pudge's Journal: UR STUPID!

A bunch of people on IRC were talking about the passage of the flag burning amendment in the House, and providing this as evidence that Bush shouldn't be President, because this amendment is so stupid, and therefore only stupid people voted for Bush.

Of course, as most readers of my journal know, the President has nothing whatsoever to do with amending the Constitution, except that he can talk about it, like anyone else, and to my knowledge he has not even done that (I'd welcome links to show otherwise; I'll check tomorrow's WH press briefing to see if someone brings it up).

It's a common theme: most of the people who say Bush and Bush voters are stupid actually know less about law and government and political philosophy than most of the people I know who did vote for Bush, and certainly know a lot less than Bush himself knows.

They're like the people who criticize others for "mispelling" a word.

Hey; how are you?

[ellem]

You seem very... fed up(?) lately?

Never heard him speak on the subject

[jdavidb]

Until I hear otherwise, I'm going to assume that Bush feels as I do on the subject, which is to oppose the amendment. (Although, with his commitment to democracy, I'm sure he feels that the correct answer is to let the people vote on it, i.e., the amendment process, which will either succeed or fail.)

BTW, from my point of view, this is an infringement on religious (!) liberties. Yes, religious liberties. I know some people (do not agree with them) who believe that the flag is an idol. Now, if someone

Re:Never heard him speak on the subject

[ceejayoz]

You're also not supposed to write on it, and there's an amusing photo of Bush signing one. Heh.

Re:Never heard him speak on the subject

[nocomment]

That is a fascinating viewpoint.

Wait wait wait...

[FortKnox]

... lemmie get this straight... you're saying that everything I see as bad in the government is not necessarily Bush, and things I like happening in the government isn't necessarily the Democrats in Congress?

Whoa!

I love talking to people that don't really follow politics, then complain about it. You ask them specifics, get them caught into realizing they are complaining about 'what they heard' and not investigated it themselves.

Interesting

[nocomment]

So who started it?

Oh yeah

[cascadefx]

=^)

It's a common theme: most of the people who say Bush and Bush voters are stupid actually know less about law and government and political philosophy than most of the people I know who did vote for Bush, and certainly know a lot less than Bush himself knows.

Come one, Pudge. I know a lot of Bush Voters that know nothing about government either. 8 people that I know voted for Bush because he was going to protect marriage by passing a marriage amendment to the consitution. Same argument, different c

Re:Oh yeah

[pudge]

I know a lot of Bush Voters that know nothing about government either.

Of course. I didn't imply otherwise.

So what?

I just think it is funny that someone is accusing Bush and Bush voters of being stupid via attacking something Bush has nothing to do with. You don't have to agree!