(OT:Pol) Re: Vote! & Re: Protests against GWV

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 5612

Amanda Lewanski at editor at texas.net wrote:

> Ellen Glassie wrote:
> 
>> I, too, am ready to tear my hair out over the prospect
>> of having our country run by someone with the basic
>> intelligence of Cheez Whiz. Apologies to any Bush
>> supporters, but he is just not exactly the sharpest
>> quill on the porcupine. So, anyway, I'm with you. Tell
>> me when it's going down.
> 
> Excuse me. I think this has gone a bit beyond the pale. Your "apologies to
> Bush supporters" is not sufficient, without some documentation or reasoning
> behind such a blanket, blatant, childish comment.

Calmness, please. It's well-documented (even on this list, thanks to quite a
few "Bushisms" being posted) that Bush does have the unfortunate knack to
make himself look stupid. "Families is when wings take dreams", for one. The
listmums have allowed some political discussion *without resorting to
personal attacks*. I'd consider your response, Amanda, a personal attack,
though I'd not consider the original message one.

> I have repeatedly *not*
> posted my personal opinions of Al Gore, because I understand there are Gore
> supporters (some quite vocal) on this list and I wish neither to offend nor
> to stir up emotion unneccesarily.

Well, you've just done that, so don't try and cop out ;)

> I think political discussion is acceptable
> when it discusses the positions on the issues and possible effects of one or
> the other taking office, but I'm getting real, real tired of having my
> intelligence questioned, albeit indirectly, by these emotional tirades.

So do as directed by listmums and others and delete the messages marked as
OT, especially those marked OT:Pol.

> Found it. It was reported by Mary Matalin on CNN's "Crossfire" this week.
> Snip from the summary on Limbaugh's page:

Hmm. Mary Matalin isn't a journalist, she's a Bush campaign pundit. And as
for Rush Limbaugh...you complain below about propaganda, yet present him as
a legitimate journalistic source. I'm sure the members of this list are
intelligent enough not to be taken in by that :)

> Nor do I think this an appropriate forum for posting such sites for one side
> of the issue, without posting similar sites for the other. I am not on this
> list to be bombarded by Gore propaganda.

1) Then don't read something as obviously-titled as "(OT: Pol) Protests
against George W. Voldemort". What did you expect, my granny's oatmeal
raisin cookie recipe? :)
2) It's not Gore propaganda. It's a *nonpartisan*, grass-roots effort :)
3) I pointed out obviously that the *single post* was supposed to be solely
informative, then urged anyone interested to attend. Hardly "bombarding".

Forget fuzzy math. How about fuzzy English? :)

--John, a wee bit narked

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John Walton     john at walton.to    ICQ: 96203920

I'm sure George W. Bush isn't dyslexic.
Why, he's never even been to Dyslexia.

Don't blame me -- I voted for Gore.
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