Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Mother of dead GI wants to Destroy Bush

Mon, 04 Jul 2005 07:51:17 -0700

In a message dated 7/4/05 1:23:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Again, you seem to be using Kerry to distract from what's really
> going on here and now.

Bingo.  And, interestingly, the more liberal among us
are allowing themselves to be distracted.  :-)

It's the same samskara in both cases.  MDixon harps
on a past "success," the defeat of John Kerry via
character assassination.  Others "refute" his
boasting and post even more lines of text than
he does trying to "prove" that they weren't really
defeated.

Bottom line is that the discussion of Things Present,
Here And Now, has been successfully diverted into
a discussion of the things both "sides" are still
attached to in the past.  Works every time.

Unc

Good morning Unc and others. I'll keep my postings brief and few today. I don't want to spend my whole holiday at the computer and I don't need to have the last word. But Unc, I think you are looking at my post from yesterday in a light of conspiracy, to change the subject to the past. Let me assure  you that was never my intention. We were posting about the definition of casualty of war and I wanted to emphasize that casualty doesn't necessarily mean a death but could be something very minor requiring nothing more than tweezers and a band aid. I simply took a poke at Kerry, using him as an example of a war casualty and the nature of his wounds. So naturally Liberals came to the rescue of Kerry's honor and the subject totally changed. Not my intent. But that is what happened. I hear people take pokes at Bush, Reagan and other republicans all the time with out the need to run to their defense although some times I do. But was this "conspiracy" on my part to dwell on the past and change the subject? Naaaaa! I see this on so many threads on FFL. Read the topics and then follow them and see where they end up, on a totally different subject! You may have noticed there were several times yesterday that I did try to get back to the original subject, but it just wasn't going to happen. I'll chalk it up to the nature of politics.<However, I did read your post regarding  "Politics in the rearview mirror" and found a lot of wisdom in it, although I think you were still caught up in some of the BS you tried to warn Democrats against.  Letting go of the past and looking to the future would be a helpful trick for the democrats to learn. So many of the ideas that democrats come up with sound good idealistic and wonderful, but everybody knows those ideas are going to hit them in the pocket book one way or another and they go over like a led balloon. Running a candidate that would appeal to a broader base would also be helpful and I don't see too many of those lining up to run. Somebody like Evan Bhye(sorry for the spelling) would appeal to a lot more people closer to the center than somebody like Hillary, who I admit would definitely energize the base. But the base of the democratic party as it is now will never have power again. < So if you find me changing the subject on a thread, please don't look at it as some "trick". I think we all digress now and then.

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