[Rhodes22-list] Political reference by Ed

[Brad Haslett]

Robert,

Please expound on that response.

"When the incumbent makes it clear that he has little respect
for the people at the bottom of the heap-"

Exactly where has 43 forgotten the people at the bottom of the heap?  School
choice?  Illegal Mexicans?  Elders and Medicare?  Inquiring minds want to
know.

Republicans?  I am one and they (the GOP) have learned not to call me and
ask for a donation the last few months.  We need a house cleaning and I'm
convinced the GOP will get one.  The 2006 election results were predictable
given an off year election during a lame duck Presidency. But, if they
didn't get the message, the lack of my checkbook response (and many others)
should give them a message.

Election robbery?  Give me a friggin' break.  The newspaper consortium that
recounted every single vote using every single method, including Al Gore's
first choice, gave the election to W.  Give it up!


"It is time for the pendulum to swing the other way".  It did, and they are
at the 11% approval rating level.

Now as to your comments about women - I'm confused.  Please explain it in
detail and not in code.  I'm not that clever or smart.

Brad




On 10/23/07, Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com> wrote:
>
> When the incumbent makes it clear that he has little respect
> for the people at the bottom of the heap, the broad base of
> the heap reacts.  As Brad remarked, there is little
> difference between this and the Irish organizations last
> century.  If there are any issues of impropriety, they are
> lost in the still-blazing memory of the great election robbery.
>
> However different from Bush, and there are some big
> differences, anyone with the "Republican" sign hanging
> around his/her neck is tarred with the Bush brush.
>
> Unalloyed loyalty to the Republican cause, as defined by
> Bush, has a price in a we/they contest.  Make no mistake
> about it -- Bush is at least as much reviled as he is
> revered, and many voters, myself included, will go to
> great lengths to restore the presidency to a more
> cooperative relationship with the other branches of our
> government.  We will also go to great lengths to break the
> nominally-conservative-but-actually-drunk-evangelical-in-
> a-whorehouse Republican party's hold on our government.
>
> It is time for the pendulum to swing the other way for a
> while.  This is a nominally secular and peaceful nation.
> Yes, we have some responsibility for world-wide issues
> such as combating terrorism, but we have been using a
> 10-guage shotgun to kill a cockroach, and been pointing it
> in the wrong direction to boot.
>
> And a policy of setting limitations on other countries
> options to provide their women with the tools to control
> their own lives is hideous.  Bush appears to regard women
> as chattels.  I thought we dealt with that in 1865.  But
> the Republican candidates seem to be courting our own
> radical extremists with that view.  Another mill-stone
> around their necks.
>
> Reality will intrude.
>
> /Robert
>
> Tootle wrote:
> >
> > Brad,
> >
> > See this article from the LA Times:
> >
> >
> http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-donors19oct19,0,4231217.story?coll=la-home-center
> >
> > Ed K
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