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Politics : Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Idiot -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (198)	4/11/2003 10:30:56 AM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1409

I think you and I are polar opposites on political issues and I am going to do my blood pressure and quite likely yours a favor and remove this bookmark. Lets talk food or gardening next time in another local:)

To: Poet who wrote (198)	4/11/2003 12:36:45 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1409

Do you find any logical distinction between the factual assumptions of those critical of the clinton administration vis-à-vis those critical of President Bush and the Iraqi war? Or are we to assume that all "criticism," regardless of logical substance, time, target, and intent are equally valid? Just curious.

To: Poet who wrote (198)	4/12/2003 5:03:21 PM
From: Cage Rattler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1409

Below are your three previous posts: << 1. Treason is a legal term, no? So how can a comment be "morally treasonable"? And how can it be unpatriotic? Kerry's comment was about the administration, not the country. Using this logic, everyone who voiced their disgust about the Clinton administration while it was in office would also have been "unpatriotic". << 2) If one is branding criticism of an administration as unpatriotic, which I don't believe it is -- any of it-- then one starts down a very slippery slope as to what kind of criticism is acceptable.>> << 3) I answered you clearly, I believe. Freedom of speech covers all criticism of any administration, IMO.>> By bundling all criticism equally under the “ubiquitous” provisions of "freedom of speech" you effectively terminate meaningful discussion. I was trying to find out if you really believed that all criticisms of any administration at any time, under any conditions would be considered equivalent. Guess so. So I assume racial, sexual-orientation, religious slurs, or anything else are equal and protected under the same legal provision and within the same context. Fair enough. :^) Ciao

To: Poet who wrote (198)	4/13/2003 12:45:57 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1409

"Treason" now means considering voting against Bush

To: Poet who wrote (198)	4/22/2003 3:15:07 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 1409

No. You are not entirely correct. The nation was at war. Soldiers were in harm's way. To equate the Bush Administration, a legally elected government with Hussein's regime, a brutal and repressive dictatorship via the "regime change" phrase was without question stupid, unnecessary and unpatriotic. Bush is Commander in Chief of those troops in the field. If this is the kind of drivel we can expect from Kerry, then I certainly hope he does get the demolib nomination. Team Bush will destroy him....