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To: Bank Holding Company who wrote (172426)	12/18/2008 7:06:44 PM
From: Aggie	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 306849

{OT} You know something? I’m going to probably make a mistake here, by responding, but I’m going to anyway. It’s not to you guys personally, but toward a mentality that seems especially entrenched here at SI. I’m a natural conservative in nearly all aspects of my life, but I’m an independent thinker and voter. I'm very liberal as an individual in other aspects. I don’t buy things I can’t afford, I’ve planned out my financial future, I have a solid career, I’m a model citizen. I’m far from perfect, but you know what? I always give the benefit of the doubt. I do this not because of my upbringing, but because it feels natural – because the world is not big enough not to. I feel this is a uniquely American aspect of character. Nobody else in the world has the bragging rights to giving others a break, like Americans do. Seventeen years living overseas and I can tell you – this is what makes America great, our ability to cut others some slack. Look at our charity and our foreign spending. Look at how patient we are with rogue countries. It leaves us hugely vulnerable, but it is our greatest strength and it scares the crap out of our enemies. I know this because I have seen it dealing with people one-on-one, in countries that are not friendly. They cannot get their head around how someone can be so generous with others in their day-to-day life, and it awes them when they see how we live. Now we have conservative meatheads in this country, plenty of them. They spew hatred on the radio and TV. They are dogmatic and inconsistent. They bend the truth. They don’t give breaks. They are, among other things unkind. But at the same time, we also have liberal types who are equally dogmatic, equally untruthful, and equally spiteful – in some cases even more hateful and hate-filled then their conservative counterparts, with the added benefit that they are generally granted a free-pass for their despicable public displays of behavior by the press, for whatever cheap shots they care to land. Well…..piss on you both, both camps. I’m sick of you and your polar two dimensional universe. You suffer from a serious imagination deficit, an inability to string two consecutive thoughts together to make a third, more interesting one. I am unimpressed. Life is too short to waste on hearing such clumsy expressions of anger and frustration. Why not learn how to impress us with your civility, contribute a new idea, formulate a new social dialog? Now……George Bush is finished. Regardless of what anyone might think, I seriously doubt that any of you would have been willing to take that job on in these times. Whatever he has done is soon to be in the past tense, where history will temper the public’s final opinion and the only real judgment that counts, will weigh in. That’s what I’m interested in. Not another hate-filled, slobbering, meaningless diatribe. I’ve already seen one of those. We have a new president. Many of us may not have voted for him, but I bet most of us are willing to give the poor guy the benefit of the doubt while he settles himself in for what will be an impossible job. And why shouldn’t we? Life is complicated. Why not embrace it and start expressing complicated thoughts? Let the rest of it go - it demeans you. Aggie