Yeah! My fellow 'Bama fans are catching on!

[Syrinx]

Some of you may have heard about the murder of Logan Young. He was a former booster for the Alabama football team, who went over the line and got the University in a heap of trouble. And he was convicted of crimes, in federal court. Anyway that's just a little background.

I went to http://www.tidefans.com to see what was being said about the murder. I haven't checked in there in a while. In the past, the members seemed to be about 75% hard-core Bush worshipers, so I couldn't take extended visits on a regular basis.

Looking at that site early this morning, the Bush-love seems to have cooled significantly since my last visit. There are still a few BushBots there of course (CrimsonNan, allegedly a woman, is about the worst), but not like before.

But I really enjoyed the following post. It's like something you'd read here on DU. (This bobstod fellow has always been reasonable, so I'm not exactly using this post to symbolize the turnaround that the public is having concerning Bush. It's just the 'bots don't seem as outspoken as in the past.)

(I'm not sure exactly which post he is responding to, because their software is almost as bad as FR's.)

Clinton's BJ in the Oval Office hallway didn't amount to a mild expulsion of stomach gas compared to the tornado of events and decisions wherein Dubya brought shame and ridicule upon this nation.

He's tapping your phones. He's holding prisoners in Cuba without access counsel and without charges being brought...FOR FOUR YEARS!!! He's squandering you children's wealth on a nation-building effort that he was led to by his religious beliefs, and which he and Cheney and Rumsfeld and that gang had in mind before he ever was appointed president by a conservative supreme court; and which they have bungled and screwed up to the point of causing a civil war. He finally, after screaming and kicking all the way, signed a bill outlawing torture, but he made a signing statement that it didn't really apply to him. He thinks science is gobbldegook and appoints idealogues to positions of oversight on scientific research. He and his neocon oil millionaire cronies have pushed every EPA restriction on pollution of our air and water to the farthest limits possible and put the polluters in charge of regulation. The national debt is higher than it has ever been in the history of this nation. The list is long and growing...this is not half of it.

Clinton erased the deficit in five years and reduced the size of government. He initiated the most sweeping changes to welfare in history. By the time he left office the federal government was running the largest surplusses ever seen in the history of this nation; a surplus that Dubya erased in the first two years of his first term.

Clinton was impeached by a congress controlled by the opposition party, and investigated by a political enemy appointed by that conservative body; neither of these shamefully wasteful and vindictive actions produced a charge against him.

Dubya was appointed to the presidency after losing the popular vote. He raised the religious right to the status of a cabinet department and courted Jerry Falwell, a man who should certainly be confined to a rubber room.

You are concerned about the shame that Bill Clinton brought to the White House? Have you been asleep for six years?

http://tidefans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41295&page=2&pp=13

[xchrom]

1. the writer certainly can turn a phrase!

[nonconformist]

2. What a great post! bobstod has this regime's number. nt

[kstewart33]

3. That's a great post

As a native Alabamian who left the state many years ago, it's good to see someone eloquently explain the Bush problem.

[Syrinx]

6. oops!

Meant that to be a private message. :D

[Alamom]

4. Great post.......Thanks.eom

[Syrinx]

5. very strange update on the murder case

Now they are saying it was an accident.

Wednesday, the Memphis police said it was a brutal murder. They said the body was so damaged that positive identification would have to wait until fingerprints and dental records were checked.

Thursday, they changed the story. Now they are saying Mr. Young's death was the result of an accidental fall down a flight of stairs.

Huh? :shrug:

[Elwood P Dowd]

7. That is real strange Syrinx

I was listening to one of the sports talk shows and heard about that (Sonny and Wimp maybe?). Just how do you fall down the stairs and turn your face into ground beef? Memphis is dangerous in more ways than one. Have you noticed that SEC football coaches won't get near the place? The Memphis Tigers must be loving it, because now they can sign all the local talent. They are winning games and playing in bowls all of a sudden.

[Syrinx]

8. There's something fishy going on, but I'm not sure what

It seems that a lot of UA fans are blaming it on UT. And a lot of UT fans are blaming it on UA.

I sure hope that neither scenario is true.

For some reason, the Memphis Tigers angle didn't even occur to me.

I don't have the foggiest clue to what is really going on. But something ain't kosher.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. I've lived in Alabama for the last 16 years, and I'm hearing a LOT....

...of people from all walks of life saying the same thing about The Chosen One. I'm beginning to think they've grown to hate the guy as much as I've hated the Bush family for the last four decades.

[Syrinx]

10. me too

I don't know anyone that likes the Prince anymore, except for a few fundie relatives. (For all I know, maybe they've turned too. I don't speak to them all that often.)

I guess this is tinfoil time for me, but I don't think Alabama is quite as "red" as the pundits and ES&S say.

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. It's definitely changing for the better, but there are still

plenty of Bushit lovers down here. They get upset on the weekends, but then when Rush and Hannity give them their talking points on Monday, and it's back to normal by Tuesday. Doubts start back again by Thursday when the talking points don't jive with reality, so that requires a trip to church for some re-education on Sunday. It appears we have now won 3 days a week. Compared to zero days a week in 2004, that's progress.