The random political thoughts thread (Part Deux)

[Nephythys]

Kerry is a fvckin idiot who can't take responsiblity for his own words

Yeah you doofus- it's a Republican smear to point out that you are an insulting gasbag.

God he is loathsome.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Kerry is a fvckin idiot who can't take responsiblity for his own words

Yeah you doofus- it's a Republican smear to point out that you are an insulting gasbag.

God he is loathsome.

And he didn't do that well at Yale, which I guess is why he wound up in Viet Nam. Unlike . . . well the list on both sides of the aisle is endless.

While he was making a questionable joke, I think he touched on the very real ambivalence that people with educational ambitions harbor about dangerous working class jobs. Whether it's the military, building bridges or collecting the garbage, we respect the people who do them while at the same time urging our children to get an education so they don't have to do them.

I think that while some people certainly say they join to serve their country, most join for want of other opportunity, a limitation that is often due to educational failings. The military today is what the clergy was for the second sons of 19th century literature.

[Gn2Dlnd]

This was your opening post:

Originally Posted by Nephythys

Kerry is a fvckin idiot who can't take responsiblity for his own words

Yeah you doofus- it's a Republican smear to point out that you are an insulting gasbag.

God he is loathsome.

Dervish much?

Once again, I am going to post the quote from the article:

The Massachusetts senator, who is considering another presidential run in 2008, had opened his speech at Pasadena City College with several one-liners, joking at one point that Bush had lived in Texas but now "lives in a state of denial."

Then he said: "You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

Looks to me like a slam at the president. Looks to me that if anyone reads it differently they are willfully misinterpreting the meaning of what was said.

So:

Originally Posted by Nephythys

This is my main frustration with people here- some of you see perfectly fit to tell me what I think, what I've done or not done- how I misunderstand, misspoke- whatever- and you lay it at my feet no matter what I say is my intent, what I have done, what I personally think.

This guy makes an ass of himself- and you spin yourself into dervishes finding ways to say "he did not mean it that way" - it's everyone elses problem- not his. He is not responsible for the reactions- or for upsetting anyone.

THAT has been the main thing that has undermined my respect for certain people and their tactics- it's only used when it suits their own bias.

Gosh, imagine my disappointment at losing the respect of one of the more disrespectful people I've ever run across.