "Freedom Sings," a collaboration of musicians who played and sang about the First Amendment and songs that had, at times, been banned from radio air waves because of content or perceived content. At the end, the Janis Joplin-esque woman of the group started to sing, "You're a Grand Old Flag."
If you're unfamiliar with the lyrics, they are as follows: "... And forever in peace may you wave. You're the emblem of/The land I love/The home of the free and the brave."
I couldn't sing along. In fact, I was short from bursting into tears. This land is not free. This land is not peaceful. This land is led by a tyrant. And thank you, America, for voting him back into office.
Lindsey K. Anderson is the State News music reporter. She can be reached at ander848@msu.edu
For another goody in today's Michigan State student paper, check out:
http://www.statenews.com/op_article.phtml?pk=26971
You're welcome, Lindsay. ;^P
My dear Lindsey K. Anderson,
You are welcome.
Love always,
51% of the American public
Speaking of democrats and idiots, Whats the deal with http://www.werenotsorry.com/ ?
Has anyone checked it out today?
I hope this idiot knows more bout music than she does about politics...
Your Welcome, but really no thanks are required. With any luck we can make you as happy four years from now. You'll make it very easy if you nominate Hilly then you'll see instead of 51% or 60 million votes 60% and 70 million. See you then, baby!
Repeal the 22nd Amendment. Bush / Rice in 2008.
"I can't side with Republicans when they're full of hate."
Liberals have pretty much got the whole hypocricy thing down pat.
When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.
--Franklin D. Roosevelt
Canada is just North of here. Go.
--Tarpaulin
wow, the music reporter really has some brilliant, insightful commentary on politics!
One of the stupidest points was about finding Saddam. We found Saddam in a hole because someone risked his life and the lives of his family to be an informant. Furthermore, if little Lindsay had ever actually BEEN to a desert, or a mountainous region, she would perhaps see the differences between the terrain. They're... not the same, Lindsay.
I could refute every single lame statement, but she's not worth my time. Clearly she is incapable of rational, critical thought.
Norman Thomas, six-time Socialist Party presidential candidate and one of the founders of the ACLU
More of the trite insults, somehow I'm underwhelmed and I think most voters will be in 2006,2008,2010,2014.........
I wonder if she would like some cheese with her whine?
Here's another sample of her intellectual brilliance:
"I was driving down Michigan Avenue to work when a souped-up Chevy Suburban drove past bearing its "W '04" American pride sticker.
"In the midst of staring, I looked over at the prissy woman in the passenger's seat and watched as she proceeded to stick her pointer finger into the depths of her nostrils and dig out what some would consider to be a piece of gold. At this point I started laughing and pointing at the woman, but she didn't see me, and she then proceeded to stick the pointer finger into her mouth and eat said booger."
You have got to be pretty desperate for material to center your column around someone who picked their nose. At least when Dave Barry writes about boogers he's funny.
Wow, this lady has got a serious case of "Bush Derangement Syndrome"
The cure: one way ticket to any middle east Islamic country. Burka included
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