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Firstly, this thread appears not to be working properly. I can access only the first page, Nos 1-19 on my settings.
Anyway, since my first posting here (or rather on its predecessor) in which I expressed my deep sympathy for the American nation followint the event of the eleventh of September, things have moved on. First there was Bush and his delayed action, his indecision, his disastrous leadership and his downright lies.
The efforts to get Americans to believe that somehow Hussein was part of the attack.. and boy, how many did! Millions. The same millions, incidentally that, not only could not find either Eye-rakistan or Afghanirak on a map they couldn't find their own capital city!
Then the statement that bin Liner was of no consequence and the blind faith that many here had in that political 'manoeuvre'.
In eight short years the buffoon with whom half of America identified (with no help whatsoever from Mad Magazine) had not only destroyed the sympathy we had but had changed it to a positive dislike of all things American. America, and Bush in particular was the butt of millions of jokes and a thousand comedians thanked him for a meal ticket and a major boost to their careers.
Then came Obama and within days, as he struggled with a foreign policy that was in tatters and an economy that not only teetered but had a tendency to bring alliances tumbling to a different ground zero, the right wing loonies were whispering, out of earshot of all but their own redneck friends, how terrible it was to have a coloured president.
Oh, and what did the arseholes say about the financial crash? 'It happened on his watch!', an expression that I had never heard until then. Well, my little single brain-celled, racist, god-ist right wing loonies, Osama bin Laden was killed by US troops on Obama's watch. (Now we know why he did not come to the wedding and why there were so few questions about his absence.)
Now, Mr. and Mrs. America, now is the time to be REALLY scared. Yesterday you knew (or thought you knew) who your enemy was. Today you don't.
I guess the parts of this thread that remain inaccessible to me, contain more spinning than child's top, more phoney derision than a crowd of football hooligans whose team has just won, and more stupidity than one could find at the Texas home of George (stupid) Bush.
Note: Damo, could you make this reply window thingy a little larger please? It is difficult to fashion a response when one can see only seven lines of type. Ta.
Anyway, since my first posting here (or rather on its predecessor) in which I expressed my deep sympathy for the American nation followint the event of the eleventh of September, things have moved on. First there was Bush and his delayed action, his indecision, his disastrous leadership and his downright lies.
The efforts to get Americans to believe that somehow Hussein was part of the attack.. and boy, how many did! Millions. The same millions, incidentally that, not only could not find either Eye-rakistan or Afghanirak on a map they couldn't find their own capital city!
Then the statement that bin Liner was of no consequence and the blind faith that many here had in that political 'manoeuvre'.
In eight short years the buffoon with whom half of America identified (with no help whatsoever from Mad Magazine) had not only destroyed the sympathy we had but had changed it to a positive dislike of all things American. America, and Bush in particular was the butt of millions of jokes and a thousand comedians thanked him for a meal ticket and a major boost to their careers.
Then came Obama and within days, as he struggled with a foreign policy that was in tatters and an economy that not only teetered but had a tendency to bring alliances tumbling to a different ground zero, the right wing loonies were whispering, out of earshot of all but their own redneck friends, how terrible it was to have a coloured president.
Oh, and what did the arseholes say about the financial crash? 'It happened on his watch!', an expression that I had never heard until then. Well, my little single brain-celled, racist, god-ist right wing loonies, Osama bin Laden was killed by US troops on Obama's watch. (Now we know why he did not come to the wedding and why there were so few questions about his absence.)
Now, Mr. and Mrs. America, now is the time to be REALLY scared. Yesterday you knew (or thought you knew) who your enemy was. Today you don't.
I guess the parts of this thread that remain inaccessible to me, contain more spinning than child's top, more phoney derision than a crowd of football hooligans whose team has just won, and more stupidity than one could find at the Texas home of George (stupid) Bush.
Note: Damo, could you make this reply window thingy a little larger please? It is difficult to fashion a response when one can see only seven lines of type. Ta.
