"Maybe it is unfortunate that he just borrowed my own statements about the liberal tradition and took them as his own, but it does say something."

Amos,

Never, at any time, in the other thread, did I claim those thoughts as my own. I was simply trying to make the point that the thoughts that you listed could work for both liberal and conservative. I was actually trying to keep the conversation civil and thought provoking. I've had those types of conversations with you before.

But since you posted the above statement and made me look like some type of plagiarizing village idiot, I think that the point has been made, by you, that if you call yourself a liberal, then you must be quick to judge motives and prey upon those who you consider inferior because of their soft spokeness and evident lack of access to the latest edition of Roget's thesaurus.

Or maybe you're just too smart. Maybe all of that knowledge is just loosely compiled in the wrinkles of your grey matter and you just skim over the subtleties that evidently a few other people in the room caught.

Whatever the reason is, it is now evident, to at least this conservative, that you have no interest in trying to at least understand the opposing side.

That's what wrong with congress now. On both sides.

Oh....and by the way....

"one of our recent conservative arrivals"

It hasn't been recent.

I've been here since Feb. '05.
I dropped off for a while and when I returned, I couldn't remember my password. After trying several and variations of what I thought it could be, I emailed Joe Offer. I never received a response from him. Go figure.
I mean with the name of Susu's Hubby, why would Joe, a man who I know doesn't agree with me politically, want to help me?

So I see that you haven't changed a bit. Sort of flies all up in the face of the term "liberal" doesn't it.


Hubby...

er...YES!!