"Keenan Wellar" wrote:

Interesting. This ties in with American Puritanism, actually.

One President lies about whether or not he got a blow job, and he is almost
impeached.

One President lies to start a war killing thousands of people, and he gets
re-elected!

Again you demonstrate, how out of contact you are with the issues that
are important to the US voter. For a Canadian, maybe that is not too
important, but for the liberals down here, this lack of discreation
spelt major losses. Those who make similar observations down here, and
try to base their political position on this quicksand, are doomed to
repeat history, happily for me!

As far as a later post in the thread, I drink Aquafina, and filtered
tap. Protects me from all the crap that the Liberal environmentalist
have failed to remove! Considering, they had the last 30 or 40 years
to do it!

Touching on the subject of American Puritanism, it seems that there is
some real sensitivity here. By modifing it with American, you imply
that there are various kinds, and that they may be more acceptable to
you. If what you mean, is Conservative Fundementalism, that is a
different thing entirely. The Puritans were actually a fairly liberal
bunch, and is represented most strongly in the state of Pennsylvania
with the Amish. A very loving group of people, in a blue state.

The CFR crowd, on the other hand, is a brilliant crowd of rascals that
will do almost anything to win. Yes, it started in the Clinton era,
with pointing out his picadillos. Then once in power, they even had
the audacity to do what they said they were going to do withour really
asking the Dems permission. Sure sometimes the Dems stood in the way,
but that just meant the CFR's just dug in deeper, and ralleyed their
crowd to get out and vote. Sounds like what the Dems need to do!

Although I doubt that they will catch President Bush with his pants
down, talk about squandering political capital. Then they really had
the CFR's on the ropes, with their protesting the way the war is being
fought, until the best they could do was offer a old Viet vet, which
required fighting the Viet war all over again (not that I have
anything against Vets, but oddly, they chose to be on what they
perceived as the moral high ground, this time). And all this before
the current struggle could be addressed. Talk about mismanging the
play clock! And now there is all this squealing about having to give
the Dems their fair share of the Congressional agenda. They lost, they
don't get much.

And yet the squealing goes on! Show some dignity, and suck it up!

Thanks, Tinkerntom, aka Knesisknosis, Life, Live it!