So busy with work and travel this week, I haven’t been so timely in responding. Maybe a quick summary before going to bed followed by more details in coming days.
Irishtrekker,
welcome liberal girl number two. They’re ganging up on me now! I enjoyed your post a lot and as you can imagine I have many comments for you but right now I’m too tired. You have passion and that’s a good thing. I’ll just say one thing now, your post sounds like something I would have written when I was 24. With age and an open mind my political views have swung like a pendulum over the years, first hard left, then gradually hard right, now who knows? I just call it like I see it and don’t get too hung up on the labels.
Bold Brooklynite,
It always seems that people don’t want to take the time to discriminate. It’s either “I hate Bush” or “I love Bush”. For me he’s been a major disappointment because I expected better from him. The things I dislike though are not the same as what you hear most people bashing him for. One of my biggies that I almost forgot about was the Harriet Meiers nomination for Supreme Court. For the life of me I can’t figure that one out. He actually said that she was the best available candidate!!
Genuine Risk,
I still don’t know where you got Art from. My screen name is Arl- like Arlington – Jim.
The misinterpretation of your post was intentional; I was just exaggerating to hopefully make a point. I do want to comment on your point about the WSJ running a story about the bank records on the same day as the Times. That is not a coincidence. The difference is that they agreed not to run the story based upon the administrations request. Once they found out that the times was going ahead with the story against the wishes of the administration it was a new ballgame and they had to move forward with the news.
Cajun,
You know if you listen to the speeches and all the hot air, read the platforms, etc, there should really be big differences between the two major parties. But when you look at how they actually govern, I agree with you, the differences are nearly imperceptible.
This has the appearance of being a civilized open political discussion of opposing viewpoints and so far it looks like there have been no insults or threats! Wow, it actually is possible. lol
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