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Hon, just a little note to you regarding your condescending post. If you honestly think that all I do is whine about the president, you're sadly mistaken. I will not bother to detail for you just what I've done to try and support the president and his election in 2000 and re-election in 2004, but suffice to say that I have a hand written letter from him that I've framed and am looking at right now.

And I can see that it's never occurred to you that all the posts about the relationship between Iraq/AQ that the administration seems intent on ignoring has generated a lot of replies to me over the year from people who did not know about the relationship and have used those posts of mine and the links I've gathered over the years to send to other people via their private e-mails. And some of those people have turned around and tried to educate the Republicans.

Now you may think that's nothing, but from what I can see, it's a heck of a lot more than you've ever done on FR. Your entire modus operandi seems to be to yell at those who don't think the administration is perfect. That so helpful./ extreme sarcasm

And who is blaming the leadership for misconduct among Senators? I am blaming directly the leadership for not using the issue on their own. Although it would be helpful if they would try and educate the Senators and get those talking points out. That is PART of leadership.

And as long as there's denial that there is a problem, then freepers like you will not do what freepers do best. Activism with letters and phone calls. Something you clearly aren't doing because of your own denial and trying to get other people to buy into your limited mindset.

Something you clearly aren't doing because of your own denial and trying to get other people to buy into your limited mindset.

Well as someone who read every single one of the posts here this week I hate to tell you but every single one of your posts WAS a whine. There was NO solutions offered, no ideas nothing but "Why doesn't ...insert name here...do something" Sorry but that person in denial is YOU. As someone who is, and has, spent most of his time for the last 20 years involved in politics, (incidentally I was one of 50 people who spent Thursday night talking to Sen George Allen and Sen Norm Coleman about things such as the Republican's PR problem) "my limited mindset" has a vastly greater grip on current political reality then your whine all the time self righteous, self important posturing mind does. So tell me "Enlightened one", How many US Senators have YOU talked to in the last 90 Days?

You seem to think some how you are "Doing something" by posting the same basic complaint a few hundred times. It gets even worse that your notions of what to do are absurd. A US President has ONE tool in dealing with the Coequal Congress. Persuasion. If the Congress Critter has chosen an conflicting course for personal or PR reasons, the ONLY people who can bring pressure to bear to change that course are the voters who elected that Congress Critter. It is NOT "Denial" to point out to the whiners the absurdity of their posting the same complaint over and over and over and over, thinking they are "Doing something" to help the cause. It does NOTHING to spend all your time trying to "Wake people up" to the problem they are all ready more then aware of.

Hate to tell you this but it does NO good at all to "Wake" Freepers up" to a problem they can do NOTHING about. Most of us all ready spend a good bit of time lobbying Congress and pestering "journalists" Not anything more the activists can do that they are NOT all ready doing. This is an absurd notion. The idea that there is some sort magic PR switch the White House can flick and make everything wonderful for the Whine All The Time Choir is a childish fantasy. Sorry, that idea is a prime example of mental denial on the part of certain Freepers, not an "wise" insight into reality

The person who CAN change the behavior you are upset with today is Lindsay Graham, but he is getting a free ride while you, and a couple of others, spend all your time whining to people who can do NOTHING to solve the problem for you. ONE person can change Lindsay Grahams behavior, Lindsay Graham.

The phone calls and letters you sneer at have WAY more impact, as any elected politician will tell you, then all this meaningless posturing by people on some Website. All this venting on Free Republic is not only meaningless, it is ineffective. Complaining all the time may make the whiners feel better, it will NOT fix the problem. What is worse by screaming about all of the GOP, the whiners create so much noise the REAL culprits like McCain, Graham and Hagel are being lost in their noise.