Like mother like son

[JR]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

"Bush bashing" *is* getting tiresome. Personally, I'd very much welcome the article that says "this was done correctly" about any aspect of our executive branch.

I'm waiting.

why would an article be positive? whats worth reading about that? as they say in journalism.... "if it bleeds, it leads"

what disgusts me about the situation is the degree to which it has been politicized... at a time when people are hurting, need support, need help, need leadership and need hope and something positive. maybe the discussion for "blame" should come up at least after people have had time to burry their relatives and grieve?

am i the only one who feels there is something inherently wrong with constant debate about blame when a city lay in ruins, 100's of thousands are displaced and the corpses of those who died have still not even been collected and buried?

this tragedy is revealing what we really are. we dont really care about people. its not about people at all. the entire country seems to only care about "winning" a sick political game played out by equal idiots in living rooms everywhere... scoring the game in "points of blame" and attempting quantify the suffering and devistation while searching for any mindless and rediculous reason to attribute it to "the other side" and score more points.

its bizarre and shameful. i wish people would either help or shut the fuck up.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by JR

i wish people would either help or shut the fuck up.

Exactly! If Babs had actually helped and had shut the fuck up, we wouldn't be having another one of these stupid conversations.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by JR

why would an article be positive? whats worth reading about that? as they say in journalism.... "if it bleeds, it leads"

what disgusts me about the situation is the degree to which it has been politicized... at a time when people are hurting, need support, need help, need leadership and need hope and something positive. maybe the discussion for "blame" should come up at least after people have had time to burry their relatives and grieve?

am i the only one who feels there is something inherently wrong with constant debate about blame when a city lay in ruins, 100's of thousands are displaced and the corpses of those who died have still not even been collected and buried?

this tragedy is revealing what we really are. we dont really care about people. its not about people at all. the entire country seems to only care about "winning" a sick political game played out by equal idiots in living rooms everywhere... scoring the game in "points of blame" and attempting quantify the suffering and devistation while searching for any mindless and rediculous reason to attribute it to "the other side" and score more points.

its bizarre and shameful. i wish people would either help or shut the fuck up.

JR...in two words..."I agree."

You've hooked the writer in me, though. You write extremely well. (I've always known that, it isn't news.) I'd like to see what you posted on the front page of something. Anything.

I understand your original post now much better than I did and I apologize for slamming you. (Don't forget to keep yourself signed in. I admit, knowing it was you would have made a *big* difference in my response. Note to "anons": "known" people get spoke "to" rather than "at." You don't have to be as well known as JR, either. You just have to have a name, the internet version of a "face.")