I'm coming to the conclusion that so called "progressives" or "liberals" need to go on a diet which includes the tranquilizer Xanax. Sheesh...hearing them huff and puff about this and that...how evil GW is, etc....how the world is going to pot....you would think that they are almost ready for cardiac intensive care how they get themselves into a tizzy.

The best thing is that when they can't think of anything else to counter with (intelligent discourse), they all automatically go into saying how everything is one conspiracy after another or some other simplistic diatribe. Then when you mention a fact of matter (i.e. Bill Clinton DID lie about his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky), then they somehow justify it...."Well, Ivars, everyone lies about something at sometime." I do not necessarily support Pres. Bush....but I don't see what the real difference is going to be when we replace one schmuck with another schmuck. At least with Pres. Bush we know that he is one pickle short of a picnic, the one 60 watt bulb mispacked in a Target 4-pack of 100 watt bulb. Despite having an evil vice-president in Dick Cheney, in my opinion, he hasn't done to bad under the circumstances. All Sen. Kerry can seemingly do is fib and flip flop whenever he is under pressure. (Maybe "this" is the injury he sustained in Viet Nam!)

The fact is that they get wrapped up into PROMISES that the opposition candidates are going to be any difference. Some of these whackos you would think would not have a problem with the Mr. Haney from the classic TV show "Green Acres" becoming Commander In Chief.

In between their palpitations they talk about how civil liberties have been abridged in the past four years.... HELLO...WE ARE AT WAR...WE WERE ATTACKED AND THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE WERE MURDERED BY WHACKED OUT EXTREMISTS...

Some of my favorite pejoratives that I hear spouted out....

"We've become the bully of the world."
They totally discount that we were bullied. The Arab Muslim world said "Check," we responded "Checkmate."

"The world hates us now."
Does America need to have an inferiority complex? What the hell do we need to care what the world thinks? Again, the only way the war on global terrorism can be CONTROLLED (never stopped) is when the snake is butchered and cut up in several pieces.

"Look at all the unemployment now after 8 years under Clinton"
The economy is cyclical. What goes up must come down, must go up, and vice versa. The global/US economy has taken a large hit since 9/11, and the ripple effects of that is still being felt."

"The deficit has gone sky high."
Freedom costs....who and how are all of the increased costs. to protect the US going to be absorbed?

"We had no right to go to Iraq"
All of the UN sanctions didn't work to topple this tyrant named Saddam. I guess we had no right to attack Japan after they attacked the U.S. in World War II....and I guess we should have not liberated 6 million Jews being tortured and murdered by Hitler. Hitler was such a humanitarian.
Saddam never gassed 100,000 kurds. And of course we all know how effective the UN has been in handling the crisis in Darfur, Ethiopia, currently the world’s most serious humanitarian disaster where thousands of displaced people have been killed and continue to die at the hands of Arab Muslim attackers. Those who have fled violent attacks — primarily women and young children — are dying from starvation and disease.

I'm happy to see the demonstrations going on in NYC and the civil disobedience. They are really going to change the minds of Middle America.