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Humanity being blatantly hypocritical, egocentric and myopic is no surprise to me. I'm over 40, I've seen it long enough to accept such behavior as reality.
Yet as a "journalist", when You use the same hyper-hyperbolic rhetorical style to wage propaganda war on those not sharing your perspective to criticize them for doing the same, you could at least be honest enough to admit that they share your methods, if not your political philosophy.
You have more in common than you readily admit with the various news agencies, writers and commentators your various right-wing "blow-harderies" posted today are attacking.
Ultimately, I think Jesus said it best, so I'll leave him the last word on the issue:
"Don't criticize the speck in your brother's eye if you can't see the beam in your own, Stephanie Ramage."
Paul Bigala's nickname is "Forehead." Let's compare this big city liberal to Sarah Palin. Has the Forehead ever shot a gun? No. Has Forehead ever riden on a snowmobile? No. Has Forehead ever gone ice fishing? No. Forehead is too busy going to the cocktail circuit with Senators and media types, deriding middle America.
John, you have a fascinating way of sizing up people you've never met.
Do I care if Palin has ever fired a weapon? Or drove around on a snowmobile? etc.
No.
But I do care that she originally campaigned for the "Bridge to Nowhere" (actually a pretty good place for a bridge which would have helped develop an entire region of Alaska) then told all of America in her first appearance that she told Congress "Thanks but No Thanks" on the Bridge, then omitted the relevant detail that she TOOK THE MONEY (over $200 million) for the bridge and spent it wherever she wanted.
She deliberately misled the Nation to swing an election toward her political Party.
Hardly valid credentials as a "Reformer" of government.
To put it in concrete terms: If I gave my kid $500 to buy an instrument for band class, then he went off to school, spent the money on other things (even useful things), then came home and said "Dad, I decided to say "Thanks but No Thanks" on joining the school band" - I
would most certainly ask "So where's my $500, I want it back?"
But ya'll "conservatives" find such issues as massive financial fraud and misleading the Electorate trivial compared to whether or not someone can fire a weapon?
Vote Obama.
At least he had the human compassion to turn down lucrative job offers coming out of Harvard Law School to work with the poor and
downtrodden in this once great Land of Ours. That makes him more "real" a person than anyone else in this election.
Speaking of Campbell Brown, I don't see you sticking up for her the other day when McCain canceled his Larry King interview as revenge for her Tucker Bounds interview they didn't like. She's a great, level-headed journalist and she was absolutely right in both instances, and spoke her mind fairly and coolly. That is more than I can say for you, Ms. Ramage. Begala may be someone you disagree with, and you may be right to do so, but name calling is not journalism.
Paul, thanks for referencing the Tucker Bounds interview. I saw it and it was absolute proof that Republicans have no clothes in this election.
When Campbell Brown asked him repeatedly to "Just name ONE decision Palin made" relating to the Alaska National Guard and he kept repeating "She made decisions" - but couldn't name a single one - that was all I had to EVER see to know the McCain folks haven't a brain in their collective skulls.
I am an absolute fanatic about pro-choice. So let's talk about something else.
Guns are good, and I'll be using them.... I'm NOT part of that agenda...
Let's talk about the trillion dollar debt. Because, that's alot of money that makes banks go broke, right?
Bad Business out the door.
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