Bi-Polar Bear wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:Bi-Polar Bear wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:Thomas wrote:Brandon9000 wrote:Which is the comedy part? I did a search on "Putin" and found no recent threads about him or the apparent return of totalitarianism to Russia.
I'm sure this will change as soon as a substantial fraction of A2K members is governed by Putin.
That's the standard, then? It's not the size of their countries, nor the magnitude of their sins? We only disscuss our own governments here? The Germans, British, and Australian members of A2K criticize George Bush because they known that the board has many Americans, not because of the importance of the events to the world?
I don't think so. It looks like a double standard, plain and simple to me.
Of course it does. You're a bush apologist. there's nothing he could do to dislodge your head from his hindquarters.
I know it's easier for you to argue on this basis, but it isn't the truth. I support him because he does the things which I myself advocate, and seems to have a similar philosophical outlook to mine. This is why anyone supports any politician. I will openly state my disagreement with him in areas in which I disagree with him such as immigration and tort reform, and, if he began to deviate significantly from my philosophy, I would certainly say so. This doesn't constitute being an apologist.
so are you a wealthy entitled spoiled mama's boy who never earned anything in their life on their own merits too?
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:sort of how you just ignored my question?
Unlike you, who always avoids responding to another posters position or questions with anything but distractions, and simpy lacks the guts or the discipline to engage in a fair debate, I will answer your question seriously.
No, I'm not rich, although I've by now reached a stage in my life where I'm not constantly hurting for funds. My parents were at most comfortable, and it would be a stretch to say even that. They lived in a rather affluent community, but on the poorer side of town. When my mother died, we discovered that her life savings had been almost completely used up by the ordinary cost of living. Mama's boy? Who knows. I loved my mother and spoke to here often, but we fought a lot too. I stopped showing her much cooperation at a very early age. Never earned anything on my own merit? My parents had no connections to help me with. They did, with great difficulty and with the financing of a credit company manage to put me through college, if that's some kind of mark of shame or something. I put myself through the final years of graduate school with a teaching assistantship.
I don't believe that the president fits that description either. You can repeat the liberal tautology that the president bought the election, etc., etc., blah, blah, blah, but it's nonsense and you can't prove anything of the kind.
At any rate, your comment was not a relevant response to my statement that I support President Bush only to the extent that he does what I want him to do, the same way anyone supports a politician.
