🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002 02:47:34 -0700, "gatt" <gatt@hevanet.com> wrote:

>
>>> I don't like Bush either, but her rhetorical style is hopelessly
>>> pompous and faux-Daniel-Webster precious, especially for this mud-pit.
>>> Get with it lady... this ain't the U.S. Senate.
>
>>The U.S. Senate should be so straight-forward.  What was posted was simply
>a list of beliefs, offered >unapologetically.
>>
>>Hell, YOU should be so straight-forward.
>
>Well, I like both your responses more than the others and tend to agree with
>both.
>
>She uses the words "wacko right-wingers" which immediately lowers her point
>to that of those who would call her "wacko", and she refers to TIPS as
>"fascist and insane" which is little more than paranoid hyperbole.  This

She's probably quite comfortable with the "spy on your neighbor"
programs in place in Castro's Cuba.

I'll bet she thinks the U.S. gov't is criminal for its AIDS policies,
but she probably is quite understanding of Fidel's need to just lock
the faggots up.  

Lliberals are like that, you know -- hypocrites to the core.  They
wouldn't be slinging their bullshit in my republic, I can tell you.

Good article gatt.

Charlie

>reminds me of my experiences among Earth First and so forth at timber
>protests during the salvage rider days. There were a lot of brilliant people
>quietly doing their thing, but the loons and loudmouths on the fringe were
>always the ones grabbing the bullhorn and ranting hysterically so that
>anybody listening would thing the entire crowd was nothing more than a bunch
>of neurotic tree humpers.
>
>She makes a bunch of great points about health care and education.
>Blahblahblah...you know, we all want peace and prosperity and affordable
>health care...the people who are still arguing over whether we want the
>obvious shouldn't be speaking for the liberal OR conservative body.   I
>prefer to listen to the people who've gotten past that and can talk about
>HOW these things could be done.
>
>And then, one again, she wipes them all out by saying that were Al Gore
>president, everything would be vastly different.   Like 9/11 wouldn't have
>happened, like the recession that was already starting before the election
>wouldn't have happened, like companies wouldn't implode under the weight of
>their own top-level greed and corruption.   What torques me the most is the
>"rightful man" thing.  I call her a sore loser.  Like the liberal bastard
>they put in the White House for the last eight years did anything better.
>After all, he signed the timber salvage rider, kept the US tangled in Bosnia
>and Somalia and failed to stop terrorists whom they already knew were a
>mortal and imminent threat.
>
>I honor her right to speak her mind, but if Ms Knight's "political awareness
>evolved through the civil rights movement, the Vietnam era, the Watergate
>era and the cold war," she hasn't accomplished much with this article except
>state in a confrontational and borderline hysterical way the same rhetoric
>that the average 20-year-old campus activist can regurgitate.
>
>-gatt
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