tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post8430078625558947611..comments2024-03-04T11:41:37.259-05:00Comments on lovable liberal: Kicking the canlovable liberalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-63187526345209616182009-07-12T22:22:46.375-04:002009-07-12T22:22:46.375-04:00gia, I know from Philosoraptor that you don't ...gia, I know from Philosoraptor that you don't get the whole idea of proportionality. Someone failed in your moral training, sorry.<br /><br />SDG, ha! I'm an engineer, too (although a software engineer, which hardly counts - but imagine you ever saying something so self-deprecating), just one who grasps the larger world. You really are narrow. Open your eyes.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-31622364655656499092009-07-12T18:58:55.434-04:002009-07-12T18:58:55.434-04:00Lying about sex = in this case, perjury under oath...Lying about sex = in this case, perjury under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuitglobeisatrocioushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10920803265187006386noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-2859359826101107672009-07-12T17:11:45.521-04:002009-07-12T17:11:45.521-04:00I know you are trying so hard to be an intellectua...I know you are trying so hard to be an intellectual-for-sport. It is cute, really.<br /><br />You give up too easily when you resort to insults.<br /><br />Poking zealots might not be supported by studies but it just "feels right"(Dogbert). Ok, I am engineer, you can pretend to make fun of that too.<br /><br />Engineers: The ones who might offer work to intellectuals after the break-down of society. Even pretend ones.Silence DoGoodnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-4457640587435259172009-07-11T20:03:43.768-04:002009-07-11T20:03:43.768-04:00"Impeachment bluster"? One President ha..."Impeachment bluster"? <i>One</i> President has been impeached - for lying about sex. Official crimes under color of authority? No sanction whatsoever.<br /><br />If your model of the rule of law is Ford, you've failed to understand the lessons of the last 35 years. No one I know would accept wiping the slate clean as <i>a solution</i> to the crimes that Republicans have repeatedly committed. If they were street crimes, we'd be locking the miscreants up and throwing away the key in righteous indignation.<br /><br />I am part of a 'we' that matters: Americans. I was then too. That's all I meant, and you would realize that, too, except for <i>choosing</i> to be an asshole.<br /><br />And, in fact, you've made the contrary argument from your incoherent worldview. Transparency, that's what you want - until some GOPer would have to bear the consequences.<br /><br />The Republicans, on the contrary, go much further than I'm asking. Far from asking punishment for clear and important violations of the law, they are willing to trump up bullshit for their political convenience.<br /><br />I'm done with this asymmetry. David Broder and you may love it, but I've had enough of Lucy pulling away the damn football.lovable liberalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15616294696912710046noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8167210975362071658.post-38201977351714643942009-07-11T19:06:24.444-04:002009-07-11T19:06:24.444-04:00Gerald Ford and "we" didn't "tr...Gerald Ford and "we" didn't "try it on Republicans". As if you were a part of it.<br /><br />Obama may be making the same wise decision. But it will be lost on blood thirsty DemsBots and crazy right wingnuts.<br /><br />Ford was very clear: "As President, my primary concern must always be the greatest good of all the people of the United States whose servant I am. As a man, my first consideration is to be true to my own convictions and my own conscience."<br /><br />Reality is complex and goes beyond the glib sound bite. He didn't want the nation consumed on a witch hunt justified or not.<br /><br />And be careful about setting up a tribunal too quickly. ALL presidents have been subject to impeachment bluster in recent history and Obama is next in line.<br /><br />And contrary to popular myth his Sainthood will not exempt him. Or maybe Obama is thinking ahead. Yes I am a heretic.Silence DoGoodnoreply@blogger.com