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Both sides are getting weak in the knees. Both sides ready to blink.
Polls always, always tighten up and hedge their bets and then nobody is as certain as he was 24 hrs ago.

I just want it to be over.

Post 5 over to you! :)

Why?

So they can fall into the wrong hands?

I’ve noticed that despite the “Please: no profanity...” call for civility on the posting-comment page, there is an uncommon amount of vulgarity, name-calling, personal attacks — and surprisingly little respect here for contrary opinions. It will continue to repel thoughtful and courteous freepers and diminish the tone of the site.

But your comment is appreciated. The only good that comes from name-calling and foaming irrationality, is that once I see it I feel free to ignore the poster rather than attempt to reason with him.

Then there’s the folks who don’t seem to understand that posting one’s opinion on an opinion forum does not entail any obligation to elaborate, answer questions, accept essay assignments, or otherwise jump hoops at the whip crack of any anonymous poster who swaggers up with a random command.

Good luck cleaning the Augean forum!

Don’t be ridiculous. I don’t take requests. I have articulated my position fully and you’re asking for an indefinitely long exposition of the obvious, which may never satisfy you, at no charge on my time. I’m not biting.

To the contrary, because it should be obvious, I cannot possibly know when to STOP laying out a case to you.

In my opinion, the American colonists revolted against far less onerous offenses than our govt commits against us today.

If you consider Roe v Wade, obamacare, TSA, income taxes, etc. to be “light and transient causes” that do not “rise to the standard set by the Declaration, I am aghast, speechless.

I charge .05/word, more when it’s both lengthy and obvious. :)

In other words, I’m right. The POTUS does not have any obligation to work with the veep.

You really need to quit posting to me, CT. You’re making less sense each time, now you’re projecting as well as name-calling. I don’t sit here all day and I especially avoid wasting time with irrational posters. Over and out.

My estimation of the resistance (ie, the American citizens) is based on many factors. Among them, the response to Roe v. Wade; to Kelo; to Waco; to the TSA. Among other factors: the people continue to pay protection money to the govt so it won’t incarcerate and impoverish them for not paying; the people continue to enable the govt financially, when refusal to do so would bring the govt to its knees within weeks. These are not the same caliber of Americans who tracked blood in the wilderness during the Revolution.
I wish it were otherwise. Perhaps you, ctd2, are otherwise. I cannot know that, I can only hope so.

PS: Re Art of War...you let your opponent make the first move when you are ready for it. By far, most are NOT ready.
Not even getting ready. (Basic questions are not, how much ammo have I got and how much food? Basic questions are, when the S appears to HTF, how do I know it isn’t an isolated incident? do I go to work that day? and do the kids go to school that day?)
Moreover, Art of War had a few suggestions about timing offense rather than letting the opponent decide when to start surprising you.

If my argument was unclear to anyone, I recommend reading it again, more slowly.

Thanks for playing, but your posts to me are really quite lame. Imputing to them things I haven’t written; ad hominem attack; baseless insinuations.
I quite understand I’ve ruffled some feathers, but I see no obligation to smoothe them.

Kindly point to me where I “mocked special ops.”

You and Code Toad posit that magical 24 hours.
Ninety percent likely would not hear a thing in 24 hours, or if they did, would not be able to confirm it and get alarmed.

As for illusions, people stockpile those too, for just such occasions.

Again, many here are underestimating the govt.

Another ad hominem. Ring me when you can address the argument on the merits.

Where in the Constitution does it say the president has to “work with” the vice-president? It’d have to be dated somewhere after Truman.

Not to mention special optimists!

Despite what I know of the Milgram experiment, I can respect a different opinion, and pray you're right and I'm wrong.

Nevertheless, people here are seriously underestimating the opposition.

My copy of the Constitution doesn't play that song.