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Originally Posted by SentToStud
GRisk,
Your mistake is trying to talk sensibly to him. It doesn't work.
I thought Bush was fairly frank yesterday. At least he's off the "We're winning" schtick.
On the other hand, Dick Cheney noted yesterday that a vote for Ned Lamont in Connecticut "will provide encouragement for Al Qaeda."
Wha huh?
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Oh, Dick, Dick. You're right; Americans going out and voting for whom they want is EXACTLY the kind of thing to encourage terrorists, so we'd just best shut up and pull the lever for whomever you tell us to, eh, Mr. VP? What kind of government does this remind me of...
It's funny-- we poke fun at the French for cowardice (and yes, despite my lecture yesterday I do find a lot of the jokes on that topic pretty funny-- check one of my earlier threads on that--) but our government has done a marvelous job in scaring us into handing over our own liberties to an adminstration determined to do away with personal freedom. Wiretapping? Okay! Torture? Sure! Holding people for months with no access to a lawyer and with no charges? Heck, we'll re-elect you for that! Took the French 25,000 Germans; took us 19 hijackers. When do our freedoms become more important to us than our fears?
Okay, 'fess up, BB-- you're really one of our liberal members, out to further the liberal cause by portraying conservatives as incoherent, aren't you? It's cute and funny, but I think it's rather unfair to conservatives, many of whom are very eloquent, well-thought people.