Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. And the problem is....?
Posted on 11/08/2004 12:31:07 PM PST by crushelits
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.
This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.
This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of humanity.
And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.
But then the horrible, inevitable truth hit home. They had somehow managed to re-elect the most devious, blinkered and reckless leader ever put before them. The Yellow Rogue of Texas.
A self-serving, dim-witted, draft-dodging, gung-ho little rich boy, whose idea of courage is to yell: "I feel good," as he unleashes an awesome fury which slaughters 100,000 innocents for no other reason than greed and vanity.
A dangerous chameleon, his charming exterior provides cover for a power-crazed clique of Doctor Strangeloves whose goal is to increase America's grip on the world's economies and natural resources.
And in foolishly backing him, Americans have given the go-ahead for more unilateral pre-emptive strikes, more world instability and most probably another 9/11.
Why else do you think bin Laden was so happy to scare them to the polls, then made no attempt to scupper the outcome?
There's only one headline in town today, folks: "It Was Osama Wot Won It."
And soon he'll expect pay-back. Well, he can't allow Bush to have his folks whoopin' and a-hollerin' without his own getting a share of the fun, can he?
Heck, guys, I hope you're feeling proud today.
To the tens of millions who voted for John Kerry, my commiserations.
To the overwhelming majority of you who didn't, I simply ask: Have you learnt nothing? Do you despise your own image that much?
Do you care so little about the world beyond your shores? How could you do this to yourselves?
How appalling must one man's record at home and abroad be for you to reject him?
Kerry wasn't the best presidential candidate the Democrats have ever fielded (and he did deserve a kicking for that "reporting for doo-dee" moment), but at least he understood the complexity of the world outside America, and domestic disgraces like the 45 million of his fellow citizens without health cover.
He would have done something to make that country fairer and re-connected it with the wider world.
Instead America chose a man without morals or vision. An economic incompetent who inherited a $2billion surplus from Clinton, gave it in tax cuts to the rich and turned the US into the world's largest debtor nation.
A man who sneers at the rights of other nations. Who has withdrawn from international treaties on the environment and chemical weapons.
A man who flattens sovereign states then hands the rebuilding contracts to his own billionaire party backers.
A man who promotes trade protectionism and backs an Israeli government which continually flouts UN resolutions.
America has chosen a menacingly immature buffoon who likened the pursuit of the 9/11 terrorists to a Wild West, Wanted Dead or Alive man-hunt and, during the Afghanistan war, kept a baseball scorecard in his drawer, notching up hits when news came through of enemy deaths.
A RADICAL Christian fanatic who decided the world was made up of the forces of good and evil, who invented a war on terror, and thus as author of it, believed he had the right to set the rules of engagement.
Which translates to telling his troops to do what the hell they want to the bad guys. As he has at Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and countless towns across Iraq.
You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted to kick him out.
These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a gibbon when they see one.
As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel pity.
Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets.
The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong".
You probably won't be surprised to learn of would-be Oklahoma Republican Senator Tom Coburn who, on Tuesday, promised to ban abortion and execute any doctors who carried them out.
He also told voters that lesbianism is so rampant in the state's schools that girls were being sent to toilets on their own. Not that any principal could be found to back him up.
These are the people who hijack the word patriot and liken compassion to child-molesting. And they are unknowingly bin Laden's chief recruiting officers.
Al-Qaeda's existence is fuelled by the outpourings of America's Christian right. Bush is its commander-in-chief. And he and bin Laden need each other to survive.
Both need to play Lex Luther to each others' Superman with their own fanatical people. Maybe that's why the mightiest military machine ever assembled has failed to catch the world's most wanted man.
Or is the reason simply that America is incompetent? That behind the bluff they are frightened and clueless, which is why they've stayed with the devil they know.
VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit the amateurism.
The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing the victor.
Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W Bush.
But is America safer today without Kerry in charge? A man who overnight would have given back to the UN some credibility and authority. Who would have worked out the best way to undo the Iraq mess without fear of losing face.
Instead, the questions facing America today are - how many more thousands of their sons will die as Iraq descends into a new Vietnam? And how many more Vietnams are on the horizon now they have given Bush the mandate to go after Iran, Syria, North Korea or Cuba...?
Today is a sad day for the world, but it's even sadder for the millions of intelligent Americans embarrassed by a gung-ho leader and backed by a banal electorate, half of whom still believe Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.
Yanks had the chance to show the world a better way this week, instead they made a thuggish cowboy ride off into the sunset bathed in glory.
And in doing so it brought Armageddon that little bit closer and re-christened their beloved nation The Home Of The Knave and the Land Of The Freak.
Five bucks says this is the first time the author has invoked God's name in the past decade.
They still don't get why W won.
Sumpins' got them limeys' panties in a knot, say?
The author suffers from "country envy". Feel sorry for him. You see, he's a loser.
Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. And the problem is....?
You mean the same UN that currently is doing its best to pretend that genocide is not happening in Darfur? That has the perpetrator of the genocide, Sudan, on its Human Rights Commission?
There isn't a human alive whose election to President could give that cesspool anything remotely resembling credibility and authority. The UN as an effective, moral agent in the world only exists in the demented minds of globalist liberals - right next to the same disillusionment that Castro and Stalin and Mao were good for their people and didn't kill or imprision millions.
when the hell are the liberals leaving this country like they promised?
Don't tell me they lied
Yes, insulting us and calling us names will make us realize how right you are.
Within a century, the coronation of the British monarch will take place in a mosque. To Hell with them.
Check out the above thread...very similar rant
The left thinks it's moral to kill innocent children because they are an inconvenience to their parents.
The left thinks it's moral to practice human sacrifice (in the form of fetal stem-cell research)
The left thinks it’s moral to euthanize the sick and elderly because they are an inconvenience to their families.
The left thinks it's moral to give an able bodied person a welfare check instead of helping them understand the importance of hard work, self-respect, education, and high moral character.
The left thinks it's moral to deny school choice to children who are stuck in the hedonistic war zones they call public schools.
The left thinks it's moral to take away peoples land to protect an endangered insect or to create a swamp.
The left thinks it's moral to ignore the constitution and take guns away from law abiding citizens.
The left thinks it's moral to force every American citizen into pay into the pyramid scheme called social security, which is rigged to never pay most people anything since they should be dead by the time their old enough to collect.
The left thinks it's moral to hand out condoms and needles to kindergartners.
The left thinks it's moral to parade mentally disordered homosexuals and other sexual deviants in front of our children.
The left thinks it's moral to remove every reference to religion from the workplace and government.
The left thinks it's moral to cripple our economic system with a crushing tax and regulatory burden in order to promote their failed socialist/communist ideology.
The left thinks it's moral to ridicule and belittle those who believe in God.
The left thinks it’s moral to be tolerant of everyone except those with whom they disagree.
The left thinks it’s moral for unelected officials who serve life terms to impose their doctrine of death and hopelessness on the rest of us.
If they're saying this about us, I feel confident we are right where we should be. 4 more years!
They said exactly the same thing about Reagan.
Need I say more?
Somewhere in this ass's rant he said the American people picked W. How right he is. How dare he, and other foreign nationals, judge the American people. We're still the Americans that pulled their bacon out of Hitler's, Mussolini's, and a succession of Soviet leaders' fire. And when we want their opinion, we'll ask.
We are as we always have been. Who changed?
I can't help but wonder what Kerry promised other Nations if he won. That is why they are so pissed that he lost.
Does following it with "damn" count?
hmmm...the thread I was referring to must have been pulled.
I'll be I've worn out more passports than this wanker has worn out socks.
If it isn't him, he feels exactly the same way.
Would someone explain to me what being a "cowboy" has to do with "thuggishness" or "lawlessness"?
What is it about cowboys that rubs Euros the wrong way so thoroughly?
GOD HELP AMERICA ^
Posted by kupia_kummi
On News/Activism ^ 11/07/2004 8:58:20 PM EST · 112 replies · 2,213+ views
Mirror.CO.UK ^ | November 5, 2004 | Brian Reade
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.. THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics...
U.K. Daily Mirror article 'GOD HELP AMERICA' trashes President Bush. ^
Posted by owls_man
On News/Activism ^ 11/04/2004 11:17:04 AM EST · 20 replies · 517+ views
Daily Mirror ^ | November 4, 2004 | Brian Reade
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes...
GOD HELP AMERICA ^
Posted by Rutles4Ever
On News/Activism ^ 11/04/2004 9:28:10 AM EST · 116 replies · 2,225+ views
The Mirror UK ^ | 11/4/2004
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN.. THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics...
GOD HELP AMERICA (Mega Euro-gag) ^
Posted by Pokey78
On News/Activism ^ 11/03/2004 10:40:50 PM EST · 84 replies · 1,348+ views
Daily Mirror (U.K.) ^ | 11/04/04 | Brian Reade
THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world. This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation. This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes...
The price of ale went up and the wait for emergency surgery has gone up to 10 months. They're cranky.
And they say you can't legislate morality...they have been ligislating immorality for decades.
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Arrogant point of view isn't it! Who's to say they're right and the red states are wrong?
It seems that the Britts, at least some of them , have the same sanctimonious, smug, Pseudo intellectual, crap for brains attitudes as some of our nonsensical liberals today. I do hope that they keep a stiff upper lip, that may prevent them from screaming when their whole world comes tumbling down on their houses of cards.
You remind me of that Mark Moreford freak. Can't you libs talk about politics without lapsing into your gay watersports fantasies?
To use your crude references in kind, let me advise your pansy-ass limey self that yes, we do have the biggest dick in the world, and no, we wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire and begging us to... Good luck when the muzzies decide to start jihading in Britain...
I don't know; the cowboy has always been (deservedly) a heroic figure and (until recently) a strong symbol of our national self-identity. The suits in the EU and those who make their livings scribbling would have problems with both, I imagine.
Notice Moore printed that anti-American rant in the UK.
He has little credibility on our shores, but he is bullying his way to influence internationally, where people don't have access to the other side of the story. His Fahrenheit 9/11 is distributed worldwide, with translations in every major language, while the rebuttals are mainly available in the U.S., in English.
Moore is going to continue his traitorous propagandizing outside our borders. In that way, I'm afraid he is accomplishing his agenda.
"And they say you can't legislate morality...they have been ligislating[sic] immorality for decades."
True, but I doesn't mean the former should'nt be also true. I believe in freedom. Freedom of religion. Not freedom from religion. But I don't think we should legislate based on religion because religion is not based in anything real. Legislating based on beliefs is something Liberals do. I don't think we should follow the same pattern.
Dang....that was some first class drivel. That guy is hopeless when it comes to "getting it."
Even if everything this author had to say were true (it's not), it would still be the case that those of us who live in the USA have teeth in better condition than the average Brit.
Not only that, but I can't believe the author would actually suggest that WE have, as our leader, someone who is "dim-witted".
Does this author have NO sense of British History -- Edward VIII -- or of the British future -- Charles the Next?
Ah yes, "the complexity of the world", this has become the mantra of the of the navel-gazing nihilists who simply refuse to accept moral distinctions and the mere mention of Absolute Truth drives the same to fits of snarling, foaming hatred of all who refuse to accept their Eurocentric view.
To watch the response of these Dim-wits becomes more entertaining by the day. I really believe some sort of a mass suicide watch needs to be instituted in the San Fran, and Northeast US as well as large swaths of Europe.
Oh yeah, and "lawless cowboy", The cowboy thing is getting a little old although I would argue that such a name should rightly be worn as a badge of honor. We tend to be just a tad more individualistic than our more enlightened brethern.
Giddyup
Hey, UK douche-bag - what was Al-Qaeda's motivation before 9/11, before the USS cole, before the first WTC bombing? YOU are the dumba$$ who doesn't get it, and if 3,000 of your people would have died in an attack on your soil, you probably would have just rolled over and cried, wussy!
(Where's the author????)
Note to UK: If you want to repair relations between us, curtail this CR@P!!!
I keep hearing on talk radio here in chicago, that the problem is, is that somehow, the Republican Party "hijacked" morals.
I swear, I have heard more than once, that forcing people to take responsibiity for their children is "immoral", that school vouchers is immoral (because all the good teachers will lose their jobs), not pursuing the destruction of infants to increase your lifespan is "immoral", not wanting to soak the rich, so the poor blacks can get a piece of the pie is "immoral".
These people just don't get it.
Or maybe I don't. I dunno.
Also, they are saying that W ran a smear campaign, based on lies and fear. I dunno, passing around flyers with blacks being firehosed, telling people the repubs are introducing the draft (when it was the dems) telling people that W is going to take away all your sociol security, Michael Moore, etc, seems like a smear campaign to me.
Not to mention to name calling. If you don't believe in abortion, then you are a sexist who wants to rape women (cameron diaz), if you think that Jesse Jackson is a shakedown artist, then you are racist. If you think that our courts are there to interpret the law, NOT MAKE IT, then you are a homophobe gay basher.
If you are religious, then you are the enemy. A dumb hick, bumpkin, idiot, with no schooling. Faith is for the foolish they tell us.
Yet somehow, WE hijacked morals.
I honestly thought it was from Michael Moore.
Wouldn't be surprised if he ghost-wrote it.
Yawn. Go away - you're boring.
As to the article, I wouldn't pay much attention to it, the British press is very outspoken and politicized (Compare The Daily Mirror to The Sun.) The left wing papers where outraged by Bush's victory while the right leaning ones welcomed the election results.
The significant thing is the attitude of the left, it is practically identical in the UK and in the US: extreme anger, insults, radicalism. I think, in a way, it shows the ideological bankruptcy of the left.
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