Comments on: Bad National Leader! Bad!

By: Mr. C

Mr. C — Wed, 17 Nov 2004 16:49:24 +0000

So, Your parents taught you to know right from wrong? Value intelligence and seek the truth? And to think for yourself? It doesn’t appear they did a very good job. In an era where innocent people are having their heads sawed off. Children are being shot in the back, TRULY peaceful Muslims trying to rebuild their country are being butchered on a daily basis by ARAB MUSLIMS with goals consistant with Arafat. We have independant thinkers like yourself, attacking W and supporting Sadam Hussein of all people. Arafat’s death came several decades too late. The future of the free world hinges on the outcome on the war on terror. And to read these panty waste oppinions of the leader who will finally stand up to them with the message that it is not okay to kill innocent people because you are pissed off at them churns my stomach. WAKE UP Good men and women are fighting and being injured and killed to protect YOU from these terrorists. terrorists who would enter your house and saw YOUR head off if not for the protection that you take so easily for granted.

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:04:00 +0000

Yes, of course. Yasser was too busy bombing buses to spend time actually saying such a thing.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:17:39 +0000

The quote in JonJon’s post should be attributed Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya, not Yasser Arafat. Inappropriate. Inflammatory. Sloppy.

By: Matthew2

Matthew2 — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:20:17 +0000

Belle: the thinking alternative to Lileks.

By: Jordan

Jordan — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 04:06:54 +0000

Children are very perceptive! :-) —Jordan fowles.blogspot.com

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 01:32:01 +0000

Yasser Arafat, a reasonably significant figure on the world stage, has just died, so . . . let’s make fun of George W. Bush! Look, Belle categorically refused to nurse Yasser Arafat! At the request of her very own child!! She’s done her part, buddy. P.S. George Bush is like jello. There’s always room to make fun of him. Thx, bye.

By: Jonjon

Jonjon — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:31:50 +0000

Ahhh. Here’s a quite from dear old Yasser to lighten the tone even further. “Have no mercy on the Jews, no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever you are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like them – and those who stand by them – they are all in one trench, against the Arabs and the Muslims because they established Israel here, in the beating heart of the Arab world, in Palestine. They created it to be the outpost of their civilization and the vanguard of their army, and to be the sword of the West and the crusaders, hanging over the necks of the monotheists, the Muslims in these lands. They wanted the Jews to be their spearhead…”

By: Ayjay

Ayjay — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 00:13:11 +0000

Okay: Yasser Arafat, a reasonably significant figure on the world stage, has just died, so . . . let’s make fun of George W. Bush! Hey, yeah, we haven’t done that for, like, fifteen minutes! Or (to consider the neighboring post), Yasser Arafat has just died, so let’s talk about . . . Iyad Allawi, who, you know, was put in place by George W. Bush, whom we believe to be an incompetent thug—have we mentioned that? Is there some sort of one-degree-of-separation game going on here that no one told me about?—i.e., let’s see if we can connect any and every current event to Chimpy Bushitler? Just for the record, I think the passing of Arafat is significant enough for readers of this site that somebody ought to post about it. . . .

By: HP

HP — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:32:40 +0000

Pollie: Oh, it works, at least in my case. My parents taught me to know right from wrong, to value intelligence and seek the truth, and to think for myself. Nonetheless, they remain stauch conservatives to this day.

By: Pollie Anon

Pollie Anon — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:24:53 +0000

You know it’s funny, but, precisely, because I have very strong political opinions, I try not to pass them on to my kid. I want her to think for herself and come to her own conclusions. Not sure that it works though…

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:00:03 +0000

We were trying to explain our grumpiness to our just-turned-three year old. We’d already had to explain the Kerry bumper sticker. Now that we explained that Kerry lost and Bush won, our little literalist wants to take off the Kerry sticker and put on a Bush one….

By: yabonn

yabonn — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:51:17 +0000

All that bush wesponsibility sneers reflects simply the condescending attitude of the cosmopolitan elite. I think it really is A Real Problem For The Left.

By: jet

jet — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:44:01 +0000

There ya go, brainwash em young.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 19:06:14 +0000

My two year old niece can recognize George Bush. Whenever we see him on TV we have to yell “Swiper no swiping!”

By: rea

rea — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:58:20 +0000

Fall 2001—our Juan, then not quite 2, points to picture of Osama on magazine cover and says,”That man—we have to fight that man.” He’s never said such a thing about Saddam, however. Too bad a Zoe/Juan ticket couldn’t have run in this election.