Posted on 01/11/2007 4:20:18 AM PST by Chi-townChief
Note to the left: So much for principle. You've been suckered. Again.
Start calling them Surrendercrats.
Help me out English majors. Is "the responsibility rests with me" passive voice?
As yes, General Sweet, how could we have forgotten to consult your brilliant military strategic and tactical mind!
So what is your and the democrats plan, General? To walk away? If so, while I dread it and ask dear God to forbid it, if the emboldened and resurgent terrorists return the war to our soil again and take down the Sears Tower, perhaps you'll be good enough to be in it.
No, but "mistakes were made" sure is.
No.
These idiots are going to get us all killed...God help us!~
We'll see if she responds to my Email...
Well that's part of the same sentence... is characterization of the entire sentence as the passive voice correct?
Is this in the op-ed section? It surely is an opinion piece. Are they passing this off as reporting?
No an English Major, but the active voice would have been "I am responsible for any mistakes". Turning it around with "mistakes" being the subject and putting himself at the end of the sentence, using the words "rests with", does express it passively. At least I think so. An English Major is welcome to correct me. My response to the media editorializing about this is, SO WHAT??
Page 9 - they kind of try to pass it off as news commentary; not quite reporting and not quite editorializing.
I certainly agree with your "so what". I just wondered about the combination of a passive clause with an active clause like that. It's been years since I've had to diagram a sentence and my skills are rusty.
Nope--this is what the Sun-Times refers to as "hard" news. By the looks of it, Ms. Sweet looks to be politically just to the left of Josef himself.
Face it--call it whatever you want--redeployment, whatever. It still boils down to cut-and-run. How many millions more must die before the Dems figure out that running away only EMBOLDENS enemies? Think Iran is gonna be our bestest buddy cause we're not plopping a democratic form of government in their backyard anymore?
Yeah, me either.
I doubt she will; you're better off with a letter to the editor. I had quite an e-mail debate going with another Sun-Times "journalist", the semi-sane Monroe Anderson, but he abruptly stopped replying. I was surprised at the vulgarity and profanity of his e-mails for a supposed professional.
Exactly.
The Dems are playing both sides....
If it goes south, they can claim to have been against it in the first place.
If it goes well, they can claim credit because they allowed it to happen.
The only one sticking his neck out seems to be Bush. Other than McCain (based on what I read), the President has virtially no congressional backers.
"With me responsibility rests" is active voice?
High crimes! Thanks for pointing out the less than optimal grammar, Lynn.
D is for Defeatocrats. I take my lead on whether we should continue our efforts from our troops. They are still of high morale, and re-enlistment is being sustained. I assume this means that they believe in the mission and in its possibility for victory. Therefore, we should finish the job.
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