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Is America ready?

Category: Politics
Posted on: July 5, 2008 9:40 AM, by PZ Myers

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Posted by: steve8282 | July 5, 2008 9:56 AM

Wow, Richard Thompson is shitting himself.

Posted by: ryanm | July 5, 2008 10:00 AM

a poor, non-white, gay, female, non-Anglo-Saxon, atheist President actually sounds pretty refreshing. At least Obama is a step in the right direction..

Posted by: steve8282 | July 5, 2008 10:01 AM

Robert Zimmerman too.

Posted by: BigHeathenMike | July 5, 2008 10:10 AM

You know, if there was a nice withdrawal plan, a decent idea for universal health care and s/he wasn't a complete douchebag, (and if I was American) I'd be ready for a one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple people eating president.

Posted by: raven | July 5, 2008 10:15 AM

A female or half black potential president doesn't bother me in the least. At this point in time, Barney the purple dinosaur, Kermit the green frog, or the Cat in the Hat would be acceptable.

Posted by: Reynold hall | July 5, 2008 10:19 AM

I second ryanm's comment...the US could really use a change.

OT, so feel free to edit this part out...What the hell kind of poll is this? They seem to have left an option out: "Maybe those people have the same right to purchase things as anyone else?"

Posted by: Julian | July 5, 2008 10:25 AM

I'd settle for an undead president. What we really need to do is raise Theodore Roosevelt from the dead so someone can tell these corps to blow it out their rears and deal with the U.S. having the same kind of health coverage that every other modern nation enjoys. I doubt the Philippines or Japan would be too comfortable with that, though.

Posted by: llewelly | July 5, 2008 10:39 AM

Undead president, Julian? Like Jesus?

Posted by: ryanm | July 5, 2008 11:00 AM

Reynold,

That poll is sooo frustrating! We can't crash it!!!!

#10

Posted by: Mercurious | July 5, 2008 11:16 AM

Actually you can crash that one Ryanm. Delete the cookie folder "onenewsnow.com" then hit refresh at the bottom of the poll.

#11

Posted by: decrepitoldfool | July 5, 2008 11:45 AM

Zounds! They've discovered the secret to an uncrashable poll! Simply not include any non-insane options.

#12

Posted by: Sili | July 5, 2008 11:47 AM

Well,

I went for "It's an affluent market". Most cretins are greedy bastards after all.

#13

Posted by: craig | July 5, 2008 11:56 AM

Well, "Do not value pro family business" is probably the best answer, considering that in this case "pro family" is a synonym for bigoted, hateful theocrats.

#14

Posted by: Scott D. | July 5, 2008 12:09 PM

I'd expect to see that poll at the Onion. I'm surprised "because they hate America" or "because they support the terrorists" aren't options.

#15

Posted by: Mike Wilhelm | July 5, 2008 12:20 PM

does anyone have the link to an rss feed for Ron Zimmerman?

#16

Posted by: scooter | July 5, 2008 12:24 PM

Roy Zimmerman is the bomb, he's got a lot of stuff on youTube, all gems.

PATRICIA You call yourself a proper slut???
HAH! Behold the FLOOZY !!

Praise BoB

!!!!SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION ALERT!!!!

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Thanks for all the Fish!

....and Calamari

-scooter

#17

Posted by: uncle frogy | July 5, 2008 12:32 PM

from the right side of the onenewsnow.com
"If the influence of universalism upon the church continues, there will be no Christian influence of any consequence in America in 25 years."

one can only hope!

what the hell is "unversalism anyway?

#18

Posted by: AndrewC | July 5, 2008 1:11 PM

I love Roy Zimmerman

#19

Posted by: Susan | July 5, 2008 1:16 PM

Roy Z is the best; I've seen him in concert many times and he's so prolific that he's always got new songs. "Jerry Falwell's God" is one of my enduring favorites. He stopped playing it for awhile because he thought folks had forgotten who Jerry Falwell was, but he's added it back to the set-list, thankfully.

#20

Posted by: Bill Dauphin | July 5, 2008 1:26 PM

Odd: I subscribe to Roy Z's YouTube channel, but had not gotten notified of this one.

I did, however, get notified of this not-unrelated ditty last week.

As an aside: Is is possible/acceptable to embed YouTube in these comments, rather than just linking? I haven't tried it because I wasn't sure how welcome embeds would be.

#21

Posted by: --PatF in Madison | July 5, 2008 6:42 PM

Uncle Froggy @ #17:

Universalism is probably one of the few religions people on this blog could stand. It holds that there will be universal salvation from a loving god no matter what you have done in this world. Thus you and I and PZ will be saved by the Universalist god. (I am sure that this will be all to the good.)

The down side, of course, is that Jesse Helms will also be saved. Not so sure I like the idea of that.

There is a decent article on Universalism in Wikipedia if you are interested.

I think the point behind the ONENEWSNOW comment is that, if Universalism gains influence, the right wing will not be able to threaten people with everlasting torment in fire and brimstone. Fear of everlasting torment is one of their main ways of keeping control over their followers and this says quite a bit about those scum.

#22

Posted by: --PatF in Madison | July 5, 2008 6:55 PM

One more post about onenewsnow.

These guys are truly cdesign proponentsists. They have an AP newsfeed to their site but, when the news comes in they have an autoreplace mechanism that changes words they don't like to ones they do.

For example, the phrase "Democratic Party" is always changed to "Democrat Party."

The word "Gay" is always changed to "Homosexual."

OK. Got that?

Well, Tyson Gay won the 100 meters at the Olympic Trials. Wanna guess what showed up on their web site?

Yup. "Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters..."

There is a screen capture of the headline at
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/06/the_dangers_of_1.html

Sometimes I think the USA will survive simply because the enemies of freedom are just so damned stupid.

#23

Posted by: blf | July 6, 2008 12:58 PM

And of course, Mr Roy Z has his say on the "issue" of Obama's name et al., http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-c3VgHCUQ

#24

Posted by: john@hotmail.com | September 13, 2009 6:34 PM