Guardian’s Letter To America: Dear John McCain Voter…
ANORAK remembers when the Guardian tried to influence voters in the US or A who were too darn stooped to work out that George Bush was going to kill them all with his weather machine.
Operation Clark County would see Guardian readers instruct those colonial picaninnies, rednecks, white trash, gangbangers and creationists that John Kerry should be president and not George Bush.
As Jonathan Freedland put it:
If everyone in the world will be affected by this election, shouldn’t everyone in the world have a vote?
Guardian readers were to write to Americans living in Clark County, Ohio, and swing the swing state for swinging John Kerry, President of Planet Earth.
There was advice:
And in choosing your arguments, keep in mind the real risk of alienating your reader by coming across as interfering or offensive. You might want to handwrite your letter, for additional impact, and we strongly recommend including your own name and address - it lends far more credibility to your views, and you might get a reply…
Replies like “Dear Asshole..”; “f*** U” and “I KANT REED”…
George Bush won Clark County by 1,620 votes.
Now Martin Kettle writes in the Guardian:
Maybe it hardly bears thinking about the morning of November 5 if Barack Obama has lost to John McCain the previous day.
Remember, remember the fifth of November…
All that would be as nothing to the global dismay that would greet the election of President McCain. Much of the world would simply despair of the American people — and so would many Americans.
Global dismay?
Pass the stamps….
August 31st, 2008 at 8:24 pm
I don’t know whether to laugh or be horrified. That’s more offensive than Coco! I live in Colbert County, so, should you see such a letter writing campaign for mine, save yourself the postage. My response would be something like this: “Dear New British Friend, Sacrificing my interests to yours didn’t work so well in the years preceding 1776, it especially sucked in the years 1942 to 1950, and, well, now actually. Please do be a sport and drop a poppy or two in the field for my various relatives who stayed with you though, and expect another letter when you get around to that referendum on abolishing the monarchy! Warmest Effing Regards, p…p.s. About that whole “dividing the world with Hitler” deal–exactly who was to get me?”
August 31st, 2008 at 11:24 pm
I TEND to agree with Pam. Economic disaster seems likely to set in about six months after Curious George and Joe Biden take office; you simply cannot increase government spending in a time of near recession (read:socialized healthcare.) I think we all realize that Bush made a lot of mistakes so, can we move on now? The current president was not prepared for Sept 11th but then who was? He had a terribly difficult situation on his hands with that, not to mention the incompetent intelligence that he got on Iraq. It SEEMS like McCain is a lot different from Bush but it is 2 months until the big day…why don’t we all take in as much information as we can and try to make a decision that is best for each of us thereby making a decision that is best for the country.