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Last week, a United Kingdom newspaper ended its effort to convince Ohio voters to remove President George W. Bush from office in November. The Guardian obtained a list of names and addresses of undecided voters in the Buckeye state and asked its readers to send letters urging them to support Democratic Sen. John Kerry (D-MA).Following the advice of the Guardian has led the UK from one of the largest empires the world has ever seen to the status of a second rate power in less than a half of a century. Socialism atrophies even the very strong. It is now the European disease.The ploy appeared to backfire and actually increase support for the incumbent. Voters from Clark County flooded the Guardian with angry letters telling it "mind its own business." One local newspaper ran an editorial with the title "Butt Out Brits."
On Saturday, a columnist for the Guardian suggested a more drastic measure to end the Bush presidency: assassination. An op-ed piece entitled "Dumb Show" contained vitriolic disparagement of America's commander-in-chief. The author, Charlie Brooker, decried the possibility of "four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us."
He concluded the screed, asking, "John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr. -- where are you now that we need you?"
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"Charlie Brooker apologizes for any offence caused by his comments relating to President Bush in his TV column, Screen Burn," the statement read. "Although flippant and tasteless, his closing comments were intended as an ironic joke, not as a call to action -- an intention he believed regular readers of his humorous column would understand. He deplores violence of any kind."
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A Texan wrote, "Real Americans aren't interested in your pansy-ass, tea-sipping opinions. If you want to save the world, begin with your own worthless corner of it."
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