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The CPUSA has made available on its Web site, cpusa.org, an advertisement entitled Top Ten Reasons To Defeat Bush. This advertisement can be downloaded. The communist party urges readers to place this ad in local newspapers throughout the country to defeat President Bush.
Remarkably, the "Top Ten Reasons" of the Communist party are identical to those of the Democratic party; out-sourcing, homosexual rights, abortion and the like.
At first, I thought "this is only a coincidence." The Democratic party of the United States couldn't be in lock step with the Marxists! So, I wrote to a spokesman of the CPUSA in Georgia and here is part of his letter:
" The CPUSA supports the John Kerry campaign with donations and volunteer effort. We believe that defeating George Bush is the single most important issue this November ..."
[...]
A Vietnam vet group took a trip to Communist Hanoi to investigate a report that John Kerry was in the "Hanoi Hall of Fame." Yes, there is a museum in Hanoi with a section dedicated to foreign activists who help defeat the United States Military in Vietnam. Of course, you would expect Jane Fonda's picture to be there. But, alas, there is John Kerry's picture shaking the hand of a communist official.
The mainstream media, of course, will not point little things like this out to the average voter. Might confuse 'em. Better to just focus on the four months John F. Kerry spent in Vietnam getting Purple Hearts every time he needed a band-aid for a self-inflicted wound.
The good news for Kerry is that he apparently has his base all sewn up.
Possible new slogan:
"Buy Heinz Ketchup...It's Red!"
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— go to most recent comments1 - Despite
Is this really what I'm subscribed to? The mainstream media is expected to publicize the alleged views of the Communist Party, and if they choose not to then THAT is bias? It's so backwards. To make an accusation of bias and follow it up with "getting Purple Hearts every time he needed a band-aid for a self-inflicted wound" is ludicrous.
Every time I feel like arguing with a blogger I say to myself, "Maybe it's just the nature of the blog to promote knee-jerk exaggerated statements and maybe it's not worth responding to because who will remember this tomorrow anyway?" Oh well, this time I decided it's not hitting "unsubscribe" without a bit of a comment.
2 - Hal Pawluk
Your heading doesn't match your content.
While your heading tries to slam Kerry, your story is about the Commies having "an advertisement entitled Top Ten Reasons To Defeat Bush"
A more accurate heading might be: "Even Commies are against Bush Just How Bad IS he?."
Give it up, RJ. Trash talkin' isn't going to hide the facts that Bush is a flop and the neocons are losers.
3 - Mac Diva
And, David Duke, Matt Hale [edited] support Bush. The fact some extremists favor a given candidate is a given.
4 - RJ
A more accurate heading might be: "Even Commies are against Bush Just How Bad IS he?."
If the commies oppose a candidate, that's a pretty sure sign that the candidate in question is doing something right.
5 - RJ
"And, David Duke, Matt Hale and RJ [...] support Bush."
Do you have cites that show that Mr. Hale and Mr. Duke support Bush?
If so, please provide them. If not, why are you lying again?
6 - Ed Godard
The ad hominem posts that proliferate on blogcritics, left or right, bore me to tears. How about some reasoning? Anyone? Bueller?
7 - jadester
i read this article and thought i'd done a "donnie darko" and somehow slipped back in time to the Cold War...
"The commies support kerry, and we all know commies are teh evil! let's go 0wn those n00bs down in china and korea!"
8 - Eric Olsen
Despite, what does "subscribe" mean? Do you mean RSS? And surely you know by now that you are going to get the gamut of opinion, fact and news on this site. I never understand why people would allow a given post or perspective bother them so - ignore it. Don't read that category. Don't read that writer. Make a comment refuting the position. Do you expect to agree with everything on any site or in any publication?
9 - Shark
RJ, I beat you to the punch by SIX MONTHS.
Shark Beats RJ on Kerry Smears
10 - JR
RJ: If the commies oppose a candidate, that's a pretty sure sign that the candidate in question is doing something right.
The commies opposed Osama bin Laden long before we did. Are you saying you think bin Laden has been doing something right?
11 - Dirtgrain
Quality not quantity--else you turn into James Carville, Karl Rove or Joseph Goebbels--scatologists, one and all.
12 - Mark Saleski
I never understand why people would allow a given post or perspective bother them so - ignore it. Don't read that category. Don't read that writer.
i think the problem here is that some posts are well-written, and some come off as outcasts from a junior high school newspaper.
i guess if this isn't seen as detrimental to the growth of blogcritics then there are no worries.
13 - Mac Diva
LOL! Mark, you crack me up. Laconic. . .but lethal.
I've made the same point as Mark has much more laboredly. It isn't just a matter of people coming to the site. When they come to Blogcritics and see the proliferating 'empty' entries by people who throw up anything to be on the leader board, that forms an impression of what the site is about -- quantity, not quality. "Outcasts from a junior high school newspaper." Exactly! If a reasonable person is going to read even a record or movie review, he wants there to be some substance to it. The site is moving in just the opposite direction.
14 - Ed Godard
Diva, you're just as guilty of lacking substance with the boring, trite 'left is right, right is wrong' and 'my friends are correct because they are my friends, they are my friends because they are correct' approaches... not to mention hogging the Leaderboard.
15 - Eric Olsen
I am exceedingly weary of the "site is moving in the wrong direction" argument.
No one on earth has read this site from day one as comprehensively as I have, and there is less than zero doubt that by any possible measurement the site has improved inexorably over time in terms of writing style, originality, research, width breadth and depth of coverage, sophistication, variety, AND volume.
We have agitators from every direction whose primary purpose is to do just that: agitate; and those who are agitated inevitably cite the source of that agitation as sign of the decline of homo sapiens, as well as the site.
I've been hearing this since we polluted the original concept by adding categories for books, movies, and the implacable stain of (shhh) politics, which would mean we have been indecline since about our third day.
Oh yes, and then there is the grotesque commercialization of the site, the blaspheny of soliciting donations, and the effrontery of actually ALTERING the gems and jewels of egregious personal insult on display in our comment section.
A tiny, weeny, insect's dick full of positivity now and then might be nice.
16 - Dirtgrain
This site kicks ass.
-signed, Fleadick (an egregious insult in itself, a pun on my middle name, Friedrich. A friend or two has thusly mocked me, but the chicks all call me humungo chungo, so it balances out)
17 - Eric Olsen
Your positivity is duly noted and appreciated, Mr. Dick
18 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
"Despite, what does "subscribe" mean? Do you mean RSS? And surely you know by now that you are going to get the gamut of opinion, fact and news on this site. I never understand why people would allow a given post or perspective bother them so - ignore it."
i too found the unsubscribe comment a tad strange. It's not like every writer on Blogcritics has the same political beliefs, a fact which goes some way towards ensuring it remains incredibly worthwhile. I don't agree with this post one little bit, being one of those lefty type sons a bitches, but i love that i can come here (as i do about a dozen times an hour. This site has monopolised my web-habbits.) and get a whole wealth of differing views and so on. And to be honest, i usually enjoy stuff i don't agree with more than stuff i do.
It's also allowed me to throw some of the old prejudices aside. At one time, i wouldn't have for a second considered RJ might be a decent person who just happens to have a differing opinion. Being in such close proximity to these writers (at least in a virtual sense) forces The Duke to realise that folks like RJ are actually rather nice folks. I don't agree with them, but so what?
19 - Eric Olsen
Duke, you are a prince
20 - Mark Saleski
not only is he a prince, he is a person who is actually able to string a word or two together.
which, honestly, was my point.
21 - jadester
eric, i wouldn't worry about it too much. the big arguments probably help to keep some people reading BC too.
They also help to demonstrate that the site manages to remain reasonably balanced with only a little editing - nowhere near enough to be called censorship, really. Not compared to other media
22 - Eric Olsen
Thanks Jadester, good points!
23 - Steve Rhodes
I hate to break it to you, but the Iraqi Communists were against Saddam Hussein. Did that mean he was doing somethng right?
The Communists supported ending segregation. Does that mean the segregationists were right?
I haven't seen the nationalization of GE and Microsoft in the Democratic platform or a call for revolution.
So I don't think the ever shrinking membership of the CPUSA is going to have much impact on the election even as a right-wing boogeyman.
24 - Dawn
Call me Ms.Negativity, but damn if this isn't a lame post.
So if NAMBLA decides to support Bush, does that warrant a post?
"Pedophilic organization says Bush gives them major wood, Up With Bush!!"
Yeesh!
While I can understand the sentiment involved in this post ie. "communism bad = Kerry bad" it just doesn't hold water when it comes to giving a concrete and tangible reason for voting for Bush and not voting for Kerry.
Let's face it, a vast number of people would vote for George Washington over Bush at this point and George has a been relevant for a few hundred years.
It's a matter of the lesser of two evils.
Not that Bush is evil - or is he?
25 - RJ
"So if NAMBLA decides to support Bush, does that warrant a post?"
I wouldn't need to post it, because the mainstream media would have already made it water-cooler talk by now.
Oh, and I'm guessing NAMBLA's for Kerry anyway... ;-)