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To: Texas2step
No, the thread was an "action thread" with a call to action.

IMHO, activists should be prepared to respond intelligently to legitimate criticism of their position. Slogan-chanting mud-slinging and/or censoring of opposing views are boringly ineffective and counterproductive.

The moral of the story is to not pee on other peoples parades.

And people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Bush, Rove, Zoellick, Snow and Mankiw handed the 'Rats a legitimate issue on a silver platter.
It is irrelevant that Kerry's positions are equally pathetic and hypocritical.
Regardless of partisan label, candidates for public office need to be held accountable for their own position.
Shifting blame by pointing fingers at somebody else is a flimsy and untenable position.

1,324 posted on 03/16/2004 8:59:12 AM PST by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
And people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

Who's throwing stones? I suggested that your comment on that post had nothing to do with the content of the post, which was a call to action.

activists should be prepared to respond intelligently to legitimate criticism of their position

Yes, but that wasn't the place for that discussion. The place for that discussion was on one of the many, many, many job loss/job gain threads that are posted every day.

These were people who were trying to get other people involved in activist actions. You ought to applaud them for that instead of damping their post with your negative comments.

Your comment, on that specific thread, was out of place and unwelcome. It would have been unwelcome on most threads, but not out of place. Let's discuss, but let's not dampen activism.
1,333 posted on 03/16/2004 9:33:14 AM PST by Texas2step (<><)
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