Courteous Political Discussion

[AKIron]

I'd have been content to let the middle eastern Muslims continue wearin' their turbans, hackin' off each others' hands, beatin' their women, shootin' their ak47's in the air, starvin' each each other to death, and just generally havin' a good time if only they'd not drug us into it. When they attacked us on an unignorable scale they should have expected to get spanked. This ain't the 11th century any more.

[Nash]

What does that have to do with this?

[AKIron]

That would be this if only it were a bit nearer.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Nash
If you want someone to "show you a path, a better path" would you in a million years have thought you'd be looking to George Jr. for that path?

No, 'cause in a million years, I'd be dead.

I wouldn't have chosen Gore or Nader either.  Until the choice is obvious, I will take the choices available to me and compromise with the one who is closest to the ideal however far they are away from that ideal.

Kind of like choosing that family mini van when what you really wanted was the Lamborghini,  but the Italian wet dream was not an available choice

[Nash]

heh  then we'll dub the unlikely union "thit".

[Nash]

Originally posted by Holden McGroin
Until the choice is obvious, I will take the choices available to me and compromise with the one who is closest to the ideal however far they are away from that ideal.

Okay and this new found enlightenment has what to do with how great it what be if some Napolean-type would rise up and - damn the wishes of those governed - tell ya how it's gonna be?

[txmx]

Originally posted by AKIron
I'd have been content to let the middle eastern Muslims continue wearin' their turbans, hackin' off each others' hands, beatin' their women, shootin' their ak47's in the air, starvin' each each other to death, and just generally havin' a good time if only they'd not drug us into it. When they attacked us on an unignorable scale they should have expected to get spanked. This ain't the 11th century any more.

I like the way that you talk!
name the place the drinks are on me:aok

[AKIron]

Based on the last US Presidential election I suspect the US is still pretty evenly divided. I'm not claiming to be a prophet but I believe the next US election will go pretty much whichever way the situation in Iraq goes.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by txmx
I like the way that you talk!
name the place the drinks are on me:aok

I'll be at the con come September, if you're there I'll reciprocate.

[Nash]

Originally posted by AKIron
I'm not claiming to be a prophet but I believe the next US election will go pretty much whichever way the situation in Iraq goes.

Which has nothing to do with Bush. He'll just be a victim of cruel fate.

Ooookay.

[AKIron]

Originally posted by Nash
Which has nothing to do with Bush. He'll just be a victim of cruel fate.

Ooookay.

Aren't we all?

[Nash]

That's a good question.

[AKIron]

Well, I'd subscribe to the Sara Connor dictum but apparently she was wrong.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by Nash
Okay and this new found enlightenment has what to do with how great it what be if some Napolean-type would rise up and - damn the wishes of those governed - tell ya how it's gonna be?

You seem to have this dictator complex.

Not a Napoleon, but a Lincoln or Churchill or Jefferson.  I am looking for a president who can persuade, who can show the better path and when you see the path, you realize it's value and go on your own accord.

Blindly following the wishes of the governed is called mob rule.

[Nash]

"No fate except what we make"

How can she know? Fate made her speak these words, for all she knows.