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So sorry your humor impairment is so serious--sounds life-threatening. Let me break it to you gently--the article about Bush being elected president of Iraq was not meant to be taken seriously. Hope that doesn't shatter your illusions of the Onion as a news source. And somehow, I think Amos knows it--even if you don't.

You are nothing if not entertaining.




But it's a bit puzzling. We've learned you can't be expected to read what we post.

However, it does seem reasonable that you would read what you yourself post. Otherwise why would you post it?

Case in point: the Washington Post article on "The Redder They Are":

Specifically one sentence in that article---the crux of the whole thing: "It's tough to blame the media when it's the electorate that determines who stays and who goes".



Please write on the blackboard 500 times:

It's the electorate that determines who stays and who goes.



And the leadership of each party tries to guess what the electorate might do--and acts accordingly.

Foley's leadership decided he would lose. We'll never know if the leadership was right--but it's the Republican leadership--and Foley himself--who made the decision.

NOT THE DEMOCRATS.

Is that simple enough for your giant brain to grasp?


Studds' leadership decided he might well not lose. And the electorate proved this right.

How is your brain with that concept?

So sorry Studds had sex and was not punished for it, while Foley did not have sex--and still was punished.

But it goes back to what I discussed earlier. This crop of Republicans has a horror of homosexuality. The Democrats in general do not and have not for quite a while.

Both Studds' and Foley's trangressions had to do with homosexuality.

So Foley, member of the rabidly anti-homosexual party, gets punished.
And Studds, member of the party which has a lot more tolerance for homosexuality, does not.

It breaks my heart to have to tell you that if you don't like it, your beef, as noted in the article you yourself posted, is with Studds' electorate and Foley's electorate.

And nobody else.

And somehow it seems a bit unlikely that either will pay any attention to you.