These republicans and their 'raw anger' make me laugh.

[bigtree]

YOU'VE got to laugh to keep from breaking something when you read about 'raw anger' spewing from John McCain's supporters. There hasn't been a more pernicious or dangerously inept government and administration in charge in our nation's history; this, at a time when the already fragile balance of our survival and well-being on this planet is being threatened at an accelerated rate by our own military aggression and our self-imposed economic and energy crisis.

Yet, the man these angry supporters celebrate as their nominee has admitted that, "on the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day," he has been, "totally in agreement and support of President Bush."

"I will argue my conservative record voting with anyone's, and I will also submit that my support for President Bush has been active and very impassioned on issues that are important to the American people," McCain told Tim Russert in 2005. "And I'm particularly talking about the war on terror, the war in Iraq, national security, national defense, support of men and women in the military, fiscal discipline, a number of other issues. So I strongly disagree with any assertion that I've been more at odds with the president of the United States than I have been in agreement with him," he said.

So, if we can assume that his supporters even know what their candidate actually said about his Bush-love before he began his second run for the presidency, we can interpret their 'raw anger' as a rejection of ending the occupation in Iraq; satisfaction with the fact that the original 9-11 suspects have been allowed safe-haven in Afghanistan/Pakistan; support of domestic spying; approval of McCain's 'D-grade' attention to the needs of veterans; approval of McCain's support of four-out-of-five Bush budgets, including record tax cuts for the top 2% of Americans; and the rest of Bush's sorry legacy that McCain considers 'transcendent' to our lives.

Anyone has the temerity to stand up for the nation to see in the middle of one of these McKlan rallies and holler to the rest of us about how 'angry' they are that their warmongering, torturing, domestic-spying, land-raping, democracy-hating, taxpayer-robbing, racist, bigoted reign in the White House is coming to an end, is positively making my day.

[grantcart]

1. the 'angry white guy' thing has gone from tiresome to ridiculous

[bigtree]

4. I'd understand if it was directed where it belongs

. . . of all the reasons to be angry

[Winterblues]

2. "fiscal discipline,"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: He truly is deranged isn't he?

[kayakjohnny]

3. I keep thinking how it shows how little we've progressed over the decades.

And that really discourages me. For all we've been through and all we've learned and invented and prevented. And then we get this. It' a real low spot to learn and realize that this latest episode and many others from the last 8 years, means that we probably aren't going to progress much at all in my lifetime and maybe ever. Bummer. I guess it really doesn't pay to be too optimistic when it comes to human motives. At least in America at this time.

[golddigger]

5. Good thing we don't get "Angry."

Oh wait! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7404104

[bigtree]

6. It's been honed

. . . into resolve.