I believe we should focus our efforts first and foremost against those who attacked us on September 11 and who have thus far gotten away with it. the vast majority of those who sponsored, planned and implemented the cold-blooded murder of more than 3000 Americans are still at large, still neither located, nor apprehended, much less punished and neutralized. I do not believe that we should allow ourselves to be distracted from this urgent task simply because it is proving to be more diffucult and lengthy than was predicted. Great nations persevere and then prevail...
I believe that we are perfectly capanle of staying the course in the war against Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network, while simultaneously taking the steps necessary to build an international coalition to join us in taking on Saddam Hussein in a timely fashion. If you're going after Jesse James, you ought to organize your posse first. Especially if you're already in the middle of a gunfight with somebody who's out after you.
— Al Gore in 2002...shortly before Bush invaded Iraq
Its kind of funny, really
I'll offer this as neither Democrat / Republican / Liberal / Conservative / Left Wing / Right Wing or any other political group.
Artificially forcing into polarity groups is a manipulation tool. "You're for me or against me" is one of these manipulation tools.
Its used by both sides of all those coins, they're the same coin wearing different masks.
Luckily some are not on either side, although they are effectively kept quite by various methods.
Ive seen enough from all these groups that smell of hypocrisy that I wouldn't lend my name to any of them.
Rather, I speak as a working person trying to support my family and understand and operate within the systems that is ours. like it our not, it's the one we have.
Its interesting to me to see the more or less uniform "complaint" McCain ads are getting from readers as well as "journalist" here at CultureKitchen.
Rather than see it as a negative automatically (habit that can be unlearned), why not get informed as how the Google (or Yahoo) keyword engines work and realize that the AI behind the ads dont exactly gauge tone (they do to some extent) any better than human readers.
The same search activities that bring ads to this site will also bring readers. Liza's effort does a good job of explaining how this works.
If you have a statement to make, make it in coherent fashion, substatiate it with facts, outline a sound position, and the world's search engines will find it.
Like never before, voices have a chance to be heard - at least until McCain and Jerry Falwell push thru legislation to silence bloggers. Hillary is also trying this via election reform.
Complaining about the McCain ads is a lot like biting the hand that feeds you.
Anyone think different?