God Help America (UK Mirror)

[City Lights]

Not sure where to post this, so feel free to move.

GOD HELP AMERICA
Nov 4 2004
THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN..

THEY say that in life you get what you deserve. Well, today America has deservedly got a lawless cowboy to lead them further into carnage and isolation and the unreserved contempt of most of the rest of the world.

This once-great country has pulled up its drawbridge for another four years and stuck a finger up to the billions of us forced to share the same air. And in doing so, it has shown itself to be a fearful, backward-looking and very small nation.

This should have been the day when Americans finally answered their critics by raising their eyes from their own sidewalks and looking outward towards the rest of humanity.

And for a few hours early yesterday, when the exit polls predicted a John Kerry victory, it seemed they had.

more... http://www.mirror.co.uk/columnists/brianreade/

[deadparrot]

1. So. embarrassed.

[Obviousman]

4. I know how you feel

It's terrible, but these idiots in power are making me ashamed to be American. Where is the country that has the respect of the world? What the * administration has created is not the America I know and love

[deadparrot]

11. I want to study abroad in college, but the idea

of facing Europeans is a depressing one.

I'll have to laarn how to say, "Sorry, I didn't vote for the dumbfuck." in all the major Eurpean languages.

[ZombieNixon]

36. Go to

http://www.freetranslation.com

You can get Spanish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch and Russian.

Perdón, pero yo no voté para el chinga idiotico.

[kilaana]

37. If traveling abroad...

Perhaps you could get one of these Bush apology Traveler's T-shirts:

http://www.cafepress.com/americanapology.6550575

In six different languages, it says "I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him."

[Carl Yasutomo]

40. Is there a similar T-shirt with Japanese on it??

I live in Japan!!!

[cire4]

38. We need to organize a huge rally and show the world....

That a large segment of the population still does not support this fascist asshole. Our corporate media will certainly ignore it, but the international media will broadcast it throughout the world.

[flygal]

39. I live in Europe - for the last two years I learned to say ..

"I voted for Gore" in German. I've had a Kerry button on my bag to show people when they "grimace" after I tell them I'm American.

Now, I just walk around with my head hung low and people know. They know and they are hurting too. They used to love America - when I moved here in 2002 they were all wearing US flags shirts. You never see those anymore.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. Our once great Nation is now symbolized by a Chimp.

:-)

[ethereal]

7. well

this brought tears to my eyes. tears i've been fighting all damned day long. god help us, indeed.


but he will help us as we continue to help ourselves. i'm no longer furious. I'm simply resolved, a cold, steady, unwavering resolve.


we know the truth, and we voted our intellect. we will prevail.

[Massacure]

3. I'm so embarassed to be an American.

[tridim]

5. If there is a God

He hates America.

Suck on that you fucking Fundies.

[vetwife]

6. Sp sad and ashamed especially being from a rural Bible Belt !

[BeyondGeography]

8. At least he recognizes that millions of us oppose the guy

[RummyTheDummy]

9. Great piece

I agree on ALL counts.

[lizzieforkerry]

10. All Kerry voters need to wear armbands

at least we might get some individual respect from the world
God have mercy on the United States....

[dweller]

18. Just wait

i suspect id's on all liberals will be law before Herr *moron is through with this second term.

dp

[City Lights]

19. Great idea.

I have a friend who frequently travels abroad and we talked about something similar today. She wants to buy a button with chimpy's face on it that has a circle with the line through it for when she travels to foreign countries. She wants to be welcomed with smiles rather than sneers.

[StupidFOX]

12. Thank God they recognize those of us who voted for change

and understand that we actually have respect for life on Earth.

[Viking12]

13. Don't blame me. I'm one of the 55million that voted against that asshole

[lizzieforkerry]

44. Can we get that on a bumper sticker?

I'm serious. Do you guys remeber when CLinton won Repubs had Don't blame me I voted for Bush bumper stickers, anyone know of a website that has them for Kerry?

[cubsfan forever]

46. Here is the site, spread the word!

Professor 2

http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.14144914

[lizzieforkerry]

47. Thanks, ordered! You should post it!

[cubsfan forever]

48. I did. In the GD: Help and Support forum

Professor 2

[cubsfan forever]

49. Here is the site.

I posted this in the General Discussion forum, also.

Professor 2

http://www.cafepress.com/irregulargoods.14144914

[Maiden England]

14. Rye thought for the day

as an ex-pat Brit, thats probably the first thing I ever read in the Mirror I really agreeed with. LOL.
I shot of a LTTE thanking him for continuing to call it like he sees it and to continue to speak the truth, seeing as we have no media of our own to do it for us.

[steely]

15. I always wanted to live in historic times....

never thought it'd be this fucked up tho' .

I caught myself in work thinking what a nightmare.

if anything, I found out how many like minded people there were (Dems) that I never knew that thought that way ( in work ), so at least we could share some anger and pain.

Back on point, it is VERY embarassing. I gave the public much more credit than it deserved, and I'm not looking forwad toward being an angry old man.

[ethereal]

22. steely

that's exactly how i felt all day at work--just waiting to wake up from this nightmare. it all feels surreal.

[glitch]

16. God Help Planet Earth.

Either we are and will remain stupid by voting this buffoon into office, or we were stupid by allowing them to place their operatives into positions to steal it.
Either way, we are truly humbled, and owe the world our profoundest apologies.

[steely]

30. and good ol' Mom Nature too.

[Zero Division]

17. Thanks, this may be from a Brit but it sums up my feelings more than

adequately.

Loved this excerpt:
"The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong"."

[lizzieforkerry]

45. loved it too but

didn't get the sister marryin' part- the rest was dead accurate. Somehting I don't know about Laura?

[seraph]

20. wow.... (nt)

[Mr_Spock]

21. Fucking Dumbya - but we knew he was an embarrasment already

Fuckin' idiot - lets divide the country...

[Glenda]

23. THat's a great article

:kick:

[gmoney]

24. Yowch! Hits the nail on the head

Or as Al Franken inexplicably would say "Hit it on the nail"

Thanks for the heads up. I couldn't say it better myself.

[LondonAmerican]

25. Bush was NOT elected

the election was STOLEN using hacked voting machines.

[Bluebear]

31. Say it loud.

[Blue_Tires]

26. amen to that shit

how's the UK job market?? (might be looking to make a move!)

[highplainsdem]

27. Brilliant article. God help America, and the planet, after this stolen

election.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

28. I feel the shame

The thing is a large block of the people that voted for * have never set foot in Europe and never will. They don't read European papers and never will. They live in a bubble of ignorance and frankly I hope it burst on them!

[neebob]

29. Overwhelming majority?

Uh, okay.

[shelley806]

32. I just read the entire thread; Why embarrassment? We didn't vote for

idiocy. We didn't vote for immoral values. We didn't vote for lies and hypocrisy. We didn't vote for war and death for oil and greed. We didn't vote for abortion rights being more important than the right of the living (those who have died in an unjust war, stem cell research, death penalty). No shame here. No embarrassment here. Just sadness that the majority is duped.

[arikara]

33. Good article.

He put into words how I've been feeling too, all this lousy day. The Yellow Rogue of Texas indeed...

[uppityperson]

34. another such column, somewhat profane

http://www.lnreview.co.uk/news/004550.php

November 03, 2004
George Bush? Again? May saints and angels preserve us

Oh America, what have you done?
You’ve put him back in.

Probably.

Depending upon which way the Ohio recount goes. And anyway, whatever the final tally in Ohio, the 2004 election result means one thing for certain: great swathes of America are as DUMB AS FUCK. Too dumb to live, let alone vote......

[ParanoidPat]

54. Why don't you tell us how you really feel........

........:evilgrin:

<Snip>

You stupid, good-for-nothing, hick fucks, sitting there in your stretchy trousers, wrapped in your stars and stripes, clutching at each others’ fat hands and singing God Bless America while your blessed commander-in-fucking-chief sells the world for a quick buck. You whooping twits, sucking up the lies like mother’s milk. You stupid stupid fucks. You deserve to die. Choke on your fat-burgers you cretinous losers. Fuck you all. Sorry - fuck y’all. Do you understand that? You cow-brained pricks.

Are you really so violently thick that you can’t get beyond thinking: “Yup, we’s at war, and the President he’s a good man and he’s gonna whip those commie Arabs…” --- oh whatever --- Christ, there’s no point in trying to peer into your minds, you sack of shit morons. Might as well poke a beached jellyfish with a stick. :wow:

[PurityOfEssence]

35. "The Yellow Rogue of Texas"

Perfect.

Great article.

I'm so sick of hearing the word "god", and it's just going to be chorused like a field of cicadas for the foreseeable future.

[Piperay]

41. So ashamed and

this time there is no excuse to be offered up. Mid-America rejected our Democratic Party and our issues in favor of an inbred idiotic drunkard. :-(

[SoCalDem]

42. This snip says it ALL....great article... thanks for posting it...

VISITORS from another planet watching this election would surely not credit the amateurism.

The queues for hours to register a tick; the 17,000 lawyers needed to ensure there was no cheating; the $1.2bn wasted by parties trying to discredit the enemy; the allegations of fraud, intimidation and dirty tricks; the exit polls which were so wildly inaccurate; an Electoral College voting system that makes the Eurovision Song Contest look like a beacon of democracy and efficiency; and the delays and the legal wrangles in announcing the victor.

Yet America would have us believe theirs is the finest democracy in the world. Well, that fine democracy has got the man it deserved. George W Bush.

[incapsulated]

43. Ouches

Nothing like a tounge-lashing from a Brit. :spank:

[JPace]

50. This is going to be a rough four years ahead....

as our shock and pain slowly turns into unyeilding anger
and action. The repugs will get much of their way...
but its going to tear this country apart.

[JPace]

52. P.S. Our rotten corporate media helped this takeover....

they have failed this country miserably...they let this
stupid bush war happen, even promoted it. They are also
responsible for the vast ignorance of our people in how
the world works. When another 9-11 happens it will be
in big part because they failed America.

[Frederic Bastiat]

51. This was the best part:

"You have to feel sorry for the millions of Yanks in the big cities like New York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco who voted to kick him out.

These are the sophisticated side of the electorate who recognise a gibbon when they see one.

As for the ones who put him in, across the Bible Belt and the South, us outsiders can only feel pity.

Were I a Kerry voter, though, I'd feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets.

The self-righteous, gun-totin', military lovin', sister marryin', abortion-hatin', gay-loathin', foreigner-despisin', non-passport ownin' red-necks, who believe God gave America the biggest dick in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land "free and strong"."

[Kipepeo]

53. I'm so *sad*

and *angry*