blake murphy wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 19:55:41 -0700, Bob Terwilliger wrote:
>
> > blake wrote:
> >
> >> given the fact that the mainstream media kissed george bush's
> >> ass for eight years
> >
> > I don't think I'll take that as a given, unless by the term "mainstream
> > media" you mean Fox News and ONLY Fox News. Most news programs I watched
> > during the Bush administration rightly portrayed Bush as a lazy and
greedy
> > dunce, horribly unqualified for the job to which he'd been elected, and
> > whose efforts were mainly directed toward enriching his cronies.
> >
> > I *was* both surprised and impressed at how eco-friendly the Crawford
ranch
> > was, especially by comparison with Al Gore's conspicuously-consuming
mansion
> > in Tennessee.
> >
> > Bob
>
> really? i don't watch fox news, but the *washington post* and *new york
> times*, allegedly 'liberal' outposts, backed the invasion of iraq 110%,
and
> generally treated bush with respect.
>
> i would like to some cites from the mainstream media (except for a few
> columnists, who were vastly outnumbered by the likes of charles
krauthammer
> and bill kristol) saying those things, at least for the first six years of
> the administration.
>
> instead, those who opposed the war and the eavesdropping were derided as
> kooks.


Which as it turns out they *were*, blake...

We WON the war in Iraq, and the result is that there is now a parliamentary
democracy in Iraq, the very first such parliamentary democracy in the
Islamic Middle East...

It's a long, slow, and sometimes bloody process, but anything worthwhile is
never easy...

As for the "eavesdropping" issue, who cares? It was simply a measure to
help us to increase our security...did it affect you *personally*...???

blake, I look favorably upon you in general, but politics-wise you strike me
as one of those leftist "moonbats"...you are welcome to your opinions, but
they are just that - *opinions*. You are naive in the extreme when it comes
to matters political, you are a liberal, and liberalism is simply an
advanced form of emotional immaturity...it's a simplistic way of looking at
complicated issues and problems. I know you are smarter than that, so STOP
with the leftist "party line" jazz and start usin' yer noggin...the whole
world is not some right-wing conspiracy *against* you! You know better than
to engage in "victim politics"...there is nothing more degrading in life
than positing yourself as a "victim"...it's a CRUMMY way to live.


--
Best
Greg

"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other
people's money."~~~~Margaret Thatcher