The 10 Worst Quotes From The Democratic Underground For 2003

Right Wing News ^ | 12/31/03 | by John Hawkins

[chiller]

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9) "Doesn't a part of you wish that Queasy and Duh-day were alive?

I'll admit they're scum and rightfully so, but anything that lands as even more humiliation on W's grotesque shrivelled face is that much the better.

It's sad, really, that as despicable as they are, Saddam's family seems to be the lesser of two evils when you compare them to the wretched little b*stard* occupying the White House and destroying America in the process..." -- thermodynamic

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8) "I'm assuming (Michael Kelly's) family won't be reading this, but frankly, I'm gratified to learn that he paid the ultimate price for his sins of warmongering. This guy was scum. My first thoughts on seeing the thread were that I hoped it was that scum Post warmongering writer. My second thought was that it was a late April Fool's joke. But no false sadness from me, only happiness that someone as mean and vicious as Mike Kelly got what was coming. As for all the posts about "coming by his views honestly" and "not speaking ill of the dead", congratulations on taking the high road guys, but *ssholes like Kelly have to die sometime, and I prefer it is as a direct result of their sins. But what do I know, I'm happy that Reagan has Alzheimers and that * has access to pretzels. I wish death on my enemies, and these guys are enemies." -- jackswift on the death of Michael Kelly in Iraq (Excerpt)

6) "...We know the recall's about getting a Repub Gov. in office in order to make California easier to steal, or make the 2004 Election at least close ENOUGH to steal our precious Electoral votes. We know it has nothing to do with Gray Davis being crummy, really.

...I think Rove's got something particularly nasty up his sleeve this time that will change Arnold's fortunes dramatically. I mean, he's about to subject himself and Maria to more salient stories about what he calls "getting my helmet polished." This could be humiliating to him, even before he loses. But what if he "knew" the fix was in?

...My tinfoil hat theory is this:

ROVE/BUSH/CHENEY ARE GOING TO INSTIGATE SOME MIHOP (made it happen on purpose) TERROR ATTACK, BIO ATTACK IN THE US, MAYBE CALIFORNIA, WHEREBY CALIFORNIANS WILL BE CLAMORING FOR A "STRONG" GOVERNOR TO PROTECT US! THEY CAN FINISH THE JOB ENRON STARTED, AND GET A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR TO HAND THEM THE STATE IN 2004." -- CaptainMidnight (excerpt) 3) "When the 2nd plane hit the WTC I remember thinking......OMG, he's got his war now. Then, the next day or the day after that, when the roar of "war with Iraq and Afganistan" really got going I couldn't help but think "well Bush II get's to finish Daddy's work now". As for when the plane hit the Pentagon and the other plane went down in that field in Penn I screamed at the TV, "Get the WH, for God's sake you missed the WH." I invented some cuss words on that one. There were times before 9/11 as well as in the days to follow that the boy king mentioned Saddam "tried to kill my Dad" and couldn't help but scream at the TV each time, "Well, give him a medal for effort anyway." -- LiberalLibra

2) "What we MUST realize in order to win - Americans are stupid and uninformed. This is very important because in order to win we must understand the way the average American thinks. I'm afraid WE have nothing in common with them.

I came to the two following conclusions when I saw the large number of people who voted for Bush back in 2000.

#1 - I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright. They cater and pander to the masses. The Democratic Party tries to appeal to the population about "issues" that these people just don't understand.

I've heard it said that the reason that Clinton's sex scandal resonated so strongly among "the people" was because it was a scandal that the average American understood. The average person can't understand a financial scandal.

In addition, people of average or lower intelligence tend to not be as logical or reasoned as those of higher intelligence - they deal with emotion. Therefore they are more likely to get riled up about someone burning a flag rather than a illogical tax cut.

#2 - The majority of people do not read the newspaper OR listen to the news, CNN, etc. Therefore -they get their news from the Tonight Show, Letterman, Oprah and Saturday Night Live. Or, they get their news from talking to their co-workers at the water cooler.

Also, for the few people who DO listen to the news - who do they hear it from? Fox News and Bill O'Reilly are the most popular. Most newspapers and media outlets are owned by Republicans.

THIS is what we are fighting against people. In order to win we will need to start pandering to the masses." -- Janekat

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1) "I realize that not every GI Joe was 100peeercent behind Prseeedent Booosh going into this war; but I do know that that is what an overwhelming number of them and their famlies screamed in the face of protesters who were trying to protect these kids. Well, there is more than one way to be "dead" for your country. They are not only not accompishing squat in Iraq, they are doing crap nothing for the safety, defense of the US of A over there directly. But "indirectly" they are doing a lot.

The only way to get rid of this slime bag WASP-Mafia, oil barron ridden cartel of a government, this assault on Americans and anything one could laughingly call "a democracy", relies heavily on what a sh*t hole Iraq turns into. They need to die so that we can be free. Soldiers usually did that directly--i.e., fight those invading and harming a country. This time they need to die in defense of a lie from a lying adminstration to show these ignorant, dumb Americans that Bush is incompetent. They need to die so that Americans get rid of this deadly scum. It is obscene, Barbie Bush, how other sons (of much nobler blood) have to die to save us from your Rosemary's Baby spawn and his ungodly cohorts." -- Starpass

copyright 2001-2003 John Hawkins

[JSloth]

WOW! The malady of the ignorant is to be ignorant of one's ignorance. They're comical, but scary!

[SkyPilot]

Incredible, and Katie Couric is paid $14 million a year.

[aquila48]

Wait a minute, there's got to be a mistake.

Aren't these the same people that call US mean-spirited, hateful, intolerant and consider such emotions as neanderthal? Aren't these the people that respect and want to fight for the poor and average americans? Aren't these the people who don't believe in the death penalty of even cold blooded killers?

So how could they wish death to our young soldiers? I think they were misquoted.

[Charles Henrickson]

If I were grading Janekat's missive:

I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise.

Intelligent people do not use "intelligence-wise."

We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is. . . .

OK, here you use "majority" as the singular subject and the corresponding "is" as the verb. Fine, no problem. But a little further down you write:

The majority of people do not read. . . .

Now you use "majority" as a *plural* subject, with the corresponding verb. So which is/are it?

. . . in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve.

Not only is this redundant, it is repetitive and unnecessary. You use *three* indicators, "%," "%," and "percent," where one would have been sufficient ("80-99%").

I've heard it said that the reason that Clinton's sex scandal resonated so strongly. . . .

It was a "lying-under-oath/obstruction-of-justice" scandal (not just a "sex" scandal).

. . . people of average or lower intelligence tend to not be. . . .

You just split your infinitive. (That's got to hurt.)

. . . a illogical tax cut.

"An."

Also, for the few people who DO listen to the news - who do they hear it from?

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with. And your relative pronoun should be in the accusative case: "from whom."

THIS is what we are fighting against people.

This sentence makes no sense as punctuated. Are you "fighting against people"? The noun of direct address needs to be separated by a comma: "fighting against, people."

Janekat, next time remember the poster's maxim: "Proofread twice, send once."

Oh, one more thing, Janekat, in regard to your theory of the superior intelligence of Democrats:

I have a bachelor's degree, two masters' degrees, and am approaching the dissertation stage in my Ph.D. program. I can read seven languages. And I think I am not the exception here. Many FReepers--many conservatives--are highly educated and/or highly intelligent. In fact, I think if you were to compare the levels of education for *Democrat* voters and *Republican* voters--or simply compare the census data for "blue" counties and "red" counties--there would be no comparison! Republican voters, on the whole, are FAR more educated than Democrat voters!

Democrats, aka "the Dims."

[reformed_democrat]

AUUUUGGHHH!

You scared my dog! He's under my desk and he won't come out.

Don't DO that without a warning post!

[stylin_geek]

Excellent points made. It's nice to see someone who has an excellent grasp of sentence structure take apart something which was posted by someone who claims "superior intellect."

The Clinton sex scandal, such as it was, is still, to my mind, the greatest politcal coverup/misdirection in the history of politcs. I admire its brilliance, while decrying its lack of morality. To see an administration and its minions use a sex scandal to divert attention from the obstruction of justice/lying under oath/temple fundraising charges was as brilliant as it was deplorable.

I might add, feel free to "Fisk" my post. I admit, I have no formal training in English, and hope my sentence structure and syntax do not grate on you too much.

[Ichneumon]

"What we MUST realize in order to win - Americans are stupid and uninformed."

"We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve."

"In order to win we will need to start pandering to the masses."

[nicmarlo]

I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise. We must come to the realization that the majority of the population is in the lower 80% to 99% percent of the bell-curve. WE are not the norm. The Republicans understand that the average American is not very bright.

What a joke...they're not the norm is right!

[sweetliberty]

"they're not the norm is right!"

And thank God! He has a sense of humor, but He's not DUhmented.

[Ichneumon]

Is it just me, or has the rat party become a collection of psychotic demogogues? It isn't just Oliver Stone anymore. Seven of the nine 9 dwarfs tout the most DUH bizarre theories.

[Publius6961]

BUMP

[sweetliberty]

"It would be one thing if they were just a handful of nutjobs posting on a web board, but they're pretty mainstream in the activist population of the democrat party"

I think that's the point....the nutjobs have become the mainstream of the party.

[MattAMiller]

I would dare to assume that most of us here are in the upper 1%-20% of the population intelligence-wise.

WHich is why they have so much trouble putting a hole in a piece of paper with a sharp stick.

[sweetliberty]

"Waaay to stoopid to participate in something as serious as the elective process!"

Or the reproductive one. If abortion has any redeeming quality, it is that THEY are the ones who practice it. (No, I don't favor abortion under any circumstances, other than the imminent death of the mother.)

[tioga]

read later.

[rdb3]

Some of that nonsense sounds exactly like what some of our more "principled" FReepers have said.

[sweetliberty]

"The profanity and attacks there are so overwhelming that if the moderator -didn't- permit as much sleaze and garbage as they do, they'd have 2 or 3 undeleted posts on each thread, with 80 other posts wiped out."

It isn't the sleaze and profanity that gets pulled over there; it is any statement of disagreement with the RATCOM talking points. More likely the ones that express intelligent, cohesive thought process and a lack of profanity are the ones that get pulled.

[mware]

LOL, that photo reminds me of Manard in the Dobie Gillis Show.

[Hat-Trick]

You're right;they'll do it in a gang.I think the going number is about 8 to 1. Does that jive with your memory?

I've never seen them do it, but the cowardly gang mentality would be their preferred approach.

[sweetliberty]

Hi Aggy!