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(Boston Globe)   Don't you hate it when you're riding a bus that keeps crashing and killing people, so you get a new driver but the new driver does the same thing? Welcome to the presidential election   (boston.com) divider line
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brap [TotalFark]
2008-01-29 8:03:49 PM  
Um, I'll have what he's having. Hold the ham-fisted metaphor.

In other words, yeah, just fries.
 
Falcc
2008-01-29 11:33:56 PM  
You know what I hate.. the dutch.
 
Smellvin
2008-01-29 11:37:20 PM  
I thought this was going to be about how pretty much every president in the last century has been markedly sub-par and we keep making the same mistakes in whom we elect. Nope, just more, "BUSH IS BAD."

Thanks for informing us, Boston Globe. I never would've realized this on my own. You have truly opened my mind to new ideas which were, before your eloquent article, inconceivable.
 
defects
2008-01-29 11:42:46 PM  
"Don't you hate it when you're riding a bus that keeps crashing and killing people, so you get a new driver but the new driver does the same thing?"

So you've been to Mexico City too eh?
 
lolmadillo
2008-01-29 11:58:48 PM  
Otto is Blotto
 
Darth_Lukecash
2008-01-30 12:09:55 AM  
Damn, I was hoping that this was one of those literal stories.
 
TX-Law
2008-01-30 12:16:18 AM  
Kinda like the Dillos in Austin, right?
 
Lordmontu
2008-01-30 12:16:23 AM  
Don't you hate it when you read a satirical headline that sucks and has a dumbass metaphor, so you go on to a new headline, but the new one does the same thing? Welcome to Fark.
 
thisispete
2008-01-30 12:26:04 AM  
Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?
 
Shrugging Atlas
2008-01-30 12:33:28 AM  
What an unfortunate headline.
 
lolmadillo
2008-01-30 12:41:54 AM  
thisispete: Pop quiz, hotshot. There's a bomb on a bus. Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour, the bomb is armed. If it drops below 50, it blows up. What do you do? What do you do?

shoot the hostage
 
mamoru [OhFark]
2008-01-30 12:45:05 AM  
Smellvin: I thought this was going to be about how pretty much every president in the last century has been markedly sub-par and we keep making the same mistakes in whom we elect. Nope, just more, "BUSH IS BAD."

This. I was expecting something similar to the "mice trying to decide whether to elect the black cat or the white cat to govern them" analogy. I don't disagree with what the article said, but US politics have been farked for a LONG time.

I will be pleasantly surprised if things actually ever get better or even closer to what the US Constitution says the government and the country are supposed to be.
 
Recall all Repuglikkkans
2008-01-30 12:58:47 AM  
spamdog: How was Bill Clinton \"markedly sub-par\"?

Amazing what Hillary and eight years of perspective can do.
 
WFern
2008-01-30 1:28:10 AM  
The problem is that we don't always elect a new driver. Bush was killing and maiming folks before driving this country into a ditch. So what did the American public choose in '04? They chose to allow the drunk to get us home safely, responding with shock when he crashed the metaphorical bus yet again.
 
iawai
2008-01-30 1:37:27 AM  
Whole big post typed up before browser kaputted.

Short story: Vote for Ron Paul if you agree with his issues. Don't be dismayed by the evidence put forth by those who sponsored the previous bus drivers, if you vote, he will win
 
roscotsmalls
2008-01-30 1:41:52 AM  
iawai: Whole big post typed up before browser kaputted.

Short story: Vote for Ron Paul if you agree with his issues. Don't be dismayed by the evidence put forth by those who sponsored the previous bus drivers, if you vote, he will win

Some of us are old enough to remember when the Perotistas said the EXACT same thing about Perot...

Yawn...Wake me when reality sets in
 
mistahtom
2008-01-30 1:48:23 AM  
Did subtard even RTFA? The article is about the State of the Union, and not elections.


English mother farker do you read it?
 
oldebayer
2008-01-30 1:58:30 AM  
Nice metaphor, if we were actually a bus, being steered by a single driver.

We are a nation, being steered by hundreds of millions of voices, of which ten thousand or so can, by dint of having most of the money, each shout louder than any ten million others. The bus is being steered in the direction of more profit, by those who have more money than they can ever possibly need.

/Sorry if this sounds subversive.
 
sarcastrophe
2008-01-30 2:14:22 AM  
I even hate bush and couldn't get all the way through that article.
 
Jim_Callahan
2008-01-30 2:53:26 AM  
Smellvin: I thought this was going to be about how pretty much every president in the last century has been markedly sub-par and we keep making the same mistakes in whom we elect. Nope, just more, "BUSH IS BAD."

Thanks for informing us, Boston Globe. I never would've realized this on my own. You have truly opened my mind to new ideas which were, before your eloquent article, inconceivable.

If every president in the last century has been markedly sub-par, then either the ones in the 1800s were angels who eradicated all disease an ill-feeling through all mankind and led us directly to paradise, or you have a deeply flawed conception of what 'par' is supposed to mean. Call me a guy who once stayed awake through a history class, but by process of elimination I'm guessing it's the latter.
 
WFern
2008-01-30 4:03:06 AM  
oldebayer: Nice metaphor, if we were actually a bus, being steered by a single driver.

We are a nation, being steered by hundreds of millions of voices, of which ten thousand or so can, by dint of having most of the money, each shout louder than any ten million others. The bus is being steered in the direction of more profit, by those who have more money than they can ever possibly need.

/Sorry if this sounds subversive.

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bluelancer03
2008-01-30 4:25:35 AM  
sarcastrophe: I even hate bush and couldn't get all the way through that article.

I agree with you about bush. The 1970's were such a horrible time to be looking in dirty magazines. I mean, don't you wish they knew how to use a razor? I'm just glad we are trending toward a more shaven look....

Oh...wait. You meant...OH. Carry on.
 
ScreamingInDigital
2008-01-30 8:56:38 AM  
As much as I wish it were so, he's not out quite yet. There's always vice president and McCain would seem much more likely to pick him over anyone else.
 
ScreamingInDigital
2008-01-30 8:57:17 AM  
..and maybe I should post that in the correct thread...
 
FarkingSean
2008-01-30 10:17:54 AM  
FTFA:

Bush had a golden opportunity to change the disastrous war course he had set

Disastrous? Hmm...I thought that the home prices in Baghdad are going through the roof because everyone wants to live there now, and that Al Qaeda was pretty much running for its life. I thought that we are closer now to having a foothold in the middle east than we have been in a very long time, that Iran's people and its monarchy are rejecting the radical nonsense of Ahmidenijad (sp?), and that we've pretty much accomplished all of this on our own DESPITE being abandoned by the coalition of the weak-hearted when we needed their help most.

Disastrous?

I do not think that word means what you think it means.
 
elffster
2008-01-30 10:27:51 AM  
In all fairness, the bus driver is blind...
 
PhiloeBedoe
2008-01-30 10:54:31 AM  
Why don't we just take the train instead?
 
iawai
2008-01-30 11:57:38 AM  
PhiloeBedoe: Why don't we just take the train instead?

Because they don't have a big enough Lobby group.
 
Moray
2008-01-30 9:43:17 PM  
I liked it better when the BUS was crashing thru WACO, RUBY RIDGE and MIAMI ...
 
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