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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (719762)	12/26/2005 7:31:26 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I like to believe we all want a safer, more secure world. We all want what we understand to be the best aspects of American life to not only continue, but prosper and spread. We all want the freedoms we treasure. I think both the conservatives and the liberals could agree to this. You know something of me, and my problem is with either side claiming some kind of "certainty" about right and wrong. I have seen such certainties misused from time to time, and good people get hurt because of it and bad people not have to pay for their wrongdoings. Principles are wonderful things, but they need to be retested and recalibrated every once in a while, in my view. The world changes around us and ends justifying the means is a slippery slope. The best boss I ever had used to remind all of us fervent young prosecutors to "step back every once in a while and listen to what you are saying"....good advice. Best to you in the new year...

To: TideGlider who wrote (719762)	12/26/2005 8:22:03 PM
From: GROUND ZERO™	Respond to of 769670

Very well said, and I would also agree with you assessment... GZ

To: TideGlider who wrote (719762)	12/26/2005 11:25:54 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Respond to of 769670

The forerunners of today's anti-American Democrat domestic enemy were the softheads of the "peace" movement during Vietnam. The "peace" movement was obsessed with being able to witness a bloody American defeat in Vietnam. (Piles of dead Americans stacked up after waiting for evacuation that was not in time was like a sexual obsession with them.) Nixon denied them that-which is why he is their most HATED president. Today's anti-American Democrat domestic enemy is the SAME as that "peace" movement, but they insist on insulting America's intelligence by proclaiming themselves to be "patriotic Americans" with a "differing opinion". They are nothing of the kind, and believe me when I tell you that I have been following the insane left since well BEFORE Vietnam. Honoring THEM with discourse is a slap in the face to the FOUNDERS, the American people, and the millions who have defended our ideals. This has only recently become widely transparent to our slow-to-notice public. But transparent it is, and these enemies should not be tolerated in any forum. (One should, of course, make merciful allowance for the just-plain-stupid, who are ALSO found among the left. But treating them like there was nothing WRONG with them is unfair to them, as well as to America.)...