Politics > Politics-USA > How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey?
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"Harry Hope" |
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13 Dec 2005 09:33:32 AM |
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How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
From The Guardian, 12/13/05:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1665932,00.html
'How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a
monkey in every particular?'
Five years ago, Steve Bell was still trying to draw Bush as a turkey.
Then he spotted a decidedly simian pout ...
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I first drew Bush as a monkey after his installation by the Supreme
Court, exactly five years ago.
It was by accident.
I was trying to depict him as a spiritual heir to Ronald Reagan,
another useless chump whose most celebrated movie hit was Bedtime For
Bonzo in which he starred with a chimp.
So Bush became a chimp before I ever realised how closely he resembles
our hairy forebears.
Somewhat dim-wittedly, in retrospect, I had been trying to depict him
as a turkey, because Bush's reputation for uselessness was growing as
we got to know him, and (barring underpants) there is no better symbol
of uselessness than that poor, maligned bird.
But no amount of drawing him as a turkey would ever make him look like
a turkey.
Drawing him as a monkey, however, worked a treat.
His four hands enabled him to get up to all sorts of interesting
tricks, and also somehow fitted his awkward way with words.
I drew a sequence of "Hail to the Chimp" strips to coincide with his
inauguration in early January 2001.
He still seemed fairly harmless and I was preoccupied with the run-up
to our own general election so I didn't give Bush a lot more thought.
In April 2001 there was an international crisis when an American spy
plane was forced down over China.
Having grabbed pictures off the TV news, I picked up on a three-frame
sequence of Bush approaching a podium.
There was something about the way he held his arms as he walked up;
then, as he faced the cameras, his mouth formed into a distinct pout.
He moved like a chimp, walked like a chimp and even talked like a
chimp.
This was no play acting; George Bush actually was a chimp.
A few weeks later in May I watched his arrival in Spain, on his first
ever visit to Europe.
As he descended the steps from Air Force One, I knew that Bush the
monkey was here to stay.
Unfortunately the cuteness didn't last long.
As his aggressive monomania increased, so too did his weird monkey
pout.
Some have written complaining that my depiction lacks subtlety and
fails to convey his unique qualities and depth of character as a
politician.
I reply that I would be failing in my duty if I refused to acknowledge
his unique qualities as a chimpanzee, for how often does a leader of
the free world come along who resembles a monkey in every particular?
Depth of character requires complexity, even contradiction.
Bush betrays no such doubts or uncertainties.
His confidence in his line of communication with the Almighty is total
for the very simple reason that he knows he is God, and that is his
most chimp-like feature.
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One correction. Chimps are in the Great Apes family. Monkeys are in
another class of primates.
Harry
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| User: "A Veteran for Peace" |
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13 Dec 2005 10:14:37 AM |
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In article <feqtp1t86vnv4anm6tclqcvesqafn5oi5b@4ax.com>,
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
From The Guardian, 12/13/05:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1665932,00.html
'How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a
monkey in every particular?'
Five years ago, Steve Bell was still trying to draw Bush as a turkey.
Then he spotted a decidedly simian pout ...
..............................................................................
........
I first drew Bush as a monkey after his installation by the Supreme
Court, exactly five years ago.
It was by accident.
I was trying to depict him as a spiritual heir to Ronald Reagan,
another useless chump whose most celebrated movie hit was Bedtime For
Bonzo in which he starred with a chimp.
So Bush became a chimp before I ever realised how closely he resembles
our hairy forebears.
Somewhat dim-wittedly, in retrospect, I had been trying to depict him
as a turkey, because Bush's reputation for uselessness was growing as
we got to know him, and (barring underpants) there is no better symbol
of uselessness than that poor, maligned bird.
But no amount of drawing him as a turkey would ever make him look like
a turkey.
Drawing him as a monkey, however, worked a treat.
His four hands enabled him to get up to all sorts of interesting
tricks, and also somehow fitted his awkward way with words.
I drew a sequence of "Hail to the Chimp" strips to coincide with his
inauguration in early January 2001.
He still seemed fairly harmless and I was preoccupied with the run-up
to our own general election so I didn't give Bush a lot more thought.
In April 2001 there was an international crisis when an American spy
plane was forced down over China.
Having grabbed pictures off the TV news, I picked up on a three-frame
sequence of Bush approaching a podium.
There was something about the way he held his arms as he walked up;
then, as he faced the cameras, his mouth formed into a distinct pout.
He moved like a chimp, walked like a chimp and even talked like a
chimp.
This was no play acting; George Bush actually was a chimp.
A few weeks later in May I watched his arrival in Spain, on his first
ever visit to Europe.
As he descended the steps from Air Force One, I knew that Bush the
monkey was here to stay.
Unfortunately the cuteness didn't last long.
As his aggressive monomania increased, so too did his weird monkey
pout.
Some have written complaining that my depiction lacks subtlety and
fails to convey his unique qualities and depth of character as a
politician.
I reply that I would be failing in my duty if I refused to acknowledge
his unique qualities as a chimpanzee, for how often does a leader of
the free world come along who resembles a monkey in every particular?
Depth of character requires complexity, even contradiction.
Bush betrays no such doubts or uncertainties.
His confidence in his line of communication with the Almighty is total
for the very simple reason that he knows he is God, and that is his
most chimp-like feature.
_______________________________________________________
One correction. Chimps are in the Great Apes family. Monkeys are in
another class of primates.
Harry
Remember the man behind the curtain. ***** C.
he's the real president. and a war criminal.
--
Impeach Bush ! a noble cause
Operation Iraqi Liberation = O.I.L.
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| User: "Taylor" |
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| Title: Re: How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
13 Dec 2005 10:41:32 AM |
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This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:feqtp1t86vnv4anm6tclqcvesqafn5oi5b@4ax.com...
From The Guardian, 12/13/05:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1665932,00.html
'How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a
monkey in every particular?'
Five years ago, Steve Bell was still trying to draw Bush as a turkey.
Then he spotted a decidedly simian pout ...
......................................................................................
I first drew Bush as a monkey after his installation by the Supreme
Court, exactly five years ago.
It was by accident.
I was trying to depict him as a spiritual heir to Ronald Reagan,
another useless chump whose most celebrated movie hit was Bedtime For
Bonzo in which he starred with a chimp.
So Bush became a chimp before I ever realised how closely he resembles
our hairy forebears.
Somewhat dim-wittedly, in retrospect, I had been trying to depict him
as a turkey, because Bush's reputation for uselessness was growing as
we got to know him, and (barring underpants) there is no better symbol
of uselessness than that poor, maligned bird.
But no amount of drawing him as a turkey would ever make him look like
a turkey.
Drawing him as a monkey, however, worked a treat.
His four hands enabled him to get up to all sorts of interesting
tricks, and also somehow fitted his awkward way with words.
I drew a sequence of "Hail to the Chimp" strips to coincide with his
inauguration in early January 2001.
He still seemed fairly harmless and I was preoccupied with the run-up
to our own general election so I didn't give Bush a lot more thought.
In April 2001 there was an international crisis when an American spy
plane was forced down over China.
Having grabbed pictures off the TV news, I picked up on a three-frame
sequence of Bush approaching a podium.
There was something about the way he held his arms as he walked up;
then, as he faced the cameras, his mouth formed into a distinct pout.
He moved like a chimp, walked like a chimp and even talked like a
chimp.
This was no play acting; George Bush actually was a chimp.
A few weeks later in May I watched his arrival in Spain, on his first
ever visit to Europe.
As he descended the steps from Air Force One, I knew that Bush the
monkey was here to stay.
Unfortunately the cuteness didn't last long.
As his aggressive monomania increased, so too did his weird monkey
pout.
Some have written complaining that my depiction lacks subtlety and
fails to convey his unique qualities and depth of character as a
politician.
I reply that I would be failing in my duty if I refused to acknowledge
his unique qualities as a chimpanzee, for how often does a leader of
the free world come along who resembles a monkey in every particular?
Depth of character requires complexity, even contradiction.
Bush betrays no such doubts or uncertainties.
His confidence in his line of communication with the Almighty is total
for the very simple reason that he knows he is God, and that is his
most chimp-like feature.
_______________________________________________________
One correction. Chimps are in the Great Apes family. Monkeys are in
another class of primates.
Harry
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| User: "ouroboros rex" |
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| Title: Re: How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
13 Dec 2005 11:40:59 AM |
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"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
Every time a 'RAT mentions the word 'Nazi', he's thinking to himself
that he's such a good Stalinist already.
Perhaps it's high time to put on the ear defenders, the hip waders, grab
some AR-15s and pump action 12 ga. shotguns, lift the manhole covers off
the street surfaces of the blue cities, descend into the sewers there,
and commence blasting away some big shitty 'RATS.
---------------------------
Dear Canadian Cocksucking piece of *****:
I hope that someday the USA invades Canada and just turns the whole nation
into a large National Park for Americans. Canucks will have to eat the
Americans' leftovers from the trash bins, just like you have done for the
past 250 years.
Canada is just a hemorrhoid on America's *****. Always has been and always
will be.
----------------------------
They're the enemy! We can attack them with nukes because with our new
missile
defense system, they can't fight back! We can wipe out those AIDS infected
Niggers in Africa, but not before we ship all the AIDS infected fags and
liberals
there to be part of it! That should teach them a lesson about abstinence.
What a better way to spread our ideology! Everybody's going to love us
once
they see how well our nukes work.
-----------------------------
One by one...they all fall into line.
If not...why, then...it's the Wellstone treatment.
------------------------------
Do the phony effete elitist socialist ***** Lib Dims really claim to be
for 'the poor', 'the economically disadvantaged', and 'the little guy'?
phony effete elitist socialist *****
Stevie Dweebie Geekie
blew this yeller hippy dippy pwarf
out his fat honky *****:
So are you saying that you yourself are not human t'all and therefore a
typically ill-Liberal DemonRAT, or are you saying that you simply cannot
dispute the valid points presented, or both?
Here, suck some more on this, you chickenshitted Bawney Fwank
butt-*****:
A loser leading other losers to where all losers belong, to nowhere, to
sheer and utter defeat, to the state of complete powerlessness in which
the Democrat Party finds itself today --
------------------------------
***** **NOW** and its pissant host Bill Moyers, the LBJ *****-suck who
thinks he's smarter than everybody but Walter "No Wind Generators Will
Spoil *My* View" CrankCase.
Send both of those commie rat bastards to Hell where they bloody well
belong with their soulmates Mao and Stalin.
----------------------------------
These ***** eating, American-hating traitors need to drink the "Grape
Kool-aid" and do the Republic a favor by dying.
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A "good" illegal alien is a dead one.
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| User: "The Pretzel" |
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13 Dec 2005 02:07:01 PM |
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"ouroboros rex" <c-bee1@itg.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:dnn13b$jov$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
Every time a 'RAT mentions the word 'Nazi', he's thinking to himself
that he's such a good Stalinist already.
Perhaps it's high time to put on the ear defenders, the hip waders, grab
some AR-15s and pump action 12 ga. shotguns, lift the manhole covers off
the street surfaces of the blue cities, descend into the sewers there,
and commence blasting away some big shitty 'RATS.
---------------------------
Dear Canadian Cocksucking piece of *****:
I hope that someday the USA invades Canada and just turns the whole
nation
into a large National Park for Americans. Canucks will have to eat the
Americans' leftovers from the trash bins, just like you have done for the
past 250 years.
Canada is just a hemorrhoid on America's *****. Always has been and always
will be.
----------------------------
They're the enemy! We can attack them with nukes because with our new
missile
defense system, they can't fight back! We can wipe out those AIDS
infected
Niggers in Africa, but not before we ship all the AIDS infected fags
-That's no way to talk about your daddy.
there to be part of it! That should teach them a lesson about abstinence.
So you're some psychpathic, psychopathetic priest?
.....
What a better way to spread our ideology!
AIDS?
Everybody's going to love us
once
they see how well our nukes work.
....and you have no clue HOW or WHY they work, Mr. Neanderthal Rightard.
-----------------------------
One by one...they all fall into line.
If not...why, then...it's the Wellstone treatment.
------------------------------
Do the phony effete elitist socialist ***** Lib Dims really claim to be
for 'the poor', 'the economically disadvantaged', and 'the little guy'?
phony effete elitist socialist *****
Stevie Dweebie Geekie
blew this yeller hippy dippy pwarf
out his fat honky *****:
So are you saying that you yourself are not human t'all and therefore a
typically ill-Liberal DemonRAT, or are you saying that you simply cannot
dispute the valid points presented, or both?
Here, suck some more on this, you chickenshitted Bawney Fwank
butt-*****:
A loser leading other losers to where all losers belong, to nowhere, to
sheer and utter defeat, to the state of complete powerlessness in which
the Democrat Party finds itself today --
We got here a GREAT reperesentation of a knuckledragger, gang....!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/6/15/181030/458
------------------------------
***** **NOW** and its pissant host Bill Moyers, the LBJ *****-suck who
thinks he's smarter than everybody but Walter "No Wind Generators Will
Spoil *My* View" CrankCase.
Send both of those commie rat bastards to Hell where they bloody well
belong with their soulmates Mao and Stalin.
----------------------------------
These ***** eating, American-hating traitors need to drink the "Grape
Kool-aid" and do the Republic a favor by dying.
----------------------------------
A "good" illegal alien is a dead one.
--------------------------------
"How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a
monkey?"
With an electorate reflecting the above post from "ouroboros Rex"? More
often then by chance I can assure you.
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| User: "The Pretzel" |
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13 Dec 2005 01:28:29 PM |
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"ouroboros rex" <c-bee1@itg.uiuc.edu> wrote in message
news:dnn13b$jov$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
Every time a 'RAT mentions the word 'Nazi', he's thinking to himself
that he's such a good Stalinist already.
Perhaps it's high time to put on the ear defenders, the hip waders, grab
some AR-15s and pump action 12 ga. shotguns, lift the manhole covers off
the street surfaces of the blue cities, descend into the sewers there,
and commence blasting away some big shitty 'RATS.
....bring it on.
Go on you yellow hot-air Rightarded hag bag. Make our day. We're more then
happy to see it. BTW, Red states ARE Blue state sewers. I'll be waiting and
listening to the 6 o'clock news.
<Not Holding My Breath.>
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| User: "tulle" |
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| Title: Re: How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
13 Dec 2005 01:35:54 PM |
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ouroboros rex wrote:
"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
Every time a 'RAT mentions the word 'Nazi', he's thinking to himself
that he's such a good Stalinist already.
Perhaps it's high time to put on the ear defenders, the hip waders, grab
some AR-15s and pump action 12 ga. shotguns, lift the manhole covers off
the street surfaces of the blue cities, descend into the sewers there,
and commence blasting away some big shitty 'RATS.
---------------------------
Dear Canadian Cocksucking piece of *****:
I hope that someday the USA invades Canada and just turns the whole nation
into a large National Park for Americans. Canucks will have to eat the
Americans' leftovers from the trash bins, just like you have done for the
past 250 years.
Canada is just a hemorrhoid on America's *****. Always has been and always
will be.
----------------------------
They're the enemy! We can attack them with nukes because with our new
missile
defense system, they can't fight back! We can wipe out those AIDS infected
Niggers in Africa, but not before we ship all the AIDS infected fags and
liberals
there to be part of it! That should teach them a lesson about abstinence.
What a better way to spread our ideology! Everybody's going to love us
once
they see how well our nukes work.
Only one problem, most of our missle defense system is in Canada.
-----------------------------
One by one...they all fall into line.
If not...why, then...it's the Wellstone treatment.
------------------------------
Do the phony effete elitist socialist ***** Lib Dims really claim to be
for 'the poor', 'the economically disadvantaged', and 'the little guy'?
phony effete elitist socialist *****
Stevie Dweebie Geekie
blew this yeller hippy dippy pwarf
out his fat honky *****:
So are you saying that you yourself are not human t'all and therefore a
typically ill-Liberal DemonRAT, or are you saying that you simply cannot
dispute the valid points presented, or both?
Here, suck some more on this, you chickenshitted Bawney Fwank
butt-*****:
A loser leading other losers to where all losers belong, to nowhere, to
sheer and utter defeat, to the state of complete powerlessness in which
the Democrat Party finds itself today --
------------------------------
***** **NOW** and its pissant host Bill Moyers, the LBJ *****-suck who
thinks he's smarter than everybody but Walter "No Wind Generators Will
Spoil *My* View" CrankCase.
Send both of those commie rat bastards to Hell where they bloody well
belong with their soulmates Mao and Stalin.
----------------------------------
These ***** eating, American-hating traitors need to drink the "Grape
Kool-aid" and do the Republic a favor by dying.
----------------------------------
A "good" illegal alien is a dead one.
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| User: "The Pretzel" |
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| Title: Re: How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
13 Dec 2005 01:52:18 PM |
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"tulle" <tulle040657@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1134502553.918606.317420@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
ouroboros rex wrote:
"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
Every time a 'RAT mentions the word 'Nazi', he's thinking to himself
that he's such a good Stalinist already.
Perhaps it's high time to put on the ear defenders, the hip waders, grab
some AR-15s and pump action 12 ga. shotguns, lift the manhole covers off
the street surfaces of the blue cities, descend into the sewers there,
and commence blasting away some big shitty 'RATS.
---------------------------
Dear Canadian Cocksucking piece of *****:
I hope that someday the USA invades Canada and just turns the whole
nation
into a large National Park for Americans. Canucks will have to eat the
Americans' leftovers from the trash bins, just like you have done for
the
past 250 years.
Canada is just a hemorrhoid on America's *****. Always has been and always
will be.
----------------------------
They're the enemy! We can attack them with nukes because with our new
missile
defense system, they can't fight back! We can wipe out those AIDS
infected
Niggers in Africa, but not before we ship all the AIDS infected fags and
liberals
there to be part of it! That should teach them a lesson about
abstinence.
What a better way to spread our ideology! Everybody's going to love us
once
they see how well our nukes work.
Only one problem, most of our missle defense system is in Canada.
He obviously doesn't walk upright.
-----------------------------
One by one...they all fall into line.
If not...why, then...it's the Wellstone treatment.
------------------------------
Do the phony effete elitist socialist ***** Lib Dims really claim to be
for 'the poor', 'the economically disadvantaged', and 'the little guy'?
phony effete elitist socialist *****
Stevie Dweebie Geekie
blew this yeller hippy dippy pwarf
out his fat honky *****:
So are you saying that you yourself are not human t'all and therefore a
typically ill-Liberal DemonRAT, or are you saying that you simply cannot
dispute the valid points presented, or both?
Here, suck some more on this, you chickenshitted Bawney Fwank
butt-*****:
A loser leading other losers to where all losers belong, to nowhere, to
sheer and utter defeat, to the state of complete powerlessness in which
the Democrat Party finds itself today --
------------------------------
***** **NOW** and its pissant host Bill Moyers, the LBJ *****-suck
who
thinks he's smarter than everybody but Walter "No Wind Generators Will
Spoil *My* View" CrankCase.
Send both of those commie rat bastards to Hell where they bloody well
belong with their soulmates Mao and Stalin.
----------------------------------
These ***** eating, American-hating traitors need to drink the "Grape
Kool-aid" and do the Republic a favor by dying.
----------------------------------
A "good" illegal alien is a dead one.
--------------------------------
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| User: "Bruce Olin" |
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| Title: Re: How often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey? |
13 Dec 2005 11:10:58 AM |
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"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
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Liberals have sunk, Gomer? We are not the ones worshiping a fucking chimp.
Bush is a metaphor for everything that is brutal and primitive; war, hatred,
xenophobia, violence, and religious mania. The best of humanity outgrew
these traits thousands of years ago. It is no accident that his physical
appearance and movements mimic the most un-evolved primate characteristics.
That's the part that turns you people on.
Bruce Olin
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| User: "Taylor" |
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14 Dec 2005 08:50:27 AM |
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Thanks for proving my point.
"Bruce Olin" <bruce_olin@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"Taylor" <123@456.com> wrote in message
news:0RCnf.41695$Au1.3576@tornado.texas.rr.com...
| This is level that the liberals have sunk to?
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Liberals have sunk, Gomer? We are not the ones worshiping a fucking
chimp.
Bush is a metaphor for everything that is brutal and primitive; war,
hatred,
xenophobia, violence, and religious mania. The best of humanity outgrew
these traits thousands of years ago. It is no accident that his physical
appearance and movements mimic the most un-evolved primate
characteristics.
That's the part that turns you people on.
Bruce Olin
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