Just can't resist an opportunity to re-characterize and distort what I write, eh Bruce?
One example -- show me where I wrote that 45% of the country is far left. There are many others, but I'm sick of dealing with you assholes. On Oct 18, 2008, at 9:55 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Oct 17, 2008, at 5:14 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: > >> Both Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin are qualified to be President/Vice >> President. > > Strictly speaking, yes, each one of them is qualified to be Veep. All > are over 35, all are native-born American citizens. > > Beyond that Sarah Palin is no more qualified to be VP than I am, > possibly less, because she appears to be less informed about current > events and existing American politics than I am. > > From what we've discovered of her governing style: > > 18 months in office and having officially been found of abusing her > powers for personal gain, immediately starting off with measures to > evade the very transparency she campaigned for, by conducting official > government business on private email systems *explicitly* to evade > subpoena. This is public record, she cannot hide this. The Yahoo > emails where she and her staff explicitly discuss subpoenas were among > those released to the committee in september. > > persisting in public statements on her record (the infamous bridge to > nowhere) when there is video of her publicly expressing the exact > opposite of what she said, and when the public record contradicts her > statements. > > She believes, or at least is pretending to believe, if you want to get > deeply cynical, that there are 'Pro-American' *parts* of the country, > implying that there are *anti* American parts of the country. > <http://www.drudge.com/news/113787/palin-loves-pro-america-parts-us >> > > (If DRUDGE is reporting this this way, she's lost Matt Drudge; the > republicans are in deep shit.) > > Contrary to popular belief, blind allegiance to the leaders and nation > is not patriotism, not in a democracy. > > "My country right or wrong" is not a virtue in a democracy. (And > wasn't even the correct quote...) > > Patriots don't say that, only subjects. > > It is our duty as citizens to speak out when our country is wrong. It > is our duty as citizens to work to change things when it is wrong. > > Even in wartime, much less the ongoing, ill-defined, constant 'war on > a tactic' thing we have going on, because when our country is wrong it > hurts us all. > > It damages this country that I love, and I refuse to stand idly by and > let it happen just because some yahoo with a bullhorn or an email > account tells me I'm not a patriot or that I hate America. > > Fuck that noise. This is too important. > > > >> One ticket wants to lead from a far left perspective, the >> other slightly right of the middle. > > >> >> Everyone should try to be a little more mindful of those things when >> spouting off in support of their preferred candidate. Put that broad >> paint brush away, and note it is possible to praise one candidate >> without besmirching the other and his supporters. > > > Yes, absolutely, 45% of the country is "far left". > > A) Take your own advice there, Francis. > > B) If you think that a mainstream centrist Democrat like Obama is "far > left" you wouldn't know "far left" if it came up and bit you on the > ass. Seriously. Consider your biases. By your reckoning, Eisenhower > was a marxist. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "No matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
