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To: prairiebreeze
"They demonstrate impatience and a juvenile need for immediate gratification. Their grasp of long-term committment is practicaly non-existent. It's time for adults to be adults and understand the need for patience, grit and stick-to-it-iveness. That's the way we rebuid America."

What do you call that if not an insult?

Let me finish my response to you in this way:

Theodore Roosevelt, said, "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or anyone else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."

280 posted on 02/01/2004 5:43:58 AM PST by sauropod (Better to have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy!)
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To: sauropod
I call it an observation, sauropod. After reading their knee-jerk, often venomous, spew to anything that seemingly doesn't fit their definition of conservatism, it's what I conclude as the level they operate from. Mature adults usually don't need to employ those tactics to be able to state their point effectively.

Certainly discussion of any administration is vital, and in a free country criticism can be stated. My point is that 90% of the time those that fit my observation move WAY beyond simple discussion or even criticism to mud-slinging and character defamation. And those traits do not demonstrate maturity or careful thought to me.

If anybody reading this finds the shoe to fit a little too well, I guess that's their problem.

Prairie
289 posted on 02/01/2004 6:07:29 AM PST by prairiebreeze (WMD's in Iraq -- The absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.)
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