Posted on 11/01/2004 8:55:04 AM PST by MMkennedy
Obviously, while you may not have lost your nerve, you've most definitely lost your ability to rationally consider anything other than a pollyannish worldview.
Seeing as how the blue states took it on the chin back in 2001 (Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and California) this seems only fair. I mean, we already send more money to the feds than we get back, it's really unfair that we also get all the terrorist attacks. It's about time the red states started sharing in the sacrifice.
The main problem with an Osama tape, now, is that it demonstrates rather clearly that he is still alive and at large. This is what I would normally call a failure, and not one that can easily be blamed on anyone except this administration.
adios troll
Nice to have you here today (and gone tomorrow)
OBL most certainly DID issue a direct threat to the
individual states that go for Bush. The news people
withheld the entire diatribe until yesterday.
Feel free to refute me on the facts; the deaths from 9/11 were disproportionately suffered by residents of "blue states", and those states do (on average) send more money to the federal government than they get back;the reds get back more than they send. This is all pretty well documented, and as someone paying taxes in a blue state, I wouldn't mind getting a little bit more for my money.
Furthermore, it cannot possibly be construed as good news that Osama is still alive and looking healthy. Bush had the House, the Senate, and a lot of post 9/11 goodwill all on his side; this is a horrible failure. How could this not be described as a failure, and not described as the responsibility of the party that has been in power for (more or less, excepting Jeffords' defection) the last 3.5 years?
If you want some reassurance that your red state will not be attacked, there's an article on juancole.com suggesting that this is not the correct translation.
I guess I wasn't politically correct enough for you, eh?
Well, it has been nice having an informed and reasoned debate with you here.
Always nice speaking to you, too.
I guess we'll see tonight - after the returns are in - who is the idiot.
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