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OK 2 more years of constant critisicm, conspiracy theories, disrespect, ridicule, hatred etc and Dems and Repubs will be even over the last 16 years. The internet has given us access to each other's thoughts and ideas like never before. Sadly I think this has lead to more anger, more hatred etc. Though the temptation will be great with the new President, whichever party, to continue down the same path we have followed the last 16 years, I for one hope that I am a big enough person to do my part to tone things down a notch. We all love our country. We all owe it to our country to do what we can to make it through the difficult years facing this great country of ours. I believe one easy step we all can take is toning things down, cutting back on the yelling and the name calling. Disagreement, dissent, discussion all are part of the American way. But it can be done while maintaining a high regard for those you disagree with. We have lost that ideal. The great trials the USA faces in the years to come needs both parties talking and respectful of each other towards one common goal: to be sure we maintain our rightful place as the greatest country on earth.
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Ok Glass I give you two more years to make comments like that!!!! Than in the spirit of harmony we line up dissenters and use them for target practice LOL. Don't worry I can't hit the broadside of a barn.
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quote:Originally posted by Johnwayne: OK 2 more years of constant critisicm, conspiracy theories, disrespect, ridicule, hatred etc and Dems and Repubs will be even over the last 16 years. The internet has given us access to each other's thoughts and ideas like never before. Sadly I think this has lead to more anger, more hatred etc. Though the temptation will be great with the new President, whichever party, to continue down the same path we have followed the last 16 years, I for one hope that I am a big enough person to do my part to tone things down a notch. We all love our country. We all owe it to our country to do what we can to make it through the difficult years facing this great country of ours. I believe one easy step we all can take is toning things down, cutting back on the yelling and the name calling. Disagreement, dissent, discussion all are part of the American way. But it can be done while maintaining a high regard for those you disagree with. We have lost that ideal. The great trials the USA faces in the years to come needs both parties talking and respectful of each other towards one common goal: to be sure we maintain our rightful place as the greatest country on earth.
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Why the Dems will lose more ground in '06-'12
To Hillary: what is your plan for getting out of Iraq? Her answer: Hate Bush!
To Al Gore: what is your plan to clean up the environment? His answer: Bush is dumb!
To John Kerry: What is your solution for inflation? His answer: Bush is an idiot!
To Howard Dean: Do you have a plan for health care? His answer: Bush shouldn't have started this war!
To any and all of them: Do you have any ideas for dealing with systemic poverty? Their answer: Bush cussed on TV!
Do you begin to see a pattern here? No substance, just empty hate speech. There was a time when Democrats would have demonstrated against this war, against the cost of health care, they would have worked with churches against poverty. Now they just look like repressive Republicans.
The American people are crying out for a vision that looks to the future. The Democrats are still arguing whether we should go to war against terror. It's a done deal, utterly irrelevant to argue whether we should have started fighting. We need a plan to end it without perpetuating the instability.
What I hear coming from Democrats all over is : Hate Bush, to which I have to ask: when did the Democrats I loved become so intolerant and mean-spirited? They sound no different on issues like health care and inflation or taxation.
Even as I look at the posts on these threads, I can see who's associated with which party. The Democratic supporters express the party line: Hate Bush, blame Bush and call Bush names. That will not entice me to vote for a Democrat. I want to see their vision for the future, not their frustrated fantasies about Bush.
Let's be honest here, if Bush were as dumb as Democrats make him out to be, that means their campaigns have been so inept, so absolutely incompetent, they couldn't beat someone of far below average intelligence. Given what the Democrats have said about Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice, they sound racist, ethnocentric and ethno-phobic. Given the way Democrats talk about people of faith, they are obviously atheo-centric and religio-phobic as a party. That means if the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. came alongside to march with them today, they would not accept him.
When will my party come back to myself and alot of disillusioned moderates?
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I applaud your effort to disuade hateful, name calling, demeaning attacks on others, particularly those in another party.
"I believe one easy step we all can take is toning things down, cutting back on the yelling and the name calling.", you say and I agree.
But what good is your effort when the first chance after that you praise a party line post designed to be demeaning of any and everything not party line republican.
Perhaps it is the case that you are simply unable to recognize party line hate when it comes from a republicaan slant? If you are intending to disuade us all from that sort of BS, it seems queer that you wopuld immediately turn around and lay praise on a post designed to foster hatered.
Griffon,
Perhaps you might have better luck pointing out ANY answer to any of the questions you so vigerously demand an answer to that came from the Administration....ever!
And answer this" Why is anyone other than Bush required to provide an answer to the mess he brough about in Iraq (which in turn is the basis for all the rest) by claiming there were WMDs in Iraq, whis is the ONLY reason he gave beforehand for going into Iraq?
Gordon,
Some questions don't have an answer from anyone or any source. No doubt, the Kansas City Royals would like to be in this year's world series, but the question of how to do that faces the reality of its impossibility. There is no answer to that problem.
The failure of the republicans or the democrats to have a solution to the problems in Iraq is because, once we went into Iraq with the absurd notion that we could change that culture by force, it was inevitable that we would fail and place the world in danger of the results.
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BDGEE- If you read the title of my thread, it should tell you of my intent. You see I do not just plan on idly sitting by listening to hate filled dems spewing out venom for the next two years. I merely point out that for 8 years it was the republicans railing on Clinton, for the last 6 years, and no doubt the remaining 2, the dems have and will return the favor. Now if I were unable to see "party line" hate from the republicans, how could I allude to the democrats and republicans being even after the last 16 years?
Two more years of all of us being at each other's throats and than maybe we can get along again. Like Reagan and Tip O'Niell! Or Reagan and Sam Donaldson!
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dubya's war is running for election.....and the republicaan machine that refuses to participate in Congress to check and ballance. That is fact, not hate.
And yes, assured there were WMDs in Iraq and Saddam had "arrangements" to share them with Ben Laden, many democrats voted to allow him to wage war with Iraq [b]with his promise that they would only go there to remove the imminent threat Bush assured us existed that Saddam posed to the Physical U.S. and then only after all other approaches failed.[b] No such threat existed and we are in a quagmire with Congressional Republicans still playing the party line. That party line has offered no solution and has made it clear that it intends to not do so."Stay the course" is NOT a solution", only an admission that they have none. If the republicans can provide no solution, then they need to accept the fact that they are responsible and stop trying to pass that responsibility off to democrats that didn't bring about the problem and haven't maintained it by party line votes to allow the Administration a free ride.
Yhe republicans have repeatedly responded to any and all request for that answer you assure they will give by attacking the democrats to try and shift the responsibility.
There is no answer to the problem.
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Like I said, it's as if the Bush Administration has dropped an egg on the floor and everyone is angry that the Democrats don't have a solution to make that egg whole again.
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There is no solution, republican, democratis, heaven sent, or otherwise. I ask the republicans either to show that is wrong, by proof not claim, or shut up about it.
Gordon,
I like the egg anology.
And all the king's horses and all the kings men......
Glass.....,
You have "fingered out" a very salient reality.
How shameful for our future to have been placed in such hands.
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Actually I think it's fairly common after hearing someone complain about something for a long period to say "Alright genius, you don't like the way I'm doing it, what's your solution?"
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lessee JW? i showed the direct line from Rove to Novak to the swiftboat veterans and you still think everything is OK?
you are the one who is irrationally suporting a nonstarter... Bush hid during Nam.. and you call yourself John Wayne? i suspect even the real JW woulda been ashamned of this bahaviour....
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Yep, Glass..., and ashamed of anyone that condoned it, too. The real one was a republican that died before the complete distortion of the party.
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I think the Dem's decided to make 'Hate Bush' a mainstay right around the time the rep's made FlipFlopper a household word.
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I've had a friend who's quit about every substance known to man.
He said quiting cigarettes was harder than quiting the heavy stuff like coke. The withdrawl wasn't as bad but it got into his head in a way coke never did.
Said the only thing harder to quit than smoking is chewing. Cause your nicotine level when you chew is so much higher than when you smoke.
I believe it.
I've quit smoking about 10 times now. Wife and I will probably try attempt 11 in a month or so.
Thought I had it licked on time 9. Lasted near a year. Time 10 didn't last more than a couple weeks.
(edit fur speelling an grahmerr)
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I had no problem quitting whenever I chose. I guess that was actually a problem.
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"And yes, assured there were WMDs in Iraq and Saddam had "arrangements" to share them with Ben Laden, many democrats voted to allow him to wage war with Iraq [b]with his promise that they would only go there to remove the imminent threat Bush assured us existed that Saddam posed to the Physical U.S. and then only after all other approaches failed.[b] No such threat existed and we are in a quagmire with Congressional Republicans still playing the party line. That party line has offered no solution and has made it clear that it intends to not do so."Stay the course" is NOT a solution", only an admission that they have none. If the republicans can provide no solution, then they need to accept the fact that they are responsible and stop trying to pass that responsibility off to democrats that didn't bring about the problem and haven't maintained it by party line votes to allow the Administration a free ride."
Bdgee, As my thread on why the dems support genocide proved we now have proof of 1: WMDs moved by Russians a few days prior to the war; and 2: links between Saddy and terrorists in Palestine and Afghanistan. The Democrats supported the war because the truth spoke for itself.
"Like I said, it's as if the Bush Administration has dropped an egg on the floor and everyone is angry that the Democrats don't have a solution to make that egg whole again."
Not at all, GB, I commend President GB for acting to stop the on-going ethnic cleansing of the Marsh Arabs, environmental degradation and the genocide of the Kurds. The Democrats I criticize because they would prefer the ethnic cleansing, genocide and environmental degradation continue rather than depose a brutal dictator we brought to power. Course they have had more experience with doing nothing in the face of genocide.
Honestly, I am not angry with the Democrats for not cleaning an egg up off the floor, I like 'em scrambled for that matter. I am upset with the Democrats because they whine about Bush not doing a good job, then offer no substance. Our Bishop had a good saying, "You might not like my idea; you might even want to knock it down. But before you do put something better in its place." All I hear from the Dems (in very Python-esque" terms) is: "Run away! It's a fluffy bunny with sharp pointy teeth."
They cower behind "Hate Bush" because they know, there was a time when they would have rallied an anti-war movement that would have prevented the war. There was a time when they would have offered a competing vision for this nation that would have re-focused the debate on their terms. Now they are so impotent that on every issue BUT the war, they sound like watered-down Republicans.
See we don't elect copies of the successful team. We vote on the vision and a negative or unclear vision always loses. Ultimately the Democrats came away from the trouncing they received in 1994 with the wrong lesson. Susan Estrich expressed what they learned after the pasting the Democrats got in 2004: "We lost because we weren't mean enough; we didn't get the hate vote out." You know what, I won't walk across the street to vote "against" someone, but I will vote after driving and working all day to vote "for" someone.
My Democratic friends are shut out of Howard Dean's team because they told him that. Anger and hate do not win elections. Shadowing the opponent ideologically is not only being fake, it sounds like mush. It gets you the title "flip-flopper." Now I happen to like flip-flops on Palm Beach, though my bald head always burns to a crisp when I wear them. And I honestly don't mind a person with a nuanced position on difficult issues. That is a good flip-flopper. A bad flip-flopper listens to which direction the political wind is going and switches for political convenience.
Susan had it all wrong. The Democrats lost and will keep on losing as long as they let the Republicans pick the tune. When they run on hate, they cease defining themselves on their own terms and on their own issues. I mean the Democrats lost big and bad to a vulnerable sitting president. They lost to a vulnerable president they labeled as dumb. I mean did you see James Carville and Susan Estrich * 7pm on CNN all grins and smiles? By 9pm they were gone and never returned that whole evening. They were so sure they would win that they were devastated when they lost.
Well, ask my bro' I predicted that on election morning. In fact I had said it a few weeks before the election. I told him then, we vote for vision not hate. But you know what's funny, President Clinton did that two week run through Arkansas and Missouri and nearly turned those states. Why? Because he talked issues and programs. No attacking Bush, he simply focused on where Democratic principles and plans were better. I mean it was a 14% turn-around in Arkansas.
You see, it's a lesson anyone with a 13 year old girl should have learned. Prado is NOT Prada, meaning copy-cats aren't cool, and there ain't much difference between what Dems and Republicans claim as a platform. And it is distinctiveness is what sells. Try telling your teen-ager Keds are as good or as cool as Nikes. The Dems never offered a compelling alternative, no distinctive vision. And they got smoked.
Now don't mistake me for a Republican. I am merely pointing out why the Dems lost and will lose. The Democrats can turn this around with a compelling vision and strong leadership; not mean leadership, strong leadership. The person with the vision and leadership ability is Barak Obama. I would vote for him in a minute.
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