This is an email a repub friend sent me. Apologies if this is a dupe!

[Tim4319]

I am a senior citizen:
>
During the Clinton Administration I had an extremely good and well paying job.

I took numerous vacations and had several vacation homes.
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Since President Bush took office, I have watched my entire life change for the worse.
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> I lost my job.
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> I lost my two sons in that terrible Iraqi War.
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> I lost my homes.
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> I lost my health insurance.
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As a matter of fact I lost virtually everything and became homeless.
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Adding insult to injury, when the authorities found me living like an animal, instead of helping me, they arrested me.
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I will do anything that Senator Kerry wants to insure that a Democrat is back in the White House come next year.
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> Bush has to go.
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> Sincerely,
>
> Saddam Hussein
>

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

1. Change "Saddam Hussein" to

current number of Americans unemployed and pass it on!

[bluestateguy]

2. Actually Saddam is getting free health care, care of the US taxpayer

A lot of US veterans are facing cutbacks in VA hospuitals, but Saddam Hussein is getting the best health care US tax dollars can buy.

[meegbear]

3. He was doing pretty well the 12 years previous as well ...

that's how he was living high on the hog for the other 8.

[Piperay]

4. Cute, hahahaha

NOT. :puke:

[JHB]

5. So? Write him one by Osama...

During the Clinton Administration, I had to keep moving around. They were even listening in on my satellite phone until some nice Republican Senator told me.

I bombed their embassies, but they captured many of my operatives, put them on trial, and found out how I operate.

He tried to kill me several times! I thank Allah for my lucky timing and for my good friends in Pakistani Intelligence, who thwarted another attempt.

I wanted to bomb a dozen planes over the Pacific, hut he stopped me.
I wanted to bomb American landmarks, especially when your Crusader calendar turned a new millenium, but his people stopped me.

Since Bush Became President, I have succeeded beyond even my own dreams! I thought the zionist World Trade towers would only collapse to where the planes hit, but they collapsed completely! The vaunted American Air Force was helpless even as we attacked their headquarters!
***

Try your hand... this stuff just writes itself.

[JHB]

12. Paul Krugman

And if you still feel you can't do it justice, just borrow from today's Paul Krugman column: The Arabian Candidate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/opinion/20krug.html

"The Arabian candidate wouldn't openly help terrorists. Instead, he would serve their cause while pretending to be their enemy.

After an attack, he would strike back at the terrorist base, a necessary action to preserve his image of toughness, but botch the follow-up, allowing the terrorist leaders to escape. Once the public's attention shifted, he would systematically squander the military victory: committing too few soldiers, reneging on promises of economic aid. Soon, warlords would once again rule most of the country, the heroin trade would be booming, and terrorist allies would make a comeback.

Meanwhile, he would lead America into a war against a country that posed no imminent threat. He would insinuate, without saying anything literally false, that it was somehow responsible for the terrorist attack. This unnecessary war would alienate our allies and tie down a large part of our military. At the same time, the Arabian candidate would neglect the pursuit of those who attacked us, and do nothing about regimes that really shelter anti-American terrorists and really are building nuclear weapons.

Again, he would take care to squander a military victory. The Arabian candidate and his co-conspirators would block all planning for the war's aftermath; they would arrange for our army to allow looters to destroy much of the country's infrastructure. Then they would disband the defeated regime's army, turning hundreds of thousands of trained soldiers into disgruntled potential insurgents. "

[guitar man]

6. 2 word answer

Where's Osama?

[calimary]

7. ANY of the responses to this thread so far would be EXCELLENT to use

in YOUR OWN RESPONSE TO THIS.

It's the same shit that rears its ugly head from time to time.

The biggest problem with it:

That it is out there and sufficiently UNREFUTED.

You MUST, repeat, MUST respond to this, and debunk it. Even if all you do is cut-n-paste some of the reaction comments some of the other posters here have offered.

I humbly submit the following as further motivation:



WHY YOU SHOULD ANSWER THOSE DUMB, PARTISAN EMAILS

For those who periodically receive unwanted, biased, nauseating republi-CON “talking point” emails bashing Clinton or worshipping bush:

I'd say if you want this crap to stop, then stop it. YOU MUST NEVER LET THEM GET THE LAST WORD. EVER.

Here's how you do that (at least it's worked for me):

You send a rebuttal. Whatever rebuttal it is. Either point by point, or overall. Posting here on DU to get ideas or suggested responses is a GREAT approach. People come up with GOOD, and USABLE answers here, based on lots of research and reading, lots of time having been spent arguing these things out with their friends and purportedly well-intentioned Kool-aid drinkers. An especially helpful resource for a newbie - LET US HELP YOU.

You send that rebuttal to the person who sent the original offending email to you.

THEN, you send that same rebuttal to EVERY PERSON ON THE LIST OF RECIPIENTS that included the person who sent the original offending email to you. Your rebuttal should go to whoever sent it to THAT person, and everybody else in that round of emailings.

After that, you may want to retrace it an additional step back, and further send your rebuttal to the people on the list of the person who sent the email to the person who sent it to you, etc.

The point is: THEY ALL SEE the response to the foolish, misbegotten, ill-informed, and SLANTED attack they all originally saw.

You will accomplish the following:

a) You will set the record straight.

b) You will make sure the GOOD GUYS GET THE LAST WORD. Our opponents are COUNTING ON our staying mute. They want us to remain "The Silenced Majority," that won't speak up, that won't object, that won't question their motives or their berzerko information or their agenda, and that will just let any idiotic crap stand, as is, unchallenged. If it's unchallenged and unrefuted, IT IS THEN ASSUMED THAT IT IS TRUE - merely because there is no challenge or rebuttal to it.

c) You may actually give somebody their first taste at an opposing view (in this case, once again, THE TRUTH) that they are obviously not getting now. Consider the example of all the people whose eyes were opened by many things they NEVER saw before, which were laid out for all the world to see in "Fahrenheit 9/11." All those other recipients are probably on some wrong-winger's list, and get this stuff repeatedly, and since they move in that alternate universe, they can't be expected to be exposed to anything outside that narrow agenda. It's the same situation with all those people who think if they just watch the Pox "News" network, or listen to limbaugh, they'll get the truth - not even realizing there are other points of view available out there (albeit harder to find for those who don't bother to or don't know to try looking).

d) You may VERY LIKELY stop the offending emails from darkening your cyber-door. I did this with two different people who were sending me this dreck. Not once, since taking action, have I received ANY further emails like those. In fact, those two now confine their emails to me - strictly to more harmless social and joke stuff.

You HAVE TO respond. You can't just leave it hanging out there. Unless you don't mind if they keep coming.

[jedicord]

11. Yeah, I do that, but get responses like this...

"I don't have to read that if I don't want to."

I don't have to go see F911 if I don't want to.

I don't have to get my head out of the sand if I don't want to.

:grr:

[Crunchy Frog]

8. .

:eyes:

[yankeedem]

9. Reply back with this

I was a hero in fighting Russian forces in the 1980's.
But that all changed in the 1990's.
Bill Clinton tried to kill me twice.
He took away my ability to make a living.
He forced me out of my home three times.
He foiled my attempts to fight back against him by jailing my friends.
He took away my ability to get proper treatment of my kidney disease.

That all ended when President Bush got into office.
For eight months, he ignored me.
When he was pressured to fight me, he let me escape.
Now I can sleep in the same bed, with access to the best health care. Please join me in supporting this great man, who lets me live in peace.
Sincerely,
Osama Bin Laden

[yankeedem]

10. The further irony of this email is

That it admits that Clinton did a great job. It is meant to mislead the reader that they are talking about a regular person, who got caught in the Bush recession, until the signature line.