If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves.

Tuesday, August 31, 2004

doubleplusgoodthink

Here's an edited summary of some comments on Scrappleface:

Now lets see if I've I got this straight...

Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia - good
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq - bad

Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia - good
Bush spends 87 billion in Iraq - bad

Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia - good
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad

Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists - good
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator - bad

Clinton bombs Chinese embassy - good
Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad

Clinton commits felonies while in office - good
Bush lands on aircraft carrier in flight suit - bad

Stock market crashes in 2000 under Clinton - good
Recession under Bush - bad

Clinton refuses to take custody of Bin Laden - good
World Trade Centers fall under Bush - bad

Clinton calls for regime change in Iraq - good
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad

Terrorist training in Afghanistan under Clinton - good
Bush destroys training camps in Afghanistan - bad

No mass graves found in Serbia - good
No WMD found Iraq - bad

Milosevic not yet convicted - good
Saddam in custody - bad

Clinton: Saddam has WMD and he's a threat - good
Bush: Saddam has WMD and he's a threat - bad

Clinton: Says he's going to do something about terrorism but doesn't - good
Bush: Says he's going to do something about terrorism and does - bad

Clinton is a draft-dodger - good
Bush honorably served in National Guard - bad

Clinton lied under oath - good
Bush never lied under oath - bad

Clinton cheated on his wife - good
Bush never cheated on his wife - bad

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Kerry falls off his snowboard - good
Bush falls off his bicycle - bad

Kerry says Saddam had WMD and was a threat - good
Bush says Saddam had WMD and was a threat - bad

pro-Kerry 527s have been funded to the tune of $145 million dollars - good
pro-Bush 527s have been funded to the tune of $9 million dollars - bad

Kerry's wife Tereza speaks her mind - good
Bush's wife Laura speaks her mind - bad

Kerry marries into his money - good
Bush earned his money - bad

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Kerry fought in Vietnam War - good
Kerry protested Vietnam War - good

Kerry was for funding the Iraq War - good
Kerry was not for funding Iraq War - good

Kerry wins war medals - good
Kerry tosses his war medals - good
Kerry still has his war medals that he tossed - good

Kerry challenges his band of brothers to speak up - good
Kerry threatens to sue his band of brothers when they
do speak up - good

Kerry claims to be an ardent environmentalist - good
Kerry owns several polluting SUV - good

Kerry says Bush lawyer helping a 527 is wrong and should stop - good
Kerry refuses to stop his own lawyer from helping Democratic 527s - good

Kerry is elected U.S. Senator - good
Kerry rarely shows up in the Senate - good

Kerry was against Desert Storm I - good
Kerry was for authorizing Desert Storm II - good
Kerry is now against Desert Storm II - good

Kerry makes fun of Bush reading to children for 7 minutes as WTC start to burn - good
Kerry admits to Larry King he couldn't think for half an hour after WTC started to burn - good

Kerry says it really doesn't matter whether Clinton served his country in uniform or not - good
Kerry says Bush's service in the National Guard isn't good enough and ought to be looked into - good

Kerry claims he believes in the First Amendment - good
Kerry threatens a publisher to pull a book critical of him - good

Kerry wants money out of politics - good
Kerry wants all the money he can get to beat Bush - good

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