I’ve been unable to access the last pages of this thread. It’d be such a timesaver to have some recent page numbers on each page, especially if they could be displayed at the top.
I realize such features may be difficult (costly) to achieve. TIt’s a shame, because there are some well-informed posters on the site, but the posts are often hard to reach.
I didn’t have the patience to keep looking for Geoff’s “riot” link, recommended, I believe, by Bernie. So could someone please repeat that?
A recent outrage—Paula Zahn has twice “reported” the recently discovered documents on Bush’s Guard non-service without mentioning that it revealed he failed to respond to his commander’s order to take his FLIGHT TEST. (Isn’t that called insubordination?) She referred only to the older story that he didn’t show up or the medical test.
In introducing the documents topic, she said with disdain, “Let’s see what, if anything, the President’s Guard record has to do with the Presidential race. (Paula, the Iraq war and the anti-terrorist effort—for which he cites his ability as Commander-in-Chief—and numerous alarming economic and other policies have led many voters to question his honesty.) Since the months preceding the Iraq war, Zahn has moved ever closer to becoming an opinion person like Bill O’Reilly in her emphases and omissions. And she nearly always gives the conservative guest the last word, closing with some suggestion that, in fact, that is the last word. Used to admire you, Paula.
Further, I heard a FOX morning panel say the Killan documents had been denounced by Col. Killian.s wife and son. Now I learn that they actually said the documents are TRUE to his concerns about Bush’s arrogant disrespect.
(Would Col. Killian could’ve seen the tapes of Bush prancing in a flightsuit on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Perhaps he would have turned whistleblower.)
Posted by barbara on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:25 PM
Good evening, everyone. With only 49 days until regime change, it was another excellent day for the recruitment of new voters for Kerry. For all new posters on this thread who want to DO SOMETHING to defeat Bush, here are a few suggestions:
1) Many states have only about two weeks left to register new voters. (Fortunately, other states allow registration right up to the election.) Find out what the rules are in your state, get a big handful of voter registration forms and keep them with you (along with extra Kerry bumper stickers) at all times. Wear a “Kerry/Edwards” button and ask everyone you meet whether they’re registered. If they’re not, do it right then—on the spot.
2) Better yet, pick a good location or six in your community with a lot of foot traffic of likely Kerry voters. This would include businesses in working class neighborhoods, stores catering to women, and bookstores and coffee shops where people who actually think might congregate. (It would NOT include Hummer dealerships and country clubs.) Ask the owner of the business if you can put up a simple sign outside their front door telling people they can get voter registration forms from the counter, and then volunteer to pick up the completed forms every other day or so and deliver them to the appropriate election commission office in your community. DO THIS STARTING TOMORROW.
3) If you have an ideal location with lots of traffic near you, ask the store owner if you can sit outside and register people as they come into the business. Make up your own signs and get several tops of beer boxes (the small section of the box)—they make great flat surfaces for people to fill out their forms on. Then ask everyone who comes in the business if they are registered to vote. If they are, give them the “thumbs up” sign and tell them how long you’ll be at that location, in case they know anyone who might want to come register.
Make up your own signs to put around your voter registration booth. I used the first six signs listed below today at a busy country store and it really attracted sympathetic unregistered people to my table. Here are some suggestions:
a. ARE YOU A WORKING MAN OR A WOMAN?
b. DO YOU FEEL SAFER NOW?
c. ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU USED TO BE?
d. THE AMERICAN FLAG BELONGS TO ALL OF US.
e. DO YOU WANT YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD TOO?
f. REGISTER AND VOTE. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
If you have a very sympathetic location, you might use my last sign:
g) WHEN DID OUR GOD BECOME A REPUBLICAN?
In just three hours this afternoon, I registered 19 Kerry supporters and 2 Bush supporters. Young people, working men and women with children in tow were especially likely to be Kerry supporters. Not a bad ratio, in a county that is considered heavily Republican. I’ll go back there for the rest of the week.
4) After you’ve registered the voter, talk with them about their thoughts on the election. Several people asked me what my Party was and when I said my Party was for working men and women, they knew right away I was a Democrat. If they said they were Republican, I just told them that I support getting everyone to register and to vote. Interestingly, one Republican who was already registered stopped to talk and we agreed on a lot of the issues that voters are grappling with this November. When he left, I said to him, “I’m glad to know we agree on more issues than we disagree on.” His response was surprising: “You know, even though I’m a lifelong Republican, we also agree on who to vote for as our next President.”
If the person you’ve registered tells you they are likely Kerry supporters, be sure to have some bumper stickers handy to give them. The circled W with a slash through it was very popular—one Harley rider got two to put on both sides of his gas tank.
5) In addition to setting up at stores, find out about large gatherings near you and take the initiative to be the voter registrar at that gathering. This Saturday night, I’ll do that at a big country dance drawing hundreds of hardworking men and women in my community. The owner of the dance hall will announce every half hour that I’m there registering voters (and add his own pro-Democrat comments). My guess is that I’ll add 40-50 new voters just at that dance alone.
6) Be sure to cover your own vehicles with bumper stickers. Make some back window signs of your own—the more creative, the better. I’ve made poster g above a window sign for my old pickup truck, and posters b-d above would work also. I also get a big reaction to my “Bush Thinks You’re Stupid” bumper sticker. Again, be creative.
7) Finally, let’s show our solidarity every chance we get. I’m really enjoying giving other folks with Kerry bumper stickers a big “thumbs up” on the highway. Folks are beginning to do that with me also. We need to keep supporting each other and doing everything we can do to win back our country.
Remember, we have 49 days left to rid this country of the Rad Con “bad seed” that is the Bush presidency. Use every minute wisely. Since this blog is seriously infected with two slobbering Bushies who, despite having no visible support from anyone else, continue to prattle on like the Energizer bunny fueled by young G-Du(m)b’s cocaine; your/our time is best spent elsewhere. We can do it—we can take our country back using the best tool available to us—a massive turnout of sensible, sensitive and suddenly energized new (and previously disengaged) voters who still believe in democracy.
49 days and counting .... until we can sign “Bye, bye, Bush-league.”
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (49 Days) on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:28 PM
Barbara,
I am having the same problem accessing page 42 of the blog. I presume it exists, as I am getting individually posted messages sent there. (Did you get my last one, posted a few minutes ago?)
Since I have downloaded the entire stream through page 42, I will find Geoff’s comical post and re-enter it into the stream. I visited it also and it is a RIOT.
Hope we are still communicating. Maybe 16/2 and StunGun finally melted the circuits with their lonely, but never-ending, circle jerk. For me, I hope the blog can be repaired because I’d like to keep reading what EVERYONE ELSE has to say. Take care, and it’s great to see your name again on the thread.
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (49 Days) on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:48 PM
This is a great article. Normal, man-in-the-street conservatives just don’t realize yet that the Republican Party has gone bad. We know Kiellor is a liberal, but we posted a link to this article at the Conservatives Against Bush website anyway, http://thecab.blogspot.com/, because he has perceived and identified the problem so well.
Posted by Thomas B. Higgins on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:51 PM
Hey Dave with the deserving little baby girl:
The “desperate” terrorists you claim we created with our evil foreign policies are millionaires. Bin Ladin and the 19 Saudi sickos got rich selling oil to Whitey. If it weren’t for American and European motorists, those boys would be picking rotten camel meat out of their yellow teeth. That’s it! Out-of-tune busses in Guatemala City are responsible for terrorism!
And by the way, “vitreous” means glassy. I have a hard time picturing a “vitreous monster”. Maybe in a 1950’s Japanese flick?
I think your baby girl will be just fine, as long as Bush stays around. With Kerry it would be hard to say. Maybe he’ll let the ragheads take over her grade school with French-made weapons. I pray not. Have a wonderful evening. Goyito.
Posted by Goyito on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:54 PM
Barbara,
Here’s the link to Geoff’s “This Land is Your Land”, sung by our next President and our current unelected one. Don’t wear tight-fitting clothes when you watch this—you will split some seams. Enjoy.
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (49 Days) on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:55 PM
Reposting message with link:
Barbara,
Here’s the link to Geoff’s “This Land is Your Land”, sung by our next President and our current unelected one. Don’t wear tight-fitting clothes when you watch this—you will split some seams. Enjoy.
http://images.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_land.swf
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (49 Days) on Sep 14, 2004 at 6:57 PM
Shoot. I can’t get to the current page even from the final arrow. I suspect a Republican hacker is at work.
Posted by barbara on Sep 14, 2004 at 7:10 PM
Sorry I couldn’t think up a cute ‘handle’ like 6gun or 16 to 2, but I have a job and can’t spend all day spewing vile self-congratulatory propaganda.
You two have debased what began as a civil forum; shame on you. Stop, re-read the original article, and think about what’s gone on the past 3 years.
Can our nation (and world) really afford a continuation of the trends set in motion by George W Bush? (By this I mean: Rapidly increasing federal debt, refusal to address the need for energy conservation and alternative energy sources, weakening of environmental protections, widening of the gap between rich and poor, and a reckless foreign policy that alienates our allies.)
Maybe 4 more years of the above won’t cause immediate catastrophe (this is a big, powerful country, after all), but they represent an unsustainable and unhealthy path for our environment, our society and our world.
Posted by rick on Sep 14, 2004 at 7:47 PM
Barbara,
Were you aware the 1,000th casualty was the Lt. Cmdr. who was the pilot of Bush’s aircraft carrier landing? How morbidly ironic I think.
Have enjoyed your posts. Thank you for enduring all the hate directed at anyone not like certain people who have posted here.
Lyle
Posted by Lyle Shargent on Sep 14, 2004 at 8:10 PM
Bush’s pilot dead?
An ironical situation?
Sounds like an apocryphal diversion. Where are your references?
Posted by Napple on Sep 14, 2004 at 8:21 PM
For Dave with the deserving baby girl:
I can’t say Kerry will be a lot better than Bush for your girl; I can’t tell the future. I can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that he won’t be *worse* for her. After all, as it is, she’ll grow up not having any control over her own body or life under more Bush. That’s a certainty.
Not sure how it could be worse for her than that, unless she were dead, possibly. Then again, as a woman, I’m not sure I can say I’d rather be alive and dictated to than six feet under. What’s the point of existing if you can’t make your own decisions and bear your own consequences and profits?
Posted by Ann Hinch on Sep 14, 2004 at 9:42 PM
*quote on*
I am quite certain that when you find yourself amoral, selfish, and arrogant, you naturally gravitate to the Party that values amorality, selfish consumption of another’s resources and property
*quote off*
Amoral: Invading another country without provocation, without just cause, and without invitation from the people of that country, then proceeding to maim and kill its innocents, including children.
Selfish: A handful of people dipping into the public treasury to finance a war they personally desire (and, I might add, that they are unwilling to finance themselves, though they could easily do so with their combined resources) that we as a nation cannot afford and which will not bring us any prosperity in return, and will only set us up as Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of the future generations of the invaded lands. Better yet, the Social Security public treasury, which should ONLY be used to finance retirement payouts.
Arrogant: Never admitting to a mistake. Constantly repeating the same hardline tactic without acknowledgement even when commissions, studies, reports, and facts bear out said tactic to be a colossal failure. Tendency to put oneself up as the left hand of God and somehow fit to run the country because of belief in an organized, recognized cult.
Now - which crew, in 2004, does this seem to fit the best? (Hint: The only one that went to war in 2003.)
Posted by Ann Hinch on Sep 14, 2004 at 9:51 PM
I finally it made to the current page. I’m sure I missed some good things. Thanks, Lyle.
Two big stories—Killian’s very believable secretary who says if the new documents are fake, they are true and created by someone knpwledgeable. Col. Killian was flabbergasted by Bush’s insubordination, and his fellow soldiers—nearly all privileged as well-were resentful about his arrogance. I wonder if Paul Begala was the only one o get that story on CNN?
And Bush’s convention claim he was overseeing the birth of democracy in Iraq when a report he had at hand said there’s virtually no chance in hades that the warring factions can meld into a democracy.
As I understand it, election boards will give anyone registration forms and absentee ballots to distribute in neighborhoods where people are too busy or without transportation to pick them up. That means almost anyone can multiply his vote by distributing these forms. Even better, we can return and collect them or offer lifts to those people who accept one. It would be an additional incentive to provide postage on envelopes.
Posted by barbara on Sep 16, 2004 at 6:01 PM
(Morning note)
To all:
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Yesterday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if you are in a battleground southern or midwestern state or the Busies are working to influence your church congregations. (I also like the bumper sticker: BUSH THINKS YOU’RE STUPID.”)
In that light, I am attaching a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this link to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but. (If you’d like to get a jpg file of the ad which is easier to make copies of, email me at tracevu@bellsouth.net ).
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
Yesterday, I registered another 13 new voters (note to Barbara: I would try to get folks to fill out the form in your presence so you can deliver them en masse to the appropriate office. Otherwise, they may misplace them or forget until it’s too late. The Tennessee forms take less than a minute to fill out.)
I also gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many people, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. During the day, I had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
(Evening note)
Had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying that he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being shipped back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that he had been rude earlier because I looked like a Republican, so he was surprised at the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense at that comment. After all, I was once a member of the GOP, in my misguided middle age.) I gave him seveal more bumper stickers for his other family cars.
I’m suggesting that folks put the bumper sticker that is the circled “W” with a slash through it on their front windshield, on the driver’s side, like an inspection sticker. That way, people can tell you’re for regime change, coming AND going.
Today was the third day I registered at the same site, and several Busie cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pretty rudely: “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you FEEL SAFER NOW?”, “Are you better off NOW than you USED TO BE?” and “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US.”)
I do think that it may make sense for me to move to another location after tomorrow. But tomorrow night, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. I have already registered 96 new voters and want to hit at least 200 before October 2 (when our Tennessee registration closes). The post-Republican convention CNN Poll shows the race is dead-even nationwide.
It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. Let’s move.
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (47 Days) on Sep 16, 2004 at 6:39 PM
“If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to
put on our tombstone “America died from a delusion
that she had moral leadership”
From Will Rogers on American “Moral Leadership”
and Foreign Adventurism
Posted by kfrentrup on Sep 16, 2004 at 9:00 PM
Keilor ends his piece with “…and there is more to life than winning.” A variation on a theme: Goldwater said during his campaign “I’d rather be right then president” (incidentally, you may remember the famous LBJ ad with the girl and the mushroom cloud…smear has been around for some time), and before him, Teddy Roosevelt exclaimed “given the choice between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness”.
Neoconservativism is a revolutionary ideology, and should thus be watched closely (revolutions tend to be destructive). On the other hand many of our great advances as a country have been made because of revolutionary ideas.
I don’t understand why he has such nostalgia for Nixon when he extended the war in Vietnam and doubled the names on the wall.
Reagan, on the other hand, put the remaining nails in 20th century totalitarianism. The intelligentsia scoffed at his “tear down that wall”; two years later, the wall came down. When he was inaugurated, the top tax rates in the country were a stifling 70 percent. He brought them below 30. It’s way to simplistic to believe that those who want to lower the top rates want to do so only to help the rich. A rate that is too high always stifles growth. This is not to say that Bush’s plan will work (even Newt does not approve), but rather to point out that it is based on growth (even if it is at the expense of a big deficit).
Are republicans now more greedy than they were?
…who knows. Maybe we all are. Maybe we always were.
Posted by Gio on Sep 17, 2004 at 12:11 AM
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Wednesday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if the Busies are working to influence your church congregations.
In that light, I have included a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this message to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
On Wednesday, I registered another 13 new voters and gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many of them, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. I also had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
On Thursday, I had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being deployed back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that I had looked like a Republican, so he was surprised to see me with the the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense; after all, I had been a member of the GOP during my misguided middle age.) I gave him several more stickers for his other family cars.
Yesterday was the third day I had registered at the same site, and several Repub-liban cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pointedly, “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you feel safer now?”, “Are you better off now than you used to be?” and “Are you a working man or a woman?”)
I do think that it may make sense to move to another location after today. But tonight, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and their late teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. Let’s all keep busting ass, guys. It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Let’s move.
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (46 Days) on Sep 17, 2004 at 4:52 AM
Very well put, but the fact is that Johm Kerry should be saying these things. But his campaign doesn’t have it in them to REALLY go after and attack the president. They have basically decided to bring a knife to a gun fight. Republicans have made this election about fear based on lies, and the Kerry campaign has done little to challenge or expose them. John Kerry owes it to the American people to take off the gloves, and get in the mud and start kicking ass. While it would be nice if this election were based on polite, civil discourse, the Bush team has decided to fight dirty…from the Swift Boat Liars to Cheney’s remark that we will get attacked by terrorists if Kerry is elected. John Kerry needs to point out what Keillor does - that 9/11 was a security failure and that Bush was the one ultimately in charge of security. Instead, the right has taken 9/11 and turned into a holiday. It has become a day that they own and exploit, and people just sit back and suck it all in. John Kerry owes it to me, my family, and the rest of America to unseat this president by exploiting his failures. I just hope he has the cojones to do it….
Posted by Andrew Paulson on Sep 17, 2004 at 7:08 AM
Thank you. You have expressed so eloquently what I have been feeling for a long, long time. Let’s get back on track, and show love for our God, our neighbors and our great country.
Posted by Cheryl Fortna on Sep 17, 2004 at 9:48 AM
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Wednesday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if the Busies are working to influence your church congregations.
In that light, I have included a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this message to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
On Wednesday, I registered another 13 new voters and gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many of them, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. I also had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
On Thursday, I had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being deployed back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that I had looked like a Republican, so he was surprised to see me with the the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense; after all, I had been a member of the GOP during my misguided middle age.) I gave him several more stickers for his other family cars.
Yesterday was the third day I had registered at the same site, and several Repub-liban cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pointedly, “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you feel safer now?”, “Are you better off now than you used to be?” and “Are you a working man or a woman?”)
I do think that it may make sense to move to another location after today. But tonight, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and their late teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. Let’s all keep working hard. It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Let’s move.
Posted by Countdown to Regime Change (46 Days) on Sep 17, 2004 at 11:12 AM
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I’ve been unable to access the last pages of this thread. It’d be such a timesaver to have some recent page numbers on each page, especially if they could be displayed at the top.
I realize such features may be difficult (costly) to achieve. TIt’s a shame, because there are some well-informed posters on the site, but the posts are often hard to reach.
I didn’t have the patience to keep looking for Geoff’s “riot” link, recommended, I believe, by Bernie. So could someone please repeat that?
A recent outrage—Paula Zahn has twice “reported” the recently discovered documents on Bush’s Guard non-service without mentioning that it revealed he failed to respond to his commander’s order to take his FLIGHT TEST. (Isn’t that called insubordination?) She referred only to the older story that he didn’t show up or the medical test.
In introducing the documents topic, she said with disdain, “Let’s see what, if anything, the President’s Guard record has to do with the Presidential race. (Paula, the Iraq war and the anti-terrorist effort—for which he cites his ability as Commander-in-Chief—and numerous alarming economic and other policies have led many voters to question his honesty.) Since the months preceding the Iraq war, Zahn has moved ever closer to becoming an opinion person like Bill O’Reilly in her emphases and omissions. And she nearly always gives the conservative guest the last word, closing with some suggestion that, in fact, that is the last word. Used to admire you, Paula.
Further, I heard a FOX morning panel say the Killan documents had been denounced by Col. Killian.s wife and son. Now I learn that they actually said the documents are TRUE to his concerns about Bush’s arrogant disrespect.
(Would Col. Killian could’ve seen the tapes of Bush prancing in a flightsuit on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Perhaps he would have turned whistleblower.)
Good evening, everyone. With only 49 days until regime change, it was another excellent day for the recruitment of new voters for Kerry. For all new posters on this thread who want to DO SOMETHING to defeat Bush, here are a few suggestions:
1) Many states have only about two weeks left to register new voters. (Fortunately, other states allow registration right up to the election.) Find out what the rules are in your state, get a big handful of voter registration forms and keep them with you (along with extra Kerry bumper stickers) at all times. Wear a “Kerry/Edwards” button and ask everyone you meet whether they’re registered. If they’re not, do it right then—on the spot.
2) Better yet, pick a good location or six in your community with a lot of foot traffic of likely Kerry voters. This would include businesses in working class neighborhoods, stores catering to women, and bookstores and coffee shops where people who actually think might congregate. (It would NOT include Hummer dealerships and country clubs.) Ask the owner of the business if you can put up a simple sign outside their front door telling people they can get voter registration forms from the counter, and then volunteer to pick up the completed forms every other day or so and deliver them to the appropriate election commission office in your community. DO THIS STARTING TOMORROW.
3) If you have an ideal location with lots of traffic near you, ask the store owner if you can sit outside and register people as they come into the business. Make up your own signs and get several tops of beer boxes (the small section of the box)—they make great flat surfaces for people to fill out their forms on. Then ask everyone who comes in the business if they are registered to vote. If they are, give them the “thumbs up” sign and tell them how long you’ll be at that location, in case they know anyone who might want to come register.
Make up your own signs to put around your voter registration booth. I used the first six signs listed below today at a busy country store and it really attracted sympathetic unregistered people to my table. Here are some suggestions:
a. ARE YOU A WORKING MAN OR A WOMAN?
b. DO YOU FEEL SAFER NOW?
c. ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW THAN YOU USED TO BE?
d. THE AMERICAN FLAG BELONGS TO ALL OF US.
e. DO YOU WANT YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD TOO?
f. REGISTER AND VOTE. RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW.
If you have a very sympathetic location, you might use my last sign:
g) WHEN DID OUR GOD BECOME A REPUBLICAN?
In just three hours this afternoon, I registered 19 Kerry supporters and 2 Bush supporters. Young people, working men and women with children in tow were especially likely to be Kerry supporters. Not a bad ratio, in a county that is considered heavily Republican. I’ll go back there for the rest of the week.
4) After you’ve registered the voter, talk with them about their thoughts on the election. Several people asked me what my Party was and when I said my Party was for working men and women, they knew right away I was a Democrat. If they said they were Republican, I just told them that I support getting everyone to register and to vote. Interestingly, one Republican who was already registered stopped to talk and we agreed on a lot of the issues that voters are grappling with this November. When he left, I said to him, “I’m glad to know we agree on more issues than we disagree on.” His response was surprising: “You know, even though I’m a lifelong Republican, we also agree on who to vote for as our next President.”
If the person you’ve registered tells you they are likely Kerry supporters, be sure to have some bumper stickers handy to give them. The circled W with a slash through it was very popular—one Harley rider got two to put on both sides of his gas tank.
5) In addition to setting up at stores, find out about large gatherings near you and take the initiative to be the voter registrar at that gathering. This Saturday night, I’ll do that at a big country dance drawing hundreds of hardworking men and women in my community. The owner of the dance hall will announce every half hour that I’m there registering voters (and add his own pro-Democrat comments). My guess is that I’ll add 40-50 new voters just at that dance alone.
6) Be sure to cover your own vehicles with bumper stickers. Make some back window signs of your own—the more creative, the better. I’ve made poster g above a window sign for my old pickup truck, and posters b-d above would work also. I also get a big reaction to my “Bush Thinks You’re Stupid” bumper sticker. Again, be creative.
7) Finally, let’s show our solidarity every chance we get. I’m really enjoying giving other folks with Kerry bumper stickers a big “thumbs up” on the highway. Folks are beginning to do that with me also. We need to keep supporting each other and doing everything we can do to win back our country.
Remember, we have 49 days left to rid this country of the Rad Con “bad seed” that is the Bush presidency. Use every minute wisely. Since this blog is seriously infected with two slobbering Bushies who, despite having no visible support from anyone else, continue to prattle on like the Energizer bunny fueled by young G-Du(m)b’s cocaine; your/our time is best spent elsewhere. We can do it—we can take our country back using the best tool available to us—a massive turnout of sensible, sensitive and suddenly energized new (and previously disengaged) voters who still believe in democracy.
49 days and counting .... until we can sign “Bye, bye, Bush-league.”
Barbara,
I am having the same problem accessing page 42 of the blog. I presume it exists, as I am getting individually posted messages sent there. (Did you get my last one, posted a few minutes ago?)
Since I have downloaded the entire stream through page 42, I will find Geoff’s comical post and re-enter it into the stream. I visited it also and it is a RIOT.
Hope we are still communicating. Maybe 16/2 and StunGun finally melted the circuits with their lonely, but never-ending, circle jerk. For me, I hope the blog can be repaired because I’d like to keep reading what EVERYONE ELSE has to say. Take care, and it’s great to see your name again on the thread.
This is a great article. Normal, man-in-the-street conservatives just don’t realize yet that the Republican Party has gone bad. We know Kiellor is a liberal, but we posted a link to this article at the Conservatives Against Bush website anyway, http://thecab.blogspot.com/, because he has perceived and identified the problem so well.
Hey Dave with the deserving little baby girl:
The “desperate” terrorists you claim we created with our evil foreign policies are millionaires. Bin Ladin and the 19 Saudi sickos got rich selling oil to Whitey. If it weren’t for American and European motorists, those boys would be picking rotten camel meat out of their yellow teeth. That’s it! Out-of-tune busses in Guatemala City are responsible for terrorism!
And by the way, “vitreous” means glassy. I have a hard time picturing a “vitreous monster”. Maybe in a 1950’s Japanese flick?
I think your baby girl will be just fine, as long as Bush stays around. With Kerry it would be hard to say. Maybe he’ll let the ragheads take over her grade school with French-made weapons. I pray not. Have a wonderful evening. Goyito.
Barbara,
Here’s the link to Geoff’s “This Land is Your Land”, sung by our next President and our current unelected one. Don’t wear tight-fitting clothes when you watch this—you will split some seams. Enjoy.
Reposting message with link:
Barbara,
Here’s the link to Geoff’s “This Land is Your Land”, sung by our next President and our current unelected one. Don’t wear tight-fitting clothes when you watch this—you will split some seams. Enjoy.
http://images.shockwave.com/afassets/flash/this_land.swf
Shoot. I can’t get to the current page even from the final arrow. I suspect a Republican hacker is at work.
Sorry I couldn’t think up a cute ‘handle’ like 6gun or 16 to 2, but I have a job and can’t spend all day spewing vile self-congratulatory propaganda.
You two have debased what began as a civil forum; shame on you. Stop, re-read the original article, and think about what’s gone on the past 3 years.
Can our nation (and world) really afford a continuation of the trends set in motion by George W Bush? (By this I mean: Rapidly increasing federal debt, refusal to address the need for energy conservation and alternative energy sources, weakening of environmental protections, widening of the gap between rich and poor, and a reckless foreign policy that alienates our allies.)
Maybe 4 more years of the above won’t cause immediate catastrophe (this is a big, powerful country, after all), but they represent an unsustainable and unhealthy path for our environment, our society and our world.
Barbara,
Were you aware the 1,000th casualty was the Lt. Cmdr. who was the pilot of Bush’s aircraft carrier landing? How morbidly ironic I think.
Have enjoyed your posts. Thank you for enduring all the hate directed at anyone not like certain people who have posted here.
Lyle
Bush’s pilot dead?
An ironical situation?
Sounds like an apocryphal diversion. Where are your references?
For Dave with the deserving baby girl:
I can’t say Kerry will be a lot better than Bush for your girl; I can’t tell the future. I can say with a reasonable degree of confidence that he won’t be *worse* for her. After all, as it is, she’ll grow up not having any control over her own body or life under more Bush. That’s a certainty.
Not sure how it could be worse for her than that, unless she were dead, possibly. Then again, as a woman, I’m not sure I can say I’d rather be alive and dictated to than six feet under. What’s the point of existing if you can’t make your own decisions and bear your own consequences and profits?
*quote on*
I am quite certain that when you find yourself amoral, selfish, and arrogant, you naturally gravitate to the Party that values amorality, selfish consumption of another’s resources and property
*quote off*
Amoral: Invading another country without provocation, without just cause, and without invitation from the people of that country, then proceeding to maim and kill its innocents, including children.
Selfish: A handful of people dipping into the public treasury to finance a war they personally desire (and, I might add, that they are unwilling to finance themselves, though they could easily do so with their combined resources) that we as a nation cannot afford and which will not bring us any prosperity in return, and will only set us up as Public Enemy #1 in the eyes of the future generations of the invaded lands. Better yet, the Social Security public treasury, which should ONLY be used to finance retirement payouts.
Arrogant: Never admitting to a mistake. Constantly repeating the same hardline tactic without acknowledgement even when commissions, studies, reports, and facts bear out said tactic to be a colossal failure. Tendency to put oneself up as the left hand of God and somehow fit to run the country because of belief in an organized, recognized cult.
Now - which crew, in 2004, does this seem to fit the best? (Hint: The only one that went to war in 2003.)
I finally it made to the current page. I’m sure I missed some good things. Thanks, Lyle.
Two big stories—Killian’s very believable secretary who says if the new documents are fake, they are true and created by someone knpwledgeable. Col. Killian was flabbergasted by Bush’s insubordination, and his fellow soldiers—nearly all privileged as well-were resentful about his arrogance. I wonder if Paul Begala was the only one o get that story on CNN?
And Bush’s convention claim he was overseeing the birth of democracy in Iraq when a report he had at hand said there’s virtually no chance in hades that the warring factions can meld into a democracy.
As I understand it, election boards will give anyone registration forms and absentee ballots to distribute in neighborhoods where people are too busy or without transportation to pick them up. That means almost anyone can multiply his vote by distributing these forms. Even better, we can return and collect them or offer lifts to those people who accept one. It would be an additional incentive to provide postage on envelopes.
(Morning note)
To all:
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Yesterday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if you are in a battleground southern or midwestern state or the Busies are working to influence your church congregations. (I also like the bumper sticker: BUSH THINKS YOU’RE STUPID.”)
In that light, I am attaching a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this link to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but. (If you’d like to get a jpg file of the ad which is easier to make copies of, email me at tracevu@bellsouth.net ).
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
Yesterday, I registered another 13 new voters (note to Barbara: I would try to get folks to fill out the form in your presence so you can deliver them en masse to the appropriate office. Otherwise, they may misplace them or forget until it’s too late. The Tennessee forms take less than a minute to fill out.)
I also gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many people, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. During the day, I had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
(Evening note)
Had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying that he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being shipped back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that he had been rude earlier because I looked like a Republican, so he was surprised at the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense at that comment. After all, I was once a member of the GOP, in my misguided middle age.) I gave him seveal more bumper stickers for his other family cars.
I’m suggesting that folks put the bumper sticker that is the circled “W” with a slash through it on their front windshield, on the driver’s side, like an inspection sticker. That way, people can tell you’re for regime change, coming AND going.
Today was the third day I registered at the same site, and several Busie cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pretty rudely: “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you FEEL SAFER NOW?”, “Are you better off NOW than you USED TO BE?” and “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US.”)
I do think that it may make sense for me to move to another location after tomorrow. But tomorrow night, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. I have already registered 96 new voters and want to hit at least 200 before October 2 (when our Tennessee registration closes). The post-Republican convention CNN Poll shows the race is dead-even nationwide.
It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. Let’s move.
“If we ever pass out as a great nation, we ought to
put on our tombstone “America died from a delusion
that she had moral leadership”
From Will Rogers on American “Moral Leadership”
and Foreign Adventurism
Keilor ends his piece with “…and there is more to life than winning.” A variation on a theme: Goldwater said during his campaign “I’d rather be right then president” (incidentally, you may remember the famous LBJ ad with the girl and the mushroom cloud…smear has been around for some time), and before him, Teddy Roosevelt exclaimed “given the choice between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness”.
Neoconservativism is a revolutionary ideology, and should thus be watched closely (revolutions tend to be destructive). On the other hand many of our great advances as a country have been made because of revolutionary ideas.
I don’t understand why he has such nostalgia for Nixon when he extended the war in Vietnam and doubled the names on the wall.
Reagan, on the other hand, put the remaining nails in 20th century totalitarianism. The intelligentsia scoffed at his “tear down that wall”; two years later, the wall came down. When he was inaugurated, the top tax rates in the country were a stifling 70 percent. He brought them below 30. It’s way to simplistic to believe that those who want to lower the top rates want to do so only to help the rich. A rate that is too high always stifles growth. This is not to say that Bush’s plan will work (even Newt does not approve), but rather to point out that it is based on growth (even if it is at the expense of a big deficit).
Are republicans now more greedy than they were?
…who knows. Maybe we all are. Maybe we always were.
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Wednesday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if the Busies are working to influence your church congregations.
In that light, I have included a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this message to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
On Wednesday, I registered another 13 new voters and gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many of them, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. I also had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
On Thursday, I had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being deployed back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that I had looked like a Republican, so he was surprised to see me with the the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense; after all, I had been a member of the GOP during my misguided middle age.) I gave him several more stickers for his other family cars.
Yesterday was the third day I had registered at the same site, and several Repub-liban cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pointedly, “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you feel safer now?”, “Are you better off now than you used to be?” and “Are you a working man or a woman?”)
I do think that it may make sense to move to another location after today. But tonight, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and their late teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. Let’s all keep busting ass, guys. It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Let’s move.
Very well put, but the fact is that Johm Kerry should be saying these things. But his campaign doesn’t have it in them to REALLY go after and attack the president. They have basically decided to bring a knife to a gun fight. Republicans have made this election about fear based on lies, and the Kerry campaign has done little to challenge or expose them. John Kerry owes it to the American people to take off the gloves, and get in the mud and start kicking ass. While it would be nice if this election were based on polite, civil discourse, the Bush team has decided to fight dirty…from the Swift Boat Liars to Cheney’s remark that we will get attacked by terrorists if Kerry is elected. John Kerry needs to point out what Keillor does - that 9/11 was a security failure and that Bush was the one ultimately in charge of security. Instead, the right has taken 9/11 and turned into a holiday. It has become a day that they own and exploit, and people just sit back and suck it all in. John Kerry owes it to me, my family, and the rest of America to unseat this president by exploiting his failures. I just hope he has the cojones to do it….
Thank you. You have expressed so eloquently what I have been feeling for a long, long time. Let’s get back on track, and show love for our God, our neighbors and our great country.
In the new book “Bush’s Brain”, about Karl Rove (Bush’s handler), we are given very good advice (inadvertantly) by Mr. Rove. His successful campaign strategy is not to attack an opponent on his/her weaknesses (because everyone knows those already), but rather to attack them on their strengths. That’s why the Busies have gone after Kerry’s Vietnam record, to deflect attention from Bush’s own record of non-service and insubordination in the National Guard.
That’s why we need to strike hard at Bush for wrapping himself in the flag and claiming that GOD is on his side. I have made signs for the back window of my truck that say “The AMERICAN FLAG belongs to ALL OF US” and “When did OUR GOD become a REPUBLICAN?”. Wednesday was the first day I posted those signs and I got quite a few positive comments (including from several evangelical Christians) and NO negative comments. So you folks need to consider similar tactics, particularly if the Busies are working to influence your church congregations.
In that light, I have included a link to a recent Mad magazine parody which shows how the Busies would attack Jesus Christ if HE was a political opponent. Please forward this message to anyone you know who lives in a battleground state or a state that is now for, or leaning toward, Bush. Ask them to attack Bush directly on his perceived strengths—because they are anything but.
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004/09/bush-vs-jesus.html
On Wednesday, I registered another 13 new voters and gave out pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers to many of them, including several Republicans (one a Korean War veteran) who are disgusted with Duh-bya. I also had two Republicans approach me to say “I hope you’re not registering just anyone who wants to register to vote, are you?” My response to both: “No sir. I am just registering Americans.” That shut them both up. (All of us need to keep pro-Kerry and anti-Bush bumper stickers with us at all times. I’m giving out about 40 a day now.)
On Thursday, I had another good day registering voters and handing out Kerry/Edwards and “no more W” bumper stickers. A little slow in the Ivan-generated rain, but worthwhile nonetheless. Had one very conservative-looking person (with some sort of military baseball cap on) go past me, saying he was registered and that he would vote (pretty brusquely). Then when he came back out, he shared that his National Guard son was now being deployed back to Iraq for a second tour, and he was visibly angry (and afraid, I’m sure). I said that it was really looking like a quagmire, and he agreed. When I quietly flashed a “no more W” sticker, he said “Thank you!!” and took it right away. (He said that I had looked like a Republican, so he was surprised to see me with the the “no more W” sticker. I did not take (visible) offense; after all, I had been a member of the GOP during my misguided middle age.) I gave him several more stickers for his other family cars.
Yesterday was the third day I had registered at the same site, and several Repub-liban cars circled around me, with their cell phones going 90 miles an hour. I had one guy get out and ask me pointedly, “Just who do you represent?” I said that I represented a group of people who wanted to increase the voter turnout. But I could see the blood pressure rising as he read the signs above my head (e.g., “Do you feel safer now?”, “Are you better off now than you used to be?” and “Are you a working man or a woman?”)
I do think that it may make sense to move to another location after today. But tonight, I’m going to hear a friend sing (a great Nashville songwriter) and will ask him to announce that there is someone in the room with pro-Kerry, anti-Bush bumper stickers, if anyone wants them. And we’ll do this in a club owned by a Republican!! (I love it!) Saturday morning, I’m going to a big flea market near my farm and then Saturday night to a country dance full of loggers, farmers, truck-drivers, carpenters and their spouses and/or lady (or men) friends and their late teenaged kids. Talk about working class heaven—should do well there.
Two more weeks to register new voters in Tennessee. Let’s all keep working hard. It’s the beginning of the fourth quarter, folks. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over. Let’s move.
I like that lake.
I don’t think the tone of this is particularly helpful…..
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