Sports Illustrated Columnist Moving to NZ if Bush Wins!

[On the Road]

Is it possible to doubt any longer that Bush-hating has gone mainstream? Here's a column I don't think would have gotten published a year or two ago:

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Setting sail for New Zealand
Dr. Z, SI.com

My 10-year NFL Draft retrospective was ridiculed. The Bush-lovers out there can't wait until I'm sailing for New Zealand. There's such a bubbling swell of resentment that I guess I'll apply for that job in the shoe factory after all. Meanwhile there are letters to answer. OK, you loyal Amurrikans who think that our prez is just the swellest thing since Watergate, I'll take you first.

From Russ of Charlotte (if she'll have him): "You're going to move to New Zealand if the president is re-elected? When can I show up at your house and help you pack?"

Friday after the election.

Lt. Keith (I never did get along with officers very well when I was in the service) of New York: "If you promise to move to New Zealand when Bush gets elected, I will skipper the boat that will take you there."

If you skipper it the way Dubya has skippered our country, it's sink city.

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http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=settingsailforn&prov=cnnsi&type=lgns

[bluestateguy]

1. For those of you that will move if Bush wins

Please at least do the rest of us a favor and keep your US voter registration, so that we don't lose your vote in the 2006 and 2008 elections.

[On the Road]

2. I Was Just Surprised to See it in SI

to tell you the truth. That was a shock.

[cybildisobedience]

4. oh that's funny....

like we'd even HAVE elections again is Bush manages to steal another one.

[lapfog_1]

3. One of the major problems of the last 100 years

is that there are no longer "new frontiers" for those of us disgusted
with the repression of the government simply take our talents and
move elsewhere and start over.

Sometimes that works, and sometimes you need the telephone sanitizers.

But we don't have the opportunity now.