political stickers

[chideltjen]

ZTAngel... I got it to work...

[ZTAngel]

My computer hates me.

[Optimist Prime]

Originally posted by BetaRose

I don't get it

[Xylochick216]

My mom brought me home a book of anti-Bush stickers from B&N. The best ones are as follows:


Asses of Evil
It takes a village idiot
More Trees, Less Bush
Bring Back Monica Lewinsky
Leave No Billionaire Behind
Bush--Putting the "con" in Conservative

[OrigamiTulip]

Originally posted by Optimist Prime
I don't get it

Voldemort is the villain in the Harry Potter series. The bumper sticker is based on a comic strip that came out last year:

[chideltjen]

[OrigamiTulip]

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[hoosier]

Jimmy Carter seems determined to surpass John Tyler as the most anti-American ex-president ever. Tyler, who served from 1841 through 1845, died in 1862, after being elected to a seat in the Confederate congress. Now Carter tells MSNBC's Chris Matthews that the Revolutionary War was a mistake:

Matthews: "As an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the war, insurgency against a powerful British force. Do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?"

Carter: "Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War more than any other war until recently has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a non-violent way. I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time."

So Carter views the American revolutionaries as the equivalent of the enemy in Iraq--never mind that America's goal in Iraq is precisely to install an independent democratic regime there.

And this "historian" doesn't seem to know much about history. The Revolutionary War "the most bloody" until "recently"? According to the Defense Department (link in PDF), American forces suffered 4,435 combat deaths in the Revolutionary War, a figure far surpassed by the 140,414 in the Civil War.

- Opinion Journal

[RACooper]

Originally posted by hoosier
Jimmy Carter seems determined to surpass John Tyler as the most anti-American ex-president ever. Tyler, who served from 1841 through 1845, died in 1862, after being elected to a seat in the Confederate congress. Now Carter tells MSNBC's Chris Matthews that the Revolutionary War was a mistake:

Matthews: "As an historian now and studying the Revolutionary War as it was fought out in the South in those last years of the war, insurgency against a powerful British force. Do you see any parallels between the fighting that we did on our side and the fighting that is going on in Iraq today?"

Carter: "Well, one parallel is that the Revolutionary War more than any other war until recently has been the most bloody war we've fought. I think another parallel is that in some ways the Revolutionary War could have been avoided. It was an unnecessary war. Had the British Parliament been a little more sensitive to the colonials' really legitimate complaints and requests the war could have been avoided completely and of course now we would have been a free country now as is Canada and India and Australia, having gotten our independence in a non-violent way. I think in many ways the British were very misled in going to war against America and in trying to enforce their will on people who were quite different from them at the time."

So Carter views the American revolutionaries as the equivalent of the enemy in Iraq--never mind that America's goal in Iraq is precisely to install an independent democratic regime there.

And this "historian" doesn't seem to know much about history. The Revolutionary War "the most bloody" until "recently"? According to the Defense Department (link in PDF), American forces suffered 4,435 combat deaths in the Revolutionary War, a figure far surpassed by the 140,414 in the Civil War.

- Opinion Journal

Actually it looks like Carter was trying to draw a comparison between the British government and the current US government... both got involved in a conflict with irregular forces without taking to time to understand the greivances of the people in country.

Oh as for the most bloody... yep based on casualties as a portion of the population, as well as bloody acts commited by both forces - ie. King Mountain.