On Tue, 26 May 2009 15:12:09 -0400, "mmc" wrote:

My complaint, from my first response in this string, is that helping those
who can't help themselves is apparently considered "liberal" (as a slur),
even when those that can't help themselves are US Military Veterans, many
from the Vietnam and Gulf wars and now from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
I wasn't justifying any fakes, just saying that this guy was doing good
things for OUR (yours and mine) FELLOW VETS, and I cut him a lot of slack
for that.

Well said. Thank you.

Same thinking was prevalent around desegregation, inter-racial
rmarriage, the genesis of gay rights, etc.

Progress and change is scary to "conservatives" even if they recognize
the inherent fairness.