posted on March 20, 2004 09:12:08 AM new
Linda: My point, I guess (and I didn't say it very well at 2 a.m.!) is that it seems the Bush supporters are getting increasingly shrill. I frequently scan the messages in the round table, and a majority of them seem to come from the same Bush supporters. (I know there are some from the other side, but usually not nearly so many.)
Whenever a group gets more shrill and seems almost hysterical in their attitudes and hates, it usually means they're afraid their side is losing ground.
And frequently the hysteria gets pettier and pettier. . . .
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posted on March 20, 2004 10:00:48 AM new
roadsmith - It's not hysteria, imo. It's called the 'game' of politics.
And we're just discussing what's in the news each day. No black helicopers here.
Hard to understand why it's seen as hysteria when the right does it, but when the left does the same thing ... [all the Bush bashing threads...comparing an American president to Hitler, etc.], that's considered what intellectual. not
posted on March 20, 2004 02:39:47 PM new
Mr. Kerry has 2 Secret Service agents to protect him as he should have. There was no need to talk that way. Maybe she was in the way and who knows maybe he went astray, but it doesn't require that kind of language.
posted on March 20, 2004 02:51:18 PM new
Roadsmith-explain what you mean about hates. There is one poster that is here regularly a Dem (I guess] that uses nothing but bad words against Bush. Very hateful things. And since this is an open forum he has the right but, Bush supports also have the right to do the same thing.
If we were all the same wouldn't this be a horrible round table. Discussions are good and I come here regularly and I find, except for that one person, people posting facts both for Kerry and for Bush.
I have no personal vendetta against either Kerry or Bush but I think the Democrates made a bad mistake with Kerry. Edwards would have been a much better candidate. Young, good voting record. Not around when Viet Nam war was going on. Now I know I will get a lot of flack but Dean would have done a good job also.
I also think the Republicans are making a mistake with Cheney as VP but I can't do anything about that either. So when I vote in the fall nobody will know who I vote for. It is my right.
posted on March 20, 2004 03:48:23 PM newWhenever a group gets more shrill and seems almost hysterical in their attitudes and hates, it usually means they're afraid their side is losing ground.
And frequently the hysteria gets pettier and pettier. . . .
Well said, Roadsmith. I agree, I can tell by all the Kerry threads that were started here in the last week.
As far as the B word, a Bush supporter on this board uses the plural of that word when he talks about the opposite sex.
And you know, I don't think Bush should call his senior advisor "Turd Blossom" either. Do you? Do you know what that is? In case you are a city girl, turd blossom means a pile of cow sh!t. Now what a thing for the president to say. But then Karl, the senior advisor, is known to use some interesting words too. Like Bush, he uses the AH word frequently. I think Condi should wash their mouths out with soap...but then we don't know what she says behind closed doors either, do we?
LOL.
edited because I put the comma in the wrong place.
[ edited by Helenjw on Mar 20, 2004 03:54 PM ]
posted on March 20, 2004 04:05:27 PM new
As usual, the lefties don't get it. The issue is not Kerry's profanity, it was his anger and contempt for the Secret Service agent who was just trying to do his job.
If Kerry becomes enraged from just a minor accident on the ski slope, he probably isn't mentally/emotionally fit to serve as president. I think he should be checked out by a shrink.
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Hot off campaign trail, Kerry hits slopes in Idaho
By Patrick Healy, Globe Staff, 3/19/2004
SUN VALLEY, Idaho -- Six months since his last vacation, John F. Kerry hoisted a Burton snowboard over his shoulder and climbed toward the slightly slushy slopes of Bald Mountain, a skier's paradise for celebrities like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Hanks, and Robin Williams -- and the site of a future winter White House if Kerry has his way.
"Let me take a run or two and remember what this is about," Kerry told a dozen reporters who followed him on this, his first real rest after the grueling march toward the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.
There were none of the usual off-the-cuff quips about Republicans, no colorful asides comparing luxurious Sun Valley to the sprawling ranch in Crawford, Texas, where President Bush relaxes. But Kerry -- in a blue parka, black ski pants, and a pair of Smith silver sunglasses -- was never far from politics yesterday, as he received hearty handshakes from Oklahomans, New Yorkers, and Europeans delighted with his campaign, as well as pro-Bush catcalls from a few skiers.
Kerry -- a skilled snowboarder and skier who has tried to project an athletic image throughout the campaign, even throwing footballs in the aisle of his campaign plane -- stayed away from most of the challenging black-diamond slopes yesterday, but the cut of his angles in the snow were sharp and agile. A Globe reporter and an ABC television producer followed him during two of his three runs, as he took the Challenger and Greyhawk ski lifts to elevations reaching 9,010 feet and stuck mostly to blue, or intermediate, trails on the way down.
Only once, on the Upper College trail, a green (or easy) course, did Kerry fall, when a member of his Secret Service detail collided with him.
Sun Valley, located beside Ketchum, Idaho, has been home for years to Kerry's wife, Teresa, who imported a 15th-century barn from England many years ago with her late husband, Senator John Heinz III, and made it their winter residence. Kerry and his wife come here together a few times a year, he said; his wife, in a red parka and black ski pants, said she was particularly fond of spring skiing and noted that her private plane, known as the Flying Squirrel, is named after her favorite trail here, which she skied yesterday.
Kerry has said for weeks that he was eager to exercise more outdoors and take a break from the cut-and-thrust of campaigning, and he appeared to revel in the snow yesterday. (He did not nurse his aching shoulder, which has a slight tear that he is scheduling surgery on, an aide said yesterday.) A few times while sitting on the slopes -- waiting for aides to arrange news camera crews at the bottom of the mountain -- Kerry leaned back into the snow and marveled at the mountain vistas. Each of the two runs included hugs and handshakes with fellow skiers. Near the top of Bald Mountain he unexpectedly met Kim Taylor, wife of singer James Taylor, and stopped buckling his boots so he could give her a warm embrace and chat. She said afterward, "He's a great skier, but he's going to be an even greater president."
Several strangers, meanwhile, piped up with their political two cents, such as one man who said, "Put Bush out."
"We're working on it," Kerry replied.
There were some hecklers, too, such as a few children who murmured, "George Bush, George Bush" when Kerry walked by. And as the senator sat down to his lunch -- a bowl of chili and a POWERade energy drink, totaling $9.10 -- a man in line for the Challenger ski lift yelled, "Hey, John, what world leader talked to you?" -- echoing Republican attacks over Kerry's refusal to identify leaders from overseas whom he said support his candidacy.
posted on March 20, 2004 06:04:12 PM new
Libra, I agree with you about Edwards. I think he would've been better than Kerry. Either one though, will be better than Bush.
posted on March 21, 2004 12:15:04 AM new
::And we're just discussing what's in the news each day. No black helicopers here.::
Linda - you are one of the very few that actually discuss the articles you post. Bear for example has become the conservative mirror of Skylite - the only thing he has not posted are Weekly World News articles
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on March 21, 2004 10:15:56 AM new
I don't care one bit how rich a president is; what matters if he shows that he cares about the economic plight of average Americans. FDR was rich, too, as was Eleanor, but both of them did a lot for middle- and lower-class citizens of the U.S.
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Have you noticed since everyone has a Camcorder these days no one talks
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