Decius wrote:

] Seems like this country runs on hate. Lately in particular.
] Z-mag... hate hate hate... National Review... hate hate
] hate.... here on Memestreams... the only discussions that
] break out are everyone at everyone else's throats... we're so
] blind to the other side. So incapable of seeing eachother's
] perspective... And in november we choose between two people
] whose backgrounds are so similar they might as well be the
] same person. The thing you learn traveling overseas is that
] we're really all the same. The things that make us differ are
] neat but not fundamental... We all have the same problems....
] We all have the same needs... And yet we can't put our
] identity before our "identity" and if anything the internet
] has made this worse. I love my people, but they are lost lord,
] and I have no idea how to fix it, and all of your
] representative seem to be shills.

When you say "your representative" are you speaking of a lord's men?

I've heard that hate with conservative talk radio as well. I was tuned into G Gordon Liddy one day and heard him screaming on air how "this war is against the dirty, savage Muslims!" No shit. Wish I had a tape recorder.

I think 9/11 tore this nation apart already in many subtle ways, in our ways of having political discourse. There can be only two forms of thought, pro or anti. Bush set the tone from here on out with:

"Over time it's going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity, ... You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."

That was said at a news conference, it was pretty well covered if you want to source it. That was the jewel though I thought. He's threatening all nations right there. Isn't that a form of terrorism in and of itself?

I can't be on the same page as someone so black and white about the issues. He's casting himself as a Jesus or something. Does this sound familiar?

"He that is not with me is against me"

From Matthew 12:30. I don't buy in either doctrine. I like option three: I'm not with Bush or the terrorists.

RE: Furor over Bush's 9/11 ad