And you wonder why they hate us.
Well, not wonder, because you know why. Bush has this unique knack for pissing people off wherever he goes. Makes you wonder how he's ever won elected office.
Actually, no, you don't wonder, you know precisely how. Karl Rove. And then you cringe.
See, I've known a lot of Republicans in my lifetime, and most of them are really fairly decent sorts of people. Maybe they don't get the struggles ordinary people go thru. They've never visited a homeless shelter, or gone to a day care clinic. They don't have parents in nursing homes, or a really troubled teen in rehab.
Or they don't even "know" of anyone who does. Let's face facts. The reason conservatives don't understand these things is they never talk about them in polite company.
The old saying goes that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. I'll go that one better:
a conservative is a liberal who is waiting for therapy.
The bottom line is this: people who fear change won't talk about change and therefore miss out on a lot in life: new ways of looking at the world, of seeing, of learning.
Nothing wrong with being set in your ways, I suppose. Life's pretty easy when it's boring, but I think God put us on this planet for a purpose, and that was to discover who we are, and what we mean to the universe. It's not about glory to Him. His glory comes from ours.
For Karl Rove, you have to in the end pity him. He doesn't stand a chance against the karma about to pour down on him. It'll be fun!
Carl:
ReplyDelete"And you wonder why they hate us."
No, I don't. I really don't care WHY they hate us. I care that they DO hate us...at least enough to commit mass murder.
"Well, not wonder, because you know why."
No, you THINK you know why.
"Bush has this unique knack for pissing people off wherever he goes."
Ahh...does that explain the bombing of the USS Cole?
The bombing of our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania?
The first attack on the WTC?
Do you recall that the planning and training for 9/11 occurred under the Clinton Administration?
What was Bush then? Just a Governor of Texas.
Stop selecting facts to fit your conceits.
"I've known a lot of Republicans in my lifetime, and most of them are really fairly decent sorts of people."
You know Republicans in New York City? Okay, I s'pose you do, within a Noo Yawk context, I guess they are "Republicans".
Newsflash, bubba, Nelson Rockefeller's Vice-Presidency was 30 years ago, see? That wing of the GOP is long, long gone. The heart and soul of the modern GOP lies to the South and West.
The GOP in New York is more like the appendix or the spleen...marginally useful, but in the final analysis, disposable.
"Maybe they don't get the struggles ordinary people go thru. They've never visited a homeless shelter, or gone to a day care clinic. They don't have parents in nursing homes, or a really troubled teen in rehab."
I thought you just caimed to have known a few Republicans...what spaceship did you use to visit this magical planet that they apparently live on?
"Or they don't even "know" of anyone who does. Let's face facts. The reason conservatives don't understand these things is they never talk about them in polite company."
They don't know of anyone who does? Sure they do, Republicans watch talk shows just as much as anyone else does.
The one thing they may have is a sense of shame and a sense of compassion.
Shame because these afflictions aren't something to be proud of, and compassion in realizing that ones' associates are more n' likely bearing crosses of their own, and may not necessarily care to hear our moaning and whining about our own personal fate.
But that's just MY suspicion.
"For Karl Rove, you have to in the end pity him. He doesn't stand a chance against the karma about to pour down on him. It'll be fun!"
You seem to be somewhat muddled, chum.
It was Zawahiri who threatened you with violence,do you remember? not Karl Rove.
Tell me something...if your plumber overcharges you, do you blame it on your cab driver?
Regards;
Oh, by the way...
ReplyDeleteYou wrote of God:
"... It's not about glory to Him. His glory comes from ours."
So,essentially, without your existence, God is nothing, huh?
Sounds to me like you are your very own god.
Poor you.
Regards;
Bilger,
ReplyDeleteYea, I am my own God, mostly because God lives in all of us, and I find it hard to believe that he'd care about my little life (or your little insignificant existence) enough to foretell my track.
So, I figure it's up to me to be God. :)