A Dark Week for Democracy (Or: Snobby British guy bashes Yanks for voting the "wrong" way)

UK Observer ^ | November 10, 2002 | Will Hutton

[zapiks44]

This column has so many logical fallacies I don't know where to begin.

[Happygal]

Horseshit. George Bush has al-Qaeda and a low turn-out to thank for his victory.

Eh, for a national journalist, his language skills are limited to the vernacular, eh?

[Always Right]

Horseshit. George Bush has al-Qaeda and a low turn-out to thank for his victory.

He has a point, but it was Bush's actions that made him a winner last Tuesday. He went all out a declared a war on terrorism and then followed through. Had a Democrat been in power, there would have been some limp-wristed response and the Dems would have lost last week even bigger.

[dagoofyfoot]

In the meantime, depite it's flaws, give thanks to the European Union for partial shelter from the conservative storm


Oh man, does this statement get under my skin...this is such a slap in the face to Americans in general...How many time have we had to save their sorry-ass stinkin' liberal butts?...and how many time more? The idea that they are looking for gratitude for this liberal, America hating mindset they have is just beyond words that I can express...Lord have Mercy!

[Dark Seraph]

A couple cruise missiles and a long chat with the Senate Appropriations Committee...

[ampat]

What Britain needs is a couple of boat loads of Betty Crocker cookbooks, and a fleet of 747's loaded with dentists.

[Tacis]

I'm afraid he has some points. He does miss one key point, however. One of the reasons Bush did so well is that the democrats no longer can rely on the Kremlin for instructions, direction and tactics. Sure, many/most of the dems still BELIEVE as much as they always did but they have failed to adapt and, without the party guidance, just aren't as capable as they once were. Now, Pelosi is a card carrier from the old days and will certainly lead the dem faithful to new heights of anti-Americanism. But, without the commie Kremlin calling their every move, the dems just don't seem to have it any longer.

[Mortimer Snavely]

"...they want to construct a republic of 'moral', god-fearing citizens who adhere to traditional virtues, rewarding the rich who can only have become rich through the virtue of hard work and penalising the poor who are only poor because of their own fecklessness."

Oh, would that it were true, would that it were true, Will.

[Mortimer Snavely]

Take one joint of meat and two vegetables, and boil for forty six years. Serve on burned toast, and smother with brown sauce.

[Movemout]

Even the euro-libs start acting loony when USA libs are out of power. Could it be that they fear the ripple of conservatism washing up on their shores? I would love to see another Reagan-Thatcher like axis reappear.

[VietVet]

"This column has so many logical fallicies I just don't know where to begin."

Not to mention factual errors. The guy doesn't have a clue!

VietVet

[dagoofyfoot]

Nor are the majority of Americans social conservatives and closet racist


Well, I guess according to this limp wristed, brittish fag, conservatives and biggots are one in the same. I don't understand why a$$ holes like this don't use their soap box bash Islamic extremism instead of our country that trying to defend itself against homicidal zealots!

[IronJack]

As I recall, the Brits nearly stepped into the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy because the latter had the cotton their mills so desperately needed. Apparently it was okay for British industry to support the "slavemongering" South when said support evolved to their commercial benefit. And my, what a difference a century makes!

[Dan from Michigan]

When the electorate voted locally, the Democrats had the edge, winning governorships in four of the biggest industrial states - Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan

Bullshit, dumbass.

Both sides were mad in Michigan. Dems were mad since they lost the AG, SoS, 3 marginal GOP congressional seats, and couldn't control the state senator or state house. Repubs were mad since they lost the governor seat.

BTW - The English backed the confederacy, so you can shut the hell up you limey. Makes me glad my bloodlines are Irish.

[Enterprise]

And I'll bet this nutcake probably thinks we fought on the wrong side in the Revolutionary war too!

[adakotab]

Please let us know what points this guy makes.

[jimtorr]

Will Hutton seems to be an escapie from the Raving Nutters Party. He was probably their mascot Nutter.

He ripped off so many absurdities that I cannot begin to list them all in this space. He seems to have mentioned all of the dimocrapic talking points about eeeeviiilllll conservatives in one column, no mean feat in itself.

[adakotab]

correct points, that is..

[zapiks44]

What he also fails to mention is that perhaps the reason Georgians care so much about their Civil War dead was that their state was the site of William T. Sherman's infamous "March to the Sea". Sherman remains today one of the most hated, if not THE most hated, man in the South.

But, anytime people in the south start talking about honoring the hundreds of thousands of Confederate dead, including soliders, men, women, and children, people cry "racist!" or "Slavery-supporter!". It's one of the best examples of PC run amok. I say: Let the flag fly! (And I''m a Minnesotan, that now-former stronghold of liberalism)

And you make a good point of how the British leaned toward the Confederacy.

[blackie]

Another left-wing wacko that doesn't have a clue...wow !!

GWB Is The Man !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Let's Roll !!

Molon Labe !!