--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > Re: George Bush: Graciousness and compassion personified > > > > [I wrote:] > > > > > > > Asking Webb about his son was Bush's way of > > > > > > > rubbing it in that he gets to make the decisions > > > > > > > about the war and that Webb is powerless to > > > > > > > change anything. > > > > > > > > [Jyouells wrote:] > > > > > > Boy am I glad I don't have THAT mind reading siddhi. > > > > > > > [MDixon wrote:] > > > > > Hey, when you wear the red glasses..... > > > > > > [Jyouells wrote:] > > > > A lot of assumin' about the President's thought processes.... > > > > It was just as unmannerly when Maharishi did it. > > > > > [Barry wrote:] > > > And just as revealing about how *he* thinks. > > > > BWAHAHAHA! > > > > Well, I was going to poke a little fun at Barry > > for this, um, revealing bit of inadvertent self- > > referential irony, but between the time I began > > my reply and the time I hit Send, he'd had a > > rush of brains to the head, realized what he'd > > said, and canceled his post (#12408). > > > > So we have to give him ex post facto credit for > > that little flash of clarity, at least--even > > though he opted to disappear his slip rather than > > let it stand, acknowledge it, and poke a bit of > > fun at himself. > > I stand completely by what I said earlier. We > learn a lot more about *Maharishi* by all the > terrible things he sees in George W. Bush and > the language he uses to describe him than we > learn about Bush. Similarly, we learn a great > deal more about you by the way you describe the > people you hate than we do about those people. > > I deleted the post because upon re-reading it > I realized that leaving it up would just give > you another chance to further pollute this > forum with your hatred, and I was hoping to > avoid that. It was a nice thought, but > obviously too late...
Barry's between a rock and a hard place here. Either he has to admit having tried to disappear his slip, or he confirms that he's still totally oblivious to it. (I don't "hate" anybody, Barry. I find Bush repellent, and you've just become a joke.)
