Post #77,249
1/27/03 1:39:20 PM
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Pot. Kettle. Black.
jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #77,251
1/27/03 1:48:09 PM
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I prefer "People in glass houses throwing stones..."
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
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Post #77,254
1/27/03 1:54:39 PM
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OT: And the point of your sig is...?!?
Oh, I get it...! Irony!
(ROFL!)
jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
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Post #77,262
1/27/03 2:29:27 PM
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Pot? Kettle?
I introduced no such comparisions. Bush was brought up by Mike as a "Well, somebody else is worse" arguement. I believe the arguement to be without merit. I maintained that Clinton was a coward. It was not a relative statement. It did not in any way depend on anybody elses behaviour. I am not in any way defending or promoting Bush. He has nothing to do with the discussion. So where does the pot and kettle come in?
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Post #77,585
1/28/03 1:55:02 PM
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Others made my point. However, I'm curious.
Exactly who are these "real people" with "real solutions" you're talking about? Surely not Dumbya.
And when, exactly, did it become a "bad idea" to have a smart guy in the White House? You're sick of hearing how smart Clinton is? Well, you've got his successor to thank for that. If Dubya wasn't such a bumbling, coked-out, boozed-out moron then the contrast would not appear so stark.
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Post #77,622
1/28/03 3:58:59 PM
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Did they? I must have missed it...
The whole of your content, as far as I can see, is describing how rotten Bush is/was. Bush never entered into the descussion. It was a statement to Silverlock about Clinton's cowardice. This is not a relative thing. Nobody said anything about being more or less cowardly than sombody else.
I never said ANYTHING about supporting or recommending Bush.
I also never said it was a 'bad thing' to have somebody with smarts in the oval office. Intelligence is not sufficient in itself. To paraphrase sombody or other, Abe Lincoln possibly: Mr. Clinton is a very smart man. I had a wonderful, very smart chemistry professor. The professor should not have been President of the Unites States. Neither should have Mr. Clinton...
As Ashton correctly pointed out, there needs to be a lot of work on the selection system before we are likely to get somebody halfway decent in office. The system seems to favor slime, and one brand of slime is no better than the other. (the last is my opinion only, I don't recall Ashton saying that.)
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Post #78,221
1/30/03 9:51:38 PM
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I can't help it.
WTF is it w/YOU everybody else with Clinton? He was too far to the right for me, but then so is everybody in US politics.
Can you give me one explicit example of Clinton acting "cowardly"?
I'm personally sick of the rants about Clinton. The Right hated Clinton because he was a Republican who could appeal to the masses. He was a better Republican than the current gang of criminal neo-fascists could ever hope to be. And they didn't like it. (ot: how many convicted criminals, like Elliot Abrahms, are serving in the White House now? Under Clinton: Zero.)
And I'll presume you don't really have in mind any "real people" with "real ideas", since you didn't answer that question.
Your posts in this thread make you sound like YAN Clinton hater who cannot really come up with any reason not to say, "Ya know, he was a pretty good President" and instead spew out the same drivel we all heard for nearly the entire 8 years he was in office.
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Post #78,230
1/30/03 10:21:04 PM
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can you imagine how much tail he gets?
Clinton could have been like Secretariat and spent the rest of his life fucking and running around in a fenced-in area - prison. But thank God, that didn't happen. I sort of miss him.
-drl
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Post #78,239
1/30/03 10:59:14 PM
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Surreal self-cancelling mixture there, DeS.
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Post #78,459
1/31/03 3:41:35 PM
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We All do.
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