posted on September 21, 2001 04:36:46 PM new
Since krs knocked me into serious mode on another thread...I'll actually say what I think.
I thought Bush did a great job delivering a practically perfect speech for the needs of the nation. I admit I was relieved...and pleased beyond measure, that he did so well.
He has not dishonored himself, or the nation, in his brief tenure as President. I intend to support him as the representative of my country to the world, unless and until he gives me reason to do otherwise.
I am a major civil libertarian, so it certainly doesn't mean I will agree with any policy he promulgates without scrutiny.
The fact that I decry ridicule of President Bush during this time of crisis merely means I think it's unseemly, and could undermine our position and national interests...not that I deny anyone's right to do so.
posted on September 21, 2001 05:58:08 PM new
Toke, I wish you had said this a little earlier, you just said what I was trying (and I failed, due to a poor choice of words) to say.
[ edited by Microbes on Sep 21, 2001 08:23 PM ]
posted on September 21, 2001 06:50:01 PM new
This is not directed towards any person or any particular political persuasion (As the disclaimer in in the credits of Movies and TV shows state: resemblence to any person, living or dead is totally coincidental, yadda yadda)
We all have the right to Freedom of Speech. We can say whatever we please, short of the fire in the theatre provision, the little enforced premise of "fighting words", and nowadays whatever can be construed as "hate speech."
What is not granted in the Constitution however is the precept that every word that rolls off our tongues is indeed correct, right, and true.
The listener is awarded the priviledge of thinking, and in most cases allowed to respond with, "Ya durn fool -- you're wrong." Additions of desparinging remarks such as "In fact so wrong, you're a babbling idiot" or enquiries about the impregnation of the talker's maternal parent by a pack of wild dogs depends on the relative degree or lack thereof of acquaintanceship between the debators and the amount of alcohol consumption.
You, Sir or Madam, are totally within your Constitutional rights to declaim that the sky, contrary to to prevailing empirical data is indeed is purple with green polka dots, and I reserve the right to dispute your theory, whether it be by reasoned, rational discourse or dragging your butt over to the nearest window and emphatically pointing out, "It's blue, you nitwit."
posted on September 22, 2001 08:35:20 AM new
IMO Bush remains the lamest choice for US president in my lifetime (and at least a few decades more).
Accent? I suspect that exagerating Texas accent has long been part of his political choice of denying the Washington and Connecticutt portions of his background.
