MB Civic

Glenzilla ..

I thought, or at least hoped, that such [2004 GOP convention] vulgar crowd celebrations of leader-reverence, jingoism and militarism would not soon be replicated. But on Thursday night, the final night of the Democratic party convention, it was. It is hard to count how many times a Democratic party speaker stood up proudly to proclaim: “Osama. Bin. Laden. Is. Dead!” Almost every time Bin Laden’s scalp was paraded around on its pike – all thanks to the warrior spirit and unflinching courage of our commander-in-chief – the crowd of progressives, liberals and party faithful erupted into a prolonged “USA. USA” chant. Leading this orgy of chest-beating, we’re-more-bellicose-than-you, nationalistic strutting was, ironically, the 2004 GOP’s prime victim of it: Democratic Senator John Kerry .. he milked the Bin Laden killing for everything it was worth, and then some .. [in his speech Kerry said] “Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better-off now than he was four years ago.” (APPLAUSE) Yeah: ask Osama bin Laden if he’s better off – if you can find his corpse where our commander-in-chief dumped it: at the bottom of the ocean. USA! USA!

not to mention that OBL fought for us against Russia, his family runs the Halliburton of Saudi Arabia / are bestest of friends with the Bush klan and is/was in all probability a CIA asset .. to paraphrase James Carville, “it’s the Oil, stupid” – mab .. read more