'I had a horrible feeling in my stomach this morning when I saw' (DU Barfus Maximus!)

The New Criterion ^ | Posted 10:22 PM | [ by James Panero]

[.cnI redruM]

From his aerie in the Reading Room of the British Museum, Enoch Soames notifies us of some 'chatter' among liberal activists alarmed with the capture of Saddam. Read below of what one true believer has to say at a website called the Democratic Underground Forums "DU2" --which appears to be interested in anything but helping the cause of democracy. I note that this person's personal, Chomsky-esque motto--"If you prepare people well enough to believe a lie they will believe it as if it were true" --is a quote from a science-fiction television show called "The X-Files." How true indeed for this fugitive from the outer reaches of reality. Read on:

I had a horrible feeling in my stomach this morning when I saw that Hussein had been capatured. This is a BIG boost for *. This will be used in campaign literature. It will make Dems and others who opposed the war look bad as well. I don't regret opposing shrub's war of aggression on Iraq but it sure will be hard for the candidates now, unless they press the Where's Osama issue but since a majority of Americans already believe that Hussein was behind 9/11/01 it hardly matters.

All of a sudden I am not confident he will lose in 2004.

Please boost my confidence in shrub's defeat in November 2004.

Look what he has going for him right now: Dow over 10,000 Hussein captured The pug CONvention is going to be in NYC around the time of the 9/11 anniversary A complacent and compliant right-wing corporate controlled media all too willing to act as an arm of the pentagon and white house press room. His administration did what his daddy did not, supposedly captured Hussein.

The conspiracy theorist in me says that if this is REALLY Hussein then why didn't * and his media minions not wait until Monday to announce his capture?

Needing encouragement that * can be defeated. Now the stuff about Halliburton overcharging the government will be placed on the back burner as the corporate media celebrates the capture of Hussein.

Not feeling hopeful right now. I have a lot of fear of what he could do if given a second term.

Now here are some responses to this post: "Do not worry. Bush has a lot to fuck up between now and 2004. We'll have him in jail one day. Don't worry." "We can use the daddy thing against him - again; and, hey, can't we please throw in the Bush/Nazi connections in this time...just to keep the fact that 80% of Jews vote dem intact in 2004?"

"I am registering and driving people from homeless shelters to register and then to vote (or mail the damn absentee)."

"Thanks so much for the cyberhug, and a multicolored one at that!!!! Yeah I do LOVE DU for that reason. One can post about one's concerns and have others help."

"Cheney is such a Dick!"

In a taxi I took this afternoon to the Whitney Museum, up a snowy, slushy Park Avenue, my driver tried to make the case against Saddam's capture: that the US once supported Saddam; we gave Saddam weapons of mass destruction (uh, no); we engaged in an illegal war; we killed civilians; Bush should stand for war crimes; etc. I thanked him for his thoughts and gave him a large tip. Can there be an appropriate response to such a mind-set outside of pity?

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>>Can there be an appropriate response to such a mind-set outside of pity?

Contempt would be more honest than pity. Pity implies sympathy. The leftward fringe of the Democratic Party deserves none. They are a sarcoma on the American Spirit.

[jtminton]

I really hate the fact that these people cancel out our votes.

[Area51]

In a taxi I took this afternoon to the Whitney Museum, up a snowy, slushy Park Avenue, my driver tried to make the case against Saddam's capture: that the US once supported Saddam; we gave Saddam weapons of mass destruction (uh, no); we engaged in an illegal war; we killed civilians; Bush should stand for war crimes; etc. I thanked him for his thoughts and gave him a large tip. Can there be an appropriate response to such a mind-set outside of pity?

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Yeah, call the FBI, and alert Ashcroft.
The driver probably is still pissed his name and picture is in a deck of cards that the Military is carrying around. :)

[Eric in the Ozarks]

A Town Without Pity...

[God luvs America]

--"If you prepare people well enough to believe a lie they will believe it as if it were true"

Isn't that the DNC's strategy going into the 2004 election?

[jigsaw]

I am registering and driving people from homeless shelters to register and then to vote (or mail the damn absentee).

Just the kind of people one wants to make intelligent decisions on American leadership.   Sheesh!

[general_re]

They are a sarcoma on the American Spirit.

You give them too much credit - more like a wart on the a** of America...

:^)

[Salvation]

Hillarious!

They picture the media and being pro-right

And all of us know that the media leans left
!

[Dane]

A complacent and compliant right-wing corporate controlled media all too willing to act as an arm of the pentagon and white house press room.

This guy probably has a poster of Al-Quatey Couric on his wall.

[LurkedLongEnough]

"Thanks so much for the cyberhug, and a multicolored one at that"

You're welcome...
--Love, Saddam

[.cnI redruM]

lol!

[Mr. Jeeves]

The media is not leftist, just pro-Democrat and pro-welfare capitalism. If you are a Green and/or Socialist and/or Communist, the media probably looks right-wing to you.

[.cnI redruM]

No, it's probably under the bed with a few sheets of Kleenex that have been glued to the floor by a substance that no one should ever be called upon to clean up.

[wjcsux]

The modern RAT party and the Communists, whats the difference?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They simply handed out packs of cigaretts in Milwaukee and Minneapolis...

[bk1000]

"I really hate the fact that these people cancel out our votes."

Me too, but as long as there are more of us voting than them....

[.cnI redruM]

They are the only people he thinks would willing vote his preference. He'll have to liquor them up on cheap gin to get them to do that.

[.cnI redruM]

No, it's their party motto.

[Redcloak]

They don't call it "Duh" for nothing!

[razorback-bert]

The conspiracy theorist in me says that if this is REALLY Hussein then why didn't * and his media minions not wait until Monday to announce his capture?

I thought I was good at tinfoil stuff, but why would Monday make it the real Hussein?