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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.
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