I mean, Nixon had a certain competency underneath his paranoia and corruption. Bush is just clueless.
If Religion and Politics were characters on a soap opera, Religion would be the one that goes insane with jealousy over Politics' intimate relationship with Reality, and secretly murder Politics in the night, skin the corpse, and run around its apartment wearing the skin like a cape shouting "My votes now! All votes for me! Wheeee!" -- Lagmonster
Elfdart wrote:And Tricky Dick was legitimately elected, too.
Oh GOD not this fucking bullshit, when the Washington
Post fucking counted everything and said Bush would have won anyway
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Elfdart wrote:And Tricky Dick was legitimately elected, too.
Oh GOD not this fucking bullshit, when the Washington
Post fucking counted everything and said Bush would have won anyway
Only by ignoring the standard set by Florida election law, that is...
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
GrandAdmiralPrawn wrote:Oh please, the Nixon comparisons are unjustified.
I mean, Nixon had a certain competency underneath his paranoia and corruption. Bush is just clueless.
At this point, we could wish for the competency of Richard Nixon.
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)