I never said you are never right about anything. I asked you if you were ever right about anything. You didn't answer.
HUH? No, I guess I am never right. You tell me so all the time.
Are you even reading my posts. I did not go after you with an ad hominem attack. I was not disrespectful towards you. I was not harsh. I am not trying to create adversity.
Yes, I read your posts. I try and respond to them. But no matter what I say, there seems to be no acknowledgement of even the remote possibility that I may be right about anything you disagree with me about. Or that you could possibly be wrong. I constantly say that I could be wrong, and I am only stating opinions, not necessarily facts. That is what a discussion is about. We are not writing textbooks here. So maybe it's because I don't take it all as seriously as you do that you can't seem to agree with what I say. Maybe it's frustration on your behalf because you DO take it so seriously. Whatever, I don't mean to get you wound up. But somehow that seems to be the end result. Whatever the reason, I feel badly. I don't mean to upset you or offend you. I only want to COMMUNICATE with you. You make it difficult. Can you see that from my perspective? Do you know the word "empathy"? So when I said you were "harsh", perhaps that was the wrong word. Let me retract that and substitute "serious". And that you seem to take these discussions more seriously. Which I will take full blame for. I will try and be more sensitive to your very strong convictions. Fair enough? I know it's easier for me to be flexible here than it is for you, so I will try and keep that in mind.
Maybe? RS, you are setting ET records with your blanket statements. Seriously.
Again, did I ever make a statement that even approached "all Democrats (or "liberals"..I forgot which term you used, if not both) HATE rich people, Hate small business owners, Hate entrepreneurs?
I find it unreal and I'll also add appalling.
Really? What do you find "appalling"? Have I stereotyped people by saying they Hate concepts? (Especially since you seem to think the majority of Americans are "un-American" by your standards). Hard to compare our "blanket statements" (of course, this is in my opinion once again).
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe the reason I make those blanket statements is because I am responding to your blanket statements. An eye for an eye hey RS. Wasn't it you saying are laws should follow the golden rules?
Yes, I did say the golden rule (do unto others) would be a logical moral and ethical basis for creating reasonable laws (this was in response to ReardonMetal's hypothetical "start from scratch" nation).
As far as you responding to MY blanket statements, I suggest you go back and see who responded to whom. I assure you that I did not say anything to provoke you to say that "all Democrats/Liberals hate rich people" etc. My "blanket statements" (if I made them...I am sure you will point them out) were in response to your (IMO) outrageous claims. I remember asking you if all the wealthy Democrats/"liberals" were self loathing. Not the kind of thing that would come out of my mouth (or keyboard as the case may be) un-provoked. Seems rather obvious.
There are not enough hours in the day to list all your blanket statements, so I won't even bother.
Fair enough. Don't list them all. Just give me one that comes close to "all Dems/'liberals' hate rich people".
Because, until this year, I have never seen t-shirts being market to liberals saying "I hate Bush" or "I still hate Bush". Every talk show on tv that has a liberal on it uses the word hate in reference to Bush. In fact I can't seem to hear anyone on the left make an argument without using the word hate and Bush in the same sentence.
I don't know how to respond to this. I have never seen an "I hate Bush" t-shirt. Nor have I heard any "leftist argument" in which the word "Hate" was used. I don't know what you read or listen to, but we must be getting our news from different sources. As you know, my pet "cause" that I support is the ADL. I assure you I am attuned to the word "Hate". It would not escape me if I heard it. I admit to not reading extremist websites on either side. I do listen to Rush when I happen to have a chance. And I do listen to Randi Rhodes also when I have the chance. In both cases, it is a matter of being in the car while they are on the air. I do NOT listen to talk radio at home. I NEVER hear "HATE" mentioned on the news I do listen to on TV. Not on FOX, not on CNN, not on CSPAN, and not on the network or local news. I do not see the word "HATE" expressed by any of the contributors to the op-ed pages of the NY Times or Sun Sentinel. Or Time magazine. And those are the print sources I subscribe to. I don't see what is printed in the NY Post or the Guardian, or the National Enquirer.
Hate is the new IT word for the left.
you keep going back to that. I am taking the bait. Please show me an example.
Dude, do you even watch the news or do you just get your news from the John Stewart show and Bill Maher. This was pretty big news.
I miss a lot of news. I often get it several days late in Time magazine. I am not a news junkie. Besides, I don't consider John Stewart's "Daily Show" or Billl Maher's show "news". I consider them entertainment. That is what they are. Just like Rush. Just like Randi Rhodes (btw, have you ever heard her?). I do not listen to Al Franken. I have no interest in hearing the same old rhetoric. While Rush does it, he is more entertaining. So I make an exception. Also, he is just more "available".
Dude, you are hearing things. I never hear about Bill Clinton on the news. Not even on Fox news anymore. Where do you hear all this hate Clinton talk? I think you are imagining it.
No, I hear it live in person from people I work with. I also read it here. Do a search of "Clinton" here on ET, and then tell me he gets mentioned once or twice a week
I just typed "Clinton" in the ET search. I went back one week. Starting on March 27, through now, there were 78 hits. No, I did not read them. But for a guy that has been out of Office for 3 plus years, that seems like a lot of attention. No matter what the posts said, 78 in a week is a far cry from "once or twice a week. Agree?
No, they hate him. They hate him because he is driven by morals and faith. They hate him because he is running the country based on his ideas and beliefs and that bothers many on the left. It's not his politics RS, it's him they hate.
What were you saying about "blanket statements"?
If it's his politics they hate why do they make fun of his accent
Haven't noticed that. Virtually half the country has a "southern" accent, or a western "twang". I do hear fun poked at him for mangling his sentences. But he himself has a sense of humor about his somewhat strange relationship with the English language. It seems like some of his supporters are very sensitive about this. But he seems to not have a problem with being poked at about it. He understands it comes with the territory. And fortunately his mastering of the language is generally not of crucial importance except in a serious debate or negotiation. But that isn't what is happening now.
why do they say he is stupid, why do they attack his guard duty, why do they attack his education, why do they attack his family, why do they attack his facial expressions, why do they attack his previous bouts with alcohol and why do they attack him on cocaine use? Can you answer me that? These are not policy issues, these are personal issues. Wake up!
These are the kinds of issues that are made into jokes by Jay Leno. Do you think Leno or Letterman (or any comedian that does topical or political humor) is any harder on Bush than they were on Clinton? Or Bush I, or Reagan? It is part of being President. Don't take it so seriously. Too bad you are not old enough to remember what they did to Nixon and LBJ. GWB is getting off easy.
