Pretty much the same as going to the elderly and telling them the evil nasty conservatives are going to destroy social security and medicare (something they've never attempted). It's all about FUD.
What's amusing is that FUD only works if you have a basis in viable behaviour, and the actions in California to remove "under God" from the pledge, the push to challenge the partial birth abortion laws, the recent flurry of same-sex marriages on both coasts, and other hot-button points are in recent memory. Just as the 1000+ deaths in Iraq, the patriot act, and the deportation of Cat Stevens are.
I'm not a republican, but I'd be willing to vote for one if they had a decent candidate. I'd do the same for the democrats. Alas, I'm being forced to choose between Cthulhu and Voldemort....
Don't worry, the Great Cthulhu will get around to eating you too. That's the great thing about He That Sleeps But Dreams Eternal. He is the greater of all evils.
BTW. Cthulhu is the centerpiece of the late author HP Lovecrafts "Cthulhu Mythos". Essentially stories written around the 1920's or so, they concentrate on investigators rooting out cults that worship the Great Old Ones, powerful godlike entities that are so ancient they view humanity as a passing whim of the universe. Considered to be the foundation of most American Horror.
Voldemort is the villian of villians in the Harry Potter novels/movies. aka You Know Who, cause no one wants to speak his name for the dread of his return to evil.
Basically. We would rather vote for fictional evil than for political evil, ala Bush.
hey leave the indian parliament out of this, atleast they ..... no fine they suck too!!! stupid indians -_-* dont worry im indian i can get away with it =P
even if i do wonder about their position the likelihood of getting a chair or a mic thrown at me is very high, so i really dont care =P plus im not gonna be living in india till im atleast 30, which gives me 11 years, so i dont have to think much about them anyway =D
Hey, they're also claiming that Americans United for Separation of Church and State are the ones making it so that right-wing preachers can't preach about politics or else their churches will lose their tax-exempt status.
Um, no, AU is merely trying to make sure that the IRS rules are followed. *sigh*
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Date: 2004-09-25 02:28 pm (UTC)What's amusing is that FUD only works if you have a basis in viable behaviour, and the actions in California to remove "under God" from the pledge, the push to challenge the partial birth abortion laws, the recent flurry of same-sex marriages on both coasts, and other hot-button points are in recent memory. Just as the 1000+ deaths in Iraq, the patriot act, and the deportation of Cat Stevens are.
I'm not a republican, but I'd be willing to vote for one if they had a decent candidate. I'd do the same for the democrats. Alas, I'm being forced to choose between Cthulhu and Voldemort....
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Date: 2004-09-25 03:43 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-25 03:58 pm (UTC)BTW. Cthulhu is the centerpiece of the late author HP Lovecrafts "Cthulhu Mythos". Essentially stories written around the 1920's or so, they concentrate on investigators rooting out cults that worship the Great Old Ones, powerful godlike entities that are so ancient they view humanity as a passing whim of the universe. Considered to be the foundation of most American Horror.
Voldemort is the villian of villians in the Harry Potter novels/movies. aka You Know Who, cause no one wants to speak his name for the dread of his return to evil.
Basically. We would rather vote for fictional evil than for political evil, ala Bush.
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Date: 2004-09-25 06:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-26 05:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-26 09:50 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-26 09:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-26 09:29 am (UTC)I'm just surprised we haven't taken to open fighting like the Indian parliament.
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Date: 2004-09-28 03:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-28 04:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-28 04:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-25 02:29 pm (UTC)Um, no, AU is merely trying to make sure that the IRS rules are followed. *sigh*
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Date: 2004-09-25 03:42 pm (UTC)The Bush Game
Easy
Date: 2004-09-25 05:17 pm (UTC)Re: Easy
Date: 2004-09-25 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-25 07:59 pm (UTC)On the other hand, how does Kerry defend accusing Bush of starting up the draft, when it was Democrats who introduced the necessary bills in Congress?
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Date: 2004-09-25 09:14 pm (UTC)It was sent out by the Republican National Committee.
I'll leave it up to you to decide how close they are to becoming the same thing.
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Date: 2004-09-27 12:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-28 05:45 am (UTC)