How Disappointing

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

Not to mention that no one called for the assassination of Bush.

I was hoping you would provide me with an address for donations.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

That's bull****. You wouldn't know what a mainstream Democrat is if they jumped up and bit you in the ass.

Well there sure isn't many around here!

What did you do, jump off the republican wagon and straight onto the "I'm-so-left-wing-now-I-hate-anything-conservative" one?

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dissention

Not to mention that no one called for the assassination of Bush.

That's what I'm saying.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

I was hoping you would provide me with an address for donations.

It was a pre-recorded comedy skit on Randi Rhodes about seniors in Florida arming themselves to attack Shrub over social security cuts.

You would love Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by Brwn_eyes0511

Well there sure isn't many around here!

What did you do, jump off the republican wagon and straight onto the "I'm-so-left-wing-now-I-hate-anything-conservative" one?

I am a lifelong, born and bred east coast liberal Democrat.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by sparky

I was hoping you would provide me with an address for donations.

Careful dear, unless you want the Secret Service visiting you this month.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I am a lifelong, born and bred east coast liberal Democrat.

We're TWINS!!!!



(Except I'm not a registered Dem anymore. Blame it on Kerry and the DLC.)

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

It was a pre-recorded comedy skit on Randi Rhodes about seniors in Florida arming themselves to attack Shrub over social security cuts.

You would love Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy.

I couldn't possible listen. Politics makes me too angry. I have taken drastic steps to reduce the things in my life that make me that wound up. At this point, I am just happy I don't have a gun. Everyone is so convinced they are right.

That being said, I am sure they are funny, and probably right on target.

[gldstwmn]

Originally Posted by dissention

It was a pre-recorded comedy skit on Randi Rhodes about seniors in Florida arming themselves to attack Shrub over social security cuts.

You would love Randi Rhodes and Mike Malloy.

Especially Malloy. That's late night entertainment at it's finest.

[sparky]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

Careful dear, unless you want the Secret Service visiting you this month.

Oh, I was just kidding. Thus the emoticon.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by sparky

Everyone is so convinced they are right.

That's because I am, hot stuff.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Randi Rhodes has a past for using such rhetoric

May 2004

Comparing Bush and his family to the Corleones of "Godfather" fame, Air America host Randi Rhodes reportedly unleashed this zinger during her Monday night broadcast: "Like Fredo, somebody ought to take him out fishing and phuw. "
Rhodes then imitated the sound of a gunshot.

In "Godfather II," Fredo Corleone is executed by brother Michael at the end of the film

And of course we have our wonderful sympathetic profiles of Rhodes, as the Washington Post did last fall. See how the writer nonchalantly mentions the skit. Now, compare that with the fate of conservative talk show hosts punished or canned for controversial speech.

[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

I am a lifelong, born and bred east coast liberal Democrat.

And I am a born and bred east coast "Conservative Pseudo-Libertarian Republican"

[sparky]

Originally Posted by dissention

That's because I am, hot stuff.

Of course you are.

Seriously, it is far beyond that. As strident as you are you are actually capable of having a dialogue, and you are not so didactic as to be unable to see another point of view and learn something you hadn't previously taken into consideration. Granted, it rarely happens .
This is true mostly because you are well read and difficult to surprise. You have researched many of the subjects you are passionate about. The positions you take are rarely based on knee jerk emotional response or adherence to a large platform of ideas to which you blindly cling. Your logic is, well, logical. And therefore, it can be swayed with logic and facts.

[wondergirl9847]

Why do people want others to die? I don't care for Pres. Bush any more than ya'll, but I don't want the man to die.

I hope our next President can turn the country around.