[Rhodes22-list] Thoughts

[Robert Skinner]

The shower of politically oriented messages has 
abated for a moment.  Time to put forward a few 
thoughts:

1.  Throughout history, orators who have exhausted 
rational argument resort to attacks on the person.

2.  Bullying someone into silence is generally 
ineffective in changing their view of things.

3.  Vitriolic tantrums reflect poorly on the cause
of those who evidence such behavior.

This analysis leads me (and many others) to believe 
that the previcating, popularly un-elected, 
intellectually challenged, bully of the free world 
and his free-spending old-boy network of oligarchic 
henchmen are not necessarily God's gift to the USA 

-- unless He figures we have gotten too lazy, 
cowardly giving up the civil rights our fathers, 
brothers, and sons fought for at the first 
engagements (twin towers and Pentagon) of 
the world war of the 21st century.

So what do we do?  We go and beat the crap out of a
backward country that has little if anything to do 
with the real concerns we have with terrorists,
alienating a large proportion of our allies and 
abandoning our already dubious reputation as good 
guys who do not start wars.

Saddam was a bad guy?  So was Batista, the Shaw of 
Iran, the Taliban, and other criminals that we have 
propped up in pursuit of our interests.

I'm beginning to believe that I'm so conservative 
that Bush is not only to my left, but also a 
spoiled child who needs a good woodshedding.

He has done great harm to this country, flushing an
economic surplus down the toilet, supporting drug 
companies at the expense of seniors and the poor,
and shredding civil rights and our foreign alliances.

It's time to once again defeat the Shrub at the polls.

Someone had to say it,
-- 
Robert W. Skinner