I am sorry! I "misunderestimated" everything!

Hey, I may have been wrong.

Really wrong. And when I am wrong, I believe in correcting my errors.

So, let's just get a few things straight!

Believe it or not, George W. Bush may be planning to suspend the 2004 elections! I just read Ted Rall's predictions.

If he is right, most bloggers (myself included) are wasting their time.

How silly we are, reading about the Howard Dean race, the president's rating in the polls, and speculating about whether Hillary Clinton will throw her hat in the ring -- when according to Ted Rall there may be no election at all.

The reason the Democrats are so lackluster and spineless is that they are afraid of being imprisoned by America's new Fuhrer. Leftists with any sense are already planning to flee the country:

People who have spoken out against Bush are talking exit strategy--not Alec Baldwin style, just to make a statement, but fleeing the U.S. in order to save their skins. "Do you or your spouse have a European-born parent?" is a query making the rounds. (If you do, you can obtain dual nationality and a European Union passport that would allow you to work in any EU member nation.) Those whose lineage is 100 percent American are hoping that nations like Canada and France will admit American political refugees in the event of a Bushite clampdown.

To these people, whether or not the 2004 elections actually take place as scheduled is the ultimate test for American democracy. At Guantánamo Bay, the United States is converting a concentration camp into a death camp where inmates will be executed without due process or legal representation.

Hey there! Wait just a minute! Was I wrong in my two posts about Rall? I mean, I was all worked up because I thought Rall wanted to imprison me. Now I see that he doesn't consider Guantanamo (the place he wants bloggers sent) to be a prison, but rather, a concentration camp!

And not just any old concentration camp, but a "death camp!"

Now I know the truth. Rall wants to send the right wing maniac bloggers to the death camps!

There is, I admit, a certain poetic justice to Rall's demand. If Generalissimo El Busho has put in place operational death camps (as Rall believes), and if American leftists are to be sent there, well, I guess it is a natural enough "response" for him to want right wing bloggers sent there instead. At least it shows the guy genuinely believes in his own "logic."

However, in fairness to Rall, if the election date rolls around and there are no elections after all, I sincerely promise to reevaluate the matter.

For now, I guess I'll just have to be considered a "maniac" for refusing to take seriously such a sober, sane idea.

(Honestly, I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried, but there it is....)

posted by Eric on 11.16.03 at 03:20 PM





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ha! ha! ha! That's a scream. Reminds me of the time when Helen Caldicott predicted that it was "a mathematical certainty" that we would be in a nuclear war if Reagan was re-elected.
On the other hand, here's something that makes _me_ paranoid:
http://www.upwithbeauty.org/2003/11/16#25MoreKill

Steven Malcolm Anderson   ·  November 16, 2003 09:03 PM

Oh. Eric. You know my jest is coming in five... four... three... two...

And yet more than a few minutes of your life go by... :P

The waste of your time has enriched mine.

(All in good humor, sir. I really did like the post. TR is such the whipping boy.)

OF Jay   ·  November 16, 2003 11:27 PM

Bush is well known for his cruel treatment of all who oppose him. Dissidents in this country are forced to toil in the salt mines of academia, entertainment, and establishment journalism. They subsist on 6 and 7 figure incomes. They only dare emerge from hiding when a television camera is around and even then just long enough to accept an award and bemoan their fate. Won't the French please liberate them?

ray   ·  November 17, 2003 09:22 AM

There's a strong element of wish fulfillment here. The left would love a clampdown or if they had to flee. It would be a big leftist wet dream.

Rall's not being prophetic, he's telling us his wishes. Please, persecute us for our righteousness!

IB Bill   ·  November 17, 2003 04:14 PM


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