>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.
Actually, not really. I am fairly middle-of-the-road and often vacillate in who I want to vote for. I most definitely have things I like and dislike about both candidates and often spend a lot of time researching them to try and decide who is going to fit what I care most about best. I always appreciate a good discussion on politics, but in my family it tends to be more "how can any intelligent person consider voting for so-and-so" which right now is Obama. Like on July 4th I was at a parade with my sister and her family. She saw someone wearing an Obama T-shirt and pointed it out to her husband "Look at that!" like someone was doing something offensive in public. That type of mindset and thinking is what bothers me most. >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. Yup, unfortunately, that very much is what politics in this country has become. People really have lost the ability to think and decide for themselves and have let groups both on the far right and far left drag us away from all the issues that the majority of us *truly* care about. --- Mary Jo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:264722 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
