Mark Morford: Time To Get Out The Bush

[G_j]

SFGate.com - August 11, 2004

Time To Get Out The Bush

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2004/08/11/notes081104.DTL&
nl=fix

How do you know it's time for a major change in American leadership? Let us
count the signs

By Mark Morford

You know it's time for a serious change when the president of the United
States actually mutters the infantile, instantly infamous line, "Our enemies are
innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new
ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we
http://www.slate.com/id/76886"
just after finishing phonetically spelling out his name, in his favoritest
red crayon, on yet another budget-reaming $417 billion defense-spending bill.
And you know it's time for a change when not a single one of the rigid and
spiritually curdled military yes men standing around the ceremonial signing
table, those sad automatons with their wooden smiles and stiff spines and bone-dry
souls, not one broke into a hysterical bout of sad, suicidal laughter,
followed by uncontrolled wailing and the rending of flesh and the muttering of oh my
freaking God what the hell is this man doing as leader of the free world.

You know it's time for a change when you hear that Kerry and Edwards both
wrote their own riveting, galvanizing acceptance speeches at the Democratic
National Convention, heartfelt and effective rhetoric that gives you hope not for
the quality of polished oratory but for genuine, refreshing political
intellect, and verbal acumen, as you offer deep thanks that at least some politicians
can still speak coherently and cogently without mangling the goddamn language
at every adjectival clause ....

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[Swede]

1. Budget-reaming!

How can he possibly win the election?

[Cha]

2. See! Kerry and Edwards both wrote

their own acceptance speeches! Brilliant!

[Swede]

3. This guy is good.

"When the professors and other intellectuals and the artists and the social workers and the mystics and the truly spiritual among us are appalled and mournful, and the homophobes and the rednecks and the religious zealots are cheering and shooting their guns in the sky, this is how you know."

[Cha]

5. "Truly Spiritual"...Yes!

All you Pseudo christians won't be counted.

[Rose Siding]

4. That is a celebration of the language

Gorgeous.

[Cha]

6. Bonzai!

:toast:

[G_j]

7. it is easy to see how Bush's abuse of the English

language would irk him so.

[G_j]

8. kick

[WEagle]

9. Mark Morford Rocks! eom

[G_j]

10. another ~kICk~~

[Swamp Rat]

11. Great post! I love Mark Morford!

:thumbsup: