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Like I said - lighten up.

It strikes me that the new generation of conservative yuppie-lites wants a Washington DC that has all 300 Dishnet channels, unlimited laughs, and low taxes. It doesn't want any absolute moral truth either, and, so when the First Lady degrades herself, and her husband's office, we are supposed to "lighten up." After all, man, we got a laugh!

The notion of the Bush family huddled around the TV set watching Hollywood pop culture just doesn't seem very comforting to me. Sorry.

I'm not some new generation yuppie type - but since you seem to so enjoy stereotyping, I'll give you some that came to mind after your first post on this thread - it's attitudes like yours that give conservatives a bad rap as being rightwing religious fanatics who wish to control everyone else's life.

Everyone has gotten the message you didn't care for the First Lady's performance last night, fine you didn't like, so drop it.

Have you seen this man?

Asks for the cash value of a prize set of football tickets to report on his income tax

Has a 230-channel satellite dish, with every channel locked out

Prays for "the middle men who jacked up the price"

Considers insurance a form of gambling

Thinks dice are wicked

Thinks Laura Bush's performance at the Correspondant's Dinner was "Degrading"

A sense of humor is solely held by humans. It is what sets us apart from all animals; no dog, pig, or chicken ever told a joke.

And you're wrong about questionable topics being unpresidential. Many historical scholars have made note of Abraham Licoln's penchant for telling jokes, and some of them were quite bawdy for their time. Humor and the theater were Lincoln's main means of temporarily escaping from the horror he was living. That attempt to escape ultimately got him killed. In seeking humor, Lincoln was attempting to blow off steam. That's what the correspondent's dinner is about. All American's need to laugh on a regular basis, including the President. If what Laura Bush did was wrong, why was her husband, a good and moral man, busting a gut at her remarks?

Warren G. Harding once stated that it was a good thing he wasn't born a girl, "because I never could say no."

I agree with your premise that there is a line of dignity which an administration should never cross.

Laura Bush didn't cross it.

Heres my favorite farmer joke. Two farmers wives are out in the field harvesting potatoes. One wife says to the other 'hey these taters look just like Jakes nuts.'The other lady was impressed. She said 'his nuts are that big?' 'No' says the other woman 'they are that dirty'.

Lighten up.

It strikes me that the new generation of conservative yuppie-lites wants a Washington DC that has all 300 Dishnet channels, unlimited laughs, and low taxes. It doesn't want any absolute moral truth either, and, so when the First Lady degrades herself, and her husband's office, we are supposed to "lighten up." After all, man, we got a laugh! The notion of the Bush family huddled around the TV set watching Hollywood pop culture just doesn't seem very comforting to me. Sorry.

I've been a VRWC FReeper here for about four years. In my personal estimation, my demographic estimation is that most of us are either retire military and >50 years old. Soooo, I may be wrong, I'm 55 years old and most of us relate on a brotherly basis. That said, I would not label FReepers as Yuppies. IMOHO