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Nice post....people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country...
(you communist )
Posted on Tue, Nov. 04, 2008
Dave Barry: And the winner is . . . the man with the martini
BY DAVE BARRY
In analyzing the results of Tuesday's historic election, the question we must ask ourselves, first and foremost, is: what the heck were the results of Tuesday's historic election?I personally don't know. The Miami Herald made me send in this analysis before the election was actually over, so that it could be printed in a timely manner. This is part of the newspaper industry's crafty plan to defeat this ''Internet'' thing that has the youngsters so excited.
Anyway, my election analysis, based on weeks of reading political bogs, listening to talk radio and watching campaign ads on television, is that one of the following things is true:
• Barack Obama is our next president, which is very bad because he is a naive untested wealth-spreading terrorist-befriending ultraliberal socialist communist who will suddenly reveal his secret Muslim iden y by riding to his inauguration on a camel shouting ''Death to Israel!'' (I mean Obama will be shouting this, not the camel) after which he will wreck the economy by sending Joe the Plumber to Guantánamo and taxing away all the income of anybody who makes over $137.50 per year and giving it to bloated government agencies that will deliberately set it on fire.
• Or, John McCain is our next president, which is very bad because he is a 287-year-old out-of-touch multiple-house-owning fascist who will rape the environment and build nuclear power plants inside elementary schools and reinstate slavery and create tax loopholes that benefit only people who own three or more personal helicopters, after which he will declare war on the entire United Nations and then keel over dead and leave us with commander-in-chief Sarah ''Flash Card'' Palin.
• Or, Ralph Nader is our next president, which is very bad because it means there has been a successful Klingon invasion.
• Or, the outcome of the election is being disputed because of irregularities such as unregistered horses voting in Ohio, or some Florida county tabulating votes in Roman numerals, or God knows what else, which is very bad because it means the next president will be selected via a giant Lawyer-Palooza court fight that will go on until it's time to hold the Iowa caucuses for the NEXT presidential election.
So basically my analysis is that, whatever happened, we are, as a nation, doomed. We are also bitterly divided, because whoever wins, roughly half of us will despise the other half, and vice versa.
You know what I miss? I miss 1960. Not the part about my face turning overnight into the world's most productive zit farm. What I miss is the way the grown-ups acted about the Kennedy-Nixon race. Like the McCain-Obama race, that was a big historic deal that aroused strong feelings in the voters. This included my parents and their friends, who were fairly evenly divided, and very passionate. They'd have these major honking arguments at their tail parties. But unlike today, when people wear out their upper lips sneering at those who disagree with them, the 1960s grown-ups of my memory, whoever they voted for, continued to respect each other and remain good friends.
What was their secret? Gin. On any given Saturday night they consumed enough martinis to fuel an assault helicopter. But also they were capable of understanding a concept that we seem to have lost, which is that people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country. So they argued by sincerely (if loudly) trying to persuade each other. They did not argue by calling each other names, which is pointless and childish, and which cons utes I would estimate 97 percent of what passes for political debate today.
What I'm saying is: we, as a nation, need to drink more martinis.
No, you know what I'm saying. I'm saying, now that this election is over, whatever the happened, can we please grow up and stop being so nasty to each other? Please?
OK, I didn't think so.
Please pass the pitcher.
P.S. The CNN hologram is the single stupidest thing I have ever seen on TV, and I am including Carrot Top in that statement.
© 2008 Dave Barry. All Rights Reserved.
http://www.miamiherald.com
Nice post....people who disagree with you politically are not necessarily evil or stupid. My parents and their friends took it for granted that most people were fundamentally decent and wanted the best for the country...
(you communist )
It was the conservatives, going back to the 1970s, whose target was not only to win power, but to win permanently, by demonizing and destroying non-conservatives.
Anything-goes hate media stars like Fox, Rush, Boortz, Savage, Malkin, Coulter and the slimy nastiness of the Bushes/A er/Rove and McNasty/pitbull campaigns are all creatures of scorched-earth right-wing-i-ness.
The right-wing hate media and Repugs were still pissed off and attacking even after they won in 2000 and 2004.
There is simply nothing comparable in scope and persistence from the non-right-wingers.
Dave Barry's article is effectively addressing the right wingers, not the non-right-wingers.
Uh huh.
Martinis are elitist.
And with that, the point of the article was missed.
Define irony.
Boutons posting an article about politicial civility...then busting that in his very next post.
The right-whiners whine about push-back, GMAFB, you bunch of less, pathetic, wimps.
So now the right has lost power, they want to play nice? GMAFB
Where was this play nice after the 2000 and 2004 elections?
I don't know...you either believe in the guy you voted for, or you don't. But don't pretend to be some hardcore Obama supporter, then turn a deaf ear when he uses his acceptance speech to ask you to do away with the you're pulling on this board day-in and day-out.
I didn't vote for him, I don't agree with his policies, but he's my president now and I would like to see him move this country forward. You seem more interested in saying "nanny nanny doo doo" and reminding everyone your guy won and they can STFU now. I think you need to get over things, and get in line with your man.
You can't reason with Boutons, he's a machine.
I mean, seriously, they update its programming every few months with new words and derisions, but it's automated.
Really - you can see for yourself, just post something with the name of that woman that the President before Bush had that thing with.
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