I hear you. But some things do call for emotion. Rwanda -- what's a moderate position on the genocide there? Darfur; I don't see a middle of the road there, sorry. I see shades of grey just fine, but I don't see the First Amendment and habeas corpus as items that should be up for compromise, sorry.
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Cameron Childress <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 4:08 AM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Not to mention family...I refuse to even discuss politics with most of mine >> (who >> have bought into the Religious Right and Fox so much they can't understand >> how any sane person that considers themselves Christian like myself can be >> a Democrat). I knew I was in trouble when I was visiting my sister and she >> had >> a copy of "George Bush: Portrait of a Leader" on the table in the living >> room. >> Sigh, what more is there to say. > > It actually sounds like you are as certain of your position as they > are in theirs. That's really my point, around election season time > people are willing to go farther down the slippery slope of their > respective points. "Well, if X gets elected, this will happen, and > then this will happen, and then everything will not be fair, and then > the world will certainly come to an end in a giant fireball". > > Poof. That's the sound of each person's respective center of logic > being consumed in a giant fireball of emotion. Feeding on fear and > ignoring any alternate points of view people become more and more > entrenched and frantic. > > -Cameron > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:264716 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
