Youth for Bush

[paineinthearse]

Young supporters of President George W. Bush attend the pre-inaugural event 'America's Future Rocks Today- A Call to Service' youth event at the DC Armory in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2005. The event featured messages from celebrities and musical performances by musicians Hillary Duff, Fuel, JoJo and others.

SEIG HEIL!

[jackster]

1. rich snotty brats!

[Arkana]

2. SIEG HEIL, MEIN FUHRER!

[ooglymoogly]

16. note the vacant faces and bell bottoms

these folks will make great soldiers....bring it on

[aden_nak]

3. "Call to Service" eh? Just wait, kids. Just you fuckin' wait.

[Julius Civitatus]

5. Just what I thought!

Wait until the prez starts announcing the next round of operations in Iran. You'll see these brats scrambling to Canada quick!

[kiki]

7. Indeed;

talk about subliminally getting your message across - well, this isn't it, this is blatant!

Reminds me of the Beavis and Butthead episode with the army recruitment video that said "today's army RAWKS!!!".

I feel pretty sorry for those kids I suppose; I bet there's more recruitment officers at that "gig" than human beings...

[Julius Civitatus]

4. They are all so... white and suburban.

I wonder when they are enlisting in the nearest army recruiting office, to walk the walk in their fawning support of Dear Leader.

[Crankie Avalon]

6. Wow, what a bunch of hipsters...

...if this is how kids in America are turning out then glad I'm in my thirties.

[Fovea]

8. And straight from the recieving line

to The Gap.
Wouldn't it be nice if someone followed the
Bush** fans from here to the draft board.

[kiki]

9. Notice that in the bottom picture,

the kid in the foreground with the "Danny from The Shining" haircut at least has the good sense to keep his hand on his wallet when in close proximity to Pinocchio.

Can't be too careful... lot of crooks about.

[tabasco]

23. LMAO !

Good catch.

[naturalselection]

10. "Wow I got to meet * "

"Wait, was is this uniform?"
"What is that, put it on? Okay, if * says so; he knows best."
"What is that, get on that plane over there? Okay, if * says so; he knows best."
"What is that, hold this gun?"
"Where are we going mr. pResident?"

[Ezlivin]

11. Republikan Youth Camp

[bumblebee1]

19. Ahh, the "new" Hitler Youth

The only thing missing is those neat camping trips with hiking, bicycling and canoeing. Skiing in the winter is also included.

[Ezlivin]

21. Actually the Youth Camps are run by fundamentalists

Each child is subjected to endless inculcations of the requisite belief system.

From my experience, fundamentalists are roughly equivalent to cultists. They place a premium on following a leader and accepting his will.

[PennyK]

12. Pickles in a green suit

Now THAT'S the outfit to wear to a rock concert!

[Sparkly]

13. Were the army recruiters there to sign them all up?? n/t

[Menshevik]

14. It was at the DC Armory

so they had a good opportunity to enlist in the national guard after the concert!!

[JHB]

15. Objection, your Honor!

Never heard of "Fuel", but Hillary Duff and "JoJo" are NOT musicians.

The Japanese have the best term for this sort of manufactured celebrity: Idol Singers.

[pstokely]

17. have they enlisted yet?

nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

27. Just what I was thinking...

How many of them would be willing to sign up to go to Iraq and fight for the Mad Cowboy?

[MsTryska]

18. You know, my Mom surprised me this weekend....

she believes the draft is coming, because dubya is spending so much time around "the youth" showing up at high schools and holding rock concerts and whatnot.


she thinks it's his way of softening up the kids, before sending them off to war.

[ThorsHammer]

20. Pretty pathetic list of performers

[PROGRESSIVE1]

22. I see the "Neo-Bush Youth" will sign up for the military.

:eyes:

[gorbal]

24. So they have figured out how to splice human and insect DNA

I didn't know technology had come that far already.

[Bigmack]

25. Youth for Bush....

... Chickens for Col. Sanders...

[mogster]

26. I can see why the Nazi comparison is tempting here

But remember that the Hitler youth was ordinary young people duped by their government, just as these repub youngsters. Not evil spawn :evilgrin:

No, but come on. They're young, and young people are bound to be stupid sometimes, from lack of life experience.

But I agree that the play list sucks; and why isn't anyone targeting these kids with a counter-concert or something? If it comes down to a plain comparison between 'us' and 'them': who's got the best artists? I tell you, it's a walkover ;-)

That could have been a good reponse to the inauguration of the * ?
A huge peace concert in central DC (or maybe Central Park, NY) with music and politics, that would have sent the right message. And it would have been fun to watch as well :D

The growing retro-christian Repub teenage bimboism could easily be met by people like Eminem - artists that carry the MESSAGE to young people. He's kinda disappeared after the election, no doubt having a well deserved rest from his work, just as many other campaigners.

But there's a vacuum now, as far as semi-organized action is concerned. At least it appear to be.
Where are all the beat poets, film directors, writers, journalists and musicians that's supposed to be the role models for young people, today? In the 60's and 70's, these popped up everywhere, gained momentum as a somewhat vague movement and dragged the whole country to the left.

A good ole revolution in the Youth Dept. - that's what the Repubs need :evilgrin:

[maveric]

28. Just like old times.

[cap]

29. too bad we couldnt send a mailing list

to military recruiters

[TyeDye75]

30. and these people arent in Iraq why?