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To: Ilaine who wrote (99208)	5/26/2003 8:46:37 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

There is a brand of rough, direct American speech that I adore, but is rejected by many as lacking "nuance." Cheney, Rummy, and Dubya wouldn't know a "nuance" if it bit them on the ass. I've noticed that most of those who are very much in opposition to the Administration cannot hear that Cheney et. al. are frank and direct. That's because their working assumption is that Cheney et. al. are lying through their teeth, and the real hidden agenda has to be found out. It's all about oooooiiiiiillll, or whatever. In today's polarized political spectrum, it's become unusual for either left or right to be able to believe that the opposition is well-meaning and sincere.

To: Ilaine who wrote (99208)	5/26/2003 9:38:03 PM
From: briskit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Assumptions are not always right. I posted it because it is interesting and thought provoking, not because I agree with everything in it. I've been warned by the moderator (or one closely associated with him) to take politics elsewhere because I suggested education could be improved, and it was largely the product of the left. I've since seen purely empty political comments by the left attacking specifically the GOP and the president, etc., with not a word from the powers that be on the thread. I get the picture.

To: Ilaine who wrote (99208)	5/26/2003 11:06:17 PM
From: Sig	Respond to of 281500

<<<There is a brand of rough, direct American speech that I adore, but is rejected by many as lacking "nuance." Cheney, Rummy, and Dubya wouldn't know a "nuance" if it bit them on the ass. >> They have put the "E" back in American Eagle, which just a few years ago was looking like a sick chicken hawk. A country politically divided, ineffective, watching Bay Watch or sports events while eating fast foods when not talking to a broker. Congress trying to impeach the President for womanizing, while the UN had let Saddam off the hook by stopping inspections. . The stock market collapsing regardless of what Mr Greenspan could do, unemployment rising, corporations and crooked bankers robbing the public. Borders leaking like a sieve, passports going unchecked. Looking weak, and getting weaker-vulnerable The Arab wishes coming true, decadent America going to H--l.. To OBL in his remote mountain fastness, we must have looked as fearsome as a sitting duck. So he took a head shot, aimed an airplane for the White house but missed. Several of those American passengers rose above their stations, displayed a courage he thought we had lost, rushed the cockpit, and ruined his shot. Sig@memorial.com