Saturday, October 24, 2009

Sometimes, I Despair for Humanity...

I caught the single line link to this story on CNN's homepage:

Ticker: Dem calls White House move 'bulls**t'

And was sufficiently intrigued to click through to the article itself. In a nutshell, the candidate for VA governor does not feel he's getting sufficient support from the White House in his bid to become governor. Okay, whatever. What really stuck out at me were some of the comments to the article:
Dan

October 23rd, 2009 5:19 pm ET
SOCIALISM….. GOP calls Obama a Socialist.

SOCIALISM….. GOP calls Public Option, Socialism.
SOCIALISM….. Social Security, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. Free education until 12th grade, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. Bailout of Wall Street and AIG, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. Bush lied that Iraq has WMDs, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. We believed what Bush said, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. 4300 Troops died, is it not Socialism?
SOCIALISM….. Bush visits Beijing Olympics, is not a waste of Tax Money.
SOCIALISM….. Obama flies to Copenhagen to Canvas for Chicago, GOP calls it a waste of Tax Dollars.
This is an Example how GOP tries to Misled.......................................
(Does this guy have any fucking clue what "socialism" even is?)


NVa Native
October 23rd, 2009 5:15 pm ET
If you don't like our President then you can leave our country.

(hmmm. Shades of that MA legislator who was telling her residents to leave the town if they didn't like the rules...)


Bill
October 23rd, 2009 5:04 pm ET
2000 to 2008 ___________________
GOP – 8 Years – No Deeds, Did Nothing, Zero, Absosutely Zero
2009 _________________________
GOP – All Talk._____________________________
GOP = Talkative Idiots, No Deeds, Just Talk.

(Can someone translate this from mumbly idiot to English for me? The GOP/Bush did nothing for eight years? Then why the hell was everyone accusing him of being Hitler? Moron.)


Kevin Denver Colorado

October 23rd, 2009 4:57 pm ET
Like everything else, the republican crystal ball is broken. If you really believe that the country is going to vote you in in 2010 you're seriously deluded. While we may not achieve everything in the time frame that everybody would like (yesterday!) We will achieve all major goals of fixing the indescribable mess you republitards left us and the intelligent and rational people of this great country will vote to give Obama a 3rd & 4th Term.......... ad infinitum.

(The intelligent and rational people of this country know that 0bama can't serve a 3rd & 4th term...)


It goes on for pages and pages of stupid - both left and right - I'd excerpt more, except that I could feel my brain actually starting to melt as I read the sheer concentrated stupid. I used to think that more Americans should get involved in the political process. Now I'm not so sure. Hell, now I'm not sure a good portions of Americans should be left alone without a permanently attached drool cup...

Anyhoo, it's interesting reading - if you want to lower your IQ 50 points or so...

That is all.

5 comments:

wolfwalker said...

Ever read Starship Troopers? There are times when I think Heinlein's criterion for voting is the best ever devised by a human mind.

Newbius said...

Jay,

Remember, this is the CNN page. The IQ of that page is necessarily lower by 40-50 points just due to the target audience...

Pax,

Newbius

Mopar said...

Jay, you are forgetting the Dems have a bill to repeal the 22nd ammendment so Obama can become ruler for life. http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-hj5/show

PISSED said...

Just wanted to let you know that a guy with a gun walked into 2 convenience stores and a machine shop with a gun this morning, and nothing happened.

Stretch said...

Property and literacy requirements are not always a bad thing. One indicates you have a financial interest in the political process and the other allows you to understand it. I will now hunker down for the all too predictable accusations of racist.