So, Ana's learned a new phrase today...

[conuly]

Never vote Republican.

She doesn't know what it means, so I don't mind my blatant indoctrination/brainwashing. See, I was sitting with the kids, listening to the radio (some people keep the TV on all day when nobody's watching, we keep classical music on), and a news update comes on, where Bushie-boy called the releasing of this information shameful. That man needs to go sit in a corner and think about what he's done, and repent of his sins.

I woke the baby groaning at that. A while later comes some other Bush-quote which was so bad, I've blocked it from my memory.

And this is when I taught Ana that phrase.

Edit: Oh, yeah, now I remember. It was some nonsense about how specific Democrats who are (rightfully!) opposing extending the Patriot Act (and who could've guessed that people would misuse this? I sure didn't see that one coming!) should explain to their constituent cities *waves cheerfully* how we could possibly be kept safe from the scawwy tewwowithtth (it works... kinda) without giving up a pound of flesh our firstborn children some paltry, meaningless rights. I mean, it's not like any of us intended to use them or anything.

Just to be perfectly, painfully clear on this Patriot Act thing, I think it doesn't make us safe. I sure don't *feel* safe. I feel, in fact, damn scared. And cold. Don't forget cold. But mostly scared and angry.

Oh, and on a side rant, the next person to try to claim that Bush is stupid for the way he speaks is going to get a smack. His speech is, as near as I can tell, a deliberate affectation. And he's not doing to shabby for himself right now. His speech patterns are the least stupid thing about him. (Sure, that's not saying much, but....)

Comments

[kynn.livejournal.com]

His speech is, as near as I can tell, a deliberate affectation.

It is.

Watch videos of him from the 1980s -- a few exist -- and he doesn't have a Texan accent at all. Why? Because he's a rich white New Englander elite, whose family bought land in Texas but he went to Ivy League schools.

He's such a fucking fake cowboy, one who is AFRAID TO RIDE A HORSE, and yet the rubes fall for it all the time.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

You should really check out this article. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9728685/site/newsweek/from/RL.1/) Make us safer? How about looking after that nuclear material mmmkay?

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

No. Opinion polls show that the first time he ran for governor in Texas, he was voted down because the public saw him as being too much of a brainiac and wanted someone who better represented the common man. Bush's idiot persona is a well practiced façade.
I'm still not happy about the whole movement to pull out of Iraq. I don't think that we're ready. Don't get me wring, I really didn't want us to be there in the first place, and really don't want us to continue being there, but we've made a commitment and we really need to see things resolved before we pull out.

Historically, we've messed with affairs in the middle east twice before, and twice we've pulled out before we had tied up all the loose ends, and twice things have gotten so bad over there that a republican president has seen fit to ship troops there sort things out, during the process attempting to push the American way and their idea of a new world order on countries that are too unstable to really show any choice in the matter.

Not to say that what they currently have is better, but still... There's something about having a number of Middle Eastern countries operating under the republican view of the American way that terrifies the pants off of me.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

His speech is, as near as I can tell, a deliberate affectation.

It is.

Watch videos of him from the 1980s -- a few exist -- and he doesn't have a Texan accent at all. Why? Because he's a rich white New Englander elite, whose family bought land in Texas but he went to Ivy League schools.

He's such a fucking fake cowboy, one who is AFRAID TO RIDE A HORSE, and yet the rubes fall for it all the time.

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

You should really check out this article. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9728685/site/newsweek/from/RL.1/) Make us safer? How about looking after that nuclear material mmmkay?

[sporks5000.livejournal.com]

No. Opinion polls show that the first time he ran for governor in Texas, he was voted down because the public saw him as being too much of a brainiac and wanted someone who better represented the common man. Bush's idiot persona is a well practiced façade.
I'm still not happy about the whole movement to pull out of Iraq. I don't think that we're ready. Don't get me wring, I really didn't want us to be there in the first place, and really don't want us to continue being there, but we've made a commitment and we really need to see things resolved before we pull out.

Historically, we've messed with affairs in the middle east twice before, and twice we've pulled out before we had tied up all the loose ends, and twice things have gotten so bad over there that a republican president has seen fit to ship troops there sort things out, during the process attempting to push the American way and their idea of a new world order on countries that are too unstable to really show any choice in the matter.

Not to say that what they currently have is better, but still... There's something about having a number of Middle Eastern countries operating under the republican view of the American way that terrifies the pants off of me.