Matthew Lytle, our favorite columnist at the UNO Gateway, can’t get enough of those buttons.
Here is an excerpt from 2004: A heck of a year
There were books published about two guys wanting to kill President Bush, there was even a play on Broadway titled I Want to Kill the President (They also had advertising bumper stickers). And, not to mention the College Democrats here at UNO, there were “F*** Bush” buttons being sold (and the subsequent “Buck Fush” buttons), all of which came to a climactic end on Election Day, when George W. Bush won not only the popular vote, but also the Electoral College. (Despite what my critics say.) But this entire election, the way I see it, was nothing more than a “Hate Bush fest.”
Unfortunately, Matthew Lytle is lying to UNO students again! He said that button sales came to an end on election day, but that is not true. When students return to the campus in January, they will be greeted by more anti-Bush buttons. I’ll bet the students at UNO can’t wait to see (and buy) the new buttons.
We will let this “untruth” by Matthew slide because this announcement was top-secret until today. I know Matthew will be thrilled about the new buttons because it will provide him with enough material to write seven or eight new columns in the newspaper.
Is there a button you want to see on the UNO campus? Make suggestions by commenting below.
What? When the hell did I say that? What I meant by that is that all of this whole “Hate Bush” stuff came to an abrupt end (or so I thought) on Election day.
I will give you credit on one point. This has caused me to write another article. About the real reason why you and your candidate lost. Expect it to be published the first Tuesday of the Spring semester.
Oh, and there’s something I should comment about the “The Only Draft I Support” button. Laughable, at best. Look at Congressional Bills S 89 and HR 163. See what your “precious” Democrats are up to. (If you want copies of these bills, e-mail me at mlytle@mail.unomaha.edu for them)
If you think it’s a top-secret that the draft bills were submitted by democrats to creat discussion of the issue then you must have a pretty low opinion of our ability to read the newspaper. The point is that we don’t have enough troops, with no end in site, with the army missing it’s most recent recruitment numbers by 30% despite raising the enlistment bonuses (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/17/politics/17reserves.html?oref=login&oref=login -that’s what you call sourcing a claim Mr Lytle.) and Bush’s people talking plenty about expanding the war to other nations.
There is no way all of those things can be true at the same time (low enlistment, not enough troops, expanded troop commitment) without a draft. So if you dig a little deeper then the precious Drudge Report and Fox then you’ll see that there’s more to the story than just “oh those bills were submitted by dems.”