On Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:11:28 -0500, Gregory Morrow wrote:

> 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.

you think the war in iraq and eavesdropping on citizens (a felony, by the
way) were *good* things, and *i'm* naive? please.

blake