Day: October 21, 2004

Without further delay, we present the Heroes for Bush blogburst.
The blogburst is now complete, with over 50 heroes declaring for Bush! Thanks to all who participated, and if you haven’t done so already, please link directly to this roundup post to spread the visibility. Thanks again!
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OK, one more: Jim Geraghty of emails: Indiana Jones: “(sigh) al-Qaeda. I hate these guys.” And Professor Henry Jones: “The quest in Iraq is not nation-building, it’s a race against evil. If it is captured by the Islamists, the armies of darkness will march all over the face of the earth. Do you understand me? ”
Via Terriorists, Mr. Peabody takes Sherman on a tour of Kerry’s past, leading him to exclaim: “Make it stop, Mr. Peabody. It’s giving me a headache.”
Via Carniverous Conservative, General Patton: “…we have the finest food and laptops, the best looking women, and the best lawyers in the world. You know, by god, I actually pity those poor bastards we’re goin’ up against. ”
Via Minion of the Great Satan, Paul Kersey: “…from one reformed bleeding heart liberal to another, take my advice. Vote for George W. Bush for President.” Bonus: Sargeant Schultz endorses Kerry!
Via Right Wing Canadian, Don Cherey: “I hope Bush is reelected because we don’t want those European and French guys calling the shots on this war. We need to win, and to do that we need to take out all those bastards that want to take our guys out.”
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Via Sine Qua Non, John McClane: “”Yippee-ki-yay, motherf****r.” Bonus: Tracy Flick! Magnum Force! Marathon Man! High Noon! Casablanca!
Via Abraca-Pocus, Spike: “Let’s annihilate those terrorists, for justice, and for… the safety of puppies… and Christmas, right?”
Via Urthshu, Bonnie & Clyde: “We’re votin’ Bush. After we rob a bank.”
Via Editors in Pajamas, Alf: “I’m standing as tall as I can beside the President. My home, planet Melmac, has been a strong ally of the President’s offensive plan to combat this terror threat…”
Via The Laughing Wolf, Robert Mitchum: “Men, soon only going to be one type of person left on this beach, those that voted for Kerry. The rest of us are going to vote for Bush and take this fight to the enemy.”
Via Ghost of a Flea, Buffy: “That Whedon has reached a different conclusion about how this is to be expressed beyond the world of Sunnydale, California does not change this fact: the Hellmouth has opened and there are demons to be dispatched.”
Via Ranten N. Ravens, Xander explains voting to Buffy: “There’s a nest of human terrorist “vamps” that want to kill us all. Just like you go and hunt down vamps here, we need guys like Riley who hunt down the terrorists in there nests over there….”
Via Muledriver, A very confused John Kerry: “The bottom line is that we need a Texas cowboy in the White House! I mean, seriously, can you imagine if the country elected, say, some uber-liberal, UN-ass-kissing, elitist politician from…I don’t know, Massachusetts?”
Via One Stack Mind, Angel: “”If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.” Bonus: Captain Mackenzie Calhoun & Batman
Via Mountaineer Musings, Sydney Bristow & friends: “…while President Bush has been in power, I have never once been asked to work for a “French” part of the agency, I have only been asked to shoot French terrorists. So vote for Dubya, or work for the French.”
Via Dagney’s Rant, Buck Ramsey: “There are too many “gray shades” to the left. That is what they are afraid of our President. He sees a job that needs to get done, and he does it. ..”
Via Frank J, Jayne Cobb: “I like that Bush fella; he speaks my language. When he sees trouble, he doesn’t waste time talking; he just runs in there shooting. That’s the way it’s done…”
Via Protein Wisdom, Alfred E. Newman: “What, me worry? You’re goddamn right…”
Via An Elephant in My Pajamas, a little Gilbert and Sullivan: “He is the very model of the modern chief executive / His leadership has shown me that his terms should be consecutive…”
Via Shining Full Plate and a Good Broadsword, Lt. Jean Rasczak: “There IS NO negotiating on my team! And there IS NO negotiating on Bush

Brief break from the for Bush leadup.
I just love this:
Rock stars back new Band Aid song
A new version of the Band Aid charity single is being recorded with current stars, according to Midge Ure, one of the singers behind the original song.
Coldplay, Travis, The Darkness and Keane have backed the project, Midge Ure said on his website on Thursday.
The original Band Aid song, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, released in 1984, featured artists including Duran Duran, U2, Bananarama and George Michael.
…Midge Ure, former singer with Ultravox, said there were still big problems in Africa that needed urgent attention.
“The famine doesn’t go away,” he told the ITV News Channel.
“This song still stands up, that’s the important part. Re-record the song, get the new guys on board and it will focus the attention and raise the money for the problems out there.”
In recent years, I’ve always found the idea of recording a pop song about Christmas to support efforts to help a largely non-Christian population to be remarkably politically incorrect. Isn’t it a rather rude disregard for local customs, culture, etc.?
But I guess when liberal pop stars talk about Christianity, it is by definition politically correct. The rules keep changing on me, I can’t keep up.
But as a thought experiment, let’s pretend for a second that the original Band Aid never happened, and that a group of Bush-supporting red-state country singers came up with the idea to help Africans with a song titled “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” How well received do you think that would be by the left? Think they’d even make it out of the studio before the squawking started?
PS: Remember, I’m agnostic (at least I think I am, but I’m not sure…) so I don’t have a dog in this fight…
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Folks:
The response to the for Bush blogburst has been great thus far, and it seems to only be growing. Thanks to everyone who has expressed interest and spread the word on the effort.
I will actually be posting the official ’roundup’ post sometime around 9pm PDT this evening. Quite a few folks have already gone ahead and posted their submissions, so I might as well start with the early birds.
If you haven’t posted yet and plan to participate, I’d ask that you try to get your submission to me by 5am PDT on Friday morning. That’s when I’ll do an update with the next batch of submissions; after that I’ll do one or two more throughout the day, but the Day Job will prohibit me from doing continual updates.
Best approach is to TrackBack the roundup post, or add a comment to it, which will get you some visibility while you’re waiting for me to get to adding it to the roundup.
Once again, thanks to all, and I look forward to reading what our greatest heroes have to say about the election!