<p>Figure it out.</p>
<p>By the way, do YOU have any other user names? Or any other role on CC???</p>
<p>Should I check with Roger???</p>
<p>I don’t know who Roger is.</p>
<p>BedHead and sjmom2329: I am on the same side politically as one of you, but differ radically politically from the other. I haven’t had much contact with one; with the other we’ve differed, but I have felt a camaraderie.</p>
<p>IMO: Both of you are doing your beliefs a disservice by presenting the childish bickering that is going on here.</p>
<p>I am confident of my political beliefs and my religious practices. If Republicans want to believe they’re sane and saner than I am, I can’t stop them. It’s okay with me.</p>
<p>It’s difficult to convince anyone of anything different from what s/he already thinks. </p>
<p>One point is objectively valid: A poll and a study are not the same thing.</p>
<p>So we can all agree, I think, that Republicans think they’re saner than everyone else does. We can disagree about whether or not this is a good thing.</p>
<p>Of course, we’re going to disagree. Because we . . . .disagree!</p>
<p>mythmom, you’re right – this is ridiculous. I will say, however, that I was primarily responding to a poster’s insinuation that I was posting under another name. I offered the information that I have never posted under a pseudonym, and was asked for who would be able to verify that. I take that as an affront on my honesty. </p>
<p>Frankly, I’m sick of everything about CC at the moment. Good luck to all and I hope you have a good holiday season.</p>
<p>SJM don’t give up! I actually believe that it was wrong to keep insinuating that you are 2 different people. What would be your motivation? I am sure you have more things to do than go and create a pseudonym. If anyone thinks that, they need to get a life. This is a forum to discuss, nobody will live or die by it, so why in the world would anyone spend the time to even give credence to the allegation. </p>
<p>The problem with threads like this after the first couple of pages, people divert from the issue and attack the opposition. </p>
<p>The shrubbery is dead, not one person will change their mind. Let’s move on and respect each other. </p>
<p>This is also the real problem in politics since the 90’s the public has become as partisan as the government. I would love for someone from the opposition to say good point, I am not holding my breath though</p>
<p>I don’t see the problem here. Bill Clinton is a useless piece of dog ____ AND Larry Craig is a useless piece of dog ____. Not mutually exclusive. That they call themselves Democrat or Republican is meaningless. We live in a representative democracy. Those that we elect are under no obligation to do what we want them to do or even what they promised to do. If they mistreat their office there are mechanisms in place to deal with the issues. Why do we care at all where either of these reprobates choose to park their busses as it were</p>
<p>They are under a moral obligation to do what they promised, not legal. I agree there are mechanisms in place to deal with the issues. VOTE</p>
<p>As far as Clinton and Craig I do have a problem.</p>
<p>Couldn’t care less about Craig (not from Idaho and don’t know enough about his platforms).</p>
<p>For Clinton he kicked out hundreds of military members for adultery, yet he had an affair and lied to the American people (did not have sex with that woman, define what it is) On both accounts the military member would be dishonorably discharged and basically unable to get a job. If he wanted to have an affair, knock himself out and have a party, just don’t be hypocrytical. I am tired of people saying Bush is the commander and chief ( and that he is failing the military from people who are not in the service), but so was Clinton when he kicked out people for doing exactly what he was doing.</p>
<p>BTW I know personally of a commander that was relieved of duty for having an affair…it even made 60 Minutes during the exact time frame as Clinton</p>
<p>you know, i can believe this, especially after listening to people like cindy sheehan, jack murtha, biden, and the list goes on and on and on.</p>
<p>I am not sure what you can believe, could you please expound.</p>
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<p>Look, I apologize for accusing you of using two different monikers, SJMOM. But don’t let it distract from the point I was making. You posted a dubious poll that some would find insulting. I don’t need to corroborate my own views here on CC or to have some poll tell me how I should think about myself or my divide of the political spectrum. But I think it’s silly to post something with such offensive implications and not expect someone to respond and not expect someone to be offended. This is why I called you naive. </p>
<p>As I said, I guess you think it’s fine for you to post it, treat it as if it’s got solid legitimacy (as implied by the use of the word “study” and the following discussion), and yet when people ridicule or sally back, you say “ah. c’mon, have a sense of humor.” If you’re going to take a stand at least have the courage to handle the controversy. It’s disingenuous to do otherwise.</p>
<p>So, apologies about the double moniker accusation. Nothing else, however, do I take back. I just exhort: if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Don’t post something so pitched to offend. If I posted an article that cited Foley, Craig, and a bunch of other Republicans as indicative of the inherent sexual deviance of the Republican party, for instance, I wouldn’t expect people to take that sitting down.</p>
<p>Other than this apparently unjustified accusation for which I have apologized and am truly sorry, I stand by everything else I said as being central, if sometimes truculent and sometimes meant mostly to be silly (Larry Craig), to the debate at hand. And for that I won’t apologize.</p>
<p>cindy sheehan whose son died…nice comment there</p>
<p>and Murtha, who served our country…</p>
<p>and Biden…</p>
<p>This is just plain dumb.</p>
<p>I returned to the small town I had grownup in late last winter. I was looking forward to a visit with childhood friends and to see and hear how things were going in my hometown. Late winter is the best time to visit if you want to see everyone since the farmers have all of their winter work done and the spring planting is still weeks away.</p>
<p>It didnt take long for the big table in the back of the restaurant to fill with childhood friends and foes, it was funny though, we all nodded and grinned at the same time when one of us would tell a BB gun or playground story. </p>
<p>After all of the stories we had told each other dozens of times had been told, I ask, so whats new in Posey? Virgil Snodgrass jumped right in with, Miss Zimmerman finally lost it, saying to me, and you remember Miss Zimmerman dont you. I responded, sure I do, she was the one who was always a littlie off, what happened? </p>
<p>Everyone started to tell the story at the same time, Virgil hushed them, and said, Ill tell what story and you guys can fill in details after Im done. Virgil begins; you will recall, that in addition to being strange, Miss Zimmerman was a rabid New Deal democrat who thought FDR was God. Miss Zimmerman thought FDR was God because she always claimed FDR saved her and her brothers farm from the bank during the depression. She also thought that everyone who had been president since Truman were out to steal her farm. Well she got so upset with George Bush that she would stand on the court house square and accost tourists and other total strangers with wild and crazy triads about George Bush. Banging on the hoods of cars and yelling at the top of her lungs. Finally something had to be done, so Rev. Rogers called a town meeting at the Methodist church one Wednesday night. </p>
<p>During the town meeting many examples of Miss Zimmerman strange behavior your were told, finally Mark Decker, the wealthiest farmer in the county and the Chairman of the local Republican party stood up and said, we ought to burn the old witch Zimmerman at the stake for the crazy, untrue and mean things she has said about our president. </p>
<p>Rev. Rogers responded by saying we dont burn people at the stake in this country anymore, to which Chairman Decker responded. Thats what is wrong with this G<em>D D#</em>M county, we cant burn people at the stake.</p>
<p>Life in Posey has always been interesting.</p>