Really? I’d be pretty amazed at hearing a dead guy say anything!

LOL — Now THAT is a funny comment. Here here for a little comedic relief!!

On foreign policy, say, how do you know if you are wrong? Or were wrong?

Wouldn’t you be having second thoughts about Iraq if some 10 000 US soldiers had died, if the Jan. elections had been nearly a farce with less than 4 million voters; or less than 2 million?

How many Americans would have to have been killed for you to agree that the Iraq war wasn’t worth it?

(for me, some 10 000 or more means Bush gets a “D” or an “F” — but if body counting isn’t the way to judge a war, what is? [2500 or less and it's an "A"])

After you think about judging Iraq, you might want to re-visit Vietnam. How many have to be murdered by the commies before “leaving” becomes a mistake?

Kennedy who? And what could he possibly do that would in any way harm you?

::yawn::

I’m still quite impressed by how terrified some people are of the word God or god or Jesus or Jeebus (they’re too terrified to even write the name). It’s a new phenomenon. Just within the last couple of decades or so this fear has taken on hysterical status.

In 2000 Bush utters the word ‘God’ and I went ‘ew’. In the late ’60′s JFK uttered the word ‘God’ and I didn’t bat an eyelash.

What kind of brainwashing effected that change in attitude?

There is no common ground with the Fundies – they want to destroy America in the name of Jeebus:

“Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost,” Kennedy says. “As the vice regents of God, we are to exercise godly dominion and influence over our neighborhoods, our schools, our government, our literature and arts, our sports arenas, our entertainment media, our news media, our scientific endeavors — in short, over every aspect and institution of human society.”

- D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries

I remember feeling absolutely convinced Reagan was an idiot (at 20, I had it all figured out). But none of the disasters that were supposed to result from his simpleton-ness ended up happening.

I pre-date you, but not by much. My very first presidential vote was cast for Jimmah. Roughly three years following that I was deep into the “What a muthableepin mistake that was, how could I have been so stupid?” camp. Ronald Rayguns was such a breath of fresh air to me that I felt like I understood what it was like to pop to the surface out of a shipwreck. (BTW, I served in the military, volunteer, almost coincident with the Carter administration so perhaps I had a slightly better view of what a deeply depressing and idiotic “leader” he was.)

My second vote for the Third-rate Actor Cum Cowboy Who Would Surely Rain Nuclear Destruction Upon Us All was sealed, sure as shootin’, not 90 days after he took office the first time when I happened to be watching a Major News Media Broadcast (sorry, can’t remember which) where they gave an obnoxious amount of airtime to some Moonbat-of-the-Day who went on and on and on, honestly it was relentless on her part, about how the homeless who were lining the streets of NYC and how they were the direct result of Reagan’s presidency.

By then I’d spent enough time watching how The Machine put Another Brick in the Wall and, since I’d grown up in and had returned to the NY Metro Area, to recognize that as unadulterated bullshit. That experience also set me off on my path of pondering the Democratic Party. The more I pondered the less I was inclined to vote for their candidates. A few more later (I gave you my embarrassment of voting for Jimmah so I won’t further embarrass myself identifying my final vote for a Dem) and I can’t imagine how I could possibly live long enough to vote for another Dem. How much I loathe the Democratic Party cannot be expressed in language that wouldn’t get me (deservedly) tossed out of Roger’s Place.

Well, Team America convinced me to vote all my dead Ohio relatives for George Bush…

Now that is a darned good example of why I sometimes really hate being a knucklehead – never any good and useful ideas. That said, intelligence has been described as the ability to have useful ideas and genius has been described as the ability to steal such ideas.

In the next election I shall apply the my genius and your intelligence!