Comments on: Sloganeering

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:42:01 +0000

“Always Have a Land War in Asia”
“Isn’t It Time For Your Daily Asian Land War, Dear?”

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:19:41 +0000

For those of you with long memories, General Curtis LeMay, (CinC of the 20th Air Force in WWII , and responsible for the fire-bombing campaign in Japan and the use of atomic bombs) when running for VP as George Wallace’s running-mate in ‘68, became the subject of a running joke that his bumper-stickers should read: “Bombs Away With Curt Lemay!”

And then there was the election in Louisiana when a thoroughly corrupt Edwin Edwards (currently cooling his heels in Federal stir) was running for a third or fourth term (my memory fails me) as Gov. against David Duke of KKK fame in which bumper stickers in his support read: “Do the right thing, vote for the crook!”

By: ajay

ajay — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:24:31 +0000

“Two, Three, Many Land Wars in Asia!”
A virtual pat on the back if someone identifies the allusion, you young whipper snappers!

Course I recognise it; I’ve read my Ken MacLeod, you know. But I’ll be impressed if people get this:

“Only an idiot gets involved in a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the Kingdom of Idiot gets involved in a war on twelve fronts.”

By: lurker

lurker — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:42:14 +0000

How about: “Many enemies, much honour”?

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:31:41 +0000

He did. On the other hand, we’ve now had three McCain posts in a row (counting John’s latest) and five of the last six posts are about McCain so I might give it a bit of a rest until someone’s had the chance to put up a post about something else.

By: e julius drivingstorm

e julius drivingstorm — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:35:05 +0000

dsquared @ #8

Putin said what?

I look forward to your thread on this.

By: Donald Johnson

Donald Johnson — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:31:15 +0000

How about “Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line. Hahaha…” thud.

Doesn’t really fit into any current global crisis, but thanks to Wallace Shawn I’ve always linked the two slogans in my mind.

By: e julius drivingstorm

e julius drivingstorm — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:37:47 +0000

McCain on finishing Asian wars: Yes, we can’t – er finish, so let’s start.

By: ed_finnerty

ed_finnerty — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:56:39 +0000

peace is a situation concluded from the fact that here are periods between wars

By: Nabakov

Nabakov — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:41:31 +0000

“Four More Years!”

“One Day We’ll Win!”

“Asian Land Wars R’ Us!”

“McCain. Still A Prisoner of War!”

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:00:46 +0000

#15 Kronstadt!

By: bdbd

bdbd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:00:45 +0000

pat, pat for mcd

By: mcd

mcd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:49:17 +0000

“Two, Three, Many Land Wars in Asia!”

Why, Major Ernesto!

But for a McCain slogan:

The War the Merrier!

By: bdbd

bdbd — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:20:16 +0000

“Two, Three, Many Land Wars in Asia!”

A virtual pat on the back if someone identifies the allusion, you young whipper snappers!

By: Fortuna

Fortuna — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:49:39 +0000

McCain: taking us to the Gates of Hell!

Originally, it was ‘following Osama to the Gates of Hell’, but we all know how it’s really going down.