tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post1194127569882647612..comments2024-01-03T05:03:41.968-05:00Comments on Jus' Sayin': Romney's Three-Legged Stool ToppledTickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-51955920447237139322008-02-08T12:15:00.000-05:002008-02-08T12:15:00.000-05:00As I stated in the beginning of this blog Thomas, ...As I stated in the beginning of this blog Thomas, this would be a place where people could gather to have a civil discussion, to agree and disagree and to hopefully come away from the discussion more aware and hopefully more informed than when they entered. I hope to maintain that type of community. It may not grow large but it will stand as a site for freedom to express sane and respectful Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-76894116930348157112008-02-08T08:35:00.000-05:002008-02-08T08:35:00.000-05:00Ticker wrote"Yes, Thomas but in the end even the d...Ticker wrote<BR/>"Yes, Thomas but in the end even the dream you experienced ended in bitterness and division as have all such grand experiments."<BR/><BR/>So it would seem but that experiment was never intended to last forever. It was a mystery school. There was a <BR/>learning to be had for those of us who had the perceptiveness to see it.<BR/><BR/>We were but one small piece of a picture puzzleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-45348515323606906702008-02-08T00:38:00.000-05:002008-02-08T00:38:00.000-05:00Anonymous said...Glad to find this!Good then join ...Anonymous said...Glad to find this!<BR/><BR/>Good then join the conversation. Pick a thread even going back to the beginning in Jan and make a comment. Read the welcome and you will understand the rules. There are few and they are simple.Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-74394512053864351812008-02-08T00:36:00.000-05:002008-02-08T00:36:00.000-05:00Yes, Thomas but in the end even the dream you expe...Yes, Thomas but in the end even the dream you experienced ended in bitterness and division as have all such grand experiments.Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-501088683844720272008-02-08T00:03:00.000-05:002008-02-08T00:03:00.000-05:00The difference between your realism and my wishful...The difference between your realism and my wishful thinking is, I have seen it in action and a magnificent experiment it was. Yes, it failed but the very fact it was able to exist at all holds out hope for all mankind.<BR/><BR/>I saw people of all walks of life, of many different religious, cultural, ethnic and national backgrounds living and working in harmony. If it could happen even on a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-87543844133145449102008-02-07T22:13:00.000-05:002008-02-07T22:13:00.000-05:00Glad to find this!Glad to find this!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-56742199342325047812008-02-07T21:39:00.000-05:002008-02-07T21:39:00.000-05:00No, Thomas, I am just a realist. I am very much in...No, Thomas, I am just a realist. I am very much in the 21st century. I see thing in clarity rather than in some kind of wishful vision. <BR/><BR/>Would I rather have a world where cooperation is the norm? Most certainly but I am realistic enough to know that as long as there are those who wish to control others there will be no such place. History, as far back as one wishes to go will always Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-35520881593086352452008-02-07T20:31:00.000-05:002008-02-07T20:31:00.000-05:00I can't effectively argue in your arena but I beli...I can't effectively argue in your arena but I believe you and those like you, which account for probably 90% of the world's population, are anachronisms, 19th century minds living in 21st century bodies. <BR/><BR/>It has long been a truism that the social development of mankind is lagging far behind it's technological development. We have handed the power to destroy the world, to barbarians that Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-84906660753408067212008-02-07T19:00:00.000-05:002008-02-07T19:00:00.000-05:00Looking at the records I see little difference in ...Looking at the records I see little difference in McCain and Hillary. Of course Obama is so far left of either that it fails the smell taste .<BR/><BR/>Hillary has proven herself to be a divider over and over, Obama is no better. He thinks his glibness and chrisma will get him through the tough times. He thinks too highly of his abilities on that score for certain. <BR/><BR/>I would like to Tickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500388925461726862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-34506115048092034552008-02-07T17:23:00.000-05:002008-02-07T17:23:00.000-05:00What's the attraction to a tired old B movie actor...What's the attraction to a tired old B movie actor, his wife? I offer up Governor Jim Douglas or maybe Matthew Roy Blunt. No matter, whomever the choice is, goodbye Republicans for at least four years. I may be seventy but my thinking is we need younger men running the country. Nothing worse than an old codger pretending he's acquired wisdom with age and then administer using out dated ideas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-39715312117481442192008-02-07T16:44:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:44:00.000-05:00I picked the Super Bowl winner but pronosticating ...I picked the Super Bowl winner but pronosticating politics ain't exactly my forte. However I pray that McCain doesn't offer the VP thing to the Huckster. That as Ticker said would be a disaster. Fred Thompson would satisfy me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-65766712571711884782008-02-07T16:08:00.000-05:002008-02-07T16:08:00.000-05:00Well Romney is out so I guess that clinches it, Mc...Well Romney is out so I guess that clinches it, McCain is the party's man. By this time next week we may know who the Dems will get behind. There is substantial pressure to avoid a floor fight at the convention, why I do not have a clue.<BR/>Seems adults should be able to go through the process in a civil manner but then what do I know,never been to a political convention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-901299750848770534.post-86470436097607859222008-02-07T15:36:00.000-05:002008-02-07T15:36:00.000-05:00I sure agree that if McCain picks Huckabee it's al...I sure agree that if McCain picks Huckabee it's all over except the funeral. What I don't agree with is saying there is little difference between the two Democrats and John McCain.<BR/><BR/>Clearly, the record shows McCain is far more to the right than either Clinton or Obama with Obama to the left of Clinton but not radically so.<BR/><BR/>To my way of thinking, a much more important Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com