I have condensed the common remarks made by Republican Congressmen and Senators today after the speech and they were all remarkably similar as if the same memo was sent to all of them.
The remarks they made when condensed is this;
"The stuff that arrogant cocky punk said, did not contain a shred of truth... all he can do is whine and BIOB, blame it on Bush. He will be surprised come election time"
That was it, not much of an intelligent response there. All the words like arrogant cocky punk and BIOB were all actual quotes made by leading Republicans.
If this was 40 years ago all these euphemisms and code words for what Republicans really mean, would simply look and SOUND LIKE THIS;
"That uppity nigger doesn't know his place and if he thinks he can slander a white man like that, he's got it comin."
Catters, that is the essence of white power sentiment sounds like, although they use different words today.
Ya know its bad enough having remote Republican "leaders" use language like that (arrogant cocky) to veil thier feelings of white superiority, but when a particular person writes to good friends here, who normally seek to merelly make a clever remark or educate and explain issues and policy, and then have a thug here slander them and invent cruel distortions about these good people and their motives, its time to decide if any response to such an individual will ever be helpful or wise in the years to come. We here are not the poiticians, or the willing targets of your attacks.
Hello Ron Adhominum. Hello Adhom-alikes Goodbye Ron. Goodbye Adhomalikes
That is until or unless you can be, or at least resemble a potentially civil human being.
I use human being in the small sense and not the larger more meaningful "Human Being", as expressed in Little Big Man. "Human Being" is an achievment that proves to be extremely challenging and too much to ask of certain people. How can you tell the difference? Among many differences this one comes to mind; Shame or conscience only works on "Human Beings".
"its time to decide if any response to such an individual will ever be helpful or wise in the years to come." I am serious simply because of wonderful souls that I have talked to recently who no longer will join us or post due to the obvious hateful jag off who hurt them to this day.
We need not be elder Statesmen or Stateswomen but we are too old to be flaming trolls or let them follow us home.