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To: MrLucky who wrote (12217)	2/15/2006 8:12:33 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541627

However, it is not a justifiable reason to avoid making a critical analysis of the other side's foibles. I'm not suggesting avoiding critical analysis. But the party in power sets and administers programs. They have the responsibility and accountability. They have to take the heat. There's just less to criticize about the opposition. You can criticize them for their behavior and attitude, for sure. And for their votes in Congress. But for little if any of policy of program failure. Aw shucks, just color me stubborn on this aspect of thread discussions. If your real point, the point behind the point, is that the thread leans against Bush, I won't argue that.

To: MrLucky who wrote (12217)	2/15/2006 10:22:32 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541627

I do agree with you that a greater focus on the administration in power is appropriate. However, it is not a justifiable reason to avoid making a critical analysis of the other side's foibles. Aw shucks, just color me stubborn on this aspect of thread discussions. <g> I'm not certain how Dale sees this frame but, for me, I think of it somewhat differently. Attempts to balance critics and supporters strike me as something like those CNN programs that required one pundit from each side to try to dominate the conversational space. I didn't learn anything there and would consider it unlikely I would here. I could cheer for my side and boo the other side but I do that when I watch pro basketball, football, and baseball. If the thread became that I would certainly vote with my mouse to put my time in elsewhere. What I've like about this thread and what I hope is sufficiently important to Dale to protect is the exchange of ideas, the exploration of points of view, the "have you read this" aspects, the sense, as I put earlier today, that this thread was like living room conversation or over the kitchen table conversations or down at the coffee shop conversations, with tensions on occassions, but of a kind of, as the kids say, "hanging out." Whew, need to chop that sentence into smaller bits but too lazy.