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To: epicure who wrote (223547)	3/11/2007 11:52:00 AM
From: Suma	Read Replies (1) of 281500

There were many students in school who never actively did anything wrong. However, they were always something about them that turned teacher's off... They would often challenge a teacher with WHAT DID I DO WRONG ? I never quite grasp how to describe what it was until I watched a TV program about Performing Arts High School in the City. Then the word ATTITUDE was used to describe students who were covertly disrespectful... There was this Black teacher who used to explain why someone hadn't attained the level of being selected for a performance. Hey, how come I didn't get that role I was as good as that person ...a student would ask. The teacher would respond . It's you attitude... It wasn't what the student said out loud. It was the insidious undermining that went on with tongue in the cheek responses, smirks ... nothing tangible... Always sub rosa but the attitude was there..That was the only word that seemingly described it. Persons post on various threads not only with researched information but with attitude...There's always that snide jab or remark that is a red flag in front of the bull. Personally I like dealing on a straight out response to questions put to me on the sites when I am able. Unfortunately there are many days when my eyes do not permit me to do a lot of researching on that Advanced Search tool as I have to save them to last me to do my book reading at night.. So, I am not up for debating, conflagrations or trying to prove that I am right here or on any other thread. And I am often wrong. And I don't pretend to have all the answers.. ETC My posting has all ready gotten me labeled as a leftist.. I hate labels. I believe that a person's ideas,feelings and persuasions,regardless cannot be lumped under one label. Just like our personalities we are a composite of many differing characteristics.. However, if one repeatedly denigrates any another person I am offended.. It strikes a cord that says we are here to be nasty to one another instead of trying to share differing opinions and stances..I don't believe that anyone of us will change anyone else's mind here. So why do we persist. For me it's trying to illuminate.. To offer a broader picture. Example. Sure Libby will be exonerated..pardoned.. But he did lie under oath. That is his crime. That was Clinton's crime. It wasn't that he didn't have sex.. It was he lied under oath. How is Libby any different ? I am open to explanations. My turning point on our President is when he lied to us. I do not have friends who lie. I detest lying. To see the outcome of this lie ultimately has done to our country is very sad for me. I defended Bill Clinton because I thought he was not only misunderstood but that he was constantly under pressure from right wing sources that . that were ready to lie about him.. Newt Gingrich used to talk to my brother and say one could not believe anything out of Clinton's mouth. With an attitude like his.........what could be accomplished in any viable exchanges between the two.. ? Then, I learn that while lecturing against Clinton's infidelities Gingrich himself is having an affair. This is hypocrisy at it's highest. I turned off to Gingrich. He has a brilliant mind but he is not to be trusted. It's just too bad that there is always this need to try to prove another person wrong with ATTITUDE that is less than constructive and often more inflammatory. I recoil from these challenges and become passive. That is why I often will not respond to posts that want to go at it with me. I admire those of you who can be challenged and go at it back and forth. I do not come here for that. I am interested in what everyone posts here. EVERYONE. And I go to other threads where there is reasonable debate and PFP does have a lot of REASONABLE posts.. Where I find "ATTITUDES"... pejorative statements and no levity at all except poking jibes at another person and their posts I leave. Life is too short and in the end... It's all hyperbole, rhetoric and the same o same o isn't it ? Sometimes I find it amusing that we are all Americans who in the case of 9/11 come together in one true common cause.

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