A new name for Bush* that I thought of (try this on your friends)

[rockymountaindem]

"Dimitry"

I learned all about this man named Dimitry of Uglich in my Russian History class last year. Here's his story:

Ivan the Terrible had seven wives throughout his life. At the time, the Russian Orthodox would recognize one's first marriage, and the second (his first wife died of illness), and usually the third. After that, they were pretty much considered illegitimate. Dimitry was a child of wife #7, so he was basically considered a total bastard. He was also epileptic, and at age nine, as the story goes, killed himself by accident while playing with a knife. However, rumors circulated that Ivan's chief adviser, who came to rule Russia after Ivan's death, "disappeared" Dimitry.

So while this adviser, named Boris Godunov was ruling Russia, people kept popping up claiming to be Dimitry, who was supposedly the rightful heir although he was really a bastard. Angry peasants latched on to these men (there were two of them) and used them as leaders for pre-existing uprisings.

So let's see... men pretending to be someone they weren't (like Bush* is pretending to be Prez), who was really someone who shouldn't have ruled the country under any circumstances, got lots of angry followers to tear up the countryside. If Bush* lived in 16th century Russia, I could see him claiming to be this Dimitry guy.

[Flammable Materials]

1. If you have to explain it to people, it loses it's power.

Maybe if Bush were running in Russia, it'd be the bomb-diggity.

[rockymountaindem]

2. Yeah, I know... but hey,

when your explanation includes, Ivan the Terrible, "bastard" and stuff like that, it may provide an interesting story. The point is that here were unqualified losers, pretending to be another, long-dead unqualified loser, trying to replace a well-qualified leader like Gudonov.

[ROC]

4. It is too obscure.

I think these nicknames confuse and, possibly, turnoff undecides.

[rockymountaindem]

5. Oh, have a little fun.

Besides, I wouldn't tell this to conservatives anyway. If you were trying to convert an undecided, would you call Bush* whistle-ass or chimpy while you were doing it? Lighten up.

[Bucky]

9. Yeh, nicknaming as a put down makes us seems strident & untrustworthy

It's petty to always use the * or the put downs. When Kerry is president, I'm gonna make damn sure I tell every Republican (no, not rethuglican, jeezum!!) I hear insult our duly elected C-in-C that the president is to be respected because, dammit, he's the president.

[skooooo]

3. I got it right away..

..but I was a Russian major.

[Spinzonner]

6. I bet you never even got above Sergeant

[skooooo]

7. Hard to do that if you don't enter the military.

You're right!

[LisaL]

8. It's a flawed analogy.

The men were pretending to be something they weren't, but they never got to rule Russia. All the while Bush, want it or not, is our "glorious leader".