Hard-hitting political coverage
Who gives a damn about policy proposals? Who cares where presidential candidates stand on the issues? Apparently, what we’re really interested in is how they take their coffee, and what their coffee preferences might tell us (the voters, the American people) about our candidates’ “character and values.” Because, believe it or not, it’s possible to answer the coffee question wrong.
After all, readers, it’s not like there’s a war going on or anything. The press coverage of our last two presidential elections was almost completely driven by the political press corps’ character-based narratives. How do you like where it’s gotten us, readers? How do you like your endless war overseas, your frightening erosion of civil liberties at home, your executive branch openly and proudly claiming the right to spy on, imprison indefinitely, and even torture its own citizens, without warrants or oversight of any kind, all in the name of “national security”?
Who cares about any of that stuff? I’d rather not think about it… What kind of cheese do the candidates like to eat? What’s on their iPods? Would they be fun to spend time with at a backyard barbecue? Which of them would you like to drink a beer and watch the game with? That’s what matters.
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December 17th, 2007 @ 11:43
Endless war overseas? I like it. Keep it going until the enemy - the real threat to peace - is DEAD.
Civil liberties at home are being eroded? Like what? Wire taps of calls to the Middle East? I don’t call there.
Spy on, imprison and maybe torture non-citizens indefinitely without warrants or over-sight by a Democrat Congress that can’t get out of it’s own way? Outstanding - keep it up.
Spy on, imprison and maybe torture CITIZENS indefinitely without warrants or over-sight?
That is not happening.
In order to stop things like your second picture, and so we can all get back to your first picture - we have to defeat the enemy causing the second picture.
Liberal ‘wishing it away’ won’t make it so.
December 17th, 2007 @ 14:25
Spoken like a true “defender of the Constitution,” H.D.
When the chips are down, your true (authoritarian) colors show through.
December 17th, 2007 @ 19:16
That boy has a lot of Nazi in him.
December 20th, 2007 @ 05:53
Nazis were socialists. Something the left votes for.
Liberals try to make the case that the Nazis are somehow right wing. No - they belong on the left between the European socialist and the communist.
Smack dab in the middle of the direction you vote, Stram.
December 20th, 2007 @ 11:24
Shorter Hank Dagny: