On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:07 PM, richardsan san wrote: > On 11/5/08, Brian Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somebody has to be the bigger person and take the first step. >>
To what, start more partisan fighting? When I said "someone needs to take the first step" I didn't mean to continue stoking the fires of divisiveness nor to be the first to say "I told you so" or to point out the short comings of those who don't agree with you. That is the complete opposite of what I meant. >> My thoughts exactly. >> -- >> Brian >> >> >> On Nov 5, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Francis Drouillard wrote: >>> Why are you sharing this? >>> >>> On Nov 5, 2008, at 4:05 PM, richardsan san wrote: >>> >>>> here are some gems: >> >> >> snipped garbage > > guess you aren't following along either. I most certainly was following along. Otherwise you would not have been able to quote what I wrote. ;-) > the reason for them, was a small glimpse into the undertow of racism > in america. if you don't see it where you live, then consider > yourself fortunate. or maybe something else is going on. We all know that racism still exists. To just post a bunch of racist comments without any commentary of your own to give it any context is not helpful or even meaningful. > it's going to be difficult to do as you say[but not as you do] in > 'someone needs to take the first step' in healing the partisan > divide...some yoke compared it to the civil war [might have been one > of the authors of one of those conservative anti obama missives i > posted], Actually it was me. If that makes me a "yoke" (yokel?, I'm certainly not something which can be used to harness beasts of burden) then I'll be glad to accept your characterization. > there...mindsets a century and a half old...well, that's not working > for me and i suspect not gonna work for most of the people who > support obama. > > i don't see any point in "uniting" with conservatives. they want too > much. and offer little, if anything. Personally I see everything to be gained by uniting with conservatives. It allows our government to start governing for the people of the United States again rather then continuing to do things which they believe only benefit their own party to the detriment of getting the job done. That doesn't mean giving in to everything they want or believe. It means finding a way to compromise in a way which allows significant legislation to be offered to sort out and resolve the very significant problems our country faces. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
