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   stpatme said, 9 months ago

   Actually, before Ronald Reagan, you could always expect conservatives to be polite. Barry Goldwater was a gentleman. Now, well bell3rose1a, you have a point.

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   treblemaker said, 9 months ago

   Bell3rose1a, let me put it this way: how many reports have you heard this month about White House computer keyboards missing the letter “O” ? Oh, not one?

   Or how many times before Jan 20,2009, did you hear the phrase, “I did not vote for him, but for good or ill he is my president and though I disagree with much of what he will propose and implement as our chief executive, I wish him Godspeed”? Nuh-uh, I didn’t think so.

   How many White House chiefs-of-staff stuck out their tongue and waggled their fingers at the “losers” between Jan 20, 2000 and Jan 19, 2009.

   Now, who has displayed more dignity, respect and self-control? So, yes, I do expect more of the same.

   Sure, it’s easy and fun to join the bandwagon and toss out baseless insinuations, but have you ever stopped to ask yourself, “Why are they saying this?” Or “Why am I saying this?” Or even just, “Wait. What???”

   It will do all of us some good to stop and think once in a while.

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   HUMPHRIES said, 9 months ago

   treblemaker … do really want answers to those questions ?

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   Kylop said, 9 months ago

   treblemaker, bell3rose1a did not call out the white house as the limit of the example.

   If the range is “all conservatives” then it extends to people down the street, folks at work, the talking heads on television.

   Within the context of the ‘toon its possibly limited to congress (Clyde is in congress- right?) where there is a lack of manners all over.

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   Nemesys said, 9 months ago

   Methinks the point Trudeau is making is that political correctness paranoia trumps manners these days.

   bellrose1a’s kneejerk slam proves his point perfectly.

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   CyranoJones said, 9 months ago

   I think treblemaker has a valid point. After G-Bu’s incoming team fabricated a story about removed keys, cut wires, graffiti, ‘porn bombs’, and all other manner of awful Democratic vandalism and the report was issued debunking it, the only member of the Highly Liberal Media to offer a meaningful retraction was Fox News.
   http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/05/23/vandals/print.html

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   jack75287 said, 9 months ago

   treblemaker you are so right. We may be haveing a little of a hard time but it is hard to be polite when we are accused of being bigots everytime we disagree with the liberals. I honestly beleive we are more open minded.

   bell3rose1a You just discriped the Clinton years. Like ignoring 7 attacks on U.S interests that led up to 9/11.

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   jack75287 said, 9 months ago

   treblemaker you are so right. We may be haveing a little of a hard time but it is hard to be polite when we are accused of being bigots everytime we disagree with the liberals. I honestly beleive we are more open minded.

   bell3rose1a You just discriped the Clinton years. Like ignoring 7 attacks on U.S interests that led up to 9/11.

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   ANandy said, 9 months ago

   I find most of Trudeau irrelevant and sophomoric. I would skip him but for the comic attempts of the other sophomores to defend him.

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    ronebofh said, 9 months ago

    ANandy: i guess that makes you the eternal pimply freshman.

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    Fly Guy said, 9 months ago

    Some comments are so sophomoric, they really detract from from the relevant
    comments and Garry’s commentary.

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    BlueRaven said, 9 months ago

    You are so right, Fly Guy. Intelligent conservative minds would be fun to engage. We keep not getting any here.

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    ANandy said, 9 months ago

    I rest my case

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    #1 redskins fan said, 9 months ago

    WAA WAA WAA I am a conservative, right-wing Christian, and as such I say, “Give the man a chance. With enough rope he is sure to hang himself!”

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    timecarrot said, 9 months ago

    Jack, that doesn’t even seem coherent. “We’re not rude,” you say, “because [unrelated lie].”

    Oh and here’s what we mean. Admittedly, this comes from a media personality, but Cheney and others in the administration tried to give the same impression: “The people who now doubt whether or not Saddam really has WMD programs, chemical and bacteriological, in particular, are really of two types, either they work for Saddam or they’re doing a human imitation of an ostrich. There really are, I think, no other possibilities.”

    Does anyone know why conservatives here keep crying, “WAA”?

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    JonD17 said, 9 months ago

    ANandy says:

    I find most of Trudeau irrelevant and sophoromic. I would skip him but for the comic attempts of the other sophomores to defend him.
    sooo… can we then hypothesize that insulting all the sophomores here makes you a junior or better yet a senior riding far far above eveyone else?