I fucking LOVE LOVE LOVE articles like this one; snapshots of America that leave me shaking my head - apoplectic in how frustrating it is to be in a country filled with so many fucking idiots, yet highly appreciative they say and think such stupid shit for me to laugh at. Nothing if not entertaining. Well, and frightenly dangerous. I mean, shit like this you can't make up, right? Only a country that would be dumb enough to re-elect Bush could possibly be filled with people who are against Obama both for him being "Muslim" and a member of Rev. Wright's church for 20 years. I mean, seriously, thank you for the laughs. And you wonder why I have ZERO faith in the voters of this country. If you don't think Dubya would win again if he could run you're an idiot.
I love the sentiment that Americans are SO "patriotic" that they're willing to vote for McCain cause he's a "red-blooded" American. Over Obama of course who is "a Muslim." Which is of course West Virginia-ese for "not white." Ironically, they love their country SO much that they're fine electing a guy who is 1) gonna keep up Dubya's nonsense until America has zero dollars in its coffers and 2) looking to keep us in a state of perpetual war. Wow. That IS patriotic! Like mice voting for the cat.
This thinking made me think of a scene from the West Wing.
LEO Oh, here's one you'll like. Bertram Coles--
BARTLET Oh, I like anything that starts with 'Bertram Coles'. Let's have it.
LEO Coles goes on the radio yesterday and he says people in his district love America and you better not come down there cause you might not get out alive. [laughs]
BARTLET Bert's calling me out?
LEO Apparently, the people in Bert's district are so patriotic that if the President of the United States himself were to show up, they'd kill him.
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McCain said his potential Democratic rivals have distorted his January comment that U.S. forces may need to remain in Iraq for up to 100 years. Speaking at a campaign event in suburban Cleveland, Ohio, he said that referred to a long-term American presence similar to those in South Korea or Kuwait.
"My friends, the war will be over soon ... for all intents and purposes, although the insurgency will go on for years and years and years," the Arizona senator said. "But it will be handled by the Iraqis, not by us."
Nearly two-thirds of Americans now oppose the nearly five-year-old Iraq war, according to a CNN poll taken in mid-January. McCain has been an outspoken supporter of President Bush's decision to pour nearly 30,000 additional troops into the conflict, a move he and other advocates credit with a sharp reduction in sectarian warfare and U.S. casualties.
"I think that clearly my fortunes have a lot to do with what's happening in Iraq, and I'm proud of that," he told CNN.
McCain's campaign was written off for dead last summer. It rebounded after a staff shakeup about the same time that American fortunes in Iraq appeared to turn. But at a town hall meeting before January's New Hampshire primary, McCain told a questioner that the United States could have forces in Iraq for "maybe 100 years."
"We've been in Japan for 60 years," he said. "We've been in South Korea for 50 years or so. That would be fine with me, as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed."
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