Your statement is quite hard to understand, BB. I said --in response to your accusation of being over-influenced by the NYT--that a standard of reasonable logic and an eye to consequences of actions taken is a workable starting point, and I further state that the elections of 2000 and 2004 were taken by force and deception instead. In many cases: the invasion unilaterally of Iraq, the suppression of dissent, the suppression of press communication, the effort to politically manipulate science, the mismanagement and favoritism that left the national emergency response machinery inept and impotent, the politicization of justice, the falsification of press commmunications by buying reports, the corrosion of COnstitutional principles, the violation of moral principles in dealing with combatants, the mismanagement ofm ilitary logistics, tactics and strategy, and the aggressive pursuit of ignorance in matters of international dynamics -- in all these things, Bush's administrators made the nation worse by selecting the wrong importances, choosing the wrong targets, and failing to understand the consequences of their own actions.

I am just trying to correct your implication, attributed to your invisible friends, that there is some irrational drive behind what I do here. I find it snarky and bilious despite your own pretense that it is just "sharing with friends".

SOmetimes, though, I wonder why I bother.

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