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"Charlie Wilkes" <charlie_wilkes@easynews.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Really? How do you know that?


>
> I'll bet she thinks the U.S. gov't is criminal for its AIDS policies,

Why?


> but she probably is quite understanding of Fidel's need to just lock
> the faggots up.

I rather doubt that.

> Lliberals are like that, you know -- hypocrites to the core.

You're not doing conservatives any service by posting such a contentless,
asinine rant.

  They
> wouldn't be slinging their bullshit in my republic, I can tell you.

So who is that supports dictatorships like Cuba? I'd say you're just as bad
as you say she is.


>
> 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 bu
nch
> >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
> >
> >
>