In a message dated 9/21/2001 9:39:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>While he may not be the most eloquent President we've ever had, (his father
>was the same way) at the moment, he's definitely speaking for a majority of
>Americans right now. Bush is from Texas. Quoting scripture is one of the
>ways, historically, that Texan politicians get elected and stay elected.
The
>others are a) being pro-big business concerns, and b) being tough on crime.
>
>In addition, a large majority of our country is made up of religious
>Christians who like to know that their elected leaders are also, in the
>thought that they will therefore conform to a certain moral and ethical
code.
> Most American politicans who are not from either coast can quote scripture
>passages to fit any situation.
<<Oh please do not try and blame this on Texans, Christians, and rural
Americans from the Heartland. To do so smacks of exactly the sort of
contempt for "otherness" that so marks the very extremists that we are
fighting.>>
John,
After having two cups of very powerful coffee and working myself into a rabid
frenzy in which I scared my cat, probably angered my fiance and wrote a very
nasty, long, two page flame (which was highly patriotic and exceptionally
insulting) in response to you.
I then trashed it. I'm not going to respond to inflammatory comments with
more of the same.
I will however, say this: (consider it the watered-down version, which is
better for my blood pressure and my sanity):
I did nothing of the sort.
You didn't read my post.
What *you* did right here however, is tell me that I'm being contemptuous of
religious people, Texans and rural Americans. I was not, and did not say
that, or anything like it anywhere in my post.
I did not excuse or take exception to or have a problem with anything our
President said, and I did not say anything to that effect anywhere in my
post.
Nothing I said indicated that Americans from any background don't have the
right to be religious.
Jon
