If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Albania...Imagine a national population made up entirely of Republicans

[ProSense]

If It’s Sunday, It Must Be Albania

Close your eyes. No, not literally or you won’t be able to follow me. Imagine a national population made up entirely of Republicans, only less pulchritudinous. It’s a nation in which the only dissident lives abroad, protesters are nonexistent and nothing that George Bush does is ever examined in the least or ever criticized, a nation in which the inhabitants name streets and their children after him, devote three stamps to him and who think that everything he does is some way absolutely infallible and marvelous.

Sounds like a fairy land place, doesn’t it, kind of like Kansas only with more donkeys? Well, such a place exists and it’s called Albania and Curious George is visiting it today.

Leave it to George Bush to reap the benefits of something that was facilitated by Bill Clinton eight years ago today. And just think: Bush’s flaks didn’t even have to weed out any evil liberals and progressives as in his public appearances here at home. In fact, the NY Times did this:

A two-day effort to find anyone of prominence who might offer some criticism of the United States turned up just one name, and that person was out of the country.

I guess only the opinions of "prominent" people count, not the proles.

The appreciation that none of Bush’s 42 predecessors had even bothered to visit them has been conveniently lost on the Albanians, as has the fact that, before this week, Bush had hardly ever mentioned the need for Kosovo’s independence from Serbia.

But what else can you expect from a country that’s completely unable to distinguish between the Democratic Clinton administration that helped end a war and a genocide and the Republican Bush administration that got them into a needless war in Iraq and a genocide that had nothing to do with them or their interests?

[BlooInBloo]

1. The press (e.g. Broder) can't live with their President being unpopular, so they go to Albania...

... in an attempt to drum up some popularity for their boy.

EDIT: Those cwazee wascaly wabbits.

[aquart]

2. They love America because of Bill Clinton.

He stopped the Serbian final solution.

They know Europe was content to see them massacred. Clinton wasn't. He worked for years to get the coalition that went in there. Their lives depend on not losing American support. The Serbs are still next door. And the Europeans still don't give a rat's ass.

[peacetalksforall]

3. I remember during the days when we were supposed to hate commies,

I would look at the countries that were on the 'Don't travel to' list as demanded by the State Dept. Do you know how long after we made friends with Moscow that Albania was retained AT THE TOP OF THE LIST of places U.S. people could NOT GO TO? It was ridiculous. Evidently, we had it in for some hold outs or they were operating there and didn't want us to observe them. Brainwashing? They must not get tv or are out of touch with their neighbors. Methinks we like Albania because they could be a neat place to plant a military base. Maybe they also like smuggling. Am I besmirching the honor of Albania?

[liberal N proud]

4. Albania can have him

Quick, fly AF1 out of there before he gets on.
He is happy there, the people love him so they can just keep him.

[MikeNearMcChord]

7. Perhaps George can change his name to Enver

Like Enver Hoxha!

Talk about a cult of personality!
http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/Hoxha/Aug2001HoxhaEN.htm

[peacetalksforall]

5. I'm going to start asking this - keep it in the back of your great minds.

Do you think there is any thought that our leaders may be concocting war or peace with Russia to raise up Condaleeza as pres - since she is supposed to be the great expert on the USSR? Is she Cheney's replacement. Just think about it every once in awhile.

[bdamomma]

6. what is wrong with those Albanians??? treating him like a rock star??

:wtf:

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. See Post Number Two

It's purely out of respect for Americans because we led the intervention in Kosovo. It'a hard to find any nation left, 7 years into Bush's Presidency, where people still are grateful to America. Bush had to go to Albania, and now he's used up most of the list available to him.

[MistressOverdone]

8. Seems like just yesterday that Albania

was big on atheism. Now Muslim?

Nothing is more certain than change, I guess.

[deminks]

10. Whenever I hear of Albania, I think of the movie, Wag the Dog.

Where the politicos drummed up a totally fake war with Albania to boost their pretzeldente in the polls.
And many thought at the time this was a movie about the clenis. It may have been a movie about the Big Dog, but if it was, they were wrong, and they totally misunderestimated how the Usurper would wag the dog.