"I missed that too. I still would not invite someone in my home and then start such a debate with them. Still shows a lack of class in my book."
I agree. You only talk about hot topics like that with good friends you've known for years and who won't be offended by different viewpoints from their own. She embarrassed her husband and herself IMHO.
" I would never even think of being a guest at someones home and start an argument! Very unclassy!"
She was in her own home when they discussed the death penalty.
[i]But when the Bushes came to Britain in the summer of 2001, Mrs Blair, more tribal in her politics than Tony, according to a close family friend, embarrassed her husband. As the two couples sat down to dinner, with the officials no longer there, Mrs Blair could not resist an argument. She is a human rights lawyer and turned to the death penalty, a subject on which she has blunt views.[/i]
Did you read the MSNBC link? This stuff is not new and has been thoroughly de-bunked by the Feebies as well as by the Czechs. I can't help it if the media don't do their job and check this stuff before they start re-hashing old stuff.
My point is that if it's made harder for parents to do the paperwork, and I've heard of pages in triplicate etc needing details of assets and income, many people will not even try, because, unlike most people on this forum, they either don't have the cognition or the drive to get this paperwork done.
That's not the problem of the kids, but it will be when they don't get a free meal any more, (maybe the only [fairly decent] meal they get all day).
There's a huge problem with poverty in this country and it's a pity there is so little compaasion for those who are truly needy.
I don't remember anyone at that party asking him about his views on Strom Thurmond as a Presidential candidate. Lott walked into his mess on his own two feet. If he'd stayed on as Senate Majority leader he would have been the whipping boy for the Dems for the whole next session.
By 'giving Hong Kong back to China', he was obeying a long-standing treaty which had been signed by Great Britain and China. You got a problem wit dat? Or do you think treaties are to be broken if it doen't suit you any more?