Posted on 08/03/2004 12:09:31 PM PDT by dead
Count your blessings, Phantom Lord. Here's a sample:
Perlstein's specialty is assertive unintelligibility.
I agree with you. At first I thought this might be interesting but it turns out perlstein really has no logical argument or basis in reality for his assertions.
There was a span of 18 minutes between Perlstein's first reply and the thread's 100th reply. During that eighteen minutes he replied four times (five if you count his first reply, which was a greeting).
In his first twenty replies, he averaged 3.9 minutes per reply (according to my quick and dirty calculations). When you first commented on his speed, he was averaging 3.7 minutes per reply. So he's staying pretty consistent at around 4 minutes per reply.
He *seems* slow, but he's not. It's a perception thing.
"The governor ran for president on a platform of balanced budgets, then ran the federal budget straight into the red."
There was this little matter of 9/11, but I wouldn't expect a 9/10 liberal to understand.
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Brad, I'd love to see your accounting of how 9/11 made up for the surplus plus a defecit that in its latest estimate is $639 billion. That's a lot of airport scanners.
A SAVAGING? THAT IS PRETTY FUNNY.... You are going to vote for Kerry and Edwards...right....you bash Edwards in total in your article but you dont even bat an eye when your vote comes up in NOV.
I cant call that a savaging article.
Sorry I'm 450 posts behind. Can't wait to read them!
Anway:
----How about his assertion that we have abandoned principle for power, and rule of law for rule of man? I'd like to see him both provide an example, and at the same time defend Bill Clinton's suborning purgery.
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Holding the medicare vote open for three hours, an unprecedented breech of congressional protocol. Producing memos approved by the VP's office saying the president doesn't have to follow treaties.
I don't defend Clinton because I didn't support Clinton.
His bashing Ann Coulter doesnt make me angry. It makes me laugh. Ann Coulter deliberately makes over-the-top claims layered on top of carefully constructed solid arguments underneath. Liberals dont want to argue her real points, just the headlines, lest they actually get taken down by her facts ... She's like a Venus fly trap, only prettier.
So, are you Jewish?
History is a funny thing.
February 26th, 1992 = First WTC Bombing
February 28th, 1992 = WACO
Clinton had no problem telling his General (wess clarke) to roll his tanks, he just had trouble pointing them in the right direction.
Sure, there were underge "children" at Abu Garib. Children formerly known to lugging around AK-47s and shooting Marines. It is clear by testimony that many undeage fighters participated in the April insurgency.
Children used in warfare is commonplace in the non-European world. The Shan Rebellion in Burma, various African insurgencies, even in El Salvador. Combantants are combantants regardless of age. If they're big enough to weild an automatic rifle and kill soldiers, then they be big enough to be tossed into prison.
The "children" argument leaves me cold.
Rick, you were great on that 'Beauty and the Beast' TV show with Linda Hamilton!
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I only wish I were that tall.
But you can still call me Hellboy. Give 'em hellboy, Harry!
Well said, V.
I would have typed 'contemptible' instead of 'sad', btw.
Thanks for replying to my post. Of course I disagree with what you've said but i do appreciate it.
"He [Kerry]was very brave in leading the investigation of the way the Reagan Administration negotiated with hostage-takers in Iran; I admired that, certainly."
Kerry couldn't have anything get in the way of his precious sandanista commie buddies in Nicaragua thats for sure. We all know it was "for the children".
:o)
And if a "Pell grant" is such a great Govt program, amounting to a voucher for College, what is so awful about vouchers for K-12?
That's an excellent argument. I'll be interested in seeing what he has to say to that one.
Then the NY Times needs a better search engine for their archives...
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5 Legislative Days Left Until The AWB Expires
What net worth/lifetime in dollars do you put on the 3000 victims of 911?
The 9|11 attacks and the idiotic dot.bomb tulip madness had a devestating impact on tax ependitures and put a strain on the budget. Also, there were no "cuts" in the budgets of the 1990s, only slight limits in projected increases in spending. Once the rotten table legs of the Clinton economy fell, thus the problems with the budget.
What is your opinion of Janet Reno's raid on Waco, btw?
I am going by nothing more than the opening to THIS debate thread sir. Am I correct in assuming you are the author? I imagine I am, since you attempted and failed to explain to me just exactly how all conservatives are shallow whiners.
Let's just go with "shallow whiners". Both are insults. Not a good first impression maker, especially if you hope to gain readers.
You then accused us of being of being "uncritical devotion to President Bush", leaving the burden of proof up to us. All I can say in that regard is that it's not an honest subject for debate. If you think we're mindlessly loyal to President Bush and blind to his faults, you've been studying conservatives on the wrong threads. The proof is right here on this gigantic information archive we call Free Republic. We're not going to make accusations without facts. That might be critical, but it's not honest, well thought criticism.
Just as you claim not to agree with Kerry on all the issues, but still want him elected, most of us disagree with Bush on one or more points but think he's the best man for the job.
'Lions den'? Sheesh.
I'm 70 posts in, and it's softball city. When did Freeperdom start rolling out the red carpet, for liberals???
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