Posted on 11/10/2004 2:01:09 AM PST by kattracks
This is a gem.
So much for British public opinion polls on the war.
This is not a new phenomena. We saw it, in spades, during impeachment six years ago. No matter what evidence, facts, or testimony was provided, the other side stuck their fingers in their ears, stuck out their tongues, and chanted "Na! Na! Can't hear you!"
Excellent article written by a Democrat that gets it. A must read for Republicans and Democrats alike.
HAROLD ICKES:
on winning the presidency by terrorizing white womenbump
It's amusing how ickes, the clintons, and the entire left are publicly denying the reality of the security mom
and the utter (and deliberate) failure of the clintons to have stemmed terrorism during the 8 years
they had the supreme duty to do so.
That the left now regards as its savior these two despicable utter failures
says everything we need to know about this defunct, defective, decayed political organization.
Indeed, ickes, the clintons, and the entire left, by making this ludicrous argument, are denying the reality of the horrific danger of terrorism.
Never mind the presidency.
These idiots are demonstrating in real time why they must never again occupy any position of power in America.
The Dutch are currently getting a reeducation on this subject. I pray the English don't, but I have a feeling eventually Europe will be under siege.
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Amen!
I used to be a lib. Never an idealogue, though. My politics changed after I got access to the net and info from someone other than the usual suspects. I bet this is happening to a lot of Dems.
Excellent read, certainly worth a few minutes of your time.
Definitely a keeper. Print this off and put it with other articles to be saved about this election.
I have to wonder why the author is continuing to refer to herself as a democrat, when she obviously is not. The only democrat she saw fit to compliment was Obama, yet she and so many others like her claim membership in a corrupt, weak party that is weezing like Arafat.
Truth is, I see a little (very little) of us in the way the far left is reacting to their loss.
After eight years of Clinton, I was dumbfounded when I could not understand why the other side could not see what we saw, and forced myself to re-evaluate what had happened.
Many of us made the same mistake that the Democrats are making now, we inflated the villainy of the Clintons, and the main stream media turned their corruption against us.
The American people were not prepared to believe they elected an "evil" man to office (this same feeling protects President Bush). In our frustration we were willing to believe and spread every bad story we could find about the Clintons (and I am now convinced that some of these stories were generated by the Clintons as a way to inoculate themselves against the real crimes they may have committed).
By making one charge after another, many without any real proof, we were made to feel good, but in the end our rants protected the Clintons when the real stuff was exposed.
It allowed Hillary to come out and claim (falsely as we all know) that it was a right wing conspiracy behind their troubles, and many in America were willing to believe her.
The lesson we should learn (and one which President Bush has learned) is that it is better to be civil with your opponent. Allow them to rant and rave all they want, but return their taunts with kindness. The Democrats spent the entire four years of President Bush’s first term turning every decision into a scandal. If there was a scandal during the first term, it got lost in the chaff, and did them no good. But what if they would have co-operated with the President, acted with civility, fight for what they believed in, and conceded when they were defeated, and then they discovered a “scandal”. They would come before the American people as the injured party, and they may have in fact turned the American people against President Bush.
As it is, nothing they say or do registers anymore (as nothing we said or did registered with the American people about the Clintons.
This does not mean we have to roll over and play dead, it does mean we should show a little restraint when we discuss the Democrats, allow their own words work against them, and be careful about making false claims about them.
Middle America is not as passionate as we 24/7 Freepers, and get turned off by the constant bickering they hear between the two extremes., to them, we are no better then Michael Moore.
Think about it.
"When a friend of mine decided to present an evening of poetry, she was asked by one of the organizers to change the word ‘folks’ in one of the titles. This was done because ‘folks’ is a Bushism. She protested. The organizer went into a strident fit of pique. And the Bush ’folks’ are the mind-altering Fascists??"
This is the scary part of who these people have become. A bushism, indeed...
bump for later (This makes two!)
PING to an excellant read:
Written by a Zell Miller type democrat in London:
>..."When one lives in Europe today and is surrounded by extremist Islamist posters, stickers and literature on every urban street, one is irritated by the rhetoric of the Moore-acolytes. I guess I am one of the ‘idiot 51%’ who believe that Iraq may have been involved with 9/11. "
"When one visits one’s local pharmacy; coffee shop; grocery and newspaper stand all run by Muslims in London, one hears an Iraqi, a Palestinian, a Syrian and a Saudi extolling the virtues of suicide bombers and of the ‘Magnificent Nineteen of 9/11.’"
" The ‘folks’ whom the British and European papers think are so dumb for believing there is a link amongst the terror groups and tyrannical Gulf regimes have a raw instinct, and they are sittin’ on a stoop thousands of miles away in Iowa, not in my local shop in Londonistan."
kattracks, you have an uncanny ability to unearth the gems from the morass of articles available.
FBD, thanks for the ping.
To the illiterati: Keep misunderestimating us "folks". It will make it easier for us to take back our beloved country.
To the illiterati: Keep misunderestimating us "folks".
Illiterati...That's a good one!
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