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Angered and saddened!
Saturday, August 21st, 2004 04:19 amCross-posted into a political community too.
UGH
Did you see the latest slam ad? It's at the bottom of this article: The Second Swift Boat Vet ad.
If you were feeling as upset as I was about all of this and you got as excited as I did about "Bring It On!" then I have a feeling you will take this ad as badly as I did.
This ad takes Kerry's statements from the '70s about the abominations he say in Vietnam and uses them as ammo to show that he dishonored the vets and his country.
OMG! Does this make me angry!! I'm not even angry in the way that Michael Moore naysayers were angry about Fahrenheit 9-11. A lot of people were angry about that movie because other movie goers might not bother to educate themselves on the facts of the movie and take everything at face value. No, I'm angry about this because this is an affront to anyone who has a brain! Give me a break! Are these Swift Boat Vets now saying that no attrocities ever happened in Vietnam? Maybe these Vets are the ones who were accused of committing these crimes and see this as a way to get back a Kerry. But we know that those things happened in Vietnam. We know it so well that it appears in many movies and television shows which took place in the Vietnam war. It's so well-known that it has become clicheed. But now thirty years later, we're going to debate these truths? Why don't we say what it really is and what Kerry's called it? An attempt to gain some undeserved dignity back by being a backstabbing vet and allowing Bush to pay you and reap the benefits for it as well. If you were wrongfully accused, you should have said something back then. And if you still didn't win, then be a man. But tell me, who is the bigger disgrace to his country? The man who stands up against what happened or the man who thinks he's always right?
Not only does it wrong Kerry, but it wrongs those people on Vietnam who were victims of these attrocities. Of course, no one cares about them because they don't have a voice in American politics. And no other nation is going to tell the US to grow the fuck up.
Damn me for thinking that we can be mature adults and for thinking that we could ever grow up as a nation or even as a planet. Why the hell did I believe Gene Roddenberry's visions for the future?
I'll get to Florida tomorrow. Spent the day playing a computer game.
~Bas/JDawg
ETA: This makes me want to email my dad and ask him why his political party is making up lies about the man I want to be my president. Just to get the piss out of him a little.
ETA2: HAHAHA This partially makes up for that ad. President Bush learned in school to define a word with the word. Always best that way. Or is he just clever enough to know that to appear stupid makes people like you? They think you're a likeable, loveable dope. Interesting view askew that was posted to me by my favorite co-worker who ran for office, Mr Shady Art.
UGH
Did you see the latest slam ad? It's at the bottom of this article: The Second Swift Boat Vet ad.
If you were feeling as upset as I was about all of this and you got as excited as I did about "Bring It On!" then I have a feeling you will take this ad as badly as I did.
This ad takes Kerry's statements from the '70s about the abominations he say in Vietnam and uses them as ammo to show that he dishonored the vets and his country.
OMG! Does this make me angry!! I'm not even angry in the way that Michael Moore naysayers were angry about Fahrenheit 9-11. A lot of people were angry about that movie because other movie goers might not bother to educate themselves on the facts of the movie and take everything at face value. No, I'm angry about this because this is an affront to anyone who has a brain! Give me a break! Are these Swift Boat Vets now saying that no attrocities ever happened in Vietnam? Maybe these Vets are the ones who were accused of committing these crimes and see this as a way to get back a Kerry. But we know that those things happened in Vietnam. We know it so well that it appears in many movies and television shows which took place in the Vietnam war. It's so well-known that it has become clicheed. But now thirty years later, we're going to debate these truths? Why don't we say what it really is and what Kerry's called it? An attempt to gain some undeserved dignity back by being a backstabbing vet and allowing Bush to pay you and reap the benefits for it as well. If you were wrongfully accused, you should have said something back then. And if you still didn't win, then be a man. But tell me, who is the bigger disgrace to his country? The man who stands up against what happened or the man who thinks he's always right?
Not only does it wrong Kerry, but it wrongs those people on Vietnam who were victims of these attrocities. Of course, no one cares about them because they don't have a voice in American politics. And no other nation is going to tell the US to grow the fuck up.
Damn me for thinking that we can be mature adults and for thinking that we could ever grow up as a nation or even as a planet. Why the hell did I believe Gene Roddenberry's visions for the future?
I'll get to Florida tomorrow. Spent the day playing a computer game.
~Bas/JDawg
ETA: This makes me want to email my dad and ask him why his political party is making up lies about the man I want to be my president. Just to get the piss out of him a little.
ETA2: HAHAHA This partially makes up for that ad. President Bush learned in school to define a word with the word. Always best that way. Or is he just clever enough to know that to appear stupid makes people like you? They think you're a likeable, loveable dope. Interesting view askew that was posted to me by my favorite co-worker who ran for office, Mr Shady Art.
