🚀 go-pugleaf

"gatt" <gatt@hevanet.com> wrote in message
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>
> >> 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
> 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.

Liberal Bastard? Kinda on the same par as her "whacko right-wingers" remark
you took exception to.

And please - Clinton was no liberal.


> 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
>
>
>