Wasn't that the premise of the last election? - Matt
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Heald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:33 PM Subject: RE: Verizon, WTF > The geriatric crowd is going to huge in the next election I think. My > younger son goes to pre-school at a place that also has a seniors day > center > in it. I am amazed at how politicized these people have become just in > the > last 6 months. Most of them couldn't have cared about anything when I > first > me them, and they are really polarized now. > > Makes me kind of happy, and kind of scared at what the democrats will do > with all the power. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kevin Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:53 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: RE: Verizon, WTF >> >> Welcome to the world of dreamland... >> >> Why is everything Bush's fault Jerry? >> >> Here's a good piece from the WSJ describing you to a T! >> >> Many of my friends ask me why I criticize President Bush, >> when they feel he is trying very hard to protect America and >> stand up for the American people," writes one Patricia Bruch >> of Amherst, N.Y., in the Buffalo News: >> >> It makes me nervous that the president ignores Congress so often. >> Everything makes me nervous lately. I dread turning on the >> news or reading the paper. I certainly don't feel safer >> because of his war on terror. >> >> I guess my mother says it best. Whenever the president >> comes on TV, she sighs and says, "I just wish he wasn't there." >> >> Me, too. My friends may think he loves America, and he >> probably does, but I will continue to criticize him because >> my life under Bush has become very stressful, to say the least. >> >> This is not an angry piece; the tone is quite civil, and >> Bruch actually offers some specific criticisms of the Bush >> administration that are at least plausible. It sounds as >> though one could have a reasonable, adult conversation about >> politics with her. >> >> And yet. The piece does capture, in a milder form, something >> of the psychology of the Angry Left. Bruch doesn't seem to >> hate the president, but her distaste for him is, in her >> description, something of an unhealthy >> obsession: "Everything makes me feel nervous lately." >> >> We witnessed a far more severe case the other day. An old >> lady was standing at a bus stop, wearing a button that said >> YES, I REALLY DO HATE GEORGE W. >> BUSH. Another old lady walked up to her and said, "Right on!" >> The first old lady replied, "Well, at least I still have the >> right to wear this button." >> The tone in which she said this suggested not that she >> recognized her good fortune at living in a free country, even >> if she doesn't care for its current leadership, but that she >> fears that her freedom to wear obnoxious buttons is in >> danger. This is a totally irrational fear. >> >> Whatever the merits of the underlying political viewpoints, >> people who feel nervous about politics all the time or who >> are consumed with hate are suffering from a certain lack of >> perspective. There is no reason to think that those on the >> political left are inherently more prone to this sort of >> problem. Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American >> Politics" was, after all, largely an essay about the American >> right circa 1964. As we suggested Tuesday, this seems to be >> one of the hazards of being out of power politically. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:31 AM >> To: CF-Community >> Subject: Re: Verizon, WTF >> >> Michael, welcome to the world of the new republic. >> >> In Bush and his supporters' dreams, citizens have no rights, >> businesses have all the rights, and the courts will be >> stacked so that any case will be decided for business over >> government over people (if indeed the law even gives you the >> right to sue anymore. congress is passing more and more laws >> to make businesses and the government immune to any lawsuit >> whatsever.) >> >> Not that the top Democrats are much better, but at the moment >> anything is better than the "business is always right" mantra >> of the current administration. >> >> >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:193532 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
