A Glorious Day
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)



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Let me be the first to say: That day has come.
Posted by: anon | November 10, 2004 1:42 AM | Reply to this comment
We need to start the exposure of George Bush's criminal misdeeds NOW! Don't wait until 2006, after the midterm elections. If we make it plain to the red voters now, they may apply enough pressure on the electors to cast their votes for Kerry. Ha.
Posted by: anon | November 10, 2004 1:50 AM | Reply to this comment
Bush may try to salvage his reputation in his second term. But really he is not capable. He is a public leader seemingly shielded from public opinion and in debt to corporate billionaires. We have to be relentless. Now I'm reading articles about liberals going AWOL. It's simply not true. But dissent hasn't gotten much play in mainstream media in the past 4 years. We need rage against the Rove machine.
Posted by: anon | November 10, 2004 5:02 AM | Reply to this comment
Do more than rage. The world is run by those who show up, don't concede your vote. It's not too late, hammer your Senator to introduce an invetigation into VOTER FRAUD and use the HAUA Law before the fraud get's buried in main-street media.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 10, 2004 1:20 PM | Reply to this comment
Is there not better things to do than constantly tear down this president? Folks... go volunteer - help people out. Donate. Do something that's not NEGATIVE. Mmmmmkay.
You really care about the troops? Go to http://operationac.com - you can buy a soldier a new pair of boots, or adopt a soldier, etc. We are not leaving Iraq until there is a legitamate democracy and the Iraqi's can protect themselves. Get over it. Help us do it and it will be done in shorter time. Set aside your hatred for 3.5 years and help out. You can effectively protest in the last 6 months before 2008.
Posted by: anon | November 10, 2004 5:21 PM | Reply to this comment
If your such a Patriot, why the hinding behind arron? Your so brave. Why don't you go fight, take the twins with you. Right, I'm calling son, daughter, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, all my grandkids to go sign up right now to die in the 15 year war on "folks" who didn't have jack shit to do with the terrorist attack. Those damn Iraqs, why can't they understand that we're kill'in them for their own good. Jesus told too. That's what I'll tell my kids, well see, the press is tight with God, and after years of drug and alcohol abuse, he hears things that the rest of us clear headed sinners don't. Just you never mind that we had the man who attacted us 9/11 cornered at Tora Boro and pull the troots out to head to Iraq to avenge daddy. Plus, Bin Laden family and my family is friends, almost like family, and "family matters". Now anon , your right. The 2008 Election Stragtegy should start right now in this red hot moment. We need to take the wind out of their GOP sails and trow a mockey in to boot. These tactics will also explain whay the Democrats lost. And as we found out, once again, the truth doesn't matter to the GOP. Only winning. Issures don"t matter. Policies don't matter. Only corporae control of the Federal Goverment matters and they say or do anything to get and maintain control. So all potential Demo nominees should do the following now! Right Now 1)BUY A RIFLE AND GO HUNTING You don't have to say you are for or against any kind of gun control. You just need to have a few dozen photos of yourself holding a rifle and hunting. Preferably you should hunt pheasants. WHich is the least objectionalbe hunting game to animal rights type people. Pheasants, after all are birds that are all jittery and nervous and one can never get close to a pheasant and bond with it. Really will a pheasant look you in the eye and chirp "help" so blowing away a pheasant won't offend anyone and will endear you to the hunters. 2) coming soon, got to get those grandkids all war'erd up and thinking bout killing for their country, Damn I'll be so proud.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 10, 2004 7:06 PM | Reply to this comment
Is that the new GOP slogan "Get Over It?" Where would we be if people never dissented and just let bad things happen?
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding." - Einstein
"Force always attracts men of low morality." - Einsten
"Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive." John F. Kennedy
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American Public." -Theodore Roosevelt
"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in." - George McGovern
"History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap." - Ronald Reagan
Wait....what? We're safe now??
The objective of securing the safety of Americans from crime and terror has been achieved.
Attorney General John Ashcroft's resignation letter, 11/9/04
VERSUS
We are not yet safe.
President Bush, 9/11/04
Posted by: nojustifiablewar | November 10, 2004 7:57 PM | Reply to this comment
2)FISHING Might as well lock up the fishing crowd too. Instead of wind surfing the candidates should take up fishing. Fishing is manly, as is hunting. Salt-water fishing could lock up the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf Coast fishermen. Lake and stream fishing would appeal to voters in the mainly red states so its important that Democratic candidates be photografed fishing in lakes and streams, like Cheney did on occasion. A tie-in to the enviroment would have an appeal too. We must protect the enviroment for the benefit of the hunters, fishermen and the gun owners. We must protect our wetlands, not for birds, but for people who want to shoot the birds and fish the wetlands. Birds don't vote. Fish don't vote. Pheasants don't vote. Why give up the White HOuse and the presidency, arguing over how to take away their fishing rods so they can't fish or their guns so they can hunt. You can't legistate gun control or protect our streams, forests, wetlands unless you win the White House...Another great tactic might be to write a few articles for Field and Stream Magazine about your favorite large mouth bass lure or your favorite ammo for shooting ducks. It can't hurt. God I love these "Missouri moments." Off to train my grandkids how to clean their guns. Next 3)
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 10, 2004 9:22 PM | Reply to this comment
3)THE BIBLE Democatic candidates need to recapture Jesus for their own. This should be easy since Jesus was basically quite liberal. I doupt that Jesus would be selling health insurance policies to people over 50 and charging $1,5oo a month,nor would be charing $350 for an office visit to give a digital rectal exam for prostate cancer. After all, Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead for free. I bet any hospital today would charge at least $750,000 to raise a person from the dead and the co-pay alone would send you into bankruptcy. So the Democrats need to recapture Jesus. How? Candidates need to buy an old Bilble should have a few post-it notes sticking out of the pages to show that its used regularly. Candidates should memorize a few short passags, preferably, ones that verify that Jesus was indeed liberal. Ouotes like....Feed the hungrey heal the sick, shelter the homless, clothe the naked,raise the minimun wage, reduce unemployment eleiminate the deficit, don't screw around with social securtiy. Right now Jesus is being torn from limb to limb. by conservatives who are yanking on His right arm and liberals who are pulling on His left arms out of it's socket. Democracts need to simply give Jesus a big hug and claim him as their own. Jesus of Nazarth, Jesus the Progressive, Jesus the Liberal, who was betrayed with a kiss, beaten, flogged, and curcified by the consevative of His day.
Posted by: MIssouri Mule | November 11, 2004 5:52 AM | Reply to this comment
3)MORE ON BIBLE Stay away from the "born again" Christians. They are a lost cause ayway. I've been trying to get "born again" for the past 54 years and I can't figure out how the hell its done. I think it's something like being hypnotized- a good hypnotist will tell you that you were hypnotized even if you clain you weren't hypnotized. I know people that have talked to God, talked to Jesus, heard Jesus talking to them and had one-on-one private meetings . I have even gave up drinking, smoking, started go to church services regularly, confession, been Baptisted a second time, and ask Jesus to come into my heart. I've increased my donation at church services to a sum that I thought would make me born again. I know some guys that curse, drink, smoke, lie, gamble, and cheat on their wifes, and when I meet them at church services they fold their hands, cast their eyes down in a saintly look, and ask me if I have opened my hear to Jesus yet. My pastor said that I also had to open my wallet to Jesus, that I could do better, whatever that means. If you monitored Bush closely during the campaigning you would have noticed he never mentioned neither the word "Jesus" nor the word "Christ." He never once mentioned the word Choatholic, the word Protestant, or Jewish. He never once mentioned that he was a Methodist, that is, before he was a Presbeyterian, that is before he was, a Lutheran, that was before, he was in the National Guard, this is, before he was a heavy druggie and drinker. Sounds like flip-flopper to me, if there ever was one. The point is, you just have to be photographed clutching a Bilbe and shacking hands with the pastor at the end of Sunday services and you'll be "in like Flynn" with the Jesus crowd in the red states.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 11, 2004 9:54 AM | Reply to this comment
I have the strangest urge to sell my Harley and buy a mule. But I'm A fraid it might kick my a--.
Posted by: Bubba | November 11, 2004 4:01 PM | Reply to this comment
My senseless disregard in the instance of red flags, and the consequences that follow, eventually remind me, however, of pithy counsel from that wise old granddaddy of mine. He would look off thoughtfully and declare, "As you walk down life's pathways, you chance upon a turd---don't kick it"
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 11, 2004 8:06 PM | Reply to this comment
I'd say I for one, owe that old gentleman a debt of gratitude.
Posted by: Bubba | November 11, 2004 11:01 PM | Reply to this comment
My daddy told about an old man who lived in Springfield when Daddy was a little boy. This man was locally famous for his favorite oath. Whenever he told a tale that was particularly unbelievvable to his listeners, he would end it by saying, "And if that ani't so, then God's a possum!" Devout members of his audience would gasp and step back to avoid the lightning they felt sure was about to strike the man. It never did, of course, and this demonstrated definitive proof to me and my daddy that God has a great sense of humor. In the little qua of a neigbor hood where I grew up, not only was the Baptist count high, there were also some off-brand cult types--all ultrareligious. When tempers would erupt during a game of chase or hide-and-go-seek, the children of these off-brands would splutter and stammer in anger, too young and inexperience to know how to cuss each other out properly. When matters finally really reached the boiling point, right before blows were to be exchanged, one would yell at the other, "You don't know your "Ten Commandments!" It always came out sounding like one word, "Tinkamandments." And the battle would be on. I'd watch all this and muse, "Now, I wonder what God thinks about this?" Bubba, don't your sale that Harley, and always be particular.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 12, 2004 6:44 AM | Reply to this comment
3) MORE ON BIBLE There are lots of progressive, moderate thinking liberal, and "normal" Christian out there in the world too. The Democratic candidate doesn't have to appeal to the "rattlesnake whorshiping crowd" in Alabama to win over a large majority of Christians. Actually, I'd give up on the Pentecostal, Fundumentalist, and Evangelical Christians. Jerry Falweel and Rush are probably always going to be Republicians voters as are Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye, and Benny Hinn or what ever the hell his name is who dose all that faith healing. Hey, that would have been a good question for the moderator to have asked during the debates. "Do you, as a Presidential candidate believe in and would you support as a faith-based inintiative the practice of faith healings?" At any rate, I'd concentrate on Catholics and mainline Protestants and people who don't go to church and are doomed to go to hell anyway. The problem is getting these groups to vote. People who don't go to church and are doomed to hell anyway, know it, and therefore when it comes time to vote, just say to themselves, "What the hell, why should I vote, I'm going to hell anyway." This is a problem Catholics can be enticed to vote, especially if Democrats can convince them that missing the vote is like missing Sunday Mass......it's a Mortal Sin and if they don't vote they will go to hell. It would be good for the Democratic candidate to go to church every Sunday and have his or her's picture taken with the pastor after church services. This is MOST important. If you go to church and no one knows it, it dose you no good. It has to be photografed. It has to be on TV or in the newspaper for it to count. If you are a "Born again" Christian and only God knows it, that won't get you the White House! Actually, I'd stay away from claiming to be born again. It sounds kinda freaky. Kennedy would have never been elected if he'd had claimed he was "born again" and that he was speaking and listening to God... Catholic Jesus and Catholic God, and that all Protestants would naturallly go to hell because they didn't believe in the one, true Catholic, Pope appproved God. Absurd isn't it. This is why we have (or used to have) separation of church and state.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 12, 2004 9:13 AM | Reply to this comment
4) GAYS The next candidate shouldn't get embroiled on a debate over gay marrige or sex unions or sexual orientation. The word S-E-X is a no no anyway. Kerry made a big mistake when he mentioned the word "lesbian" on national TV, referring to Cheney's lesbian daughter. Can you imagine how many little old ladies sitting on their couch yelled out to their husband and said, "Harry, come here quick, that guy Kerry just said something about lesbians" and Harry would come running into the living room with his can of beer and say, "Yeah Ethal, I heard, I think Kerrys the one that got that queer daughter that everyones talking about." "I don't know." Maybe its Bush that has the "funny" daughter. The words gay, lesbian, and sex sould never be used. If a candidate must refer to one of these groups they should always just be referred to as individuals or all Americans. People hear in the Don't-Show-Me-State don't want to even hear the words "gay" or "homosexual." They're still struggling with the word "pregnant" that wasn't even permitted on TV in the 1950's and early 1960's.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 12, 2004 9:20 PM | Reply to this comment
4)EVEN MORE ON SEX-(and other sinner's stuff) NOW THAT THE ELECTIONS OVER AND BUSH IS DONE STUMPIN', WE'RE NOT LIKELY TO HEAR MUCH TIL THE NEXT ELETION The word condom should never be used either. It conjures up visions of , well, you know, what the condom is used on. I can't even bring myself to say it, well, becuse, well it just ani't fittin'. Plus, if you say you are going to give $50 Million to Africa so they can buy a Zillion condoms it conjures up visions of well, you know, male biological parts. (Maybe that the vision that feller' was talking about earlier) "Abortion" is another word to stay away from. Democratic candidates need to be Pro-Life AND Pro-Choice. One can be Pro-Life and still want to give up one's options, and so therefore be Pro-Choice. It doesn't matter what you say if you are a Democratic candidate, if you don't get to the White House.
5)ENVIROMENT Alaska voted for Bush so I imagine they want oil drilling in ALaska National Wildlife Refuge. I've been to Alaska many times and have family there. They are however moving back to East Jesus Missouri, seeing how their house is sinking down in the bog. And some wierd azz beatles have eaten all their trees. I don't plan on going back. If we did drill in Alaska the oil would run out in 50 years and Alaska could get back to being Alaska for the next 10,000 years.
The biggest environmental calamity to ever hit Alaska, Canada and the USA was when there was a "land bridge" from Siberia to Alaska, which allowed cavemen or early humans to cross over into the North American continent. Nothings ever been the same. If a Democratic candidate wants to appease the energy industry executives the candidate could come out in favor of drilling for more oil in Texas. Texas is already Bush country so what the hell, or well. We might as well drill away into oblivion in Texas. Besides, Texans don't care about oil spills or enviromental disasters. After all, its Texas. It's OIL country. They take pride in drinking water with Mercury in it. If a Democratic candidate ever wins he could set up 5000 oil drilling rigs all over Crawford Texas and confiscate George Bush's suposed ranch in search for oil, Black Gold, Texas Tea.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 13, 2004 3:14 PM | Reply to this comment
Yada Yada Yada.... Bush won, and we got a war to fight. We heard all you lefties and you were roundly rejected by the American people.
Posted by: Don H | November 15, 2004 8:23 PM | Reply to this comment
Sorry world we tried. The above sould be is the perfect example of the mentality we were up against. John Kerry should have been able to go on vacation , show up on Nov. 3 holding a bottle of gin, with his pants around his ankeles, and still win.
Posted by: Missouri Mule | November 15, 2004 8:57 PM | Reply to this comment