How sick is Bush's "base?" AP posts DISTURBING "Crawford Protest" pic...

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://news.yahoo.com/photo/051126/480/txev10411261911&g=events/wl/102602iraqprotests

Michael Rowe, 12, of Ft. Hood, Texas, takes part in a rally in support of President Bush near the President's ranch on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2005 in Crawford, Texas. The sign depicts President Bush and anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan. Three months after Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier, led a 26-day anti-war vigil near President Bush's ranch, peace activists and Bush supporters converged again Saturday for dueling rallies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

[ananda]

1. psychotic

Really psycho.

[mike_c]

2. that is truly disturbing....

Wow.

[pretzel4gore]

3. her son died in service of the USA!

what a country the US is...

[saltpoint]

4. I feel bad for this young man but am terrified of his parents --

-- or adult guardians who presumably knew of his contribution to the rally. At 12 there's still plenty of time to develop a more discerning social conscious.

But his parents/guardians loom as psychos beyond the borders of this photo.

[Mairead]

34. I doubt it was "his contribution" in any volitional sense.

My interpretation of that kid's expression is that he doesn't want to be there and knows perfectly well, in a way possibly reinforced by the reaction of the photog, how disgusting that p'shopped mini-poster is.

[saltpoint]

55. Very plausible.

My focus on the parents attempts to hold them iin part accountable for the violence in the image.

[Wetzelbill]

5. that creeped me out

woa, that is weird.

You know, I know Republicans, and lots of people who are naturally Conservative. Good honest people. Hard working. They are just not like this. There is really a weird element to the far-right. Something that is pretty sick. I mean the racist, livid fringe of the party. And, they have a pretty prominent voice too. Scary.

[Divernan]

6. The Bushbots teach their kids to hate everyone their relatives hate.

Remember that song from "South Pacific"? (It was anti-racism, and this verse was meant to be sarcastic).


They've got to be taught, before it's too late,
Before they're six, or seven or eight
To hate everyone their relatives hate.
They've got to be carefully taught.

[Window]

7. Disgusting.

Pure evil.




Peace

[soothsayer]

8. the protesters should have cindy's son's face on the turkey's .

dumbya killed him, so THAT's the true story.

[IndianaGreen]

9. Why isn't Bush in Iraq leading the troops into combat?

Why did he go AWOL during the Vietnam War?

Perhaps Bush is just a coward and a bully like many of his fellow Texans, and that Neanderthal kid holding the sign.

[barb162]

19. Or why aren't his kids volunteering to go there?

[dusmcj]

10. he looks like a defective from the 12th century

why analyze any further ? Trust your instincts and believe the farce.

[jeff30997]

11. Welcome to DU dusmcj !

:toast:

[dusmcj]

29. howdy, havin a great time

the thread about the Crawford counterdemonstrators had me rolling ;)

[leveymg]

46. He looks like a perfectly normal kid. I pity him for his accident at

birth - being born to truly stupid parents. Can you imagine letting your kid be photographed and identified by name next to such a message?

[Catchawave]

12. I hear music......

South Pacific Soundtrack Lyrics

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Artist: Lyrics
Song: Youve Got To Be Carefully Taught Lyrics

Lt.Cable:
You've got to be taught
To hate and fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.

You've got to be taught before it's too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!

http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/southpacific/youvegottobecarefullytaught.htm

[Seansky]

13. nominated, this picture of Bush will be plastered in the Internet in no

time...rather shocking, I think. Glad yahoo posted it.

[TheCowsCameHome]

15. Get it out there to show the hatred from the RW scum

[TheCowsCameHome]

14. That kid has serious problems - Why do cousins marry down there?

Ft. Hood - isn't that a big military area? Doesn't say much for the locals, does it? I'd be damned if I'd let them identify my kid if he was associated with that bunch of inbred misfits..........

[shance]

52. I think the child's parents have serious problems.

At perhaps many in that community as well. Look at what is being accepted.

Dangerous stuff.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Freeper equivalent of Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth)

[barb162]

17. the picture with the turkey... disgusting

[Ferret Annica]

18. Hate to say it

but they are already taking pot shots at anyone protesting logging as if that's the main use of that land now anyway.

Our sits up in the Blue River, Oregon area were shot at with both bullets and arrows.

That picture shows a real desire to start using guns to enforce a twisted mindset that hates to be contradicted.
Especially by the facts.

[Tony_Illinois]

20. Facts do not get in the way of either Bush, or his followers--

What I find both disturbing and discouraging is why people are so dedicated to Bush that they refuse to acknowledge the dishonesty and distortions committed by the Administration. Why no interest in the truth of what happened before and after our entrance into Iraq?

[bullimiami]

21. well on his way to growing up a real asshole.

im sure his parents are proud.

[howmad1]

47. Don't worry. That kid will probably get his ass shot off........

in Iraq in a couple of years because his rethuglican parents can't wait to make cannon fodder out of him.:sarcasm:

[tularetom]

22. While that kid looks creepy and inbred

he is nothing more than the product of his parents hate. I'm amazed that people like this weren't shoving their way through a door at the local wallyworld on the day after thanksgiving in search of a carload of cheap chinese crap to haul back to their trailer.

[toymachines]

30. Thats the description I was searching for

Your right, it isn't really his fault, HEY KID!! wake the fuck up and start thinking logically!

[barb162]

23. Chickenhawks run the country; the base can't sem to figure it out

Cheney: king of deferments during Vietnam
Bush: risked his life in the bars near southern US military bases during Vietnam

[Vickers]

24. OMIGAWD, it's Neville Longbottom!!!

:rofl:

[Writer]

27. LOL That was my thought, too!

M-m-my grandmutha made me do this...

[robbedvoter]

37. Damn! That was supposed to be my post. Poor Nevile, just recovering

from memory disorder induced by to many charms performed on his mind!

[Bob3]

25. sick and pathetic at the same time

I feel sorry for the kid - he's got the feral look of an animal tapped in a barbed wire fence. He looks trapped and hopeless. You can be sure It wasn't his damn idea to stand in the freezing cold of Texas on thanksgiving weekend. Let's hope on of the people from the anti war group gave him some hot chocolate.

And as sick, evil and twisted as the poster is, it speaks to the pathetic, even pitiful, need these folk have for * to be some kind of movie action hero/god. The reality of the situation was that * would never come within a hundred miles of Cindy. Hell she drove him out of Texas. It was his cowardly, and there is no other word for it, bunny in the headlights, repose to Cindy's brave question "why did my son die?" that started the downward slide that he now trying desperately to stop.

But his supporters can not and will not see the reality of the man. They pretend he is some kind of war hero/brave hunter/man of god. They have to since their own identities depend on him being that. Doubt for an instant and all the fears and worries that crowd outside the fortress of their minds will smash down the walls and sweep all their certainties away forcing them to view the world in all its complexity.

Not that that would be a bad thing.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

26. Not that that would be a bad thing.

Depends on your perspective. For these people, seeing the world in all it's complexities would be a calamity as it would shatter their sense of security.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

28. The turkey is awful enough

but the boy has genetic issues, I believe. Sad.

[Kolesar]

36. "The banjo player from Deliverance"? ... eom

[peekaloo]

57. lol...maybe that's why the report calls it "dueling rallies". nt

[Lefty48197]

31. and they'll claim no responsibility

if some nut decides to shoot at her, just as they claimed no responsibility when they egged Tim McVeigh into declaring war on his government.

[pat_k]

32. Like Schmidt in Congress, they are exposing themselves.

Like Schmidt in Congress, they are exposing themselves. This would repel all but the 20% that constitute the far end of the reactionary right.

[Stinky The Clown]

33. Child Abuse

Teaching your child to hate is as bad as sexually molesting them.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

38. I agree with you completely...

...I can't believe that the kid has no understanding of the subject matter in that picture, so yeah...I'd call it child abuse. The parents should have known better.

[roseBudd]

35. rated it a 5 on yahoo, go vote

[Dinger]

39. I Posted This On Another Site . . . & Kicked & Nominated! (nt)

[win_in_06]

40. The boy is from Fort Hood so his dad is probably a Soldier there.

Which is the same place Casey Sheehan was a soldier.

[TheCowsCameHome]

43. Hardly nice things to teach a young boy, especially by a soldier.

(If he is the son of a soldier, which would be my guess.)

[leftofthedial]

41. so first the bushturd murders her son

then the bushturd's supporters have the bushturd murdering her?

we HAVE to get these lunatics out of the gene pool before they breed any more.

[Mountainman]

42. He looks like a stupid kid of a stupid freeper.

All freepers have that same stupid expression on their faces in pictures.

[chelsea0011]

44. Question? What does the sign in back say? No Hag Limit, No Iraq Limit,

or no Bag Limit. That looks more like an H to me. This is truly a disturbing photo, but why should anyone be surprised. This is a group that are still crazy about the New Deal, Civil Rights Act, and Jane Fonda. Hate is their motto.

[robbedvoter]

45. My guess: no Hag - as in "Open season on hags"

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

53. Looks like "Hag"...the "artist" must have found the graphic too subtle.

This one's right up there with the Purple Heard Band-Aids.

:grr:

[robbedvoter]

48. Separated at birth?

[Freedomfried]

49. CALLING ALL PHOTOSHOPPERS! Lets get those heads right!

And change that sign, everyone knows its "Chickenhawk" season.

[jillan]

50. Wait a minute, my kids went with me to an anti-Bush rally.

I met someone at the rally that said he remembers when his parents took him to an anti-VietNam rally when he was a kid and thought it was great that I brought my kids.

So I guess I am no different than that kids mom, except of course, I have my politics in the right place. (or should I say the left place)

[Vickers]

51. It really depends on what type of function you are bringing your kids to

Anti-war? Cool.

Pro-dumbass? Not so cool.

[KingFlorez]

54. This is the result of child beating

Because it's crazy for someone to become a Bush bot that early

[MADem]

56. What a visceral photo

It invokes a reaction, and it ain't a happy-glad one either. The poster is so absurdly cruel and disrespectful to a Gold Star Mother that it defies words, and the look on the kid's face doesn't say DISNEYLAND! to me...

What a shameful moment in time!!! Hopefully the kid will change his appearance eventually, else he might have a hard time living that image down....

Kinda like this one:

[Faryn Balyncd]

58. Just following RNC talking points:

Rush Limbaugh, August 22, 2005:

"How many of you could take a week or two off or whatever and hang around a ditch?
I mean, where do these people work? First question I always ask: What do they do
for a living? Where do they get their money? Donations, folks, donations. They're glad handlers, they're glorified beggars, they're down there raising money during all of this. At one point I saw today Sheehan's website is getting 25 grand a day. Now you got a bunch of caterers down there and Joan Baez is down there and Joan Baez is down there strumming out the tunes, but the Washington politicians are not joining them down there, and this is upsetting....

"The Texans are very patient people, but the REAL TEXANS ARE NOT THE PEOPLE IN THAT DITCH DOWN THERE. Real Texans are putting on their camouflage gear and getting ready to go out there and go hunting, you know, hunting season is coming up. AT SOME POINT REAL TEXANS ARE GOING TO GET FED UP WITH WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN THERE AND IT'S GOING TO GET REAL FUN TO WATCH, IF YOU GET MY DRIFT, a-hem. ...

[NMMNG]

59. Yeah, nothing like glorifying your pretzeldent shooting a citizen

(albeit a turkey with the citizen's head on it), and worse yet, having a young child hold up the picture! Pass me some of dem wholesome family values!