Longhornjok: Wow, I sure did get an eyeful reading all of this post. Most of the points I would have made have already been made, but I would like to say that, like Dantesco, I, too, am a registered Republican who did not vote for Bush. Assuming any one who disagrees with Bush (or the far-right-wingers who have hijacked the Republican Party) is a liberal Democrat is just an easy out for people who aren't interesting in hearing anyone else's point-of-view other than their own.
One of the things that troubles me most about the current Administration and it's rabid dog-pound of blusterers and intolerant screamers on Fox News and talk radio is their astonishingly successful effort to quash opposition by automatically hurling invectives such as "anti-American" and "traitor" any time anyone disagrees with them about practically anything. It's ironic that we're hoping to help Iraq establish a new government which will allow just such a free exchange of ideas, while our President is on record as saying "there ought to be limits to freedom" (he said this in response to a reporter's question about whether or not he was aware of a specific website poking fun at him). Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ashcroft says his office should be granted even broader authority to monitor practically every waking moment in the lives of U.S. citizens. Sign me up for THAT program!
Finally, yes, everyone makes a verbal gaffe now and then, but can we please teach the man that the word "nuclear" is pronounced NOO-CLEE-UR and not NOO-KEW-LUR. Didn't Carter have the same problem? Have we learned nothing, people?!
One of the things that troubles me most about the current Administration and it's rabid dog-pound of blusterers and intolerant screamers on Fox News and talk radio is their astonishingly successful effort to quash opposition by automatically hurling invectives such as "anti-American" and "traitor" any time anyone disagrees with them about practically anything. It's ironic that we're hoping to help Iraq establish a new government which will allow just such a free exchange of ideas, while our President is on record as saying "there ought to be limits to freedom" (he said this in response to a reporter's question about whether or not he was aware of a specific website poking fun at him). Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ashcroft says his office should be granted even broader authority to monitor practically every waking moment in the lives of U.S. citizens. Sign me up for THAT program!
Finally, yes, everyone makes a verbal gaffe now and then, but can we please teach the man that the word "nuclear" is pronounced NOO-CLEE-UR and not NOO-KEW-LUR. Didn't Carter have the same problem? Have we learned nothing, people?!
