Comments on: Secrets of Past Elections Revealed! (1988)

By: Keyspoet

Keyspoet — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:59:00 +0000

Linda and BassMan:

President Bush actually “donned” his raincoat, and then, search completed, he “doffed” it once more.

A somewhat archaic but still-used form of expression.

By: pep819

pep819 — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Wow. Walking Turtle. I believe you are being ironical here but I also believe you may have skipped a dose or two.

By: Walking Turtle

Walking Turtle — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 05:48:00 +0000

Um, considering how remarkably Luciferian-style that entire line of Bushfolk have been found to have been operating over the prior three generations, it seems far more likely to this astute observer that Bush Sr. actually might have actually *gaslighted* that (arguably) damnably dissident, dissidently disloyal, thoroughly treacherous, and utterly unpatriotic foreign-made raincoat into agreeing to the Big Lie of “needing” to go out and look for the child’s missing poppet under every dripping bit of draggled shrubbery on the lot.

Once suitably psycho-drugged, psy-op’d by the Nurse Ratched of the Day and finally put under Mr. Bush’s personal control, that poor imported outer garment likely got its nuts (ok, buttons) cut off and bronzed right quick, thereafter to hang day and night above the Bush Ranch’s fireplace mantel. Mr. Bush Sr. reportedly has long ago done that very thing to his old pal from Back Then, slicing former Panamanian prexy Manuel Noriega’s own lowhangers clean off and bronzing them heavily, post-sentencing, down Miami way.

Altogether an entirely non-lovely cold stew of gar and stickleback, that kettle of stinking Bush/fish. (But the Bush Clan does not like the way We the People *or* our National Constitution smell either, in all fairness.)

Note: This non-tinfoil nuttery’s tale is drawn from an eyewitness account brought out by the interviewer on an early 2001 “radical” “dissident” full-disclosure/full-documentation Internet radio show I caught exactly once, of course.

Rupert Murdoch, on the other hand, would have merely *suppressed* the fact of that raincoat’s existence to begin with. All wet, all the time, the whole trickle-down criminal perp lot and krue of ‘em, I do declare!

Restoring the formerly-BushCo CIA to the old original John 8:32 Standard as is cast into the terazzo floor of that forced-faulty agency’s impressive HQ building in Langley VA would make a wonderful start toward putting things to rights, imho. Nigerian Yellowcake and rogue WMDs, indeed. (Tell me … ANOTHER ONE … now … )

By: BassMan

BassMan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:03:00 +0000

’s alright Linda. I’m not immune to that myself. But how could I just ignore the Dawning of the Raincoat?
Feel free to call me on any such mistake, especially if it’s funny. And don’t be embarrassed.

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:05:00 +0000

BassMan:

Maybe he twilighted the raincoat? In any case, I’m suitably ashamed and embarrassed — if you could see me right now, you’d see that I was blushing.

Sorry, folks!
Linda (the properly abashed writer)

By: BassMan

BassMan — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:43:00 +0000

“Bush gamely dawned a raincoat”
This is not true. He actually dusked the raincoat.

By: Terrierjames

Terrierjames — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:07:00 +0000

Another interesting tidbit from this campaign was the Willy Horton ad – it is usually mentioned as one of the low-points of negative ads. Remember, Willy Horton was released from prison for a weekend and committed a crime (rape I believe). It was used to show the weakness of a Dukakis administration regarding crime and punishment. Many have sited it as another reason for Bush’s victory.

By: Kinglink

Kinglink — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:03:00 +0000

I’m surprised there was no mention of the famous “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy” quote in this article or even the famous question from Bernard Shaw about what Michael Dukakis would do if terrible things befell his wife (considering he was against the death penalty at the time).

Neither exactly secrets, but certainly noteworthy.

By: Goliath The Pickle

Goliath The Pickle — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:59:00 +0000

Where’s Willie Horton?