Tomorrow, of course, is when El Bushito will unveil his "surge and accelerate" plan, this being a Rovism for "blame someone else," or a clumsy translation for "decent interval," which was war criminal Kissinger's immortal contribution to egocentric ass-covering.
My dream is that near and far, from the rural open spaces and the urban crush, from the north and south, from the red states and from the blue states, a swelling mass of Americans take to the streets. I think of Yugoslavia in 2000, when the population of Serbs "surged and accelerated" into the streets of Belgrade to demand that another war criminal of the 20th century, Slobodan Milosevic, get out of the presidential palace, and yield to the demonstrated will of the people, who had elected Vojislav Kostunica to replace him. Milosevic was at the point of ordering the army to shoot his countrymen in order to retain power.
"Gotov je!" the thousands shouted in the streets in Serb0-Croatian. "He's finished!"
The army sided with the people. Milosevic was out.
Now we confront an American president with a very recent Gallup poll putting his handling of Iraq at 26 percent. He faces objection to his plan by 30 percent of his own party, and 85 percent of the opposition. He has demonstrated that he will lie, that he cares little for the Constitution, and that he believes himself to possess an imperial right to strip citizens of their rights to privacy, to illegal search and seizure, to even deny their citizenship, and that he believes he has the power to subject them to torture on his orders.
Imagine if, during his speech, there was heard in the background a low and distant hum. Slowly it would begin to increase and gain a rhythm. It would start to thrum against the walls of the White House, and crystal in the dining room would begin to tinkle as though an earthquake was commencing from deep beneath the earth's crust. Soon, even the directional microphones pointed at Bush could not filter out the now-deafening shouts of tens of thousands of people jamming the streets outside.
"He's finished! Get out! You're finished! Get out!"
That is my dream.
12 comments:
Your dream sounds awesome. Wanna go to DC? I can leave right now. I gotta be back by Saturday.
LOL! keep dreaming you lefty loons! i hear chavez his moving toward socialism, maybe a plane ticket south is in order.
Anon-- With what "lunacy" do you have a problem? Are you referring to the "lunacy" of a democratic leader answering to his own people? Or that of people with the right to freely assemble practicing that right? Neither of these really sound like socialism to me, but more like Good Ole American-Style Freedom and Democracy.
Maybe you need a plane ticket to college.
What's really "loony" is that silly American "Constitution."
I can't even make sense of anonymous' sentence: "i hear chavez his moving toward socialism." If he/she/it means "Chavez is moving toward socialism," then he'll/she'll/it'll have to elaborate as to why that would be a problem. Does he/she/it mean Chavez personally? And which Chavez--the one in Venezuela or the other 10 million Chavez namesakes south of here?
Also, please, please, please, learn to punctuate, proofread, and type. Is that so very difficult for you? If it is, then your advice comes tainted as well, you see, because it bespeaks a lazy intellect. Do you not have enough respect for your OWN opinions to want to express them properly?
However, if you'd care to buy me a ticket to Carracas, plus a hotel room, limo, meals, and some souvenir shopping, I'd be happy to check it out for you.
We really need to create a "Leave No Republican Behind" program judging by their writing skills.
too damn funny. stirring up you lefties is just too easy. and last time i checked, this is a blog, i am not preparing my thesis here. one extra letter...a typo.. i am soooooo sorry. (that's how you spell soooooo right? lol)
and of course i was referring to Maria Chavez down the street, you pinhead. Hugo Chavez, who loves Chomsky like you you and the rest of your ilk. Go there please, by all means. i won't shed a tear.
and there again, expecting me to buy you something. LISTEN VERY CAREFULLY...I nor anyone else OWES you ANYTHING...got it? shove your entitlements up your proverbial ass....ok?
it must suck so bad just knowing you are so much smarter that everyone else. KNOWING that you are right about all the ills of society, and yet being the very SMALL minority. do you need a tissue? or perhaps some new meds? (that the gov't should buy for you of course!) lol.
It is hard being smarter than everyone else. Thanks for understanding, anon!
anon--I just have to point out that an extra letter ("his" instead of "is") is not the only sloppy aspect of your first post. It also contains a comma splice, not to mention the obvious inappropriate use of capitalization. I won't even touch the specific mechanical errors in your second post, but I will note that they clearly answer Olaf's question--based upon the way you choose to express them, you obviously have little respect for your own opinions.
Secondly, I am not sure why you assume that Olaf is the recipient of government handouts. His comment about you funding his trip to Carracas was clearly sarcastic, although your seeming to take it seriously is in line with the intellect you have displayed in your comments thus far.
Most of us “lefty loons” are not looking for government handouts to benefit ourselves; in fact, many of us are perfectly happy to pay taxes, given that they are used to benefit those less fortunate and privileged than ourselves and for the overall improvement of our country rather than to fund an illegal war. I am certainly happy to pay taxes to fund education—you are a shining example of how far short our country falls in that particular area.
Finally, I am not quite sure how you arrived at your conclusion that “stirring up you lefties is just too easy.” Aside from yours’, all of the comments on this post seem quite calm and rational (particularly Olaf’s, which seems to be the one to which are referring). It seems, then, that the more appropriate conclusion to draw from this conversation is that stirring up right-wing nut jobs is what is “just too easy.”
Fuck, I love this shit! Sorry for the expletives. Cracking up here. I'd throw in my own observations, but being one of those itty bitty minority lefties, I'm more in to passively sitting by waiting for intellectual handouts. God Bless America!
Man, I could really use some government-issued meds right now.
cb
And I'm certain that given a professional analysis of your condition, you'd get them.
And since you mentioned it, yes, being smarter than everyone else is a damned burden. Jesus, as least, only had to bear the sins of the world. But me, I have to bear the dumbfucks of the world.
It's hard work. Poorly paid, too.
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