tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925765946042638459.post2911663208869351363..comments2024-03-18T02:22:56.392-04:00Comments on Disgusted Beyond Belief: Obama is an IdiotDBBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17805375811782552873noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925765946042638459.post-89443817822653015632008-01-15T15:04:00.000-05:002008-01-15T15:04:00.000-05:00I don't disagree with you about those candidates -...I don't disagree with you about those candidates - Godwin be damned times two. My only disagreement is to say that I think Bush/Cheney is just as bad as them, and that if they got into office, and, to extend the anti-Godwin analogy, they'd probably find the orders for the Zyklon B had already been sent out for them in advance by Bush's transition team. <BR/><BR/>Bush has already said he fully supports torture, and his administration has already tortured people to death, has already violated FISA and spied on the entire nation, he has already argued that he is above the law and can do whatever he wants. He already has his concentration camp at Gitmo. What worries me about those candidates you list is not that they will be worse than Bush, but that they will simply continue his legacy and do the same things as Bush. <BR/><BR/>Is there a fire exit here? Given the random kidnappings of foriegners off of the street in other countries, is really anywhere safe?DBBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805375811782552873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925765946042638459.post-8079888846109090892008-01-15T14:44:00.000-05:002008-01-15T14:44:00.000-05:00There's one other option: Keep your back to the wa...There's one other option: Keep your back to the wall and keep a clear path to the fire exit.<BR/><BR/>Worse than Bush? How about Giuliani, Huckabee or Romney? Godwin be damned: any one of these bastards would be more than happy to open up the actual concentration camps and put in a really big order for some Zyklon B.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925765946042638459.post-53460973263850162132008-01-15T12:34:00.000-05:002008-01-15T12:34:00.000-05:00I can understand your sentiment. I've almost stop...I can understand your sentiment. I've almost stopped caring at all about Congressional elections. <BR/><BR/>I have a small bit of hope that at least a little will be different with Obama - at least it won't be as bad as it could have been. I don't have much hope of that if Clinton wins, though at least she'd put competent people into government positions. <BR/><BR/>The only other options is to give up all hope and I guess I'm not quite prepared to do that yet. There are degrees of bad. <BR/><BR/>If Clinton wins the primary, I pretty much don't care much what happens beyond that except that I don't ever want to see a GOP president again. The weak and ineffectual nature of the Dems works in all of our favor when they are the ones who actually hold power, particularly the executive branch. I'd rather have ineffectual bad politicians than ruthlessly efficient (at least at exercising power) power-mongering bad politicians. <BR/><BR/>But you are probably right and nothing much good will come in the end. I do think you are wrong about one thing - we probably won't have a GOP regime that is less competent than Bush, simply because he set the bar so low. I could so another as bad as him. It would be difficult to imagine one that was worse - how many brain-damaged ex-coke-head fundamentalist sons of previous presidents who have a long friendship with Karl Rove can there be?DBBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805375811782552873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2925765946042638459.post-65374212061482514152008-01-15T12:25:00.000-05:002008-01-15T12:25:00.000-05:00What are these "elections" of which you speak?I've...What are these "elections" of which you speak?<BR/><BR/>I've become so monumentally uninterested in the whole affair that I can barely force myself to vote at all, either in the primary or general election. It's a choice between nuclear Armageddon or drowning slowly in our own shit... or drowning in our own shit and <I>then</I> nuking the planet.<BR/><BR/>Really, without savage reprisals against both the mainstream media (Fox News is by no means the only offender, although it is the worst) and most of the Republican party (and I'm explicitly talking about trials for capital treason) the absolute <I>best</I> we can hope for is four years of weak, ineffectual, constantly-harassed Democratic government followed by a Republican regime which will make the Bush administration look liberal and competent in comparison.Larry Hamelinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08788697573946266404noreply@blogger.com