Submitted by metulj on Thu, 2007/07/19 - 9:49am
Otherwise known as: The ChickenHawk Gambit.
Of course! I love the "asthma" excuse. Love it. Bad knees from playing high school catcher. Awesome. "Not for me." Exactly. So exactly who is it for? The war on terror is the cause of our times? No, it is because of this mind set.
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That is an awesome video,
That is an awesome video, one of the few worth sitting through I've seen lately (although it doesn't have hamsters playing the harmonica). Michael Moore would approve.
Great video! As I get older
Great video!
As I get older I see people like this videographer as "brave" to even approach the war mongers.
"Draft College Republicans" Yeah!
Substitutes
Perhaps in this war to end all wars, the fight for our very existence, we should bring back the age old practice of allowing rich people to hire substitutes to go fight for them. That way they can be even more patriotic!
Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.
My brother-in-law has been a
My brother-in-law has been a fervent Bush supporter. He has two children in their early 20s, college grads who are essentially now ski bums. When I asked him why he didn't encourage them to join up to fight in Iraq, he looked at me like I suddenly started speaking in tongues.
War is for other people's children.
"If we want to revitalize our towns and protect our countryside from sprawling development, we should renovate our older schools, not throw them away."
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Max Clues?
"What might not convince me not to join is if somehow I become like a really good like speaker and stuff like that. that's what would convince me not to join. [garbled] convince me to join is if like something even bigger happened."
Max Kues has a future in the Republican Party although he may have to join the Log Cabin wing. Though 'certified' straight, he doesn't seem to be as pure as necessary to be accepted by the mainstream zealots.
And did anybody else see a whole room full of Doug Neidermeyers?
Something even bigger?
I am reminded of an electrician who used to work for me years ago. He used to start a gripe session with "What's it going to take . . . . ?"
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What about Tom DeLay
What about Tom DeLay preaching to these kids that immigration is really all about abortion because if we didn't have abortions, we'd have 17 million people here to fill all the jobs that Mexicans are taking? "Think about it," he says.
That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Surely he just thinks the young Repugs are dumb enough to believe it, which I'm sure they are.
Perhaps instead of Loyalty Oaths...
the Republican Party should instead require each prospective member to come up with the most original and convincing excuse for why they are not ABLE to enlist and go help "fight the Turrarists over there, so we won't have to fight them here". Only those guys or girls that can present a plausible and unique defense of their patriotically worded, but ultimately dodgey, non-participatory stance would be allowed to join the party of the "big tent".
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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali
P.S. I thought there was
P.S. I thought there was some deja vu going on and I just realized what. DeLay's explanation was remarkably like the one he gave for not serving in the military during Vietnam because a minority person pushed him out.
This is today's GOP.
so, so wrong
Could there be anything more inane than telling a bunch of talking points spouting college republicans to "think about it"? If they were capable of that, they would see the ludicrousness of it all. If I should like, become like, a really good speaker ... I about sprayed my keyboard when I saw that. I'm thinking, dude, let's get you measured for a uniform.
There are allegedly 12 million illegal immigrants in this nation. The vast majority of them are hispanic or asian ancestry. However(comma) if we could not/would not stop them, what makes anyone think we could stop those with intentions other than menial labor? If they wanted to fight us here, the fight would already be ON. If 12,000, just one thousandth of those illegals already here, were "terrorists" here to wreck havoc, they could do enough damage to make us long for the peaceful week of IX/XI. But there they were all looking and sounding stupid saying that idiotic there instead of here canard.
The idiots are in charge and are bring up another generation of idiots to succeed them. The nation may well be lost.
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Aren't Lee and Terry Frank the right age to join up?
Isn't Lee Frank young enough to join? Isn't Terry for that matter? I'm sure they have 'better things to do' like Cheney.
I asked him about that once on the radio in his first week, I wish I could have recorded the hemming and hawing. But boy, is he fervent that "we" need to fight those "terrists."
By "we," he and Terry mean someone else or someone else's kids.
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