On 11/5/08, Brian Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 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.

 you weren't following along...

>
>
>  > 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.
>
>
 no. sorry. conservatives don't want to compromise, you know that.
[insert those posts i c/p from conservatives]
[insert evidence of anti gay marriage propositions placed on ballots]
[insert dictates pertaining to abolishing abortion rights]
[insert prayer in school proponents]
[discarding of evolution and insert teaching of religion/ID theories
in public schools]
ad naseum
'compromise' would be: not interfering with the rights of those who
don't subscribe to the conservative agenda.


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