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davidt
on Wednesday October 27 2004, @02:00PM
An inside source sends the following statement:
“With all my heart I urge people to vote against George Bush. Jon Stewart would be ideal, but John Kerry is the logical and sane move. It does not need to be said yet again, but Bush has single-handedly turned the United States into the most neurotic and terror-obsessed country on the planet. For non-Americans, the United States is suddenly not a very nice place to visit because US immigration officers – under the rules of Bush – now conduct themselves with all the charm and unanswerable indignation of Hitler’s SS. Please bring sanity and intelligence back to the United States. Don’t forget to vote. Vote for John Kerry and get rid of George Bush” Morrissey October 27, 2004
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Oh God!!! (Score:1, Redundant)
(User #10445 Info)
bushwacked (Score:0)
Hopefully bush will be whacked at the polls.
P.O`Neil.
i think it's funny . . (Score:1, Funny)
Will you vote? I will.... (Score:1, Funny)
Your Pal,
G.W.Bush
Damn straight (Score:1)
I'd love to see a Michael Moore - Morrissey talk show on George W. Bush. It'd be hilarious.
Vote KERRY 2004
(User #9578 Info)
more to love... (Score:1, Funny)
looks, talent, and sanity...what more could we ask for?
vote kerry.
(User #11904 Info)
US Election (Score:1)
Looking forward to the Houston show tomorrow. To those attending Texas shows: lets show Morrissey that we are not all Bush supporters!!!
(User #2135 Info)
Oh dear (Score:2, Interesting)
Vote Quimby. Love Morrissey.
(User #9454 Info)
steely blue beady eyes (Score:0)
martin, uk
I May Be A Bit Thick Here But..... (Score:1)
(User #9515 Info)
As an independant... (Score:1, Interesting)
Bush is not my best choice either, but he is preferrable to Kerry, in my opinion.
(User #10290 Info)
so we should vote for kerry because... (Score:0)
Hey morrissey 3000 people were murdered on 9-11 because some foreigners smuggled in box cutters on those airplanes. Jesus christ
ps see you tonight! I still love your music, just not your wacky political ideals (and ill eat some meat before i go to the concert too!)
love,
morrissey-bush fan in texas
Morrissey= Good music, bad politics (Score:1)
(User #246 Info)
Let's Boot Bush Right Out... (Score:1)
My absentee ballot speaks for itself!
(User #724 Info)
Jon Stewart Show (Score:1)
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Like the SS?. (Score:0)
Nothing for Nothing (Score:2, Insightful)
By the way, when is Morrissey going to release an official statement regarding the passing of John Peel? I think that would be a big mistake if he doesn't acknowledge that. He knew the man for heavensakes and he was instrumental helping alot of young talent get heard, including the Smiths.
Say something Moz. Anything. Alot of your UK fans are distraught.
(User #11277 Info)
You've got my vote... (Score:1)
(User #4574 Info)
Is this for real? (Score:0)
DOWN with GW! Down with the government sticking its nose into people's bedrooms! Down with the government trying to tell a woman what she can do with her body! Down with unsubstaniated preemptive wars! Iraq had no WMD's and had nothing to do with 9/11! Ultra right wing Christian fundamentalism under the guise of Republican conservatism must be taken out! Bush thinks he is doing God's will...as innocent people die everyday in Iraq.
Anyone is better that that whack job! Vote Kerry!
voters of swing states march forth! (Score:1)
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Morrissey Says Vote (Score:0, Redundant)
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Yes, John Kerry For President! (Score:1)
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I survived September 11 (Score:0)
And few middle Americans are wealthy beyond belief. None of Bush's economic policies will benefit anyone but the rich. The only aspect of Bush's administration that appeals to middle Americans is the policy on terrorism (which is a thinly disguised racist policy to kill Arabs {even though Jesus Christ was a Middle Eastener}). And which Americans are dying in Iraq? White Americans from rural areas who joined the service as that was likely the only employment option available in the economically suffering Midwest and South.
Anyway, I survived September 11th. I walked home to Queens beneath American fighter jets providing cover. How fucked up is that? (and don't blame it on Clinton. September 11th basically happened because this country favors Israel and ignores the plight of anyone we can't get anything from) And I'm not voting for Bush. We are on the verge of WWIII.
So why are so many Americans who face little threat from terrorism so afraid? Why are the Americans who face the most likely threat so horrified by Bush? A vote for Bush is a vote for the death of America as we once knew it. Much of it is already gone. We can never go home again.
Moz is no BONO of U2 (Score:0)
Moz is losing tons of credibility
first the moronic pen of America is not the World then a truly stupid statement like this...shows you to enjoy his voice but as a political commentator...he leaves much to be desired...
he must have a crush on Stewart to be kissing his ass so pathetically.
an example of republican tactics (Score:1)
Here is what really happened.
A bill came to the senate and they wanted to get money approved for military spending. The items on that list were a bunch of tanks an bombers and missiles. In that bill was a $9 billion chuck of pork. Kerry voted no. Meanwhile, Republican John McCain also voted no. They both said that they would approve it with the pork cut out.
The bill failed.
The bill was rewritten without the pork.
Kerry, McCain and most others passed the bill.
The republicans take that and call it flip-flopping.
Kerry looked out for your tax dollars to only be spent on what the bill said it would be spent on.
Bush took office with an annual surplus of money in the budget and now its the biggest deficit in the history of the country.
Bush's response?
"We've created jobs!"
My response.. "Yeah, I've had 5 of them"
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Sounds good to me (Score:1)
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Shameful (Score:0)
To compare US immigration officers to Hitler's SS is just shameful. It may take longer to get through immigration, but one things for sure, you won't end up in the gas chambers.
Thats Entertainers! (Score:1)
Here is what the study found, of all entertainers
Oprah has the most credibility
garnering 19%, (as in would be swayed by her opinion.)
As of today Oprah has been very very quiet about who she is backing, I assume its Kerry.
Now, where the results get really fascinating is M. Moore actually turned 26% to vote for Bush, Independents finding him totally disingeniuous.
Springsteen also has a very weak impact in swaying people to vote Kerry as he has been trying so hard to do. A mere 2% considered his opinion worthwhile on Politics.
The overall conclusion of the study was that people in America give very little credence to Actors, Singers, Etc...Feeling that they (entertainers)could never relate to what their own lives were like. So go Moz tell us who to vote for!!
Tell us what color the new jag will be too!
Hey at least you will be able to pen another tune full of vitriol in the next four years. Bush is better for your career I say!
(User #430 Info)
i've already submitted this... (Score:1)
http://www.thousandreasons.org/listB.html
it is the best thing i've found on the web in a long time. i realize it would take a few hours to read the whole thing, but at least give it a glance. this was posted earlier in response to a bush supporter on this board asking to list, in detail, bushs' failings.... so, there you go.
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Are you mad, Viva lying warmongerer?!? (Score:0)
Sigh... I love this man! (Score:1)
Thank you Morrissey, please vote everyone. My friend's American expatriate aunt has lived in Greece for 20 years, but will vote for the first time in decades in an American election. She thinks it's that important. And it is. And she picks Kerry.
And to show balance, I eagerly await the day Labour gives Tony Blair the boot as well.
(User #5434 Info)
Hilarious! (Score:1)
Kerry is a two-bit hack, but he's worlds better than Bush. Baby steps, American, baby steps. . .
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I would vote but..... (Score:1)
Maple.
(User #1234 Info)
I don't care what anyone says... (Score:0)
Mozzer "Bush Bashing" (Score:0)
Good one Moz-but less of the US customs rant, eh? (Score:0)
Wish he'd stop harping on about that ONE time he got stopped at the airport though. Doesn't particulary strengthen his argument
P.S that photo proves what i already suspected...
that Morrissey has the finest forearms in rock and roll!!
- truly a cracking pair.
Floridian with Shame! (Score:1)
(User #12863 Info)
His comparison to Hitler's SS = irrational (Score:1)
I don't think a singer who bought into the bullshit of Michael Moron's propaganda is well-informed at all, and instead he follows his emotions.
Comparing our government to the Nazi S.S. is laughable and, frankly, moronic. I understand that Morrissey was personally harassed at an airport, but that still does not excuse his asinine comparison.
Morrissey had nothing to say, no public declarations, back when 3,000 Americans were murdered.
Morrissey thinks Western Europe is the world, and that Western Europe's opinion of America is all-important.
He cares not that the votes in Afghanistan have just been counted and the pro-American Hamid Karzai won 55% of the votes in the first election that country has ever experienced. If Morrissey had had his way, the Taliban would still be enslaving that country.
I also recall Morrissey's ridiculous wish od death against Thatcher in 1988. As he himself saw when he returned to Manchester this year, Thatcher's policies helped Grea Britain's economy tremendously and today they are leading Europe while France and Germany have massive unemployment and economic disorder.
I like you, Morrissey, and I think Kerry has a better chance of winning than Bush. However, I must do what I think is best and vote for who I consider the lesser evil, George W. Bush.
Morrissey said this summer on British radio that he never meets anyone who supports Bush's foreign policy. Morrissey, you exposed yourself as living in a bubble in your Los Angeles mansion. 45-55% of the country intends to vote for Bush next week. And the reason the Democrats chose Kerry was because Kerry was not an anti-war candidate. Therefore, even a substantial percentage of Americans who will vote for Kerry certainly do not subscribe to Morrissey's vew of the War on Terrorism. Morrissey really has no insight to America even though he now lives here, and he won't until he actually spends time in places outside La-La-Land.
Anyway, whatever happens, I can't wait for the election to be overwith already.
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my best intrests (Score:1)
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Moz thinks Islamic Jihad is imaginary? (Score:1)
Is Morrissey unaware of how many people the jihadists have killed worldwide in the past few decades? Is Morrissey unaware that his beloved London has been targetted? Is he unaware that since 9/11 there have been many terror plots foiled on American soil, from plots to blow up shopping malls to even taking down the Brooklyn Bridge?
It's not a figment of the imagination, and one only has to look at what happened in that Russian school this year to see it is ridiculous for Morrissey to want to pretend we're not at war.
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BOYCOTT BUSH and CO. (Score:0)
altria (formerly Philip Morris) is a big republican contributor. donations from 1999-2004 total $6.5 million.
AT&T is another contributor, from 1999-2004 a total of $5.36 million.
microsoft has contributed $5.12 million.
ups has contributed $4.48 million.
MBNA (MBNA Credit Cards)has contributed $4.38 million.
citigroup (Citibank credit cards)has given $3.93 million.
Pfizer, FedEx, bristol-Myers Squibb, WalMart, General Electric, ExonMobil, AOL Timewarner (HBO, Columbia House, Atlantic REcords), Anheuser Busch (Budweiser, Michelob, ZiegenBock, Busch), CheveronTexaco (they've merged), PEPSI, Walt Disney, AMerican airlines, etc., etc., etc....
and just so you know, altria owns malboro, basic, l&m, virginia slims, parliament, among others...
we don't only have our voting rights but we also have rights as consumers. we can refuse to buy the products they sell. we can refuse to work. we can refuse to take part in their crimes.
kerry isn't a saint and God knows how much he'll mess things up but he's the only rational alternative at the moment. he's not the lesser of two evils, but the evil of two lessers.
viva mozzer
What? (Score:1)
(User #12218 Info)
morrissey forever (Score:1)
i do feel george bush has been a huge disappointment as a president. i think over the last 4 years he has listened too much to the neocons in his administration, instead of the moderates. i don't see him getting reelected.
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Either way, the Government always gets in.... (Score:0)
Didn't we learn anything from the betrayal & the string of broken promises we've witnessed from our own Last Great Hope, Tony Blair?
After 18 years of misery under the Tory Party, we were promised so much by the newly elected Labour Government.
What we got was more of the same, only worse.
Neither the Republicans NOR the Democrats care about the so-called 'ordinary Americans', & they care even less about UK citizens.
Even if Kerry wins, only little things will change, small, cosmetic differences, 'giving' with one hand while taking back with the other, while the same people who are exploiting & manipulating you now, will go on exploiting & manipulating you, ad infinitum.
It was only a couple of months ago, on The J Ross Show, that Moz was saying he doesn't vote cos he has no faith in any of the major parties.
I don't know what changed his mind, but I certainly haven't changed mine.
It's often said that if one doesn't vote, then one has no right to grumble about anything, but what if no-one voted for any of the major parties anymore?
Maybe then, Politics would get the overhaul it so desperately needs & new, credible parties would emerge.
I'm still sick to death of Labour & Tories, and Republicans & Democrats for that matter.
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Great news for Bush supporters (Score:0)
Let's Kerry! Let's Go!!! (Score:0)
Bush Sucks (Score:0)
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Another Day Passes Like A Dream (Score:1, Interesting)
If you do not want to know who wins the election please stop reading now. However I encourage you to come back and read all of the comments posted above after you do find out who wins as several of the posts become humorous in light of the result.
So here goes...it turns out to be a relatively close race with above average voter turn out but Bush ends up winning the election. There are some legal disputes surrounding the outcome but ultimately they only end up putting some cash in lawyers pockets and giving the media hours upon hours of additional coverage and newspaper content.
For all the sound and fury Bush ends up having what most political analysts consider to be a successful 2nd term. Kerry slips back out of the picture for the most part except for one interesting event that pops-up about a year or so later that puts him back on the telly for while.
What is far more interesting than the boring old 2004 election is where Morrissey ends up taking his career over the following years. Any guesses? I can tell you it's facinating enough to rewind and watch it all again! So don't let the election distract you too much and savor every moment fellow fans! There are some good things on the way!
W's got my vote (Score:0)
I'll be happily voting for W on Tuesday.
hairdresser on fire (Score:1)
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