Marie Antoinette works on Bush's campaign now?

[gekkogecko]

URL:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=615&ncid=696&e=4&u=/nm/20040729/pl_nm/campaign_jobs_dc

Text:
Unhappy Workers Should Take Prozac --Bush Campaigner

Thu Jul 29, 1:50 PM ET Add Politics to My Yahoo!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A campaign worker for President Bush (news - web sites) said on Thursday American workers unhappy with low-quality jobs should find new ones -- or pop a Prozac to make themselves feel better.

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?" said Susan Sheybani, an assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry Holt.

The comment was apparently directed to a colleague who was transferring a phone call from a reporter asking about job quality, and who overheard the remark.

When told the Prozac comment had been overheard, Sheybani said: "Oh, I was just kidding."

While recent employment growth has buoyed Bush's economic record, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) has argued the new jobs are not as good as those lost due to outsourcing in recent years.

Nearly 1.1 million jobs have been lost since Bush took office in January 2001.

[Lilith]

oops!

[Aqua]

Doh!

[scotzoidman]

Most of us without a better job don't have health coverage so we can go to the doctor or prescription coverage so we can afford the prozac...

Can you say "out of touch", boys & girls?...I knew that you could... ;)

[Catch22]

Off with thier heads!

[Grumble]

Off with thier heads!
The Queen from Alice in Wonderland is responsible for the "Off with their heads" quote but it was poor Marie Antoinette who had that fate befall her.

Historians believe that Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" when informed by her courtiers that the people protesting outside her palace were doing so because they were too poor to buy bread.

Marie Antoinette was called Madame Deficit and blamed for the country's financial problems. It is true that she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; her mother wrote to warn her that "a queen can only degrade herself by this sort of heedless extravagance in difficult times." But Marie Antoinette was not quite as foolish and spoiled as the public believed. It certainly is not true that she said "Let them eat cake" when told that people were starving. As a woman and a foreigner she made a convenient scapegoat for the nation's problems, and it seemed that no slander against her was too wild to be widely believed.

In October Marie Antoinette, now called "the Widow Capet," was tried and, like her husband, convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. On October 16, 1793 she was taken through the streets of Paris in an open cart. She maintained her dignity to the end. On the scaffold she accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot, and her last words were, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose."

For more info go to:
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html

Poor woman had enough trouble being mixed up with King Louis XVI, please do not let her get involved with King George W :D

[Steph]

I'm guessing she'll be looking for another job soon. She might be needing a double dosage of Prozac.

[lakritze]

"Laissez-les manger le gateau." HHHMMMMMM Isn't Prozac a pharmicutial? Doesn't the industry stand to make a huge profit from the sale of prozac?Isn't prozac quite dangerous to many of it's users? Couldn't she have been a little more sensative and say,Why don't they just smoke a bong full?

[Irish]

The Queen from Alice in Wonderland is responsible for the "Off with their heads" quote but it was poor Marie Antoinette who had that fate befall her.

Historians believe that Marie Antoinette never said "let them eat cake" when informed by her courtiers that the people protesting outside her palace were doing so because they were too poor to buy bread.

Marie Antoinette was called Madame Deficit and blamed for the country's financial problems. It is true that she enjoyed a lavish lifestyle; her mother wrote to warn her that "a queen can only degrade herself by this sort of heedless extravagance in difficult times." But Marie Antoinette was not quite as foolish and spoiled as the public believed. It certainly is not true that she said "Let them eat cake" when told that people were starving. As a woman and a foreigner she made a convenient scapegoat for the nation's problems, and it seemed that no slander against her was too wild to be widely believed.

In October Marie Antoinette, now called "the Widow Capet," was tried and, like her husband, convicted of treason and sentenced to be guillotined. On October 16, 1793 she was taken through the streets of Paris in an open cart. She maintained her dignity to the end. On the scaffold she accidentally stepped on the executioner's foot, and her last words were, "Monsieur, I ask your pardon. I did not do it on purpose."

For more info go to:
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/France/MarieAntoinette.html

Poor woman had enough trouble being mixed up with King Louis XVI, please do not let her get involved with King George W :D
Grumble---It ALL depends on peoples attitude!You know the way the terrorrists,have been kidnapping workers of companies,& threatening to behead them,unless the Co. withdraws?Some cry,some beg,etc.When they kidnaooed an Italian,Before they killed him,he spit in their face & told them-
This is how an Italian dies!They were going to kill him,anyway.Why give them the satisfaction,of begging? Irish

[lakritze]

Irish,Have you ever heard the story of Robespierre the fanatical leader of the French revolution? He met the same fate with the guillotine a year later.After his reign of "virtue" and his attempt of ridding France of his own political enemies.Before he could be arrested and tried,he loaded a muskette and shot himself just below the rightjaw.But as luck would have it,he survived his suicide attempt.He was arrested and given a piece of cloth to hold his jaw in place and some Cognac for the intense pain. Through the night he waited. At dawn he was summarilly tried an executed. Refrence from old National Geographic I wish I still had.

[Irish]

Irish,Have you ever heard the story of Robespierre the fanatical leader of the French revolution? He met the same fate with the guillotine a year later.After his reign of "virtue" and his attempt of ridding France of his own political enemies.Before he could be arrested and tried,he loaded a muskette and shot himself just below the rightjaw.But as luck would have it,he survived his suicide attempt.He was arrested and given a piece of cloth to hold his jaw in place and some Cognac for the intense pain. Through the night he waited. At dawn he was summarilly tried an executed. Refrence from old National Geographic I wish I still had.
lakritze---No,I never heard of him.The only reason that I knew of the Italian,
was that,they showed it on the news when it happened.Everyday,I try too catch the local news at noontime,for the weather.The local news,is an ABC
affiliate.I saw,it there.It was an AP Bulletin. Irish

[jseal]

Irish,

Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre, (May 6, 1758–July 28, 1794), known also to his contemporaries as "the Incorruptible", is one of the best known of the leaders of the French Revolution. He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety, which oversaw the period of the French Revolution which is commonly known as the Reign of Terror. Politically, although a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, he became an extreme left-winger, and a capable articulator of these beliefs. He harnessed this talent as a means of rabble-rousing. These are his words of December 3, 1792:

“This is no trial; Louis is not a prisoner at the bar; you are not judges; you are - you cannot but be - statesmen, and the representatives of the nation. You have not to pass sentence for or against a single man, but you have to take a resolution on a question of the public safety, and to decide a question of national foresight. It is with regret that I pronounce, the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die, that the country may live.”

Citizen Louis Capet (Louis XVI of France) was guillotined on January 21, 1793.

[Irish]

jseal---Thanks!That explains it!I don't know alot of extreme left wingers! Irish

[jseal]

Irish,

Generaly a good thing.

[Grumble]

jseal---Thanks!That explains it!I don't know alot of extreme left wingers! Irish

Of course not Irish, as fellow aaircraft maintenance engineers we know that if you fly extremely left wing low you will continue to fly in ever decreasing counter clockwise circles till you disappear up your own arse :D

I must return to my cerebrating after that gem :)

[Oldfart]

Mighty oaks brought down by little termites?

[Catch22]

Recalls some graffiti I once saw: Fascists have more fun.

[lakritze]

So good ole Robespierre happened to be an extreme left winger some 50 years before Karl Marx wrote his manifesto.hhhhmmmmm interesting.

[jseal]

lakritze,

That is correct. As convention sets the ancien régime on the political right, people who call out for their killing are usually placed on the left.

[LixyChick]

I've been following these campaigns and conventions as best I can recently...and just yesterday I sat through part of the campaign sweep through Ohio with G.W. tooting his horn from his scripted speech! I swear that man is from space or something! He has no concept of the "common" man/woman and his/her real life situations. It's like he's in an ivory tower and only knows what he is told...and the worst part is, he believes he is "in touch" with us and can see how our lives are effected by his actions! He (IMHO) is so fucked up that I will jump off this goddamed planet if he wins this upcoming election! Someone direct me to the edge so I can get prepared...cause I saw people applauding his comments yesterday and I was flabberghasted! I said I'd jump off the planet if he initially got elected...then I back pedaled and waited and gave him a chance to redeem himself in my eyes. He got worse in my eyes!

Don't tell me this country is better since you've been in office Mr. President! Even your campaign workers are out of touch with us! Prozac my ass! We can't afford Prozac (or most any other prescription drug out there) because of the rising costs! You should go get yourself a lobotomy...it might make you appear smarter!

*looks down at the soapbox*

Shit! I didn't mean to do that again!

*leaves this thread in embarrassment*

P.S. Register and VOTE!

[jseal]

P.S. Register and VOTE!

Hear, hear!