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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Vermillion on November 07, 2003, 12:19:52 PM
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Here is a little Op-Ed piece from the Weekly Standard that I found tremendously funny today. ;)
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Loving the Bush Haters (http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/345dcbff.asp)
Is it wrong to take pleasure in the madness George W. Bush induces in his critics? Nope.
by Noemie Emery
11/07/2003 12:00:00 AM
I LOVE GEORGE W. BUSH. I worship the man. I wake up every morning glad he is president. When annoyed by small things--traffic, the weather, an overcharge--I say to myself, "President Bush," and at once feel better. I like his worldview. I like his dogs and his wife and his mother. I think he looks cool in his shorts and his t-shirts. But it isn't these things that make my heart flutter: It's that he drives the people I hate the most nuts.
The Germans created the word schadenfreude to describe the pleasure one might feel at the woes of one's allies, but no one has yet coined a word for the happiness that can come to a person when those who annoy him complain. Open the paper, and there they all are: the hard-faced women who refer to abortion as "choice," the soft-faced male writers who look a little too pampered, the actors, the artists, the faculty hotshots, the with-it, the urbane and the urban, the concerned, the refined, the sincere.
They are enraged that someone unlike them has power; enraged because they think he is dumb, and he always outsmarts them; enraged that he pushed back when the Democrats, backed all the way by the Supreme Court of Florida, flooded the state with lawyers after the 2000 election, armed with game plans to subvert the result.
Above all, they are enraged that they can't sell their wrath to the rest of the country, which calmly remains unenraged. So, they write the same book over and over (and buy it in job lots), write the same pieces over and over, and post the same things on the web. I read them all.
And in them I find a perverse satisfaction. If, as Churchill maintains, it is exhilarating to be shot at and missed, it is also enlivening to have your opponent empty both barrels, to more or less meager effect. I read Sidney Blumenthal's mournful account of the Florida recount. I read junior writers at policy journals proclaim with no proof they are smarter than Bush is. I read them all, and I wickedly grin.
I grin because I have been once where they are, and have stood in their sandals myself. Liberals insist Bush exists in their minds as a vast malign presence, a huge psychic drag on their consciousness. I know, I know--I felt exactly the same way about Clinton, back in l999. Shortly later, I was told by a dentist that during the eight year reign of the Clintons, I had been grinding my molars to dust. "I've been grinding my teeth less since Clinton left office," I said, thinking he'd think it was funny. He didn't. His office is on Capitol Hill, and his practice is filled with political people, all gnashing their teeth in a frenzy of outrage.
It's your turn, now, fellas. Grind on!
Noemie Emery is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard.
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Entertiang read, Verm
Thank you.
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:aok
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Circle jerk
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Ha ha, great post...and so so true.
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hehe ya.. you gotta luv it..
How much money was spent on the Clinton impeachment? Im sure it wasnt much as there was no rave from the republicans...
k
AoM
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Just more team sports.
My teams better than your team, nyah nyah nyah.
Kind of a stupid way run a country, but the common denominator seems happy with it. (shrugs)
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Originally posted by Furious
Just more team sports.
My teams better than your team, nyah nyah nyah.
Kind of a stupid way run a country, but the common denominator seems happy with it. (shrugs)
Superiority Alert!
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What a great post. That really made my day because it is so true:aok
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""""Open the paper, and there they all are: the hard-faced women who refer to abortion as "choice," the soft-faced male writers who look a little too pampered, the actors, the artists, the faculty hotshots, the with-it, the urbane and the urban, the concerned, the refined, the sincere.""""
does that include the neo-libs like nexus and vader?
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I already said you were happy with it Ra, what more do you want?
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Originally posted by john9001
""""Open the paper, and there they all are: the hard-faced women who refer to abortion as "choice," the soft-faced male writers who look a little too pampered, the actors, the artists, the faculty hotshots, the with-it, the urbane and the urban, the concerned, the refined, the sincere.""""
does that include the neo-libs like nexus and vader?
It seems the author forgot to include "the demented working class AFDB (http://zapatopi.net/afdb.html) wearers".
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Funked
Needing a Tin hat implies they have something to protect upstairs, and in the case of LDV and nexus I just can not see how that can be true!
:D
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Originally posted by kappa
hehe ya.. you gotta luv it..
How much money was spent on the Clinton impeachment? Im sure it wasnt much as there was no rave from the republicans...
k
AoM
The White Water S&L lost 50 million.
Republicans spent 70 million to investigate Clinton... for loosing 40k. :lol
Republicans always seem to over spend!
Remember Nixon resigned.... Olie North went to jail.
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Originally posted by DmdNexus
The White Water S&L lost 50 million.
Republicans spent 70 million to investigate Clinton... for loosing 40k. :lol
Republicans always seem to over spend!
Remember Nixon resigned.... Olie North went to jail.
oliver north never went to jail you libral hippie dolt, nixon was over 30 years ago, and of course republicans werent president when they were investigating clinton so they arnt responsible...oh wait no one is ever responsible for anything that goes wrong or right anymore....not republicans (neo nazis as you like to referr them as) nor demacrats (libral scum like you)
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
oliver north never went to jail you libral hippie dolt, nixon was over 30 years ago, and of course republicans werent president when they were investigating clinton so they arnt responsible...oh wait no one is ever responsible for anything that goes wrong or right anymore....not republicans (neo nazis as you like to referr them as) nor demacrats (libral scum like you)
If it wasn't Olie... someone went to Jail... was it Richard Seacord... Poindexter died.. the arshehole! Or was he murder... because he was the clearing house for all of that!
My point was with every Republican administration... some federal law was broken.. .Nixon... Reagan... Bush senior... and now Bush Junior
And again... I'm not a liberal... I'm a rebel.
You are too blind to see that because you've been programmed to put your panties on just like a neo-nazi conservative pond scum sucking deficit spending Republican. :aok
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"I'm a rebel."
:rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl :rofl
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My point was with every Republican administration... some federal law was broken.. .Nixon... Reagan... Bush senior... and now Bush Junior
Care to explain how 800 FBI files wound up in the Clinton's hands? Or how the whole travel office was fired for...? Want to talk about the Marc Rich pardon on the last day of office? Or the money given to Clinton's "legacy fund" by Rich's ex-wife in the months beforehand?
You are aware Al Gore solicited campaign money in a way that violated federal law in '96, correct? Do you remember the words "No legal controlling authority?" Do you remember Whitehouse campouts for donors? Do you remember campaign contributions from the Chinese? Do you remember campaign money taken from monks?
True, Clinton was the first democrat in the office since Carter, but he sure didn't waste time making up for the lost years...
Edit: Ugh.
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Kieran,
Nothing that Clinton did surprised me. Being from Arkansas, and not one of his sycophants, his moral piccadillos were disgustingly familiar. He once had the state attorney general's office conduct an investigation of his republican opponent for governor on a charge that he had already been found not guilty on by a state investigating commission. This happened two weeks before the election.
The national press didnt bother to investigate the things about him that really mattered before gushing all over him during the election of 1992.
Regards, Shuckins
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Originally posted by Kieran
Care to explain how 800 FBI files wound up in the Clinton's hands? Or how the whole travel office was fired for...? Want to talk about the Marc Rich pardon on the last day of office? Or the money given to Clinton's "legacy fund" by Rich's ex-wife in the months beforehand?
You are aware Al Gore solicited campaign money on in a way that violated federal law in '96, correct? Do you remember the words "No legal controlling authority?" Do you remember Whitehouse campouts for donors? Do you remember campaign contribtutions from the Chinese? Do you remember campaign money taken from monks?
True, Clinton was the first democrat in the office since Carter, but he sure didn't waste time making up for the lost years...
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Dmd you want to lump everybody against you as a programmed neo-nazi than I say you are a DOLT! (thanks hitech)
You say you are a rebal well its clearly obvious you are nothing but a poser. I havnt heard one orriginaly thaught come out of that clear cavern between your ears. You are the worst type of person because you are close minded and ingnorent. I've never once heard you talk about both sides of a story nor talk about the truth. You wanna talk about programed....anyone who blanketly gives somone a label because of there beliefs is more "programed" than anyone else I know
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"...But it isn't these things that make my heart flutter: It's that he drives the people I hate the most nuts. ..".
You mean like how the mere mention of Bill Clinton gets conservatives frothing at the mouth?
Fun eh?
yowser
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Originally posted by yowser
"...But it isn't these things that make my heart flutter: It's that he drives the people I hate the most nuts. ..".
You mean like how the mere mention of Bill Clinton gets conservatives frothing at the mouth?
Fun eh?
yowser
Bill who?
Great post Verm! :aok
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I was assuming Nexus was going to make a point beyond quoting my well-crafted paragraph. I quess not. ;)
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Dear Noemie Emery,
(http://home.ripway.com/2003-7/13265/panda%20makes%20more%20sense.jpg)
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GREAT post all true!
LMFAO funked1 AFDB site LOLOLOLOL
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Funny article, Verm (Who says Repubs don't have a sense of humor? ;) )
Funny cartoon, Funked.
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"...Who says Repubs don't have a sense of humor?...".
People that DO have a sense of humour?
yowser
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Originally posted by yowser
"...Who says Repubs don't have a sense of humor?...".
People that DO have a sense of humour?
yowser
You mean the same people that think guys dressing in drag is funny?
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I never laughed at you...honest. Wear whatever you like.
yowser
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Originally posted by Kieran
I was assuming Nexus was going to make a point beyond quoting my well-crafted paragraph. I quess not. ;)
Yah I did respond... damn liberal neo-con internet filtered my comments....can't remember excatly what I was going to say...
Clinton was a watermelon head too.... playing hide the cigar with a 21 year old... is still legal isn't it?
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Originally posted by DmdNexus
Yah I did respond... damn liberal neo-con internet filtered my comments....can't remember excatly what I was going to say...
Clinton was a watermelon head too.... playing hide the cigar with a 21 year old... is still legal isn't it?
What about all that other stuff I typed? Is it all legal, too?
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FBI files - illegal.
Firing the tavel office - not politically correct... however legal....it's the spoils system brought in by Jeffereson... when congress inquired as to the reason and refusing to have turned over the paper work would have been an obstruction of congress - at least Newt was threathing contempt of congress... it never got to that... it was all technically legal.
Now the current congress is requesting the current White House provide information concerning what it knew before and around about 9/11 and the intelligence used to justify invoking the War Powers Act... This is a friendly congress... it's republican... yet the White House is stonewalling.... congressmen on the IC (Intelligence Committee.. these guys have clearances so they can see "secret" information) - The question these congressmen are asking.. hey "we're on your side... what are you hiding... we jsut want to verify that the law was properly invoked because there's a gap between what you said and what was found.... if the intellignece is faulty... then we'll look in to fix that... that's all there is too it."
Marc Rich - The President has the authority to pardon people. It's unconditional. It's legal. Sure question Clinton's motives, he probably did it for the money and because Rich is his personal friend. It's his rigth to do so. It's 100% legal.
Now consider Bush Sr pardoning of Weinberger. Weinberger was about to be indicted to testify about his diary and Bush Srs involvement with IranContra... Motive? Sure there is. Bush doesn't want to go to jail... Weingberger was never chartged... never found guilty of anything.... Bush sr set a precident - to pardon a man before he was found guilty of a crime.
http://www.fas.org/news/iran/1992/921224-260039.htm
Bush Sr is just a little sullied by pardoning "5 other persons who already had pleaded guilty or had been indicted or convicted in connection with the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostages investigation."
Bush Sr was DCIA... these guys worked for him.. friends probably ... he was also probably involved in this situation "intimately."
Was it legal - you betcha! That's the president's perogative.
Al Gore got caught making fund raising phone calls from his VP office - bad boy! Slap! Yes very illegal. However, hardly hard core criminal activity... doesn't even compare with oh....
Like ... Selling weapons to terrorists governements... like IRAN!
Newt got caught too... Bad boy! Slap!
When it comes to political money both parties are guilty of chit... both!
Currently, someone in the Bush Administration broke a federal law concerning national security... that's rather more serious... than raising campaign money... someone in the white house is a traitor and is not serving the national interests of this country... It's probably not Bush.... I'm pretty sure of that... that woud be rather stupid of him if it were... but with someone telling secrets to the press... why is he so Lackadaisical about finding out who it is?
Especially since he's trying to fight a war on terrorism... last thing he needs is someone leaking CIA opratives to the world. Bad boy! Slap!
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Marc Rich - The President has the authority to pardon people. It's unconditional. It's legal. Sure question Clinton's motives, he probably did it for the money and because Rich is his personal friend. It's his rigth to do so. It's 100% legal.
I've a feeling bribery is illegal.
Let's talk about campaign money. Let's compare that to selling arms. What happened right after Clinton gets some Chinese money? Suddenly China acquires some of our most valuable harddrives straight from Los Alamos. Connection? I dunno, but it doesn't look too good.
As far as the person connected with releasing the identity of agents, get 'im. That can't be tolerated by either side. Won't find defense from me.
Getting back to the point, your assertion is that Republicans break the laws, and you insinuated Democrats don't. As Clinton amply proved, you're wrong. Understand, I am not excusing lawbreaking by either side, just correcting the statement.