> Grant wrote: > Hey Gruss, Robert said Obama sucks. > Hey Robert, Gruss said Bush sucks.
Those are positional vs. principled arguments and, if I was taking my own advice, I wouldn't get into them. Because, as we all know, they rarely amount to anything. What should be done instead is to focus on the principles, but that went by the way-side over the last number of years. Granted politics has been around forever, but it's vehicles are mostly generational. I think you had a more collegial environment with The Greatest Generation as they fought WWII and had a good comparative basis. Things started to go off the rails with the baby-boomers who - in general - are a whiny selfish narcissistic bunch which is why all of their policies suck and why they've brought the country to the edge of disaster. If you want blame someone for this crisis don't blame a party: go big. Blame a generation. That's what I do. Starting with Clinton you had a selfish do-gooder with little control over his appetites. Those traits are fundamentally offensive, especially to the hypocritically moral; they like to pretend so they don't like seeing reality, so he was polarizing. Plus, unrecognized to many at the time, he dismantled the banking regulatory system paving the way for the current global disaster. But he was a boomer. Then selfish do-gooder #2 comes along, Bush. He's just basically tragic: too dumb to do anything right, it was basically like giving a 16 year old a tricked out '68 GTO with a blower and 4 barrel carb that had a case of cold beer in the trunk. The Clinton apologists will claim if someone responsible had been in office blah blah blah. But: 1.) Clinton knew who he was turning over the key to, and 2.) You didn't see him waving the red flag So don't blame the parties, blame the boomers. They're the ones that created this mess and the divisiveness that helped create it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
