Thomas Paine
Has No Life - Lives on TB
Check out this article.We evidently are knuckle dragging rednecks here in the heartland.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504Y.shtml
http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110504Y.shtml
Carlos said:How could you explain to a Ms Camhe that Janet Jackson's tit probably cost Kerry more votes than did the Swift Boat Vets?
summerthyme said:Sheesh- I sure hope none of those folks ever NEEDS anything from us obtuse, uncultured, unsuccessful, shoot-from-the-hip rednecks.
You know.. like food?
Oh, nevermind. They can get that from the neighborhood grocery store. Or import it from Europe, where they have so much excess agricultural land.
Talk about poor losers.
Summerthyme
"If the heartland feels so alienated from us, then it behooves us to wrap our arms around the heartland," she said. "We need to bring our way of life, which is honoring diversity and having compassion for people with different lifestyles, on a trip around the country."
"New Yorkers are more sophisticated and at a level of consciousness where we realize we have to think of globalization, of one mankind, that what's going to injure masses of people is not good for us," he said.
"New Yorkers are savvy," she said. "We have street smarts. Whereas people in the Midwest are more influenced by what their friends say."
"If the heartland feels so alienated from us, then it behooves us to wrap our arms around the heartland," she said. "We need to bring our way of life, which is honoring diversity and having compassion for people with different lifestyles, on a trip around the country."
He said he and friends shared a feeling of "disempowerment"
window2watcher said:Well, speaking from the other side, the 49% who did not vote for Bush, I find it a painful situation when I plow through the oceans of hate and gloat going on here and elsewhere. I am offended by the radio talk shows that are hammering away with vitriolic statements.It is frightening to read and hear this going on in MY country. How different is this than the beginnings of the Wahabies". "Think as I think, behave as I behaver or you are dead meat?"
Is this the country you want to live in and an administration you want to support?
Witch hunts maybe, or some more sophisticated version of it like the Patriot Act?
I object to the simplicity of lumping all 49% as knuckle dragging liberals. It is for me, the manipulations of those that are so arrogant to think that study and contemplation of issues cannot be tolerated---instead, appeal to the lowest denominator, the people of the black and white world, which uses discrimination as a hero's banner. Taking a hit at New York as though they deserved what they got is just plain discusting. Face the survivors and those who fought to save them with that kind of statement.
Down at the criminal level the general belief is "what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine." I see little difference between that attitude and BEHAVIOR between the commoon criminal and the current administrations behavior--on the whole. They and their followers, like us, are really shades of multicolored beliefs and behaviors.
The teen-age snarl and discounting of others is more than I can bear no matteer where is originates, within the 52% or 49%.
Edited for the most obvious errors of spelling.
Slydersan said:I think I'd rather have biscuits and gravy for breakfast and drive my pickup!
Slydersan said:The democrats could win in a Huge Reagan-like landslide...simply by running a Conservative Southern democrat, running on a platform of family values and strong defense. But since that party has been hijacked by the ultra-liberals that will never happen for at least 20 years.
window2watcher said:Well, speaking from the other side, the 49% who did not vote for Bush, I find it a painful situation when I plow through the oceans of hate and gloat going on here and elsewhere. I am offended by the radio talk shows that are hammering away with vitriolic statements.It is frightening to read and hear this going on in MY country.
Slydersan said:The democrats could win in a Huge Reagan-like landslide...simply by running a Conservative Southern democrat, running on a platform of family values and strong defense. But since that party has been hijacked by the ultra-liberals that will never happen for at least 20 years.
They think that they have to screech louder and swing even more to the left.....